Cooks' Corner

[Juan Fornes]

Best recipe yet, Arykana. Wish everyone could have a piece of Christmas cake and let those feeling last for the wholenext  year... until you send us a new one for 1012 (sounds selfish? ). Thank you Arykana for your warmth, and of course for your delicious recipes! And the same for everybody: the bad thing of being a newby here is that there are so many things to read and so little time... Great having found all of you! Best wishes!

[Lesley Cox]

A great recipe Erika, one we all need a piece of from time to time. Your friends and neighbours must love to BE your friends and neighbours, when they receive such beautiful and delicious cakes.

[Arykana]

thank you for all. Come and share our Christmas Eve dinner

[Juan Fornes]

Coming, Arikana! Looks delicious!

Who said olives were boring as an aperitive? Try these "pinguins" to surprise: easy, funny and tasty...
Ingredients: carrots, cream cheese, pitted black olives and a disposable (or not) pastry bag and some toothpicks (picture 1)
- Cut carrots in slices app. 3/4 mm. thick, and cut from each slice a triangle (picture 2)
- Cut  a small rectangle (or triangle) from the hole (bottom) to almost the top of one side to form bodies of half of the olives (picture 3)
- Fill the pastry bag with cream cheese, and fill-in these "bodies" and the rest of the uncut olives (these will be the "heads") (picture 4)
- The little cut  triangle of the carrot will be the "beak". Join as shown in picture 5.
- There they are: a flock of pinguins willing to go to your home... (picture 6)

Enjoy!

[Maggi Young]

Now, you see.... this just shows everything I love about this Forum...... yes, we can share great advice on growing our plants and discuss potting composts and taxonomy till we're blue in the face.... but where else can you get and invitation to share a meal like Erika shows us and then learn how to make a flock of penguins? Where? Nowhere.... only here!

I love it.... I love all of you crazy friendly people! You are just  THE BEST!  Merry Christmas!

[Arykana]

I like this titel: Crazy 

[Kristl Walek]

I love it.... I love all of you crazy friendly people! You are just  THE BEST!  Merry Christmas!

I wholeheartedly agree, Maggi----who could not be utterly devoted to our group!!!!!!

[Juan Fornes]

Well, Maggy: only you could tell how many headaches and despairs takes you to get all of us "crazy people"  posting together, reconducting so wisely (and politely) wrong posts or comments. Thank you very much Maggy for making us each day happier and more botannical (and cookery!) instructed. You are a lot to blame about all of this ...

[mark smyth]

my cooking addition grows. This evening I made turkey and leek pie

fry finely cut smoked bacon in oil and a knob of butter
add thyme leaves
add 1 washed leek per person - is leek a universal word?
turn down heat and steam for 30 mins or until soft
add left over turkey and 1L of stock
bring to the boil and add 2 tablespoons of flour
sieve most of the liquid
add leek turkey mix to a pie dish
cover with puff pastry
bake for 30-40 minutes at 180C / 350F / gas 4

sieved liquid can be thickened to make gravey

um!

[maggiepie]

Mark, you forgot the pic!!!
The turkey pie sounds yummy, will try it with some left over chicken next time I have some.

[Lesley Cox]

The wonderful thing about Christmas away from home is that it is shared with family or friends, in Roger's and my case, 9 adults, 7 children, 1 cat and 5 dogs. The bad thing is that there are no left over ham, lamb, turkey etc when we get home.

[johnw]

The bad thing is that there are no left over ham, lamb, turkey etc when we get home.

Lesley    - How soon we forget that the definition of eternity is two people and a ham.

johnw

[Lesley Cox]

I never knew that John but certainly some hams can seem eternal, and one is pleased to heave out the last of it to some slavering hound.

[ranunculus]

but certainly some hams can seem eternal, and one is pleased to heave out the last of it to some slavering hound.

Who precisely were you referring to, Lesley?   

[johnw]

but certainly some hams can seem eternal, and one is pleased to heave out the last of it to some slavering hound.

Who precisely were you referring to, Lesley?   

 

johnw