Postcard biscuits

Our granny went on holiday in the Lake District  last week and sent us a postcard with a recipe on it  for Parkins.

Here is the Cooking Goalie's brother weighing out the ingredients and the Cooking Goalie making sure he is getting it right.

The Cooking Goalie's brother is now asleep while I get on with rubbing the butter into the flour and oatmeal.

(The Cooking Goalie's brother, Jamie, says "I'm boooooooored!)

The mixture was brown sugar, oatmeal, mixed spice and ginger, golden syrup and butter.

Then the mixture was rolled out. By me.

And it was cut into shapes. By him.

We put them in the oven and went outside to play and my mum left them in the oven too long. They were very tasty but rock solid!

Kicking, Cooking, Cricket

                      SAVE! Just to prove that I am, really, a goalie.

 

This time I was making fish wraped in prosciutto with roast vegetable but as you can see I had my usual trouble with the onions!

 I chopped up carrots, spring onions, red onions and put a tin of tomatoes and some extra passata over them. The green stuff is flat leaf parsley. I added some pepper to give it a bit more HARRRRR!

I wrapped the fish (which was called pollack) in some prosciutto ham. It all went in the oven . (The veg went in the oven earlier)

I have now magically transformed into a cricket player because Friday evening is cricket night.

Here I am holding my tea. All we have to do now is serve it out.

 Here's me enjoying my food. (Well except the broccoli...)

Stuff

Sorting eggs we collected from the chickens on holiday

I got Man of the Match at football this week.

 

Chicken stuffed with mascarpone and mushrooms

      Sorry about being away for ages. I've been on holiday and doing other things. But now the cooking goalie is back and nothing going to get in his way. Not even cabbage!!!
                    
                         This time I decided to make chicken stuffed with mascarpone. I started by chopping some mushrooms and garlic and added some chopped up flat parsley.

I then melted some butter and put it in a saucepan. Then I added the mushrooms, the garlic and the parsley. Once the mushrooms were nice and soft I left them in bowl to cool down.

Then I attacked the chicken breasts with a big knife. Ha! ha! ha! I sliced them so they could open like a book and then rolled them out using a rolling pin until they were quite thin.

I dolloped some masarpone cheese into the mushroom mixture then I put the mixture into the chicken and closed it like a book. Then, to stop the cheese falling out, I wrapped the chicken in prosciotto ham. As I had some leftover mixture, I put it on top of the chicken! After that they went into the oven for 25 minutes.

This is me looking rather daft holding my tray of food! :)

 

I served them with new potatoes and carrots even though my Mum thinks we should have had broccoli! Never!!!!!!!!!