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Slater, get real, man!

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Jen and I watch a lot of cookery programmes on telly (although, being from Yorkshire, Jen tends to refer to them as cooking programmes). Last night, we watched a recording of one of Nigel Slater’s Christmas specials, in which he improvised a meal called bauble and squeak (do you see what he did there?) from leftover goose, ham, pumpkin and roast potatoes.

Jen and I watched in open-mouthed incomprehension.

Who in God’s holy name has ‘left-over roast potatoes’? And eight left-over roast potatoes at that!

Sizzler

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Regular Gruts commenter Keith sent me this photo, which he took recently at the Sizzler restaurant on International Drive near Orlando, Florida:

Sizzler

Well spotted, Keith. My secret is out. There are many irons to my bow, and many strings in my fire. I have, indeed, opened a chain of restaurants in the United States

I particularly recommend the peppered steak.

The legendary smoked fish tart recipe

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Several years ago, Jen found a smoked fish tart recipe in a magazine and gave it a go. It was utterly fantastic.

Ever since, we’ve been trying to find recipe again. Jen has a very large number of recipe magazines, and she’s been through each one of them several times, searching for the bloody recipe. So illusive elusive was it, that the recipe became something of a legend at our place: “Remember that fish tart?” we would reminisce. “Wasn’t it fantastic! I wonder what we did with the sodding recipe.”

Anyway, the other week, Jen decided to have another look for it, and, after several hours’ searching, she finally found it. W00t! So, to avoid losing it once again, I’ve published it here.

Give it a go: it’s bloody fantastic.