Something tasty...

There are lots of things I could mention... but they're mostly boring and course related, or only interesting to me coz I was there... so thought I'd just share what I had for tea...


Recipie for yummy pork and dried apricot dish :

INGREDIENTS:
Pork Belly strips
Honey
A few Dried apricots
About half a parsnip
1 Pork stock cube
About 1/3 of a green pepper
About 3 or 4 mushrooms
New potatoes
Green beans
Kettle full of boiled water

Lay the pork strips on a baking tray. Make a few cuts/ dints in each strip, into which push half an apricot in each (so I usually put 2 halfs of one dried apricot into each strip).

Peel and cut up the parsnip, place this also on the tray with the meat.

Start to cook this in the oven.
Boil water and put in a pan. Add to this the potatoes and green beans. Simmer (Overall for about 20-25 mins - can take the beans out a bit earlier).

Chop up the pepper and mushroom into medium sized pieces. Also about 3 dried apricots chopped in half. Start cooking in a frying pan with a little sunflower oil. Once the oil has mostly gone, add some honey over these.

Also drizzle the honey over the pork (after it's been cooking for about 15/20 minutes) and the parsnip.

Once the honey has cooked in quite well (to the frying pan stuff!) , crumble the pork stock cube over the stuff in the frying pan. Add a little boiled water, and stir it, crushing the cube and using the spatula to crush the apricots a bit too - I then keep adding a little bit over water and stirring it in/ cooking it on low till it becomes gravy thickness, taste it, add a little more water and so on and so on until it's the right amount of sauce and not too strong.

Once the meat looks like it needs maybe just another 5 or 10 mins, I turn it over and continue to cook it for a bit (and also the parsnips).

Once the meat and everything else is fully cooked. Drain the beans and potatoes and serve, add the meat and parsnips, then dribble the saucepan full of veg and sauce over the top.

Eat it! Very yummy :)