Apologies to readers
A lovely birthday present to me from Bealers this week was an hour spent on this blog installing a spam filter & ensuring that any email sent to the ‘becomingdomestic.co.uk’ domain now gets to me.
I was really shame-faced when he discovered at least 5 or so comments from lovely readers asking questions or just wishing us well that I’d not seen amongst the thousands of stupid email/comments I was getting from automated spam sending programs. Aaaggghh. I’m so sorry Merry, Giles, Jax, Clint and others. I’m so happy that you’ve been in touch but so sorry I never read your emails or replied (I will do now!).
The good news now though is that thanks to Bealers hard work I won’t get 100+ daily emails about p0rn or pen1s extensions but I will get actual comments from actual people! What a cool present to receive.
Today we ate:
(Kids) Warmed up left over cheesy pasta for lunch, tea was toast with peanut butter and marmite (together - much more delicious than it sounds) and fruit chunks for desert.
(Grown-ups) Bacon and butter bean casserole (from Nigel Slater’s Kitchen Diaries)
Soak 500g of dried butter beans overnight or during the day. Before today I had never soaked my own beans - can’t quite believe that for someone who is now 35, loves home cooking, being thrifty and is a big fan of pulses. Usually always used tins. Drain and boil in UNSALTED water for an hour.
Fry 2 roughly chopped onions with 4 x whole cloves of garlic (peeled though) in a casserole, add a roughly chopped carrot, two tins of plum tomatoes, a tablespoon of paprika, black pepper and salt and the beans and their liquor. I added a couple of bay leaves as the recipe called for thyme but I had none. Bung a joint of bacon in the middle and stick in the oven (180deg)while you bath the kids, read them their story and get them tucked in. 1 hour or so later you have a yum one-pot feast and a huge slab of bacon from which to make endless sandwiches over the coming weekend.