Eddie

Trex.
As in cooking fat.

Sound great Eddie ?

I can't match @froggg for his artistic presentation. 
Just had my first attempt at making samosas. They don't look great (they're a bit tricky, and I'm an absolute novice at rolling pastry), but they sure were tasty...

 
Recipe if anyone is interested:
Samosas (makes 10 samosas)
Ingredients – dough
·        100 g Chakki Atta Flour ·        100 g Plain flour ·        0.5 teaspoon thyme ·        0.25 teaspoon salt ·        40 g oil ·        70 ml water Ingredients – filling
·        100 g lamb mince, fried ·        200 g potatoes ·        Half an onion, chopped and fried ·        I teaspoon cumin seeds ·        0.5 teaspoon fennel seeds ·        1 teaspoon ground coriander ·        0.5 teaspoon ginger paste ·        2 green chillies, chopped ·        0.5 teaspoon garlic paste ·        0.5 teaspoon garam masala ·        0.25 teaspoon red chilli powder ·        0.25 teaspoon salt ·        Handful of frozen peas Additional – flour+ water glue
Method – dough
·        Sieve flours into mixing bowl. ·        Add salt and thyme, mix well. ·        Mix in oil, working to incorporate using just fingers (3-4 minutes – should become like sand or crumbly gravel, when squeezed will hold shape) ·        Slowly add water, mixing until a stiff dough is formed. ·        Cover with damp cloth, leave for 30-40 minutes. Method – filling
·        Parboil and roughly chop potatoes ·        Fry onions until caramelised ·        Add peas, continue frying for 2 or 3 minutes ·        Fry keema/lamb 10 minutes until cooked ·        Add chopped potatoes, stir, fry for 1 minute ·        Add all spices with onions, potatoes and keema, mixing continually, fry for 5 minutes ·        Set aside, leave to cool Method – constructing the samosas
·        Divide dough into 5 equal balls ·        Roll dough ball (keep others covered with damp cloth) into 6 or 7 inch oval/circle ·        Cut in half ·        Construct cones (use the straight edge of each half to form the seam) ·        Fill samosa with meat/spice filling (2 or 3 dessert spoons – divide filling into 10) ·        Glue together with flour/water ·        Pinch edges to seal ·        Repeat with other half ·        Repeat with other dough balls (should now have 10 samosas) ·        Lightly oil (vegetable/sunflower, not olive oil) ·        Cook samosas (4 or 5at once) in air fryer for 10 minutes on low heat (160 C) – turn once ·        Cook for a further 5-10 minutes on higher heat (190 C) to brown – turn once

I can't match @froggg for his artistic presentation. 
Just had my first attempt at making samosas. They don't look great (they're a bit tricky, and I'm an absolute novice at rolling pastry), but they sure were tasty...

 
Recipe if anyone is interested:
Samosas (makes 10 samosas)
Ingredients – dough
·        100 g Chakki Atta Flour ·        100 g Plain flour ·        0.5 teaspoon thyme ·        0.25 teaspoon salt ·        40 g oil ·        70 ml water Ingredients – filling
·        100 g lamb mince, fried ·        200 g potatoes ·        Half an onion, chopped and fried ·        I teaspoon cumin seeds ·        0.5 teaspoon fennel seeds ·        1 teaspoon ground coriander ·        0.5 teaspoon ginger paste ·        2 green chillies, chopped ·        0.5 teaspoon garlic paste ·        0.5 teaspoon garam masala ·        0.25 teaspoon red chilli powder ·        0.25 teaspoon salt ·        Handful of frozen peas Additional – flour+ water glue
Method – dough
·        Sieve flours into mixing bowl. ·        Add salt and thyme, mix well. ·        Mix in oil, working to incorporate using just fingers (3-4 minutes – should become like sand or crumbly gravel, when squeezed will hold shape) ·        Slowly add water, mixing until a stiff dough is formed. ·        Cover with damp cloth, leave for 30-40 minutes. Method – filling
·        Parboil and roughly chop potatoes ·        Fry onions until caramelised ·        Add peas, continue frying for 2 or 3 minutes ·        Fry keema/lamb 10 minutes until cooked ·        Add chopped potatoes, stir, fry for 1 minute ·        Add all spices with onions, potatoes and keema, mixing continually, fry for 5 minutes ·        Set aside, leave to cool Method – constructing the samosas
·        Divide dough into 5 equal balls ·        Roll dough ball (keep others covered with damp cloth) into 6 or 7 inch oval/circle ·        Cut in half ·        Construct cones (use the straight edge of each half to form the seam) ·        Fill samosa with meat/spice filling (2 or 3 dessert spoons – divide filling into 10) ·        Glue together with flour/water ·        Pinch edges to seal ·        Repeat with other half ·        Repeat with other dough balls (should now have 10 samosas) ·        Lightly oil (vegetable/sunflower, not olive oil) ·        Cook samosas (4 or 5at once) in air fryer for 10 minutes on low heat (160 C) – turn once ·        Cook for a further 5-10 minutes on higher heat (190 C) to brown – turn once

