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Potato Salad Roll
It's a sign of the times when I put an eighties recipe on my vintage food blog. There is now nearly a 30 year gap since flouro t-shirts, WHAM and some pretty rad food was popular. I found this one in my grandmother's 'Eating in the 80s' cookbook and I gotta say I picked the perfect day for it. With temperatures around the mid-30s it was easy to pre-prepare and I didn't have to slave over a hot stove, just serve it up.
Ingredients
4 cups cooked mashed potatoes (without liquid)
1 cup finely sliced celery
1/2 C finely chopped pickled cucumbers
2 level tspns grated onion
2 tblspns mayonnaise
1 tspn lemon juice
1 level tspn salt
1/2 level tspn pepper
1/4 C chopped parsley or chives
4 hard cooked eggs
Method
1. Combine first 8 ingredients
2. Sprinkle chopped parsley or chives over large sheet of greased greaseproof paper.
3. Spread potato mixture over paper into a 40cm x 25 cm rectangle.
4. Place hard-cooked eggs along shorter side of potato. Using paper as a lever, roll potato around eggs like a Swiss roll, keeping paper to outside.
5. Chill well, cut into thick slices. Serve with salad or cold meats.
Serves 6.
Whop Perguignon (Fancy Whopper & Steakhouse Burger)
I love doing research about food on the internet. The ideas that people come up with in relation to food is really quite phenomenal and creative.
Here's one of the more interesting food websites I've found
www.fancyfastfood.com
With a tag that says 'Yeah,it's still bad for you - but see how good it can look' this website takes your typical fast food meal and changes it to look like something that stepped out of a f michelin star restaurant. Below is a recipe from the website
Whop Perguignon (Fancy Whopper & Steakhouse Burger) by Erik of Fancy Fast Food
Ingredients:
1 BK Combo Meal: Whopper with added bacon and mushrooms (have it your way), onion rings, and a bottle of “XXX” Vitaminwater
1 BK Combo Meal: Mushroom Swiss Steakhouse Burger , french fries, and a bottle of “XXX” Vitaminwater
1 Garden Salad
1 bottle of water
packets of salt, pepper, and ketchup
organic parsley (for garnish and a touch of irony)
This recipe is a “slight variation” of Julia Child’s classic Boeuf Bourguignon recipe. First, disassemble the burgers to extract the ingredients we’ll need: bacon, onions, mushrooms, the burger patties, and the buns. Using a paper towel, dry off any oil, ketchup, or mayonnaise from the buns, and then toast them in a toaster (or toaster oven or conventional oven) until they become hard and crusty. Once cool to the touch, grate the bread down into breadcrumbs. (This will be used later on.)
Next, cut the beef patties into uneven square shapes, and then slice the bacon into “lardoons” about a quarter-inch-wide and an inch-and-a-half long. Sauté these small strips of bacon in a saucepan for a bit, and then add in the beef. Sauté the meats together until they start to sizzle, and then pour in about two-thirds of a bottle of the burgundy-colored Vitaminwater. Once the beef has been moistened, take each piece with a pair of kitchen tongs and bread it in the breadcrumbs you made earlier. (This will help thicken the sauce, and make the burger squares look more natural.) Add in the baby carrots from the Garden Salad, a packet of ketchup, salt and pepper to taste, and stir. Then cover the saucepan and let it all stew for at least twenty minutes under a low heat.
Meanwhile, use a paring knife to peel the breading off the onion rings. Add the oniony pieces to the mix of the other onion forms and the mushrooms, and rinse them all in a colander. Then sauté these mushrooms and onions in a small skillet. Finally, put the french fries in a food processor with 1/3 cup of water, and blend until it becomes a mashed potato-like substance.
And now the assembly: place morsels of your beef stew on a fancy white plate. Top it with the sautéed onions and mushrooms, and garnish with chopped organic parsley. Put some mashed potatoes on the side, and then pour some gravy from the saucepan over the meat and potatoes. Serve Vitaminwater in a wine glass. And voila! A Julia Child-inspired beef stew fit for a King!
The (almost) finished product. Front door still needs to be painted
Following are photos of the day before we moved in. There are still small amounts that need to be done but the most important thing is that council have passed us to be able to move in. And not a moment too soon, as the basement we've been living in is attached to a house that had recently been sold and about to exchange hands.
The entrance with stairs leading up and rumpus room in the background.
Never let it be said that building a house is a boring affair.
The downstairs rumpus/living area leading to spare room and laundry/bathroom
The upstairs living area with our new carpet
Our beautiful kitchen
The back deck that overlooks the cane
The watertank under the deck
It's becoming more like a real house now. The water tank has been installed, so has the hot water tank and the toilets.
What more can a person want in life
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Going to see the upstairs and our new driveway.
Our first few forays into checking out the upstairs of the house meant we had to climb a ladder inside.
There was no way we were going to allow our boys to get up there until we had some decent stairs. Their first trip to checking out the main living areas when the back steps were put in, was wonderful
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Our bathroom cabinets
There were two requirements that I had when we designed our new home. Aside from the obvious (bathroom, laundry, 4 bedrooms etc. etc.) the extras that became necessities were a walkin wardrobe and a laundry shute.
The wardrobe, because I could and the laundry shute because the idea of being able to dump dirty clothes into a hole and have it go straight downstairs to the laundry really appealed to me
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New tiles in the kitchen area
The following photos show the newly laid tiles in the kitchen and bathroom upstairs.
Tiles leading to the internal stairs
The tiles need a bit of cleaning but they still look great because they are where they are meant to be...on our floors
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Meryl Streep as Julia Child
The recent release of the movie 'Julie & Julia' is proof that food can be a connecting device through the ages regardless of time and location.
Meryl Streep plays the part of Julia Child, an American woman who finds herself in Paris due to her husband's work commitments. Trying to find a purpose she attends an all male French cooking class and thus begins a legend
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Our new oven is an Omega
For the myriad of regular readers that I have (thanks mum for being there), I just wanted to give an update of our cullinary situation.
While the shop is going great guns, although we now realise to get any bigger we will have to move our premises OR open another shop. The kitchen is just tiny where we are
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September 21st 2009 06:26
The dark angle of our kitchen
It's finally in. Our lovely, lovely kitchen and it looks exactly how I planned it.
The only extra we put in was profile doors. I love them and despite friends telling me they take up more time cleaning, I couldn't help myself
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