SuperGoose75

Steady now 😆

Cheers 👍 Bring custard and fresh cream for the apple pie! I'll have a choice of mash or chips for the steak & kidney😃 Cheers 👍 That's a shame! Surely a small one now and again would do no harm😉

Well its nearing that time of year again, Apple pie time. Well they were always called ''Apple cakes in our home growing up. My mother would always bake loads, some for relatives and neighbours ect.. All made with homemade pastry and baked in a range oven. At Halloween she would put money/coins in the pie wrapped in foil. It was great getting a slice with a 10p in it. Anyway there is a glut of apples about locally and I've some blackberries in the freezer. So apple and blackberry pies will soon be on the go, along with some eves pudding,crumbles ect..! We had to purchase a new washing machine a few months back and whilst in the shop I noticed a small pie maker that was reduced to half price. Since its near impossible to get a good steak and kidney pie around these parts as kidney has gone out of fashion, it prompted me to make my own. Stewing beef,kidney,carrots,onions, seasoned and browned and put in the slow cooker with some good stock for 7hrs on low. Cooled and the put into shop bought pastry😱 for convenience as it was a trial,shortcrust for the bottom and puff for the lid. I put a dollop of ''Cashel blue'' in a couple as I knew it would complement the pie filling. They turned out well, although you can't get a lot of filling in this particular model. I make bigger pies, although our local butchers steak pies are unreal and the whole house eats them. I used the wee pie machine for small apple pies also. Handy for using up some left over dinner and it's OK to have some ready-made pastry in the freezer.

Thank you. This video may be of interest. Lots of great viewing on the British Pathe channel.

They were eaten just as a lunch. But here's a dinner one with smoked streaky bacon,onions,gravy on a bed of mash.

Well it is Wednesday after all!

That's the very one!

Good Morning Marsh Man, yes I've watched them youtube films about the Herring Industry in Great Yarmouth in bygone days, long before my time but I take an interest in such things. There was some hustle and bustle and it looked like mayhem, but somehow also looked to have run like clockwork with many hands making light work of things. There is a fishing port here called Killybegs, and you know you are getting close to the town, even when you are a few miles away as the stench hits you. I can well imagine how bad Yarmouth was back then going by the videos I've watched. I suppose its like anything though, you soon get used to it and think nothing of it. I remember when we were doing some construction work in a ''cheese factory'' one time and for the first few days it turned our stomach's, but after a bit ot didn't bother us. Sorry to hear your Old Gran was fond of the ''Black Stuff'' and you never got the inheritance...ARTHUR has a lot to answer for in many,many case's 😃

An Irish woman too.🙈.tut tut..! Probably a city girl. Well played Piers Morgan. Morgan's views and response is similiar to what Kevin Costner's character ''John Dutton'' in the hit TV series Yellowstone, told the vegan protester. I can't find a decent link for it, but it was a powerful scene that went out to a worldwide audience.

Thank you! Making memories is what it is all about. It is hoped he will look back with fondess in the years to come as well. Thank you! Getting one printed is a great idea👍 The season is not over yet, there is Mackerel to be caught yet. Fantastic! A great family tradition continued,long may it last. They did indeed. Simply seasoned with S&P and fried in butter and finished with a squeeze of lemon juice. More importantly my boy liked them and said they tasted like Tuna. He was surprised to learn that Mackerel were in fact small Tuna. I want to try and smoke a few next season Indeed! Thank you. Interesting, I like horseradish sauce with beef, so might be ok with fish too. A posh fish finger sandwich maybe 🤔 Thank you Marsh Man. Sounds like great memories you have,as you were part of the great herring industry that was part of Yarmouth and of course the Scottish herring ladies. A hardy breed of females which were anything but squeamish. My part of the coast is also famous for its herring fishing. It was written that when rowing a boat in the lough when the herring were in, it near impossible to row as the water was thick with fish. I've fond memories of, when local fishermen caught a haul of herring, they would go around the doors knocking and when you sent out a plate you got it filled with herring for very little money. The fish would be fried that evening and the house stunk for days. I look forward to buying and cooking a few herring in the coming weeks. Our boys fish way up in Norway where they reckon the waters are thick with big herring.

Just a few photos from a few hours after the mackerel. My 10yr old boy caught his first rod caught fish "A coalfish''. The first evening turned out very wet and windy and I was catching single good sized Mackerel (the Chopping board is 16'' long) Another evening it was a glorious weather-wise but nothing was taking. I explained to my boy that you don't go fishing with the sole intent of catching fish. High tides and the sun going down, there are certainly worse ways to spend an evening.

It's in the ''coolest place on the planet'' Well that was official in 2017. It sits on the shores of Lough Foyle on the Inishowen peninsula in Co Donegal. Across the lough is Magilligan which once had one of the largest commercial rabbit warren's in Europe. Thank you👍 That's some iteresting info there! Thanks for taking the time to post it.

Forgot to mention, I spent a few hours drinking pints and talking about birds,wildlife,shooting ect..in the company of Mr Packhams buddy, lolo William's! I have to say I found him as sound as a pound and he came across as neither pro or anti shooting. A real down to earth genuine man. A lover of birds but wildfowl wasn't his speciality, as he grew up and lived inland in Wales.

Definitely not🙃

You may well be right! The info I got on it was that they were used for keeping the birds plus their eggs for food. There are some really nice looking ones if you google Dovecotes and go to images. This one sits on the shores of lough foyle, as you can see in the background.

Oops🙈 I did! Apologies I did miss that reply! Very well done for getting it correct👏

https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/40903115/red-castle-tullynavinn-donegal

Well done sir! Correct answer👏

A couple more very good guesses. I'll post another photo before posting the ones of the inside, which should reveal all. There is one feature that is a good clue on the building. The building is around 250yrs old.Aldi and Lidl are not as absurd as you may think 😉

Some good guesses folks, but no correct answers as yet. I'll post a photo of the front view to see if things become clearer.

I had a snoop around this interesting old building a few weeks back, as it was in the vicinity of a place we were spending the day. Does anyone want to have a guess as to what it was used for? I'll forward a couple more photos to give more clues as to what it was actually used for. I'd be really impressed if someone knew with just the image in this post.

Thanks for the input folk's. I seem to have managed my first photo uploads to the forum.👍

Thank you! Thank you! I'll give both a try and see how I fair.