BL - when you’re next in Norfolk we’ll have to see if we can get together. Have you been to the Plantsman’s Preference nursery at Sth Lopham yet? Nice range of perennials (esp geraniums) and very reasonable prices - not a birthday card or candle in sight.👍 Best to get there early in the season. Lovely Saxon church too. Did you see that Nora has raised the issues we’re having with photos with the tech team?
Chicky - hope you feel better soon. Need to be better to eat choccies this weekend!
Hi Liri👋 - hope you get you leccie fixed soon.
Naught kitties Obx - have the poorly paws fully healed now?
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Lovely to see Topbird and Punkdoc. Too many things to comment on, but I’m confused about the Shrimp Paste. Don’t you like that brand, Dove? Love the tales about cats being clever. I’m always glad to get a visit from our son’s cat. im still deciding what to do today, but a bit sore from digging in the garden yesterday.
I am up early Pat so hope no-one minds if I post about the shrimp paste. Shippams paste is an old fashioned brand of paste that is used to make sandwiches in the UK. I think the last time I saw it was in a 1940s Agatha Christie film! Still, many must eat it as it is still in the supermarkets. The shrimp paste needed for nasi goreng is from the Far East, much more lively and exotic...and useless for sandwiches.
Thank you Daisy for explaining about the two very different shrimp pastes.
Fortunately I was able to make an acceptable substitute with a combination of garlic, ginger, chilli paste, palm sugar and a large slosh of Nam Pla fish sauce and our supper of Nasi goreng was very tasty.
Shrimp paste and cucumber sandwiches will be on the menu at a later date
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Ah, now I get it. It reminds me of the stuff Mum used to put on sandwiches called Anchovette. I notice it’s still in Woolworths and Coles. Never something I liked. Give me Vegemite any day. 😜
Are you sure about the shrimp paste and cucumber sandwiches, Dove? I can't find details on the shrimp paste, but here is the description of the chicken paste. Spreadable Sandwich Filling with Minced Chicken and Mechanically Separated Chicken. Yummy.
Doesn't sound good does it Daisy . When I was at a tiny village primary school in the 50/60s at this time of year the windowsills were lined with Shippams paste jars full of little bunches of primroses and violets . Meat paste and fish paste and tinned salmon and cucumber sandwiches were a staple of the British diet. Times have changed ... we'd never heard of pate back then, much less tinned tuna!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Did you see that Nora has raised the issues we’re having with photos with the tech team?
Chicky - hope you feel better soon. Need to be better to eat choccies this weekend!
Hi Liri👋 - hope you get you leccie fixed soon.
Naught kitties Obx - have the poorly paws fully healed now?
Love the tales about cats being clever. I’m always glad to get a visit from our son’s cat.
im still deciding what to do today, but a bit sore from digging in the garden yesterday.
Thank you Daisy for explaining about the two very different shrimp pastes.
Fortunately I was able to make an acceptable substitute with a combination of garlic, ginger, chilli paste, palm sugar and a large slosh of Nam Pla fish sauce and our supper of Nasi goreng was very tasty.
Shrimp paste and cucumber sandwiches will be on the menu at a later date
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Yummy.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.