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A nice fruity Old Peculier or Black Sheep for me
Don't forget the sprouts Slo Sho, maybe as a side dish to the curry....
Ooooooooooooh, it's sprout season again soon. Marvellous.
The evenings are drawing in and it's time to dust off the old slow cooker again for those hearty cold weather stews. Last weekend's effort was a root veg and lentil curry, which provided me with a handy tailwind during this evening's little jaunt.
Planning for this weekend my special recipe homemade baked beans ... they're flatutastic! Best consumed with lashings of really strong garlic bread for that burning at both ends feeling
That's quite a picture you're painting there Muttley...
I've had good results from my two-bean soup, and if the next day I have my spicy lentil soup I find a definite cumulative effect.
Okay then my flatulent friends, here's the recipe for Muttley's Methane Madness Home Made Baked Beans. Serves 4-5, freezes well enough too.
2 onions, diced
2 tins chopped tomatoes (good quality with concentrated juice rather than 10p Tesco value tins)
pack of bacon lardons, or several rashers of streaky finely chopped, or good chunk of chorizo finely chopped, or several frankfurters finely chopped (or any similar, preferably smoked)
1 pint stock
2-4 dessert spoons black treacle, to taste
good dollops of favourite sauces, spicy ketchup or barbecue types work best
3 tins beans - haricot, flageolet, cannellini, chick peas all work well
1. Heat some oil (olive is good) in a large pan. Fry the onions gently till soft.
2. Add lardons or whatever and fry till browned.
3. Add tomatoes, stir well, add favourite sauces to taste, add black treacle to taste and stir well. Could also add tomato puree or passata, up to you to get the sauce as you like it.
4. Add beans, stir well and bring to boil.
5. Decant to slow cooker and add stock (boiling or hot as poss, you may not need all of it, the idea is to add enough liquid to compensate for evaporation during cooking).
6. Leave to cook on low setting for the rest of the day, at least 6 hours. If you don't have a slow cooker, your oven may have an equivalent setting. Or at very lowest setting on hob - it should be barely simmering, just the occasional plop.
Enjoy with chunks of fresh bread straight out the breadmaker or, even better, a baton of garlic bread.
<parp!>
I reckon it maybe a bit fragrant there by the weekend......
[noseclips to the ready.......]
Boing ... this thread cannot die, even if it smells as if it has ...
I'm not a great fan of iPods but they do have their uses. I was bimbling along the towpath this evening and could feel the pressure building up. But walking just in front of me was a young blonde lady. I didn't want to run past and blast her away with a good waft of Essence de Muttley but there was nothing I could do.
Fortunately, she was wearing an iPod. Phew.
ah the simple joys of life
I thought after nearly a year that this thread needed to be brought back to life again. So here's a link:-
What a waste.
Parp on friends.
Welcome back, old friend.
<makes to give thread a big hug but then thinks better of it>
The local Co-op has been selling off 1lb bags of sprouts for 40p. My dinner last night was a whole bag shredded and stir-fried with some smoked bacon. The other night I roasted the sprouts - yum.
Fortunately for my colleagues, I am not in the office today.
Welcome back, thread.
<wipes away manly tear and trumps gently>
That's an April Fool, right? Otherwise what happens to all the trapped farts?
I have a big pan of bean stew slowly plopping away on the cooker. Flavoured with smoked bacon, smoked paprika and a dollop of Reggae Reggae sauce. On the menu for tonight's dinner, with a garlic baguette. So the flatulent frolics and methane madness are set to continue here at Muttley Mansions.
As for the fart-suppressing undercrackers - I mean, but why?
Never mind wrong, they're downright dangerous. Wait till the government hear about them and start making them compulsory.
Soon it will be illegal to rip one off in a public place without a suppressor, you mark my words. And you thought the smoking ban was bad.
The tragic thing is, like the atom bomb, evil things cannot be uninvented and I fear we're all doomed.
I'm so upset I'm going to have to console myself with a bowl of vegetable chilli with garlic bread while I still can.
I saw an ad last week for the fart suppressing undercrackers as well - they just seem so bizarre. as mutts says - why??
And what happens when you take them off. If there's a naked flame nearby it could be very nasty.
Anyway, for lunch I had sausage and fried egg oatcakes, and I had plenty of cauliflower, cabbage and peas with my dinner, so I'm looking forward to a musical evening
Glad my dentist never cracked one off whilst performing root canal treatment.
Open wide.