Polls: Food & Beverage

Yesterday I asked what am I cooking. Well done if you said a vegan burger. I served it on a toasted crumpet with a rasher of crispy bacon in a sea of shrimp and laver sauce with a side portion of stir fried cavolo nero. It was nice but I wish I had a mix of seafood with it.

This question is just for fun. Here is a picture of ingredients for something I'm knocking up for supper. The bowl contains bread crumbs, the herbs are parsley, and of course the rest is leek, oats, mixed seeds, lemon, and sea weed. Seasoning is black pepper.

But what am I cooking? Answer tomorrow night?

What do you prefer to drink?
I like to drink a beer with my dinner sometimes.

Tonight, I followed a recipe in a book I recently bought. It was a simple version of the British classic bangers and mash. I followed the recipe exactly except adding a rue to thicken the sauce and swapping venison sausage for big pork ones. I chose pale ale as the beer. Perhaps a darker brew, perhaps a Guinness, would have given more colour.

But as you can see, despite only a few tiny changes, it looks nothing like the picture in the book. The leek lost its colour a few minutes into frying, and the rosemary leaves parted from the stalk.

So how often do you follow a recipe and think this looks nothing like the book?

Gravy is an essential component to many meals especially Sunday dinner. But do you know how to make proper gravy from scratch?