Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Pierre Le Chapeau
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 03:22 PM

The knockholt answer to a Food Blender Richard, for us tent folk is a pair of sharp scissors, and about two hours.

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Pierre Le Chapeau
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 03:16 PM

Absolutely Not.
I speak with a stutter but the reason is simply, Couscous, Coucsous we wont have time to cook it

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: The Barden of England
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 01:19 PM

Wot - no couscous?
John Barden

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Pierre Le Chapeau
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 12:39 PM

Clearly Richard seems to have mastered the art of Sauce making so let Richard bring the sauce and I will bring the Leg of Lamb. I mean cant we put a Vegetable Tagine on a leg of lamb.
I really wouldn't know?
Once cooked we can slice the lamb for the Thursady night meal and have a bowl of sauce Re dipper.
                                                                              OR
alternately I can buy the ingredients listed 3 threads above the scary one or the one above or both and make them best we can on site.

What do folk think?

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Mick Woods
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 12:13 PM

Blimey I can't wait! Pete, are you roasting/dry frying the seeds first? This releases the flavours.

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 12:12 PM

I did a vegetable tagine last night in a thick-bottomed saucepan, but using a proproetary sauce from Nandos, and it was delicious!

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 12:11 PM

This is the one that scared me: -

classic spice blend, Harissa can either be used as an addition to stews or it can be served as a condiment to accompany rice dishes.

Ingredients:
1 tsp Coriander seeds
1tsp white cumin seeds
1tsp Caraway seeds
1tsp mint
5 cloves garlic
1tsp ground coriander
10 dried red chillies (preferably hot eg birds' eye, scotch bonnet, piri-piri)






Harissa Preparation:


Method:
Cover the chillies with hot water and let stand for 15 minutes until soft. Place chillies and remaining ingredients in a blender and puree until smooth using water that the chillies soaked in to thin it. The sauce should have the consistency of thick paste. If you place the paste in a jar and cover with a thin film of olive oil it will keep for at least a couple of months in the refrigerator.

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 12:08 PM

Here is one recipe for Harissa - but it's not the one I spotted the other day that recommended Scotch Bonnets as the chillies - which scared me a little.

Harissa keeps well in the fridge, but be sure to cover it with a little olive oil to keep it from being exposed to the air.
Ingredients
250g/9oz long, fresh red chillies
sea salt
3 heaped tsp caraway seeds, ground
3 heaped tsp cumin seeds, ground
1 tsp black cumin seeds, ground (optional)
4 cloves garlic
100g/3½oz piquillo peppers, or roasted and peeled red bell pepper
2 tsp tomato purée
2 tsp red wine vinegar
4 tbsp olive oil
2 level tsp smoked paprika



Method
1. Remove the tops of the chillies, then slice in half lengthways. Lay each chilli on a chopping board, cut-side up, and gently scrape away the seeds with a teaspoon and discard.
2. Blend the chillies in a food processor with a pinch of salt, half of each of the spice seeds and the garlic cloves until smooth.
3. Add the peppers, the rest of the spice seeds, the tomato purée and vinegar, and blend again until very smooth. Transfer to a mixing bowl.
4. Now add the olive oil. Sprinkle the paprika on top of the oil and stir in. Taste and season, if necessary, with more salt to balance out the vinegar.

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Pierre Le Chapeau
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 10:10 AM

Once prepared this will go towards the Thursday Night Meal so every one will be able to sample it , No running off to a corner of the field leaving folk bewildered and mouthwatering.

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Pierre Le Chapeau
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 10:06 AM

Ok here is the Moroccan sauce I think Richard is talking about in above thread.

It is called Harrisia Sauce. Contains.

2 tablespoons Honey.
2 Table spoons of Cumin Seeds.
2 table spoons of Coriander seeds.
Half a Table spoon of Cardamon seed.( Dark Inner seed)
4 Table spoons of Chili Pequins (Whole dried Pod)
1 table spoon of salt.
2 Garlic Cloves.
Quarter of a cup of Ex Virgin olive Oil.
(There are no extra virgins at Knockholt so we will have to make do with Spray Crisp and Dry?)

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Pierre Le Chapeau
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 07:54 AM

By the By Moroccan Tagine cooking pot sorted I made one this morning using 4 metal mixing bowls 2 metal trays a piece of copper pipe and two G Clamps.