When you finally trace the smell, and discover half a mouse that's been dead for a month ...
"I'll kill that cooking fat"

First beers in a pub yesterday. Went to two local places. Everyone was well behaved and the atmosphere was chilled. 
Beers consumed -
Huyghe Bavo Pils 4.2%
Kona Big Wave Golden ale 4.4%
Oakham Inferno 4.0%
Erdinger Weissbier 5.3%
Not the most imaginative selection but nice to have them in a pub rather than at home.
 

Today's order, just put in to web-bier.de:
Erdinger Pikantus - 6 Weltenburger Kloster Asam Bock - 4 Paulaner Salvator - 4 Hacker Pschorr Munchner Kellerbier Anno 1417 - 4 Augustiner Beer Munich Edelstoff - 4 Tegernseer Spezial Lager Beer - 2 £53 the lot, including P&P
 

3 series of "The Americans" now done and dusted on Prime, 3 series to go.
Some episodes are lame, but some are really superb. Overall, pretty good - thanks, @Mostyn6

When you finally trace the smell, and discover half a mouse that's been dead for a month ...
"I'll kill that cooking fat"

Trex.
As in cooking fat.

Trex.
As in cooking fat.

The Memsahib made her salmon and prawn-based fish pie this evening (absolutely superb) - and she basically said to me "do something with that spare aubergine". Well, having decided that it didn't fit in any body cavity, I got to thinking "how do you make aubergine interesting without going full moussaka or parmigiano on it?"
So I sliced it pretty thin, painted each slice with a little olive oil, fried it for 3 or 4 minutes on each side, cleared any excess olive oil from them, put them in a shallow baking dish, brushed them with butter (yes, I really should have fried them in butter first and not olive oil, but I was making it up as I went along), smothered them with freshly-chopped chives and parsley, the juice of a lemon and gave them 10 minutes at gas mask 7.
Very nice - will do again.
 

The Memsahib made her salmon and prawn-based fish pie this evening (absolutely superb) - and she basically said to me "do something with that spare aubergine". Well, having decided that it didn't fit in any body cavity, I got to thinking "how do you make aubergine interesting without going full moussaka or parmigiano on it?"
So I sliced it pretty thin, painted each slice with a little olive oil, fried it for 3 or 4 minutes on each side, cleared any excess olive oil from them, put them in a shallow baking dish, brushed them with butter (yes, I really should have fried them in butter first and not olive oil, but I was making it up as I went along), smothered them with freshly-chopped chives and parsley, the juice of a lemon and gave them 10 minutes at gas mask 7.
Very nice - will do again.
 

Black iron potatoes (Potatoes, bacon and cheese), chicken dragon egg ( chicken breast stuffed with chillies, cream cheese). Wrapped in bacon  
All done on the Weber Kettle. 

Fish

Yes mate a stronger ipa than some.

Try the Samichlaus Schwarzes.
I picked 3 up from BeersOfEurope the other day, but be warned. They seem to disappear very quickly. Two appear to have evaporated already.

Easy eats tonight (the Memsahib cooked) - sausage, mushrooms, bacon, scrambled egg, baked beans and black pudding.
Lovely.

Fish

Fish

Nice hoppy hazy beer at three quid a pop from Tesco.

Try the Samichlaus Schwarzes.
I picked 3 up from BeersOfEurope the other day, but be warned. They seem to disappear very quickly. Two appear to have evaporated already.

Sorry to hear about the knee mate.  That's a rarebit of bad luck you're having.  

Rooney would have a Nan with that.
 

I'd better postpone that one for a couple of years then.