Middle class or what!

[Bridget_Cleary]

Spring is here in my little corner of the UK. My first asparagus spear has appeared already, three weeks early! Amazing or what!

 

I’ll have to be patient and wait for a few more - boil for two or three minutes and eat dripping with melted butter. Totally yummy.

[Rob.]

PIZZA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[AHT]

omg C you grow your own asparagus?! I don't boil though, I cook in butter. Currently on the hunt for baby artichokes, but no luck here in York! 

[Bridget_Cleary]

yewey, that's totally gross. I suppose there's some people just don't get it, lmao.

 

Time to fire up the coffee machine.

 

Edit here 26th May - I like to think the person who made the yucky post I was replying to deleted it of his own free will, realising that was yucky.

[Bridget_Cleary]

His Nibs new toy

 

 

What is it about blokes and cooking with fire, like they do barbecues, firepits and now wood-burning pizza ovens but aren't safe to cook anything edible in the kitchen.

 

And are unable to stack the dishwasher!!!

[Leopardus]

I’ll have to be patient and wait for a few more - boil for two or three minutes and eat dripping with melted butter. Totally yummy.

Boil?!!! Good grief no! You betrayed your working class origins.

 

Cook on a ridged iron griddle, with a pinch of Pink Himalayan Rock Salt, and then serve with a knob of Cornish hand pressed butter.

[Bridget_Cleary]

OMG - totally the wrong side of the Tamar! You’ll be wanting to put the jam on top of the cream next.

 

Get it right - it’s scone, jam then cream!

[Leopardus]

I do indeed prescribe to the Devonshire style of mid-afternoon tea perfection...scone, cream, then jam!

 

Now I'm off to slice my local artisan sourdough loaf...

 

[Bridget_Cleary]

That be Cornish ma ferret - lmao

 

Does it taste the same? Should we ask the 3dxChat user base to undertake blind tastings on this fine Easter weekend. Like best scone recipe, best jam, Devon, Cornish or Irish clotted cream. Does clotted cream come from anywhere else even.

 

So many questions.

[Leopardus]

[Bridget_Cleary]

From an aesthetic point of view the red jammy stripe in the middle looks better, even if it is siding with the Cornish. Can’t you just hear the cries of Trelawny as they brandish Cornish pasties made with the kind of pastry that doesn’t break after being dropped down a mine shaft.

[Leopardus]

Two hours after my last post I was sitting in the RHS gardens at Wisley in Surrey, eating this...

 

 

Now THAT'S middle class!

 

(and that's also Devonshire style, although the cream was pure Kernowek (Cornish) Roddas).

[Bridget_Cleary]

Who knows what they get up to in 'furrin parts'.WIsley is ace, and you picked a fabulous day to go too. We have Rosemoor down this neck of the woods.

 

Here's the results of the blind tasting undertaken yesterday in my garden:-

 

Me - it has to be scone, jam then cream. It looks better.

His nibs - scone, cream, jam - but then he's from London where they don't know any better

Dad - no preference, but then his taste buds are shot thanks to long term medical treatment.

Step-Mum - scone, jam then cream. She's from across the Tamar in the land of oggies, emmets and stuff.

Best rl friend - thought it was all too funny and preferred the gin tasting we had the other Christmas

Best friend's son - says I make better pizza than scones (in game friends willl get this one)

Best friend's daughter - likes both

 

tcts a bit, like isn't stuff like this another way of sayig the game could do with all sorts of mini-games, silly competitions and stuff.

[Bridget_Cleary]

Does that mean Mikey likes things fast? Perhaps a closet thrash metal enthusiast?

[Desirea]

[Quarterback]

I’d like to take issue with the suggestion that men can’t really cook or stack the dishwasher. Many men can and do.

[Bridget_Cleary]

And your point is?

 

How about this one - tinned or fresh tomatoes for curries, pizza sauce or pasta sauce?

 

Btw Desi, try putting a slug of gin in gravy with beef.

[Bridget_Cleary]

A good Italian passata is a joy. No watery crud when you reduce down the sauce.

 

Btw - I read somewhere that we’re all middle class these days, in the UK anyway.

[Leopardus]

Shopping at Tesco Metro 

 

I think I qualified for middle class status yesterday.

I was dismayed the Tesco metro I bought Sushi from didn’t stock Wasabi paste. I turned my nose up at Coleman’s English horseradish sauce when suggested by a work colleague.

I tend to use tinned tomatoes (usually the pre chopped variety) for weekday meals and fresh for special occasions.

I also keep cartons of passata for emergencies. Handy stuff.

 

Shopping at Tesco Metro rather than a Little Waitrose or an M&S Simply Food?  Oh no, no, no.  Not middle class at all!  The very thought is making my skin crawl.

[Leopardus]

So funny

[Bridget_Cleary]

56 spears of asparagus so far this season, with four weeks to go. Good innit.

[Desirea]

Nicely done !   Luv asparagus 

[Bridget_Cleary]

/me waves to Desi.

Try this one if you can get some really fresh asparagus. It’s a bit chefy so uses lots of pans.

Hard boil one egg per person, preferably laid that morning from own hens. Fry bread crumbs in butter until nicely coloured. Add lemon juice, zest and parsley. Mix chopped egg, bread crumbs etc with some melted butter.

Put asparagus spears in boiling water and cook until just tender - slightly al dente is nice.

Place asparagus on warm plate and spoon egg and breadcrumb mix over. If too dry add more lemon juice and melted butter.

This makes an ace lunch dish - for total middle class rating wash down with chilled white Zinfandel.

[Leopardus]

Thank you. I will pass the recipe on to my chef.

 

Translation from middle class to working class:

 

"Cheers mate. I'll tell me missus."

[Bridget_Cleary]

What’s this I hear! The middle classes now shop at Lidl .................. so Mikey’s cool with his Tesco Metro but maybe not Barry’s Waitrose.