Hot home made soup with fresh crusty bread
Home made pea and ham soup, or pasta bake with lots and lots of veggies mixed in (topped with tomato and cheese).
Proper home-made curry, made from the spices up.
Or any and all home-baking. That makes the kitchen the warmest room in the house (actually boiling the kettle will do that LOL).
It makes you warm three times - first with the beating, stirring and kneading - second with the oven belting its heast out - third when you tuck in and enjoy.
You can't beat a good home made stew with the dumplings (made of suet) as well,and of course the home made curry,,
but how about a good old fish and chips to help to you keep warm and cosy on these winter noghts...
OK, you asked for it ...... there’s a story attached to this one.
When I was a nipper, I grew up in a very mountainous, forested and lightly populated area of Northern Germany. My granddad was a forester, of the old school, wagon, horses, all that stuff. At that time it was still very usual for people to make a living from the forests, hunters, trappers, shepherds moving flocks, traders going from a to b etc etc, anyway ............ my granddad used to make something he called ‘Trail Soup’. Basically the unwritten law of the trail was as follows, whatever your business in the forest, as evening drew on you would either start to look for a camp site of your own, or, if you were lucky, you would spot someone else’s camp and ask to ‘join the fire’ as part of the ‘joining’ you would add bits of whatever food you happened to be carrying at the time to the pot.
Here is granddads version:-
Large stewpot, water, <doh> lentils, peas, roughly diced smoked pork hock, onions, potatoes, more peas, dumplings, more peas, wild garlic, strips of belly pork, salt, pepper, wild mushrooms, herbs to taste.
Roughly around the ham n pea soup lines but much more filling and warming. The last time I made one of theses was on a freezing cold campsite somewhere in deepest Cornwall and the family devoured it like a pack of starving wolves .............. oh yeah, that reminds me, the reason for ‘joining the fire’ back then was coz we still had wolves over there................. <sigh>
Hth ;o)
Pete
Mashed up bananas cooked till they're very hot. Sprinkled with cinnamon and single cream. Lovely!
marks and spencers chocolate overload.
oh yeah its everything you chocolate more more MORE!!!
That reminds me: Does anyone else crave chocolate after eating chilli? It's so strong for me that I've even considered adding some to the mix! :shock:
Where can I but this wonder that is chilli chocolate?
TELL ME NOW!!!!!!! :bounce:
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Can I just come and move in?!
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