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1:12 pm
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Sun 17-Jan-10
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I went to my lovely, lovely butcher[1] at the market yesterday. As well as all the usual chicken, beef, pork, award-winning bacon and award-winning sausages, I bought 2 small ham shanks. Or I suppose gammon shanks, since they were the end cuts off the legs the butcher turned into gammon.
I usually boil/bake these just like mini gammons, but I've a hankering this time to do something oriental with them. Sweet/spicy/sticky and served with rice and veg. Does anyone have any hints how I cold go about this?
I've been thinking about the homemade spicy plum sauce I have in the freezer, but that will only flavour in the bake stage of things. What could I do to get these really orientaled up?
Ta!
[1] Greenmount Meats from Co. Armagh
1:56 pm
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Wed 30-Dec-09
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Shereen - I have a barbecued Spare Rib recipe which we love - maybe can be accommodated(?):
Barbecued Spare Ribs
3 lbs spare ribs (1 - 1½ kgs)
1 tspn salt
2 tblspns soy sauce
1 tbspn sugar
3 tbspns tomato ketchup
2 tbspns honey
1 cup of chicken stock (plus extra to dilute if necessary)
Set oven at 375ºF; Mk 5 gas; 190ºC.
Mix salt, soy sauce, sugar, ketchup, honey and stock well together and soak the spare ribs in this marinade for 1 hour minimum.
Life them out of the marinade and put on a grid in a roasting tin holding a little water to prevent smoking.
Roast in pre-set oven for about 1¼ hours, turning the spare ribs from time to time.
Put cooked spare ribs on serving dish.
Dilute marinade with a little extra stock, boil up and pour over meat.
Serve hot.
2:27 pm
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Thanks Brightspark. That reads as a very tasty recipe. I'm very impressed with the tip about putting water in the roasting tin to prevent smoking oo. I can see me using that when I'm doing a honey baked gammon as well! Ta.
11:54 pm
Sat 12-Aug-06
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That sounds really yumm, BS. I love sticky sweet oriental-ish ribs.
Shereen, you might consider this recipe for gammon, maybe not for the joint that you bought bit it's brilliant for a standard, cheap, gammon. One to bear in mind for the future. I love it.
Never knowingly underfed
4:48 pm
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Tue 22-Sep-09
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BS, I love the way you manage to come up with a recipe in minutes of someone asking!
I'll try that again!
5:52 pm
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Wed 30-Dec-09
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Thanks TA - you're such a good friend 
I'm thinking of doing a Basic Food Hygiene on-line course. I'm always cooking for charity events, etc.
Today I took a traybake chocolate and sultana cake, smothered in a chocolate fudge cream in to school - as I thought they might need a pick-me-up for the first day back from half-term - and it was snowing!
In the summer, I will be running a cake stall for a massive event, and I would like to be able to price things, but I have been told that without the Hygiene certificate, all the foods cannot be priced, and we can only ask for donations.
The minutae of laws sometimes baffle me - the WI have been doing wonderful cooking and charity fundraising for years without a single incident, and now they have to abide by this strange decision.
Rant over!
6:41 pm
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Danny said:
That sounds really yumm, BS. I love sticky sweet oriental-ish ribs.
Shereen, you might consider this recipe for gammon, maybe not for the joint that you bought bit it's brilliant for a standard, cheap, gammon. One to bear in mind for the future. I love it.
Oh, Danny, that does look tempting!
(Need a mmmmmm icon!)
6:42 pm
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Wed 30-Dec-09
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Perhaps .........
6:46 pm
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Tue 22-Sep-09
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Neat one BS. Talk to Danny would you please?
I'll try that again!
10:38 pm
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Thu 24-Sep-09
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brightspark said:
Thanks TA – you're such a good friend
I'm thinking of doing a Basic Food Hygiene on-line course. I'm always cooking for charity events, etc.
Today I took a traybake chocolate and sultana cake, smothered in a chocolate fudge cream in to school – as I thought they might need a pick-me-up for the first day back from half-term – and it was snowing!
In the summer, I will be running a cake stall for a massive event, and I would like to be able to price things, but I have been told that without the Hygiene certificate, all the foods cannot be priced, and we can only ask for donations.
The minutae of laws sometimes baffle me – the WI have been doing wonderful cooking and charity fundraising for years without a single incident, and now they have to abide by this strange decision.
Rant over!
BS I didn't know you could do a food hygiene course on-line. Can you give me details please. I would be really interested too.
I wish you had visited my school!!!!! You are a
Old teachers never die, they just lose their class
10:43 pm
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Thu 24-Sep-09
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Oh I mucked that post up. My post is in the quote. Don't ask, it's been a busy day. Hope you all can understand it
Old teachers never die, they just lose their class
11:49 pm
Sat 12-Aug-06
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No worries, Danast. 
Fiona did the basic Food Hygiene course online. If nobody else has posted up the link I will ask her to do it tomorrow.
Never knowingly underfed
11:36 pm
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Wed 30-Dec-09
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Danast - try this:
http://www.food-certificate.co.uk/
Hope it works!
For £25, it's probably worth giving it a go (and, if I read it right, you can keep trying till you pass it - at no extra charge - there must be a mistake here !!!!!!!!! 
11:38 pm
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Toffeeapple said:Neat one BS. Talk to Danny would you please?
Why, TA, am I in big big trouble?????
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