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Pierre Le Chapeau
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 07:48 AM

I quite agree and then you have folk who also wanna cook inspired by others which is all very well and they chuck more wood on which is not all very well. fore one needs a constant temperature to cook a leg of Lamb not Differing temperatures.

So what I purpose to do "And I put it to you' , is to not cook on the main fire but build a huge Barbecue off the ground out side my tent. I will need four flat logs which I will return to the main log pile when Im finished cooking. The Logs are solely for resting the Barbecues on fore I will not leave burn marks on the farmers field.
This way Im not hogging the main fire all day and I can cook at my own temperature. Once cooked I may Brown off the Leg of Lamb over the main fire on a turning pole but that wont take long and I will be finished long before the singer-around starts.

My mates going to drop me off a Leg of Lamb late Tuesday Night.(Frozen)
I will place it straight in my freezer and bring it to Knockholt on Wednesday by the time I get there it will still be frozen so I will hang it up a tree having first put it in a new mosi net until thawed out.

I will leave it up the tree alnight so foxes and T.D.L etc cant get it .
the alternative is to place the Leg of Lamb in a trailer persons fridge. but there are not many if any trailers there Wednesday night. Its wont go off over night up a tree but it must be cooked straight away Thursday Morning. Once retrieved from the tree top of course.

Now to find the ingredients for Moroccan sauce Richard mentioned in the above thread its got to be on the internet ,And then go out shopping and buy the stuff.

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: GUEST,woodeneye
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 05:27 AM

This is all well and good, but remember that the fire has to be tended I remember a couple of years ago when some people took the fire over for several hours slow cooking a lump of pork. The fire burnt steadily away, untended while we stood there watching, mouths watering in anticipation. When finally the cooking finished the said piece of meat was whisked away by it's owner to some remote spot to be consumed. The fire had all but gone out and I was barely able to rescue it in time for the evening festivities. By all means cook on the fire but have some consideration for the poor starving onlookers, keep the fire going and have the food off in time for the evening singaround.

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Pierre Le Chapeau
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 04:34 AM

Richard if you are not competent enough to make the sauce I will look it up and make it.

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Pierre Le Chapeau
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 04:21 AM

Right oh Richard.
You make the Sauce if you wish and I will slow cook the lamb. I have not got a thick based cooking vessel so the answer to this is I will use a Tin but raise it up above the embers
the higher it is raised the slower it will cook.

Has I explained to folk at Pigs Ear if you hold you hand low over a flame its bloody hot and if you keep it there it will burn/cook your hand.

If you raise your hand over the same flame it will cook and if you raise it over the flame so its a bearable heat it will not burn your hand for some time but it will get hot and it will cook it after a while .Slowly
Its all about height and heat.
                                                                     
Lamb cooking

Lamb is a some what bland meat .
It also smells awful during cooking.
But tastes lovely.

I will cook the Lamb on the Thursday morn should take a slow 4 hours I will steam it
and then brown it off .
                                              Optional
I suggest you then add your Sauce and we flash heat it.

Basically that means fire bomb the joint . one runs away to excape licking flames and then returns when the flames have died down. This process well it kinda caramelizes the sauce.
regards Pierre

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Essex Girl
Date: 12 Jun 09 - 04:10 AM

Richard, if we'd had a bigger baggage allowance we could have brought a large cooking tagine back from Morocco.

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 11 Jun 09 - 05:07 PM

A tagine cooking vessel has a thick base, and the meat (if any) is usually slow-cooked, but I'm not sure I am competent to make the special sauce...

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Pierre Le Chapeau
Date: 11 Jun 09 - 04:33 PM

Re Cooking I mean Open Fire. Biscult Tin

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Pierre Le Chapeau
Date: 11 Jun 09 - 04:31 PM

Moroccan Cooking Richard ?. Im up for that? I think Lamb would be better then Fish but time consuming Re Cooking.

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 11 Jun 09 - 02:52 PM

It occurs to me that a lamb or vegetable tagine would be the ideal thing for Thursday night and could be cooked on the fire.

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Abdul The Bul Bul
Date: 11 Jun 09 - 02:52 PM

and camels

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 11 Jun 09 - 02:51 PM

snork... evidently from the land of topless sheep.

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 11 Jun 09 - 02:34 PM

I wish this weather would make up its mind - now Friday nice all day, Sat starting damp and getting wet, and Sun wet and monsoon by afternoon.

Moral, as with ladies and sheep, come and go quickly!

