Hot Pot Salad

So daft Delia has been teaching us how to make a pie from a tin of Pedigree Chum ,desiccated onions and Polyfilla. I have to admire her motives - not the one to get huge amounts of money from Asda for product placement - but her attempt to make cooking quicker and easier for people who can't afford servants.



Though wouldn't it make more sense to just buy a ready meal and pop it in the microwave?




No labradors were hurt in the making of this meal - I hope. Shouts to Murph 'Are you OK?'


Elsewhere, the madness continues. The Yorkshire representative in ‘The Great British Menu’ had 29 ingredients in his starter including duck tongues (oh no my poor little ducks), bee pollen and smoked rhubarb (which he smoked with his own cigar).


The chap from Lancashire made 'Hot Pot salad' as my gran rolled in her grave.


The Grauniad gives us Allegra McGreedy

Recently she chose ‘Spatchcock Poussin, aïoli and capered greens‘.

Which one is the bird, I wondered - the spatchcock or the poussin?
It turns out that poussin is the bird (apparently it’s a Spring Chicken - unlike myself).


Spatchcocking is a skill.



Learn to do it here but make sure the bird is dead before you start.

Beans on toast anyone?

KAZ