January 17th

The delights of the night at the Wellspring were meat and vegetable pie for mains with Chelsea buns for pudding.

Just try not to see the slight case of
shrinking pastry...

Mum had sent me to the Wellspring this week with some shortcrust pastry. My imagination is still anywhere but in my head so it got used to top a pie. The pie filling consisted of; 7 fresh red onions, 1 tin easy fried onions, 7 tins miscellaneous beef products (e.g. stewed steak, Irish stew, etc.), 4 cartons tomatoes, 6 tins new potatoes, many tins of various vegetables (carrots, peas, green beans), water and gravy granules to thicken. This was accompanied by mushy peas and bread.

Pudding was made by one of the chefs who frequents the Wellspring. They were a trial run for Chelsea buns that need doing in a few weeks time. The advantage of the Wellspring; someone will always be keen to eat anything made as a "practice". These were of course served with custard.


I've been told that there's puff pastry in the freezer that I can use next week. Unless my imagination actually kicks in some time soon, I think they'll be used for Eccles cakes.