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Is that Pers I can hear in the kitchen???

Dea....dont eat all the breakfast, I have to go off for a while, will be back :-D

Linds might need a good breakfast after the wedding reception last night ;-)

Gins will you stop all this crying please.... ;-)

early munchies ...

Danishes: Apricot & crème patissier Oranais, Mixed berry & custard brioche, Passion fruit spiral, Pain au chocolat.

also: Mushrooms on toasted brioche, with or without bacon, or Filled croissant with scrambled eggs, tomato & cheese.

Toasted Muesli With fresh fruit salad, yoghurt & maple syrup

Hot chocolate, with whipped cream

Brunch:

Will start with something for Dea:
Sausage, sautéed potatoes & caramelised onions, eggs, roasted tomato, bacon, mushrooms & toast..... plus I will chuck in a couple of lamb cutlets.

Egg Benedict on galette ( gluten free) choice of:

With Ham, bacon or home smoked salmon
With tomato, mushrooms & caramelised onions

Omelettes, choice of three:

Mushrooms, caramelised onions & cheese
With Ham, mushrooms, fresh herbs & cheese
With Tomato, mushrooms & spinach

As I am into Galettes at the moment these three are all served with galettes..

Home smoked salmon, braised beetroots, asparagus mousse, almond & strawberry pesto jus, and Mesclun salad

Braised pork belly & crackling w Buttered pea Nori, mixed green, Aubergine caviar cinnamon & honey jus

Marinated artichokes & feta, sautéed gourmet potatoes, French beans, red cabbage & apple chutney, roasted pecan, herbs oil & balsamic syrup

Or crepes with
Home made toffee sauce
Chocolate sauce
Jam (apricot or strawberry)
Butter & sugar
Lemon & sugar
Poached pear, chocolate sauce & roasted almonds
Mixed Berries compote
Banana & chocolate sauce
La bretone, toffee sauce & sea salt
Crepe suzette, marinated oranges, caramel & mixed peel ... no setting fire in the kitchen with this one please...
All crepes served with ice -cream and or whipped cream

For the lunch boxes:

Filled croissant with scrambled eggs, tomato & cheese

Scrambled eggs on grilled Turkish bread

With or without Bacon & mesclun salad

Ham off the bone with dijon mustard on sour dough

Filled rolls:
Sliced lamb, onion marmalade and lettuce
Sliced hard boiled eggs, chives and garlic butter with a light dressing
Thinly sliced roast beef or pastrami with tamarind chutney and tomatoes

Danishes or a rolled crepe filled with whipped cream and mixed berry jam.

For afternoon tea:

assorted savoury scones, muffins and pasties .... now these pasties will be hot when made so need to be eaten straight away..
I will not be able to keep them hot or else I will be required to add VAT

assorted jams and lemon curd to go on yer scones or muffins plus whipped cream.

Coffee, Tea, Hot chocolate, lemon tea. home made ginger beer.

Drambuie, Tullamore Dew, Limoncello, Carolans and Tawny Port.

Licorice all sorts and tim tams,

platter of dried fruit, assorted cheeses and crackers.

OOOOoooooh Persie This is WONDERFUL !!! <3 <3 <3

I will nibble on the Mushrooms on toasted brioche with bacon for now then I can't wait to start on that brunch - SO much to choose from and I want some of everything (except the fishy bits, of course) ! :-D :-D

I can't believe we also have afternoon tea :-0 :-D

This is going to be SUCH a lovely day - Thank you Persie <3

Dea Xxx

Thanks indeed Persie........I'm going for the sausage, sautéed potatoes & caramelised onions, eggs, roasted tomato, bacon, mushrooms & toast..... minus the sausage and lamb chops :-D



Gins? Straighten yer face please..........we're clean out of tissues now!



Am a bit worried about our Sylvs.


Why is she hoping that the diabetes thingy is an anomaly?


Why would she want an anomaly on top of all her other probs?


An anomaly can be VERY painful at times....... ;-) :-D



Bye~~~~~~

A Jubilee Weekend repast for sure Persie.

Only in Britain would you find a nation that celebrates a Diamond Jubilee (60 years) almost four months after the event (Elizabeth became Queen on the death of her father on 7/2/1952) and fifty nine years after her Coronation (2/6/1953).

I remember the latter day well. Going to "Aunty" May and "Uncle" Bob's to watch the event on their 9" screen black and white television, the only one in the neighbourhood. In the evening we went to a Coronation party held at the local Unitarian Church premises. After the sandwiches, jelly and cakes we kids were each presented with a Coronation Crown coin in a clear plastic case (I still have it) and a small gold coloured tin with a picture of the queen on it. The tin contained Cadbury's chocolate (Which I ate). During the party my sister who is 10 years older than I and always had a better singing voice than I gave a rendition of the popular song of the day, "They tried to tell us We're too young".

