Tag Archives: bbq

Dec 28 2011

Christmas – the one the day after


Well that was a bit of a thing. Christmas at home instead of at the beach house.

Cocktails – we’d best not talk too much about those, the Cosmopolitans were in order for the ladies and I then made Margaritas, but I ended up drinking them all – and I’d made enough for a few.

We had my bromance friend around, he rarely visits but was forced to by his daughter. He came with a bottle of port, pre-dinner entertainment.

The Beef on the BBQ was just over cooked, I was working to instruction and the salads and other things were all wonderful. The Ham of course was magnificent.

During the lunch we discovered that my son’s girlfriend is related to David Bain. I don’t think we’ll be going to his house for a party any time soon to be honest.

 

Oct 22 2011

I did a couple of things


I made this blog
http://pdubyha.com
 bit of frippery and vanity. But it suits me.

I also brought a pizza stone, then I went back and brought another, so now I have two. Why? So I can cook pizza in my BBQ is why, and when that’s not an option then I’ll have two for the ordinary oven. See – upstairs for thinking.

Secondly I watched a documentary on the Aberfan Disaster from 1966 which I remember as a child, don’t ask me how or why but I would have been 5, so either it’s a later memory from another time, or I really do remember it. Who knows the memory is a strange thing.

Anyway from the end of the documentary there is a quote and simple it’s “The past is a different country” which makes a lot of sense, and is something that people ought to remember.

Oct 15 2011

The Food Post


I like to cook. Not just the beans on toast or boiled egg cooking, that’s just feeding, but I sometimes have the urge to cook something unusual, or different.

But I like to do it properly. So when I had a mexican schtick I had to make tortillas, and even brought me a tortilla press! Compulsive much!

Today however is shumai. Those are the pork and shrimp dumplings you get at yum char. What I’ve overlooked however is how to steam them, I brought some steamers, but I only brought little ones, and they’ll be too little to put in the Wok, or over a pan. So I have to be creative with chopsticks or something to be able to steam them.

This is course is part of the journey.

What I nearly brought today is a pizza crisper, which sounds incredibly lame-o-rama when you can get perfectly good pizza on an oven tray. Didn’t buy it but now have angst about it! It’s a perforated tray that you cook a pizza in. Dur. It’s that or a pizza stone, which reminds me that I did have one and that it was too large for the oven we have, so it was nice to have, but not useable.

I wonder if you can make pizza in a bbq?