SOMETHING TO CROW ABOUT, THE BEST THING SINCE SLICED BREAD...
Posted: Thursday, 20 November 2008 |
Is it just me or is mass produced food becoming even less pallatable?
Plastic, tasteless, cardboard cutouts !!!
Steaks like old boot leather
Eggs with insipid yellow white yolks
Chickens way past the old boiler stage
Carrots that are uniform in size and shape, no nobbly bits to make
you laugh, wink wink
and
take your average supermarket sliced loaf for instance.
Sometimes it's like eating bubbles, its so over refined
other times it's doughy and heavy.
This week I've taken to making my own bread, and what a difference.
Okay, so its got an hole in it from my bread maker, wait a minute I'll hide it with a coupla eggs, there, that's better...
I can actually taste real wholesome bread. And the aroma which fills the kitchen, .....
It slices beautifully, all wonky and thin at one end, thick at the other, but hey who cares? A great big doorstep with a whallop of butter.
Here I am with my Panda's Tonic and my old Red Rooster from a 1960's TV "Serial", What a KleverKlogs he is too.....
And Eggs?? A few chickens scratching about in the back garden...
Can there be anything better than a freshly laid egg, softly boiled and home made bread cut into soldiers to dip in.
That deep yellow yolk, so tasty with a sprinkling of salt
MMmmm, I'm beginning to drool.
And what about home made soup. A great way to get rid of all the bits in the fridge, the half cut onion, the odd carrot, a few spuds and hey presto, a mouth watering meal for just pennies.
(half cut onion - tee hee)
Sometimes, living on an island, its difficult to get the ingredients for adventurous cooking, but yesterday in our Island shop, I spotted the most beautiful quail's eggs. They were so pretty. What a treasure trove of gorgeous delights found on the doorstep.
Islands all over Scotland have some fantastic produce....
Shortbread, Black Puddings, Chocolates like sea shells,
Heather Honey, Hebridean Lamb, Lobsters and mmmm scallops
Crab Claws, whisky, winkles, Haggis, oysters, cheeses,
and not forgetting Scottish raspberries, surely the best raspberries in the world.
Swirled into my whisky laced cranachan, oooo soooo luverly.....
I've conjured up too many mouth watering images in my head that I really must go put the kettle on.....
Comments
no wonder the eggs are peely wally. Look how pale the cearc is!
Rooster from coup
Sorry, posted my bread comments on your otter blog. Must have got damp rot in the thatch last summer. Whisky laced cranachan, you temptress!
Barney from Swithiod stuttering and stumbling
It's just as well I've just had my breakfast, Squidgy, or I'd be drooling too. I also got a breadmaker recently and haven't bought a loaf since! It's brilliant. I can't manage the new-laid eggs though...
Jill from EK
Oh Rooster from Coup, what FOWL comments to make about Clara Cluck. This really is against the GRAIN as Clara is an EGGScellent layer. Not very HENimated I must confess, (come on Keep up with the bad YOLKS), but if you would like to buy her, I'll sell her for a POULTRY fee. Anyway, Clara is a pure bred Sussex, that's why she's alwight, sorry White. Think I'm going pottery couped up in my office. Oh and you can buy other Clara's from Oban, HOME of BASE-IC nestecities and CHEEP at half the price, Right I'm orf to make some Cock-a-leekie. tahrah
Squidgy the Otter from Ruling the Roost
Barney, pullet the other one. I'm cracking up, first we had Rooster's allEGGations and now you blame damp rot, too much Scottish falling down water me thinks.
Squidgy the Otter from Hatching a plan...mmm
Wow!!! A pun-a-minute! Comb-ined with another spe-shell blog! Now we need a photo of the magic machine itself to see if its a P**c from L*d the home of creative cookware. Ours is... Have you noticed that home-baked bread doesn't go mouldy like the soggy stuff...it just goes stale as in days of yore, before 'improvers' whatever they are!
Flying Cat from well-bread and fluffy
Flying Cat, I can now give you the following clues as to my bread maker, and I don't mean dodgy 拢50 notes, right, are you sitting comfortably, then I'll begin. 1st part, large Asian Bear, white with black eyes, remove the D. 2nd Part, a drink to mix with gin, change T to S. Rightio, then, its the same as yours, but following this, the numbers are 1+1 =, then 2+3=, then 2+1=. It's a great machine, but the loaves all have a hole in the bottom. Well have a good weekend, I'm going to settle down with a chickflick, DOH !!
Squidgy the Otter from Cracking Good pun, sorry fun
i'm shell shocked with all this punning. but brown eggs are definitly the best
Joe Rex from Knock me down with a featherlight
Mine is a Panda machine also, Squidgy, not sure about the number but it's the one with the raisin dispenser. I think we can all live with holy loaves when they taste so good!
Jill from EK
Hello JOE REX, mmm, what an unusual name that is, think you are just ribbing me. Jill, I am pondering on your holy bread, is it the one given out at communication? I'm not sure which holy is appropriate, wholey, wholly, holey, or holy, Anyway, yes my Panda's Tonic has the raisin dispener also, seems, great minds think ILIKE
Squidgy the Otter from knocked down by a feather
My rude comment about bottoms has so offended the SF that it has been zapped. Ill try again in code:I thought all b*ttoms had h*les.
Barney from Swithiod miffed
Brilliant! great to see you back on the ball:)
Belle from OfColl
Barney, all buttoms do have holes, otherwise you would not be able to sew them on to your jacket.
Cinderella from Looking out for Buttons
Clearly an old fashioned crofter's fare... All that's missing in this appetizing blog is that white truffle so abundant under peat cover.
mjc from IN, USA
Especially for FC, have added a photo of Panda's Tonic and my old Rooster, who really is an alarm clock in disguise. Some of you may recognise him from a famous TV "Serial".
Squidgy the Otter from Cock-a Doodle-Doo
Not all buttons have holes, Cinderella (and not all shoes have stiletto heels). I have solid buttons glued with mighty putty or gorilla glue. An unabashed fashionista, that's me.
mjc from IN,USA
Why thank you Squidgy. But now we are all to be axed, where are we all going to go? Island Threads has already moved bloghouse, she must have had a premonition. Or insider info. I think Auntie Beeb just couldn't be a***d. Public Service my buttonhole. I wonder what one does with a bottomhook...
Flying Cat from farewell cruel world
where are we all going to go? - FC. Eh, how about the Isle of Dogs (London)?
mjc from IN, USA
No one is sewing my buttom to anything!
Barney from Swithiod a stich in time
what's happening, 主播大秀 Island Blogging to be axed and my comments are disappearing into blogoshpere. Have we gone already, am I talking to myself. Anybody there? where are you. No other blogging site will do.... Oh gawd this is awful. Let's have a look at Placebook, facebook, Bebo, Myspace, where are you all going... don't leave me behind.. sob, sob
Squidgy the Otter from Gone AWOL
Spoilsport!
Flying Cat from Cheshire Grin
Sorry Squidgy, it's just another day in the life of the spam filter/blogging engine.
Carol from IBHQ
What I thought was a rather good comment on Barney's buttom went awol. Pickled probably.
mjc from IN, USA
Bad luck, Mjc, I have a feeling that the SF is not as random as we believe but that it is biased towards frittering the cream of comments. IB:ers, rally around the flag, I have asked Carol to make sure thet the Beeb gives us a decent period of time in which to reform ranks, rally round the banner and re-launch IB in a manner befitting the marketing savvy of neisachs and such ilk. Don't give in, get up!
Barney from Swithiod sitting on a spam fritter
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