R's rue

I took part in a zoom lecture about Hitchcock’s spy films last night and in one discussion group  had a lively debate about The Thirty Nine Steps  One London lady was rather tired and emotional after a very bad day and ended up talking about the Queen’s  We will meet again speech with a large glass of red in hand  I’ve never seen 30 fixed smiles on zoom before It was somewhat of a surreal evening Off to work now....will miss the big gay quiz tonight as I won’t be back in time Mavis is flying the Welsh flag    from Going Gently https://ift.tt/3u6X4VH

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  This morning I thought it was time for a scotch egg. Over the years I have worked very hard in designing a high flavour , lower calorie scotch egg the size of a large hand grenade. I’m feeling rather altruistic today so I shall share my recipe.  Lean pork mince ( enough to cover four large organic eggs which have been boiled for four minutes) A bulb of garlic roasted  Dry herbs Paprika 2 tea spoons  2 eggs beaten  1 large packet of Panko*  breadcrumbs  When the garlic cloves are still warm, squeeze out the insides which have the consistency of a paste and mix it with the pork mince, dry herbs, onion salt , pepper and paprika  Don’t add onions if tempted as they make the scotch egg wet and breaks the pork ring. Shell the eggs and wrap each one in the mince. Be generous and make sure the scotch egg is large , the size slightly bigger than a tennis ball. Roll the scotch egg in the egg then press handfuls of the panko breadcrumbs in...

Cathy Killick is a veteran reporter on BBC Look North (Yorkshire). Tears leaked from my eyes when I first heard this heartfelt item on the programme and they leaked again later that night when it was reshown on the late, condensed version of the show. It concerns the deaths of both of her parents through COVID-19:- from Yorkshire Pudding https://ift.tt/3s56aAe