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Fritters please Pers <3


Its really foggy here, has been like it all week until about lunch time


The good news is, the tulips are all up, the cherry blossom is out..........and my nose is like a tap!

Brunch by the sea so yes there is fish.

Brunch Menu:

Bread and dips plate: Artisan rolls and homemade dips.

Dockside platter: A selection of hot and cold seafood, cured meats, homemade dips and grilled bread.. this should be shared between two people.

Smoothies: Banana or Berry

Bloody Mary: Wyborowa vodka and tomato juice laced with Hoffman's hot sauce.

West Coast white bait fritters .. served either as a main or an entree... if a main there is also fries and salad.

Clevedon Rock Oysters.. have them either natural, tempura battered or kilpatrick

Grilled Nelson Bay Scallops in the shell with rocket and ponzu dressing

Salad of salt and pepper squid with rocket, cherry tomatoes and lime aioli

Salad of chagrilled chicken breast with streaky bacon, Kaimai brie, craisins and garlic aioli

Chargrilled vegetable terrine with mixed green and tomato relish

Poached eggs with English spinach, roasted field mushrooms and hollandaise.

Free range eggs, any style with streaky bacon and a toasted baguette .... add ons, tomato, mushroom, chorizo sausage

Beer battered fish and prawns with shoestring fries, green salad and homemade tartare and tomato sauces

Grain fed beef fillet with potato mash, roasted field mushroom, parsnip crisps and red wine jus.

Side dishes: Garden salads with vinaigrette, steamed veg with herbed butter, roasted baby potatoes with rosemary infused oil
with or without crispy bacon,

Dessert:

Almond Millefeuille with passionfruit sorbet and caramelised bananas

Vanilla bean panna cotta with mixed berry coulis and coconut tuille

Citrus infused Crème brûlée with lemon sorbet and brandy snap tuille

Trio of sorbets

Warm chocolate and Kahlua pudding with strawberry compote and vanilla bean ice cream

Cheese plate: A selection of NZ cheese with lavash crackers, date jam, and dried fruits (this serves 2 people)

Coffee, Tea, hot chocolate or a port ,a drambuie, or a glass of chilled white muscato, corona beer and tequila (salt and lemon on the table)
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Feel free to have a look around the clock museum

http://www.claphamsclocks.com/history-of-museum.php

down the page is where you can take the 360 degree tour.

Have a lovely day everyone...

Good night from Persie..

Our clocks go forward an hour tonight, so very apt Pers!


Now, I cant resist poached eggs with English spinach, roasted field mushrooms and hollandaise <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

What a FEAST Persie !!! <3 <3 <3

I will sit to one side if you don't mind, away from all those 'fishy smells' ;-)

Although, if you are able to eat fishy things, the dishes DO sound wonderful !

I will have some of EVERYTHING else you have prepared and double helpings of all the things with bacon in !

OOhh - this is going to take me all day :-D :-D :-D

I am such a happy girl now ! - Dont forget Persie - our clocks go forward in the morning <3

Dea Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

OOOhh - I was SO excited, I forgot to say:

'Nite nite Persie' <3

Dea Xxx

Gin,

Re your comment about it being foggy in Sheffield. Before your time I can remember when it was always foggy in Sheffield no matter what the climatic conditions. It was a yellow sulphurous fog, a by product of steel production.

I can recall on more than one occasion approaching Sheffield from Chesterfield and at Woodseats looking down into the basin in which the city sits. All that you could see was a yellow haze which obscured the buildings. When you reached the city the rows of terraced houses were all blackened as a result of being bathed in that smog for many years. It is a very different looking Sheffield that I occasionally on television today.

My dad used to tell me about the smog, he worked in the smelting shop and said he couldn’t see his hand in front of his face on his way to work

Fortunately the smog is long gone, but unfortunately, so have the steel works, well most of them

We do have a fabulous, cosmopolitan city though

Yes those were the days. Trams rattling along the Wicker and if my memory serves me well there was a flea market nearby which my father took me to to show me a stall that sold nothing but folding penknives. My fathers cousin lived in Tinsley not far from where Meadowhall shopping centre now stands. Her husband worked at Steel, Peech and Tozer who I believe had the largest smelting shop in the world.

As you say Steel City is much changed

The trams still rattle along, but they look a little different these days!

My dad worked at Steelos.....not sure if that was the correct name or spelling but thats what he called it.

Castle market is still here Jonesey!

Hi again Gin,

Your comment about Castle Market started me thinking so I have done a bit of research.

I don't think that the market my father took me to could have been Castle Market as according to what I have now read that did not open until 1959. Both my paternal grandparents who had lived in Sheffield had died by then. My grandmother died in August 1954 and I am guessing that it was probably during the trip back "Oop Norf" to attend her funeral that my father took me to see the penknife stall. From what I have read it was most likely the Rag and Tag market which apparently stood in Commercial Street not that far from Wicker.

I remember the trip quite vividly not just for the penknife stall but also for the clip round the ear I received for going missing for a couple of hours in the company of my 2nd cousin Brian. We stayed with my fathers cousin's family in Tinsley and Brian, their son, who was a bit older than I took me with him to play football at a park/playing field nearby. Unfortunately neither of us bothered to tell our parents we were going so when we returned apart from a severe telling off we both got a clip to remind us not to do it again.

The trams that Sheffield has today are a far cry from the bone shaking vehicles that were there before. If ever you want to see examples of the earlier ones they have some old Sheffield trams at the Crick Tramway museum. My father told of the dangers of riding a bike in Sheffield and getting your bike wheel stuck in the tramlines or of skidding on the wet metal rail.

Hmmm, I seem to remember my parents talking about the Rag & Tag


We have the problem of cars skidding on the tram tracks when its wet.......nothing changes really!

Some interesting recollections and comments about the Rag and Tag market here:

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/archive/index.php/t-709996.html

Yeah, Ive read those Jonesey


While Googling, I came accross Sexy Rexy, it was a jeans shop in the 70s/80s where me and the mates used to go as kids.....ace jeans, all Levi or Wrangler

While sorting out the front garden today...........there were hundreds of ladybirds all over the plants

How early is that!

Hello wall..............wheres the gang?

Weren't 'the gang' around last night Ginns ??

Anyway - I is here if you is desperate !! :-D

Dea Xxx

The gang were either busy or working away last night.....me and JB, had a nice talking evening

Bet the poor chap couldn't get a word in edgeways..........

I is a very good listener, Ill av you know :-P

Only if JB tapes yer mouth over.....