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Abdul The Bul Bul
Date: 11 Jun 09 - 02:30 PM

Well I'd rather be rained on in Knockholt this weekend with you lot than standing outside here dripping with sweat. I am managing to learn some songs tho.

Al

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: GUEST,Bigpat
Date: 11 Jun 09 - 02:17 PM

ello peeps, anyone know if Mr woodsy is coming, and if he is when!!! just days to go now, not forgeting linda's at the weekend, of course, look forward to seeing some of you hardened folkies then. bye.

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 11 Jun 09 - 01:40 PM

So where is this place where the sheep outnumber people 3 to 1?

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: GUEST,BillyGoatGruff
Date: 11 Jun 09 - 01:37 PM

ha ha ha. Are ewes looking at me?

Here are another one.

Bridge under the River Ewes?

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: GUEST,LilBoPeep
Date: 11 Jun 09 - 01:12 PM

Knockholt outnumbered?

they are watching us

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: melodeonboy
Date: 10 Jun 09 - 06:05 PM

I won't be able to come at all, I'm afraid (gigs on Friday and Saturday, and now band rehearsal on Thursday).

Have a good time, you lot; I'll do a sun dance for you!

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Pierre Le Chapeau
Date: 10 Jun 09 - 04:51 PM

I have invented a Shower made from a large converted high pressure
garden Chemical pump pressure sprayer so if it is hot all us tent folk can get under that.
It works rather well. (No it never has had chemicals in it so its safe.
All you have to do is fill the large plastic bottle supply tank with water and puimp the handle untill you can not pump it anymore flick a switch and away you go. adjust the sprayer forward for a fine spray or losen for a drenching spray.

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 10 Jun 09 - 03:01 PM

I said to me Doctor.
"What do you reccomenrd for bad Wind.
She Said" A Kite

Ginger best look out for that kite and forget about the fox.

RB is a bit obsessed with the potential atmospheric conditions.

Let's give him something else to think about.

Introducing the Knockholt sheep back into the thread. They are feeling a bit neglected this year.

Heya big fella

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 10 Jun 09 - 02:42 PM

My Polish friend will not be at Knockholt this year,she is going home to Warsaw,

Then your underwear should be safe.

Ooh Er! Coming into marquis with my mando.

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 10 Jun 09 - 12:42 PM

It keeps changing! Fri and Sat now allegedly to be dry all day!

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: GUEST,Ginger The Chicken
Date: 10 Jun 09 - 12:28 PM

Squork!! EEk! Squork!!! Ray Nard can not bee a fox. Wot fox wood taik all dat twubbel wiv a chickin? Wun took me arntee an' scoft er roar. Dis Ray Nard iz chef for shore.. I herd dat Gary rodes live local to Knock Holt. I bet it im!

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Mick Woods
Date: 10 Jun 09 - 11:29 AM

The highest rainfall predicted is 1.5mm Which is negligible.

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 10 Jun 09 - 09:34 AM

The important column is the one in millimetres - that's rain, and it looks as if there won't be much.

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: GUEST,bigpat
Date: 10 Jun 09 - 09:31 AM

so richard was does that all mean in english!!!! I take it it means good weather. cant wait to go, one more week. yipeee.

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 10 Jun 09 - 08:05 AM

It's from Metcheck. It'll probably have changed by tomorrow again...

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: fisheye
Date: 10 Jun 09 - 08:03 AM

Can that be taken as a legal document RB.   All i do know is banjo skin is tightening and so are fingers.
Roll on Knockholt.

fisheye

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 10 Jun 09 - 04:37 AM

Wed 17 Jun 6:00 11:59 14 °c 13 °c 1013 mb 0.0 mm 71 % 14 mph
          12:00 17:59 18 °c 18 °c 1011 mb 0.2 mm 95 % 10 mph
          18:00 23:59 20 °c 19 °c 1009 mb 1.5 mm 99 % 6 mph

Thu 18 Jun 0:00 5:59 16 °c 16 °c 1010 mb 1.3 mm 44 % 5 mph
          6:00 11:59 15 °c 15 °c 1010 mb 0.0 mm 41 % 6 mph
          12:00 17:59 18 °c 17 °c 1011 mb 0.0 mm 64 % 11 mph
          18:00 23:59 18 °c 16 °c 1010 mb 0.0 mm 18 % 13 mph

