I AM CAUGHT BETWEEN DUMPLINGS AND UNREALITY. Well that and chili con carne with pharts ... In answer to your questions: Bashful Trotter Donkey bites me with expressions of gleeful intent. My fault for giving them a taste for roast chicken bones as babies. Now my fingers make excellent robo-chew-bones for the trotters ...Re psychiatrists and the "they don't care whether you're raving mad" quotation from Maple Syrup, my never-listen Drug Worker, that appointment's separate from the "let's point and probe and dig around to isolate your legion insanities" appointment the Operative threatens daily to have made...
This is about all I have to say for tonight. Presently I'm perfecting chili con carne dumplings and must reveal these need a good two inches clear of bubbling water in order to form properly, breadily ~ and not as mere glutinous balls of glob. OK then!! Back tomorrow, Folks!!
I made the piri piri last night. It was a hit. A bit too spicy for my wife, so I may tone that down a bit next time.
ReplyDeleteI want to make the dumplings, but I'm not sure what we call vegetable suet over here. Did you post the dumpling recipe?
Wow, my comments are focused on your cooking!
I'll bet incorporating some corn meal in the dumpling batter for chili dumplings would be awesome.
ReplyDeletevegetable suet = shortening aka Crisco
ReplyDeleteI've got the urge to make dumplings now!
ReplyDeleteMmmmmmm dumplings. Mr. Marmite makes good stuffed dumplings. You're makin me hungry.
ReplyDelete"So I was thurping and trumpeting away all night"
ReplyDeleteha. i read that from the previous post while looked at the accompanying picture. i imagined it coming out of the mouth of the happy-housewife to the right and oh how i did chuckle. just like when i read the prediction of where the kidney beans came from... haha, your wit, i love it.
anyway, as for being able to trump away all night, isn't that the best thing about living alone. you just dont have to worry about anyone else. i know, in all the years my parents were married (over 20) my dad never once farted infront of my mum. how crazy is that, she done it all the time and he would tut and tell her how rude she was. that was my manic depressive (not that that has anything to do with it!) uber vain uber good looking father, who once gave me a £5 note not to tell my mum i had heard him fart while on a riverside jog together. haha. anyway, my mum always cooked my dad stew & dumplings however i have never had dumplings. not they just remind me of my dad, last august my friend robbie died, he was in his early 40s and was scottish who moved down to corby as a teen. he had been a heroin addict since his teens and he used to eat the readymeal "beef stew & dumplins" all the time. i never saw him eat anything else. a blood clot to the brain killed him in the end (annuresym?).
i live alone but with my nan at the moment as i cant live at my flat (highrise block of flats, full of other junkies and theifs and not-so-good-folk) so i am getting a good education in traditionally british food. however, i always avoid the dumplings. they look so stodgy and since ive always had a snowball i cant manage them. anyway, chilli. i always make this; tinned kidney beans in spicey sauce x2, onions, 3 peppers, jalepenos, chilli powder, tomatoes, hand ground beef, sweetcorn sometimes and just leave it in the slow cooker for a few hours. did you say u were getting a pressure cooker?
Syd: Congratulations: that's my master recipe. I learned to cook vegetarian first as I hated handling meat, hence the spicy base. I use always mild curry powders (as you can always add chili separately if needs be) and always neutralize or westernize with 1-2 tsps paprika to each tsp curry powder. I also add dried mixed herbs (or fresh when I've been to Mother Hubbs' garden)... Veg suet's called Atora here and apparently Crisco in America...
ReplyDeleteI gave up adding potatoes to my stews and use dumplings as the sole providor of carbs... I luurve dumplings now ;->...
Jeannie: corn meal? I'll have to try that... You don't mean cornflour do you? Someone told me that makes good dumplings..? But usually it's used as stew-thickener... surely?
Akelamalu: oh they're yummy. I've adapted the chili con carne recipe to piri piri spices with mixed pulses not just boring kidney beans and lots of peas with my "baroque" (ill-formed) dumplings!!!
Eileen/Reeny: I once tried brown dumplings they were horrible. But Sainsbury's value self raising flour at 35p per 1.5kgs is the best!!
Naomi: There's nothing like a good trumpeteer to jolly up a long rainy night!
You must be really thin with all those snowballs..! I once caused havoc at a family dinner by going innocently for a pee ~ something fell on the floor it was a hit of gear with "a bit of coke in it". So I whacked it up in the restaurant toilets and nearly went flying out the window I was so high: then I returned to my family sweating heavily and manic and everyone pretended not to notice...
I know that coke anorexia well. When I used to live with Mad Bird off the street I could never do more than pick at my food when a yummy snowball had been consumed first...
I think I will try that recipe...