Making Sunday Roast

Are you thinking about making a Sunday Roast? This is what I do.

Put a bit of meat in the oven. Lamb this time. Pop a bit of rosemary and garlic in and cook slowly on a low heat (shoulder)

Put some celery and carrot ends into a pot of boiling water to make a stock (for the gravy).

Peel some potatoes.

Boil the potatoes for about 5 minutes.

Make some batter for yorkshire pudding. I tend to use a different recipe each time I do it.

Put the batter in the fridge for a while. Then after everything else is almost ready, I put it in hot fat in a hot oven for about 20 minutes.

Add a few herbs to my stock. Which I then use to make gravy using the juice from the meat and a little flour.

Put the par-boiled potatoes in a colander and put some flour or polenta on them.

Give them a shake. Then put them in hot fat in the oven.

Cut the carrots then put them in the a pan of boiling water (or steam them).

Put the food waste in the compost.

 And. All done.

Making Pasta

Fresh pasta is so much nicer than dried. And it isn't too difficult to do.
1) Put some pasta flour onto the table. Make a hole in the middle and drop in some eggs. Mix the eggs with a fork and gradually pull the flour into the liquid.

2) Knead the flour for about five minutes.

3) Flatten with a rolling pin and put into the pasta machine. Start with a large setting and gradually make it smaller.

4) Leave the pasta to dry for a while.

5) Drop into some boiling water for a few minutes.

Done