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When I've fallen on hard times I've really enjoyed just roasting some vegetables with whatever herbs/spices I might have and eating a big plate of them, no meat, with maybe some bread to mop up the juices.
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i was about to go to bed, am now contemplating opening the packet of liver and cooking it
far too late for such shenanigans
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i just remember the scraggy bits of lamb, celery, carrots and spuds with bits of pearl barley in a warming clear broth - i miss my mothers winter stews
Good call - everything rendered soft and toothsome by slow heat and wholesome ingredients, potatoes crumpling into soup in your mouth, the bite of turnip and the guilty pleasure of a whole garlic clove simmered to the point that you can eat it, sod the breath!
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i was about to go to bed, am now contemplating opening the packet of liver and cooking it
far too late for such shenanigans
You'll get a better price for your liver from the butchers, mate. SAme with lovely, lovely kidneys! Have a word with your butcher and see if they stock lung and heart - a secret combination that goes brilliantly with artichoke and a dash of wine. They might even give you the lung for free!
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luci
i know that liver can be bought for next to nothing from a decent butcher (unless its calves liver from my ludicrous "saw you coming" organic butcher in kew)
still less than a pound for enough flesh to feed 2 hungry people was not bad from the supermarket
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And remember mussels are in season again. You can get a pint of mussels very cheaply (in the North, dunno about Londinium!) and they can be made sublime on a shoestring!
Orly?
raise eyebrowsI know it sounds a bit odd, but trust me, it's a brilliant mix.
Here's a recipe:
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still less than a pound for enough flesh to feed 2 hungry people was not bad from the supermarket
Good lad - canny buying! you'll not starve.
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What next? Tomatoes?!
Toms, as you well know, are too versatile to miss out. I always go canned when I'm skint though, I go canned when I'm flush too! Tinned toms are an ace stockpile - so glad to find the in the back of the cupboard when times are lean. I'm going through a slightly flush period at the mo and tins are being laid by for the next drought, believe me.
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I was merely being fruitée... ;]
I've heard rumours about you been bit fruity, mate!
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Don't worry about the milk, fella.
It's his yoghurt you want to watch.
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With bits...
...they're called 'pubes', mate.
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I live in Stoke newington and the turkish shops are ace for cheap fruit and veg and great quality too, then suppliment weeks shop with some decent meat and save £££ against supermarket prices. Boxes of vine tomatoes were 2.99 a box in summer and lemons are now 8 for a £1 and changes all the time, its old news but shop (euro) seasonal and save