A good approach to today’s problems - if I may say so, TFM. You do live in a beautiful part of our earth.
Soo xx
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Just Knorr, Carinthia, azz I’ve no room for frozen veg stock (although plenty of blurry time, I can tell you).
Soo xx
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Too much ovvan faff with veg stock, I find, Soo, & harder to get a sufficiently concentrated flavour.
I do meat stocks, but unless I am prepared to stand over them & really go for it, they can still take up valuable freezer space.
We had a large chest freezer in the Utiddly Room for years, until Mr C almost fell in it…
I still have a large chest (!) but a slimline upright freezer wiv not a lot of room, but enuff for my needs.
I have heard it said that there are those who freeze ‘leftover’ wine in icecube trays, to add to soups & sauces
Whoever heard of leftover wine?
Carinthia.xx
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Feck! That’s heresy!
As regards veg stock, home-made, I used to be quite good at this. Circumstances changed, so I started to use cubes - but, they are too sweet! Too much carrot, I suspeck. Still - it’s not much ovva Big Deal, after all.
Soo xx
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And also hearsay. Never encountered it IRL.
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Love it, Gusly One!
Soo xx
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I wouldn’t cook with anything I wouldn’t drink, so…
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I wouldn’t sleep without fallacious left-over wine.
Goodnights, Cellarites.
Soo xx
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Gin, Darling
Too much carrot & parsnip too
Cheap & sweet root veg.
The little stock pots are abit better.
As agreed, it’s not worth the faff, these days
Carinthia.xx
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Ha
Have just been looking through me stock cubes, stockpots tin, & it seems that the Maggi cubes have less sugar.
The stockpots have got Palm Oil in them
Feck
Carinthia.xx
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Well bugger me, so does Marigold bouillon powder. That does surprise me.
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But but but
Stock doesn’t have fat in it! You cool it in the fridge and take the fat off the top if there is any.
So what place has it for palm oil, for any sake?
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Yes, Fishy, but they aren’t selling liquid stock. They are selling stuff to which you add hot water. It needs a gunking agent to make it sufficiently stiff to hold a cube or merely gloopy enough to be a plausible ‘stock pot’. Palm oil, plus lactose and various other bits, acts as that gunking agent.
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Oh dear. How about Knorr?
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That too, Fishy
Carinthia.xx
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I do not have an encyclopaedic knowledge of the contents of every proprietary stock tablet, but I would imagine so, if Marigold are at it.
Yep, they are. From a search, from Ocado (can’t get in to link because COVID19 and they have no slots)
Ingredients. Salt, potato starch, vegetable fats (palm, shea, sal), yeast extract, sugar, chicken fat (3%), chicken (1%), spices (turmeric†, pepper, CELERY seeds), flavourings, onion powder†, maltodextrin, lemon juice powder, parsley†, caramel syrup, antioxidant (extracts of rosemary).
Knorr Chicken Stock Cubes | Ocadowww.ocado.com › products › knorr-chicken-stock-cubes-11115011
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Gosh TFM, we’re almost neigbours !
Now, in discussion of inneresin fings how’s this …
The, still lovely, town of Llandudno has feral goats which live on the Great Orme overlooking the West of the town. The odd one occasionally wanders into the town streets. However, with no cars & no people more of them have come further in & are now wandering freely every day.
Try this. Though it’s Twitter you don’t need to be a Tweeter to view it.
https://mobile.twitter.com/VampireGhuleh/status/1244678272048340992
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Something of a redundancy there, I feel, Armrest.
But awww. lovely goat, and thank you.
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Well, as in ‘not even in the least domesticated’. Not farmed, fed, housed, milked or read books to. Like those 2, was it Helen, bought for her mother 2 years ago and not heard of since.
I once played a football match near Wakefield where the 4th corner was not a corner flag but a mature oak tree, tethered to which, by a chain, was a goat which eyed up anyone taking a corner, throw-in or freakick.
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Much though I enjoy putting the boot in to the doggedly indepedent leech, I think it was Tony who thought goats were a good birthday present. Mind you, in certain circs not currently pertaining, I would be thrilled with same.
cf the St. Lawrence Ground, Canterbury. Although that is a lime and is not as a rule fitted with a goat. The poor thing might get hurt.
PS: there are goats; and there are goats who have not yet escaped. Therein lies the redundancy ;- )
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