Salmon and another Recipe

This morning I worked on my jigsaw for a while, then after lunch went to the residents’ lounge for a cup of tea while waiting for the fish van. Today the choice was rather poor – wish I had a good fish shop that I could get to easily. However I managed to secure the second last salmon fillet, and cooked it for my tea.

It is very easy, coat it thinly in seasoned flour, then fry in butter on all sides till cooking nicely; then add some wine (not a lot, and I tend to use white as the salmon has a delicate taste.)

This I served with my organic potatoes and carrots.

Today I also made bread in my bread maker. I was given a super recipe, but today I substituted butter for the oil.

The recipe is:

9 fl oz water
2 Tbsps dried milk powder
1½ Tbsp caster sugar
1 tsp salt
2½ Tbsp sunflower oil or melted butter
4 oz wholemeal flour
4 oz granary malted flour
4 oz strong white flour
1½ tsp yeast (or a bit less)



If you use butter, you should be careful, when you melt it in the microwave, to use a bowl, rather than a side plate. It did actually stay in the plate until I lifted it out of the microwave, when I managed to spill some…… oops!

Anyway it is now turned out and I shall report on its merits after breakfast tomorrow/

I've got those Limehouse Chinese Laundry Blues

(with apologies to George Formby).

Today, once again I had a large washing, but I fell lucky and got a smaller machine for a quick wash of my dark clothes, and when it was finished and ready to go in the drier, the bigger machine became free, and so I was able to get all my bedding and pyjamas and undies washed. Because the laundry room was so quiet I managed to get it all dried and put away by lunchtime.

Now see what an exciting life I lead when this becomes important enough to post!

Met up with some of the other residents and had a cup of tea while waiting for the fish van to call and to pay the milkman. Bought a piece of salmon for my tea. Somebody who had the good idea to catch a number of us (even though she usually steers well away from any social occasion) was the treasurer, round collecting subscriptions to the Residents Association; 0f course in light of my opinion of this committee and the damage it has done to relations here, I refused to pay. The fee is only £2.50, but it is a matter of principle.

I am reading Gianrico Carofiglio's third book "Reasonable Doubts". The author was an anti-Mafio prosecutor in Southern Italy and his knowledge and experience are put to good use in his legal fiction. His prose style is far from commonplace and the books move along a good pace. I have received the latest (and final) Rebus story by Ian Rankin, but have deferred reading it until I have finished Reasonable Doubts. Now, to anyone who knows me, there can be few higher degrees of approbation.