Fri 19 Jun 0:00 5:59 14 °c 13 °c 1014 mb 0.0 mm 6 % 13 mph
          6:00 11:59 14 °c 13 °c 1017 mb 0.0 mm 29 % 13 mph
          12:00 17:59 16 °c 15 °c 1019 mb 0.2 mm 35 % 14 mph
          18:00 23:59 17 °c 16 °c 1020 mb 0.3 mm 16 % 12 mph

Sat 20 Jun 0:00 5:59 14 °c 13 °c 1023 mb 0.1 mm 7 % 10 mph
          6:00 11:59 12 °c 12 °c 1024 mb 0.0 mm 10 % 10 mph
          12:00 17:59 16 °c 16 °c 1026 mb 0.0 mm 16 % 9 mph
          18:00 23:59 17 °c 15 °c 1027 mb 0.0 mm 27 % 9 mph

Sun 21 Jun 0:00 5:59 12 °c 11 °c 1030 mb 0.0 mm 10 % 6 mph
          6:00 11:59 10 °c 11 °c 1030 mb 0.0 mm 41 % 6 mph
          12:00 17:59 16 °c 17 °c 1030 mb 0.0 mm 58 % 3 mph
          18:00 23:59 17 °c 15 °c 1027 mb 0.2 mm 64 %

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Pierre Le Chapeau
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 10:29 PM

I said to me Doctor.
"What do you reccomenrd for bad Wind.
She Said" A Kite

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 05:53 PM

Forecast keeps shifting - now dry all day Fri Sat and Sun - whoopee!

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: The Barden of England
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 02:12 PM

I hung my seaweed out, but the bloody birds ate it!!! So I suppose the weather could be rather 'Sh*tty'
John Barden

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 10:28 AM

The original song was wrote by whoever

A Tribe of Toffs

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Pierre Le Chapeau
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 10:07 AM

The original song was wrote by whoever I can not recall there name but it shot to fame and was played on the Radio relentlessly. AFter the 1988 Hurrican that Devastated South East England.

Sevenoaks became One Oak
and Michael Fish shot to fame with that Famous statement.

' There will not be any high winds on Thursday.

I thought the song was great and I dedicate this new version I have made up to the
Knockers weather Forecasters. who predict the weather each year.
Brilliant. Regards Pierre.

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Pierre Le Chapeau
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 09:53 AM

Who remembers this song from 1988( with a few lyric changes)

John Ketley was a Weatherman.
A Weatherman, A Weatherman.
John Ketley was A Weatherman
And so is Richard Philps.

He hangs his Banjo out his Flat.
He declares "Its going to Snow and that is that.
Then a lightening bolt it kills The Cat,
and a Glacier comes out the Fridge.

Ohhh John Ketley was A Weatherman
A Weatherman. A Weatherman.
John Ketley was a Weatherman.
And so is Richard Bridge.

He predicts "Its gonna rain and then its not.
Its gonna be freezing and then its Hot.
The camping field 'Will become a Mire.
and a Hurrican blows out the fire.

Ohhh John Ketley was A Weatherman
A Weatherman A Weatherman.
John Ketley was a Weatherman,
and so is T.D.L.

They say" Bring your Wellies, Fore Rain will be felt".
There a blistering Heat wave and your Wellies melt.
it does not rain in Knockholt , But there a Tidal wave in Scarborough.
Saints preserve us What a Parlarva.

Oh John Ketley was a Weatherman
A Weatherman, A Weatherman.
John Ketley was a Weatherman.
Bring back ,Michael Fish.

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Mick Woods
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 08:27 AM

Your banjo tells you if it is raining - so does looking out the window!

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Girl Friday
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 08:17 AM

That poor chicken... she's too young to die Raynard. Apparently she's still laying eggs... but you're a fox, and wouldn't know such things. Where I live, foxes run around with bags of Kentucky Fried...

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: Girl Friday
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 08:02 AM

Our wellies already in caravan. took them to Markbeech and it didn't rain one drop.

Ah ! It occurs to us that the message about wellies was directed at Mr Bridge,

Subject: RE: Knockholt - This Is Summer! - June 2009
From: fisheye
Date: 09 Jun 09 - 06:33 AM

I only have my banjo skin to tell me the weather, when dull and mellow it is raining. Arguing with the birds and piecing tells me it is fine and sunny. Looking forward to seeing you all soon, so have a save journey there.

fisheye