Proper Pickles

What? I hear you cry?

How can a pickle be proper or not?

Well, my family's proper pickles take a day in the making (two if you're not keen on the raw onion tang) and they are devine.

Ingredients

A brown onion
Malt vinegar

Method

Cut the onion in half and then slice into thin slices
Place in a bowl
Pour over loads of malt vinegar and leave to soak

Voila

Lovely crunchy fresh pickled onions.  Devine on any salad, burger, roast dinner....I could go on.  We always had a bowl of them in the kitchen and they went on everything!

Meal Planning Monday: The Heatwave Edition

Whoa!  How Hot?!?!


Just a quick post today as its just too hot to be sat here typing!

My lot don't eat properly when its hot, I don't know if thats just us or if you suffer that too.  So most of the meals are what I call picky meals where they can graze and eat in the garden (or on the beach!!)

Here it is...

Monday
Quiche, beans and jacket potato

Tuesday
A big old fashioned salad.
(none of this cut up tiny and mixed in mayo mullarkey....
A dinner plate full of lettuce, raddish, tomato, beetroot, spring onions, cucumber, ham, cheese, chicken, picallili and proper pickles)

Wednesday
Beans on toast followed by a huuuuuge fruit salad

Thursday (Its supposed to rain here so...)
Bangers and mash with peas and onion gravy

Friday
Mini Food
Mini pizzas, mini sausages, mini scotch eggs, big bowl of salad, home made coleslaw, potato skins and dips

Saturday
BBQ!

Sunday
BBQ!