On Wed, 20 May 2020 03:59:14 -0700 (PDT), me wrote:
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> On Tuesday, 19 May 2020 21:36:21 UTC+1, Steve wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 May 2020 04:26:49 -0700 (PDT), me wrote:
> > >
> > > It was a kind of nothing but fully contented day, just pottering in
> > > the garden, cooking a dish with more spices than usual just to try it
> > > out AND waving to David Beckham. The family live not too far from me
> > > and David is a frequent visitor to a little shop where I buy
> > > delicacies,
> >
> > He went to the same secondary school as I did, only not
> > at the same time :-)
> >
> > I love Bumbles.They sell stuff I hadn't ever heard of and
> > I give it a go and find my
> > > cooking is better because of it. I often use fruit vinegars; I will
> > > make my own as soon as I can pick my raspberries, but I buy it there
> > > BUT spoonful by spoonful it is far too expensive to be liberal with it,
> > > so Googling for a recipe and at the same time I will make herb infused
> > > olive oil, as that too is expensive. Does anyone here make their own,
> > > tips?
> >
> > I only make jam. Plum for when I have a harvest that
> > hasn't been got at by the plum maggots and blackberry
> > jam.
>
> He seems quite a nice chap, I pretend I don't know who he is as he is
> going about his private life, he waves so I wave back but everyone
> round here waves so it is quite normal.
Yes he does seem nice. When I hear someone is nice it
sometimes reminds me of the Harry Enfield character
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> I used to make a lot of jam
> but these days I just buy it. I love plum jam, I used to make it, my
> favourite was alwaysmarrow and ginger which is what we had as children as it was so cheap
> to make.
Plums don't keep long, so we freeze them and use them in
plum crumbles etc, and what we can't freeze I make jam
with. I give away more of that than I eat because you
soon get fed up with it.
> I do make pickle green tomato pickle is lovely.
I made some green tomato chutney for the first time last
year with my left over green toms. I followed the James
Martin recipe on the BBC website. It's ok, but I still
prefer Branston pickle on my cheese sarnies.