Yesterday was a bit of a weird day
feeding wise. Breakfast was reasonably normal (although Matt doesn't
usually make a fire in the toaster) and then we decided to go out for
a walk. But we didn't plan
the walk very well from a catering perspective. Matt had packed one
packet of prawn cocktail crisps which he ate within about 10 minutes
of leaving the car park. So three and half hours later we were
pretty hungry.
We
had purchased some cut price sardines the previous evening and the
plan for lunch
was to have these cooked on the barbeque (apparently this is not the
correct spelling but I prefer it). Since
it was outdoors cooking Matt was in charge.
It would theoretically
have been
a quick process but
- We had to get a barbeque fish cooking implement – the first place we tried had sold out of nearly everything barbeque related but we were successful at our second detour
- Although apparently the fish were gutted they needed quite a bit of fettling up before they met Matt's strict culinary requirements. This involved cleaning and stuffing with lemon and capers.
The
recipe says to roll out the dough to 1cm thick but I find that it
always sticks to the rolling pin so I just sorted of patted it out
instead. And then it says to use your 6.5cm biscuit cutter, but I
only have a 7cm or 6cm biscuit cutter so I chose the 6cm on the basis
that more scones is better than bigger scones. They bake at the
hottest the oven goes until risen and golden. I nearly forgot about
them but was reminded by the smell of cooking and got back to them
just in time, after about 10 minutes.
So
that was our tea last night. I had one with butter substitute, then one with
half yeast extract and half cream cheese with garlic and herbs, and
then a final half with butter substitute. Personally
I think they could have done with more cheese (even though I did use
what purports to be very strong cheddar) but Matt described them as
pleasantly cheesey. We had another one each for breakfast this
morning. And then one more as a mid-morning snack. Scones taste best
fresh so it would have been wasteful if we hadn't eaten them up.
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