potato salad

this is the recipe in consuming passions scaled down a bit. From what i can gather this is a typical type salad from America and very different from the average potato salad in the UK. Our shop bought version is just potatoes, sour cream with spring onions and chives. I loved this type.

easy potato salad for exhausted cooks

ingredients

250g new potatoes

dressing

3 tblsp mayo

1tsp mustard

1tsp honey

juice of half a lemon

a jolt of white wine vinegar

1 red bell pepper sliced

paprika, salt and pepper to taste

boil the new potatoes to your liking, then sprinkle with salt.

then mix together the dressing ingredients and serve over the potatoes.

that easy and super scrummy.

Barbecue sauce

So this one was in Consuming passions, yet I don't feel I can call it Uncle buns barbecue sauce as I had to leave some ingredients out! Over here in ole Blighty I have several times heard of liquid smoke but never seen it anywhere!

If anyone can give me more details on this stuff please let me know? Any how, I used smoked hot paprika hoping that it would give me that smokey taste and I also used passata instead of prepared tomato sauce.

T he story of Uncle Bun by the way is kinda tragic, he falls in love, marries a unfaithful woman, goes mad and he's barbecue place shuts down. He's recipe for barbecue sauce though is rescued from a toilet wall and here's my take on it...

Barbecue Sauce

• over a medium flame fry
• 1 onion until translucent, then add
• 2 cloves of garlic
• set aside
• now over a low flame stir together until the sugar dissolves
• 1 packet of passata
• 1 cup ketchup
• 2 tblsp brown sugar
• now add
• 1 tblsp smokes paprika
• 1\4 tsp chili powder
• 1 1\2 tsp dry mustard
• 2 tblsp Worcestershire sauce
• 1\4 cup cider vinegar
• 1 1\2 tblsp lemon juice
• 1\2 cup beef stock
• salt\ pepper bring to the boil and simmer for an hour or so

this doesn't taste anything like commercial sauce, being more tomatoey. It's damn fine on the side though.

A delightful coincidence

I pretty much started Consuming Passions as soon as it hit the floor in my hallway after being delivered from Amazon, and to my delight I had most of the ingredients for the very first recipe in the book from the section 'a note to the reader.'
I hit the kitchen running, I have as always made substitutions etc. But to me this isn't so much a recipe as a way of serving. I've used parma ham instead of prosciutto and normal lettuce instead of endive as these are what I had in the house. I don't think Michael Lee would mind as she talks about herself needing to make substitutions.
So without further ado here is how I made my parma ham with red peppers....

Parma ham with red peppers

1. 
   
   chop 1 red bell pepper in half length ways and the into slices, and saute in some olive oil with 2 cloves chopped garlic and a heaped tsp of dried oregano.
2. 
   
   let the peppers get soft with slightly charred edges, about 15 to 20 min. Then let the peppers cool slightly.
3. 
   
   take a whole packet of parma ham {about 6 slices} and put about 4 pieces of pepper onto each slice.
4. 
   
   now roll the parma ham around the peppers and arrange on a bed of salad. Drizzle some balsamic vinegar over the top and eat with dips and gusto.

I,ll be giving my review of consuming passions in my next post for you all.