Ah happy days.

We were all given a crown coin in a plastic case when I was at school.

My father got drunk and my mother got upset.

My mother was a royalist and my father not.. we had a picture of the Queen on her throne with Prince Philip at her side... this was on the lounge wall in prime position above the piano.

The other day my OH sent some pics of a house for sale and the interior of it looked like it had not been changed since the fifties.. and my daughter said she would buy it if it had a photo of the Queen on the wall.

I hope you appreciate my tongue in cheek referral (to your chancellor of the exchequer) in my afternoon tea menu.

Persie

Persie,

The proposed "Pastie" tax has now been modified. It is now OK to sell them VAT free if they are "Cooling" rather than being kept hot. One of my shops was next door to a Greggs bakery shop and one of their cheese and onion pasties was often my choice for a lunchtime snack. Trust me, nobody could eat one of those when it had just come out of the oven in any case.

Oooh Pers........ croissant with scrambled eggs, tomato & cheese..my perfect weekend food

I'll be back later for the dried fruit, cheese and crackers

Fank yooo

:-D


Jonesey, you old g#t

Gins... get a hanky.. blow your nose, and dry your eyes and give us a better pic..

Jonesey I thought it was very funny when I heard that there was VAT on pasties and then they decided no it would only be for those that were reheated. And I know what you mean about burning your mouth on a hot pastie.. and it stays sore for the rest of the day.

1952.... immigrants to NZ ... 50% were British.
2012 ... immigrants to NZ ... 17% are Brits..

Does that mean all these years of us being rude to the poms has worked? ;-)

Persie,

Looks indeed as if it has worked.

My repertoire of New Zealand stories has 2 funnies amongst them:

1) The firm that I worked for won a contract in Tarawa (Gilbert and Ellice islands) in about 1980 and one of my colleagues was sent out to do a survey. Since that trip would take him half way round the world he decided to go out one way (Via the far east) and return the other way (Via Honolulu and the US) so he would get a paid for round the world trip. His journey includer a 2 day stopover in NZ. On his return I was discussing his trip with him and asked him what he thought of NZ. "Not much, it was closed when I got there" he replied. He had arrived on a Sunday.

2) A chap I knew in my sailing club, Terry, had served in the merchant navy travelling regularly from San Francisco to Auckland. One of his shipmates had met and married a Auckland girl and settled there. Terry had spoken highly of NZ and his brother had taken it all in and emigrated to NZ. The rest of Terry's family including his widowed mother and his sisters followed him so Terry became the only member of his family still living in the UK. He was always saying that he too was going to go there and after several aborted attempts finally went. About 2 years later I bumped into him in a shop in the Midlands. "What are you doing here?" I enquired. " I couldn't stand it over there" he replied, "The place and the family were driving me barmy".

One of my old shooting buddies went to live near Dunedin on South Island about 4 years ago and from what I hear he loves it there, hunting shooting and fishing.

Still not happy!

Stop your whinging woman. You're surely not still blarting about last Saturday's events are you? Worse things happen at sea you know.

Pull yourself together. Try a bit of retail therapy. Buy an Owls shirt and then set fire to it that should cheer you up a bit.

Buy a pig shirt...........Mr J, please...........

You been slapping her around now Jonesey seeing as she is now covered in plaster bits?

NZ used to be shut on a Sunday but now we have several 24 hour drive in MacDonalds .. we have come along way lol..

Seriously though nearly everything is open on a Sunday but back in the sixties the pubs shut at 6pm except if you were staying in a hotel and you could get a drink in the house bar.. then it was 10pm and now it is all hours.

The first liquor licenced restaurant was in 1961 .. I think there were two places in Auckland one of them the Gourmet where I went to a couple of dinners back in 1962 (I was still at high school) but I was with older friends and was able to get a drink.... it did put an end to police raids.

Then there was the food .. they had to take macaroni, ham and cheese off the menu it was too exotic no one bought it.

Can you imagine we were always at football socials on a Saturday night because it was the one place you could drink and dance.. other dance places in the city were no alcohol... we were party mad at people's homes.

Elliot Ness and his men kept us in check for years...

Hubby has gone for a game of golf and I have NO grandchildren here as my son is at home with them today - the house is SO quiet - I don't like it :-(

Dea Xxx

I'll come rund Dea, as soon as me and JB have finished cleaning the sitting room, from top to bottom.....Cyns would be sooo proud of me

Hopefully...... I repeat....Hopefully, the cleaning therapy will have worked wonders on you and you can now cease being a misery guts!! :-P



Had an email from a cousin I haven't seen for a couple of years to say that he is calling with his family tomorrow! I have had to hastily rearrange plans but warned him that he will be provided with a gag! Doesn't he realise I am a royalist and will be glued to the tv????? sheeeeesh :-S