Thursday, June 08, 2006
WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! I am a happy bunny. Yesterday, I got my new cooker. I have needed one since before Christmas. The oven and the grill on my old cooker gave up the ghost. I had to get my sister to cook our Christmas turkey at her house on Christmas Eve! I like my new cooker. It's pretty basic, cos' that's all we could afford, but it has a working oven, a working grill, and all four hob plates work! I made us some pies for tea yesterday. Oh, but this oven cooked them so nicely. It has a facility where you can have the heat coming from the bottom of the oven, or the top, or both. So I cooked the pies with the all round heat, then finished off the tops with the top heat. YEAH!! Scrumptious food. And I am going to do some more cooking today. Don't know what yet. But I am. And Clive is going to make Toad In The Hole for our tea. Just in case you don't know what Toad In The Hole is ( I usually get sort of blank stares when I say it, especially to my American friends).
Ingredients:
100g/4oz Plain Flour
1/2 level teasp Salt
1 Egg
270ml/9fl.oz Milk
225g/8oz Pork Sausages
Instructions
1. Preheat the oven to 200C, 400F, Gas mark 6 and grease a shallow ovenproof dish or Yorkshire pudding tin.
2. Place the flour, egg, milk and salt in a large mixing bowl and whisk until smooth and lump free.
3. Place the sausages in the greased dish in a single layer then pour over the batter. Bake in the oven for 40-45 minutes until well risen and golden.
Try not to open the oven door during cooking or the pudding may not rise.
Serve immediately with an onion gravy and chopped cabbage or other green
vegetable.
Serves 4.
There endeth the lesson on English cuisine for today :)
The dogs are SO confused by the new cooker. For a start, my old cooker was blue, this one is white. The old cooker was shallow from front to back, this one sticks out quite a way past where the old one ended. They keep going in the kitchen and looking at the cooker! Daft or what? :)
I am a bit peeved too. I was winning an auction for a Tony Stewart Shrek 2 diecast. I went right up to the limit (money that was given to me specifically to buy a diecast, by a friend). I was beaten by ONE PENNY!!! One penny, honestly. That really got my goat. I was NOT in a good mood for about 20 minutes. Until I went in the kitchen and saw my new cooker again :) Do you realise how hard it is to provide good meals with just a toaster, a George Foreman grill, a slow cooker (crock pot) and two working hob plates? I was going barmy. And I was so bored of what I could cook too.
Oh well. Off to see what I can cook :) See y'all later.
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