3: Gardening Diaries ...

[Leeski]

Thank you so much. I haven't got much left now. Cook this to use for 2 meals. What a nightmare. I think this time I'm about right, but the chicken thighs are not cooked. In the end, the whole thing is now in the saucepan rather than the rice cooker!

100% for effort! ! My star sister!

Jasmine rice is good if you bake it half fill a casserole dish with the rice top up with stock or water you want the stock to be an inch deeper than the rice cover and bake for half an hour or so

 

[Logan]

Morning all

Yes the bodyguard was very good.Glad that you both liked it @alp and @Leeski

We still had our thinner quilt on, it's still a bit warm for anything else.

Yesterday defrosted the freezer. I usually do it twice a year, but couldn't be bothered.

 

[alp]

Jasmine rice is good if you bake it half fill a casserole dish with the rice top up with stock or water you want the stock to be an inch deeper than the rice cover and bake for half an hour or so

Baked? If I don't have to pay for gas, I will think about it. This jasmine rice is so strange. Those I bought from Chinese supermarket never poses such problem. It's like Glutinous rice more than jasmine rice! How I miss Hunan glutinous rice with chickens... with a bit salt and diced ginger and spring onions!

 

[alp]

Morning all

Yes the bodyguard was very good.Glad that you both liked it @alp and @Leeski

We still had our thinner quilt on, it's still a bit warm for anything else.

Yesterday defrosted the freezer. I usually do it twice a year, but couldn't be bothered.

I haven't watched it yet. But you know my mind!

 

[Leeski]

Baked? If I don't have to pay for gas, I will think about it. This jasmine rice is so strange. Those I bought from Chinese supermarket never poses such problem. It's like Glutinous rice more than jasmine rice! How I miss Hunan glutinous rice with chickens... with a bit salt and diced ginger and spring onions!

Have you been washing the strach off before you cook it?

 

[Logan]

t. Age before beauty is just shockingly bad, especially the old lady, with her face plastered with wrinkles and a bit of botox.

Yes it is, they keep breaking out into song, as if it's a musical.

 

[Logan]

I haven't watched it yet. But you know my mind!

Oh you should have if you really wanted to, the next one is tonight. I was surprised that hubby stayed awake to see it.

 

[alp]

Have you been washing the strach off before you cook it?

Yes, but I was lazy and lumped the rice with 5 thighs (our breakfast and dinner! - As I said, I was lazy!) Now the bottom of the rice has become a hard layer! But the chickens are now cooked. I have to say this is not the same jasmine rice I got from elsewhere. It's a glutinous rice. Have you tried it, @Leeski?

Ooops! It's Hainanese chicken

This one

absolutely delicious!

 

[Leeski]

Yes, but I was lazy and lumped the rice with 5 thighs (our breakfast and dinner! - As I said, I was lazy!) Now the bottom of the rice has become a hard layer! But the chickens are now cooked. I have to say this is not the same jasmine rice I got from elsewhere. It's a glutinous rice. Have you tried it, @Leeski?

Ooops! It's Hainanese chicken

This one

absolutely delicious!

Looks good I don’t buy jasmine rice I buy balsmati and add things like star anise herbs and spices stocks

 

[alp]

How do you make your spice stock please? I'd love to make something like that. I only bought it because it was reduced to 49p. Shame there was only one! I think this is more like sticky rice, putting me in so many sticky situations!

 

[Leeski]

How do you make your spice stock please? I'd love to make something like that. I only bought it because it was reduced to 49p. Shame there was only one! I think this is more like sticky rice, putting me in so many sticky situations!

I make this one a lot it’s kinda moroccan cook rice in chicken stock with garlic ginger tumeric paprika cloves all spice half a tea spoon of each when the rice is nearly cooked add teaspoon of honey table spoon of tomato purée salt pepper and a tin of chick peas nice on its own but good with chicken or fish

 

[alp]

Sounds yummy! Must try it.

Wait for delivery of Amazon organic flour .. Quite a bit - wonder where I should store them. Nightmare of another dimension!

 

[Upsy Daisy]

Looks good I don’t buy jasmine rice I buy balsmati and add things like star anise herbs and spices stocks

Have to say that Balsmati is our fave too !

Obviously where hubs comes from rice is high on their menu. He cooks it in several ways, but the favourite ( but time consuming) way is to steam it .

 

[Upsy Daisy]

...forgot to add, he always washes it through several times before cooking it

 

[Zenj]

Morning all

Yes the bodyguard was very good.Glad that you both liked it @alp and @Leeski

We still had our thinner quilt on, it's still a bit warm for anything else.

Yesterday defrosted the freezer. I usually do it twice a year, but couldn't be bothered.

Morning all yes the bodyguard was very good on again tonight it’s very autumnal here cold nights down to real feel 5 c had the heating on yesterday August as been very poor here .Have a good bank holiday all