Cooks' Corner

[Maggi Young]

BIG SIGH.... I drink A LOT of milk.........

[Paddy Tobin]

Major winter comfort left-overs: potato and celeriac mash topped with cherry sauce. Yummmmm. (Normally served with duck in this house but delicious on a cold evening)

Paddy

[maggiepie]

Paddy, is your cherry sauce home made?
If so, how do you make it?

[Hoy]

did you know a litre of milk by law is allowed to contain 400 million pus cells Thankfully I dont drink much

All the fish and meat you eat contain several billion cells from the animal! So what about some million in milk? Or yoghurt?

[Maggi Young]

yes, Trond... but unless Mark has made a typo, he is talking about allowed pus cells .....

[Hoy]

yes, Trond... but unless Mark has mada typo, he is talking about allowed pus cells .....

Maggi, a cell is a cell! A white blood cell isn't much different from other cells

Of course, they can contain some bacteria that they have engulfed but the bacteria had otherwise been in the milk (and lots still are!)

[Paddy Tobin]

Paddy, is your cherry sauce home made?
If so, how do you make it?

250g stoned cherries
50g caster sugar
juice of an orange
1-2 shallots/small onion - finely chopped
2 red chillis - deseeded and chopped
class of port

Softed the shallot/onion, add everything, bring to boil, simmer for ten minutes.

Paddy

[maggiepie]

Paddy, thanks muchly.

This sounds great and I happen to have a few pounds of stoned cherries in the freezer.
I bet the sauce would go well with lamb over polenta too.
Will certainly give it a try and find out.
 

[Maggi Young]

Well, given the choice of celeriac , polenta or pus-filled milk.... I'll take the milk every time! 

[maggiepie]

Oh Maggi, you don't like polenta???
Celeriac?
Seriously??


Polenta with rosemary and reggiano cooked in chicken stock.
You are missing bliss!!

[Maggi Young]

Yes, Helen, seriously. I'm getting to be a picky eater in my old age!

[johnw]

did you know a litre of milk by law is allowed to contain 400 million pus cells Thankfully I dont drink much

And plenty in chocolate!   So Maggi just forget it.  _{(am sure you will persevere)}

My father used to say "every breath we take was once exhaled by rats during the bubonic plague, it's in your soup too and surprisingly you're alive and well". Wonderful dinner conversation.

johnw

[David Nicholson]

Oh Maggi, you don't like polenta???
Celeriac?
Seriously??


Polenta with rosemary and reggiano cooked in chicken stock.
You are missing bliss!!

Polenta! I'd rather eat a poorly monkey

[ranunculus]

Oh Maggi, you don't like polenta???
Celeriac?
Seriously??


Polenta with rosemary and reggiano cooked in chicken stock.
You are missing bliss!!

Polenta! I'd rather eat a poorly monkey

Especially one cooked on the gorilla!   

[Arykana]

did you know a litre of milk by law is allowed to contain 400 million pus cells Thankfully I dont drink much

My father used to say "every breath we take was once exhaled by rats during the bubonic plague, it's in your soup too and surprisingly you're alive and well". Wonderful dinner conversation.

sorry, I almost  have fell on the floor from laughing