I first made this for a family Christmas gathering and Mr Hyde loved it. Now it’s a regular on our meal planner. We are lucky enough to have a good butcher at the bottom of our road and get our joint there.
The great thing with the ham is it’s so versatile, we have it in sandwiches, with egg and chips, in a pie or quiche and of course in a broth. The stock from when you first boil the ham is a great base for the broth!
The recipe I use is from the hairy bikers Found here.
When it comes to food and baking, I can’t leave out the dog. He loves cheese 🧀 so I made basically a cheese scone for our furry friends. So easy to make, and makes loads.
Ingredients:
140g whole meal flour
140g plain flour
140g oats
70g grated cheese
310ml beef stock
Method:
Heat the oven to 170
Mix all ingredients together
Roll into small balls in your hand of equal sizes
Put in the oven for 50 minutes
Store in the fridge
Gin seems to be really fashionable at the moment, I’ve never really been that keen on it until I tried Sloe Gin. How nice is it?! It’s so expensive to buy but some one told me I could make my own if I found some sloes.
That was me in research overload, I didn’t even know what a sloe looked like let alone where I could find it. Now I have at least 5 places I know I can get them, apologies but I can’t share where!
Ideally sloes (from a blackthorn bush)need to be picked after the first frost but I find if I wait that long some one has already picked them. I pick them once I see they are ripe and then pop them in the freezer, just like first frost! ❄️
So how you make it:
Get sealable bottle, any size, fill 1/3 of sloes
Cover the sloes completely with caster sugar
Add gin to almost full
Leave in a cool dark place, shake bottle vigorously once a day for a week, then leave for approx 3 month
Strain over muslin cloth in a seize and decant into sterilised bottles, done!
If you pick them in September they’ll be great home made gifts for Christmas 🎄
I always find baking therapeutic, today I decided to bake for the dog!
I found a recipe for banana cup cakes that was dog friendly and added the extra treats of honey and peanut butter. After only 12 minutes to bake the dog was sat looking at the worktop longing them to cool down. When he tried them the hungry puppy was very happy!
Ingredients:
1 egg
2 tblsp honey
1 mashed banana
80g smooth peanut butter
40g whole meal flour
45g oats
1/2 tsp baking powder
70ml water
Method:
Preheat the oven to 180°C/Line a muffin tin with 12 paper cases.
Mix the egg, honey and banana together in a bowl.
Add the peanut butter and mix to a smooth paste then add the flour, oats and baking powder and stir to form a dough. Add the water and mix combine.
Let this mixture thicken for about 15 minutes. Stir then spoon it into a the paper cases.
Bake for 15 minutes then cool on a wire rack.
They will last about 3 weeks in an air tight tub or you can freeze them and defrost later!
In the box of veg I had delivered was an unusual item, I had to ask the grower what it was. It was golden beet, I’d never heard of it before. Apparently it’s the same as regular beetroot just a different colour. The only thing I could think to do with it was pickle it, so there you go:
Pickled Golden Beet!
Following the lovely lot of veg I had delivered I made a huge pot of Chicken Stew, I made 6 portions and still had some left. I thickened up the stew with some corn flour, made the Pastry and there you go, Chicken Pie!
There was filling left over and pastry, so the hubby got a massive pasty too!
So after our delivery of lots of fresh veg, I had some left over chicken from our Sunday roast so I made Chicken stew inspired by Jamie Oliver’s recipe from the ‘Save with Jamie’ book.
The idea behind the book is you have your Sunday roast and the recipes give you ideas for left over meat.
This is what I made and optioned it up for baits at work. I 6 of these and had some left over to thicken up to make a pie later.
Jamie’s Recipe is Here but is didn’t make dumplings with mine.
In our Hungry Hyde Household we all love to eat, especially the dog! So I cannot blog about food without adding a few tasty treats for our furry friend!
This was what we made and our dog loved them!
Makes 30
ingredients:
350g rolled oats
1 egg
150ml stock (any is ok, I used beef)
Method:
Heat oven to 160c
Mix all ingredients well then press into moulds and let cool for a few minutes
Bake for 20 minutes then leave to cool
Store in an airtight container
Nothing beats the taste of home grown veg!
This little lot was a gift from a friend that he grew in his allotment, I can’t wait to use it. The only problem is what to make with it, I have so many ideas. Any suggestions?
With still having loads of blackberries and running out of ideas of what to make with it I came across a recipe for Spicy Blackberry Chutney. So a nice simple recipe and I had all the ingredients in the Larder. These will go lovely in the Christmas gift hampers!
Hungry Hyde Household 