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January Lock-Down Pickling

January Lock-Down Pickling

Both of these monstrosities used a 2% brine. That’s about 4 heaped table spoons of Salt to 1 litre of water. The slight pink haze is from the Ferrous Salts as I used ground Himalayan Salt. It’s not got magical properties (!!!) as some folk think, it’s just not got anti-caking ingredients which sometimes interfere with fermentation.

The Pickled Ginger was a bit of a challenge as it has natural anti-microbial properties and after a false start I had to ‘Seed’ it with a little liquid from an existing Garlic ferment. But it’s been worth the wait. If anything pickling have intensified the flavour and softened the texture. I started this on on the 29th of November, so it has been quite slow.

The Pickled Round Shallots I only started on Wednesday, so they’ve had 3 days so far. They are very active and bubbling away happily. There’s quite a lot of natural sugars in Alliums, so this will initially be a very fast ferment and eventually settle down as the Ph increases. I’m thinking perhaps 3 weeks until it goes dormant but we’ll see. The Shallots were on offer so this 1l jar will have cost us about 35p including the Salt!

 

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Chicken, Cauliflower, Broccoli Pasta Bake

For the “Q” in our Ingredients Alphabet we used Quark as the base for the Cheese sauce.

Ingredients:-

2 cooked Chicken breasts, cubed
Cauliflower and Broccoli, cut into florets
Mature Cheddar Cheese, grated
200ml Quark
Milk
Pasta ( Gluten free in our case )
2 cloves of Garlic, grated
½ a large Onion, chopped
Mixed Herbs
Black Pepper
Salt & Vinegar crisps crushed
Oil and Margarine

Method:-

(1) Gentle Blanch the Cauliflower and Broccoli and drain.
(2) Boil the Pasta until it has a little bite and drain.
(3) Fry the Onions and Garlic in the Oil and Margarine and season with Salt & Pepper.
(4) Add the Chicken and heat through.
(5) Add ½ Quark and ½ Milk as the foundation of your sauce.
(6) Add ¾ of your grated Cheese.
(7) Add mixed herbs and Pepper to season.
(8) Add the Onions and Garlic and stir in.
(9) Add the Broccoli and Cauliflower and stir in.
(10) Stir in the Pasta.
(11) Transfer to an oven proof casserole.
(12) Sprinkle with the crushed Crisps and the remaining grated Cheese.
(13) Bake at 180c for 20 minutes or so until the Cheese has melted and slightly browned.

We made some Gluten free Galic bread and cobbled together a salad. It was very tasty.

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