Today I have just climbed down from the great mount Potato.....yes I know that there are only two of us, but I actually cook for six people......three local pensioners, Ma and us.
Today being Tuesday it was Cottage pie(they like regimented meals, the pensioners do) hence the peeling of many spuds......and when I thought I had peeled enough and started chopping them, some of the spuds i had peeled had great black blemishes in the middle of the spuds....grrrrr, which meant more peeling.
I am very pernickety about how I peel my spuds too.......I can't be doing with thick peelings.....it means you are wasting lots of stuff you could be eating...so it has to be a lancashire peeler.
Cashy mentioned about an electric spud peeler........he says that his lady loves hers.......I'm not much into kitchen gadgets.
Gadgets...yes....kitchen gadgets noooooooooo!
I have the standard electric kettle, a toaster and an electric carving knife......I don't have a food processor,deep fat fryer, bread maker, a mixer or anything like that.......they all need to be stored somewhere....and when they have been used they are usually a bummer to clean.
A couple of weeks ago himself bought me a halogen oven....you know the kind of thing...sits on the counter top and looks a bit like a small version of an alien spaceship.
Where is this halogen oven.......sat on the floor in my front room still in its box.
Daughter got one at the same time as me, she has used hers every day since she got hers and says it is brilliant.......I should add that hers is being used so much because her main oven died!
She has cooked chicken in it, cakes, pizza(home made) and various other things......and she says that the roasties she did for Sunday dinner were just the best ever.
So when am I going to use mine? GOK(God only knows)......but I guess it will be when I have cleared a space for it to live.
Today being Tuesday it was Cottage pie(they like regimented meals, the pensioners do) hence the peeling of many spuds......and when I thought I had peeled enough and started chopping them, some of the spuds i had peeled had great black blemishes in the middle of the spuds....grrrrr, which meant more peeling.
I am very pernickety about how I peel my spuds too.......I can't be doing with thick peelings.....it means you are wasting lots of stuff you could be eating...so it has to be a lancashire peeler.
Cashy mentioned about an electric spud peeler........he says that his lady loves hers.......I'm not much into kitchen gadgets.
Gadgets...yes....kitchen gadgets noooooooooo!
I have the standard electric kettle, a toaster and an electric carving knife......I don't have a food processor,deep fat fryer, bread maker, a mixer or anything like that.......they all need to be stored somewhere....and when they have been used they are usually a bummer to clean.
A couple of weeks ago himself bought me a halogen oven....you know the kind of thing...sits on the counter top and looks a bit like a small version of an alien spaceship.
Where is this halogen oven.......sat on the floor in my front room still in its box.
Daughter got one at the same time as me, she has used hers every day since she got hers and says it is brilliant.......I should add that hers is being used so much because her main oven died!
She has cooked chicken in it, cakes, pizza(home made) and various other things......and she says that the roasties she did for Sunday dinner were just the best ever.
So when am I going to use mine? GOK(God only knows)......but I guess it will be when I have cleared a space for it to live.
