all quiet on the Eastern front

Apologies for the lack of posts – we moved from North Somerset to Kingston-upon-Hull on 21st November, and life has been chaotic ever since!  I’ve had time to cook, but not time to write it up.

We brought some stuff with us from the freezer, and our coolbag was so effective I could actually put the huge lumps of beef back in.  I was left with:

  • a piece of belly pork and eight chorizo sausages – I bought some chicken thighs from the local butcher, and made what we call, inaccurately, a gumbo – the pork, chicken and half the chorizo, with some cider (as that was all I could lay my hands on) – three tubs for the freezer
  • to make a point, I bought a bunch of coriander from the Indian grocer 5 minutes up the road the day we moved in (he said that if you could buy coriander on a weekend without getting the car out, you were in a civilised area – we are).  So then I had to go out and get more chicken thighs, and made a batch of coriander chicken
  • we brought four faggots with us – they were cooked with carrots, courgettes, mustard, onions,mushrooms and cider (again!) and put in the freezer.  We ate two of them for supper on Friday and very nice they were too
  • I took a hunk of silverside out of the freezer yesterday, and it’s now in the slow cooker, in a stock made of a rogue bottle of ginger beer, teriyaki, grain mustard, crushed allspice and peppercorns and a splash of red wine vinegar.

Hopefully a more regular service will be restored soon – I’ll be writing a post shortly about food shopping here in East Yorkshire; excellent quality and prices at least 20% less than Bristol.

3 Comments

  1. Elizabeth says:

    Glad to hear the move went well, hope the cats have settled in. I live in SE Essex, although am originally from Bristol, and I find food prices here, even though we are so close to London, are still quite a bit cheaper than Bristol. Don’t know what that’s all about.

  2. mac says:

    @Elizabeth, see the cats’ blog for the saga of moving five cats 230 miles. I’m not sure which of us enjoyed it the least.

  3. Helen in the UK says:

    Great to see that the move went well and you are settling into your new home. Have missed seeing your cooking adventures 🙂

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