This is a rib of beef that I prepared earlier, serve your puddings with this.

An American writes........"What is Yorkshire Pudding, is it really pudding?" Over to ROTW's Guest Recipist Extraordinaire Mike of "Yorkshire Soul".

THIS WEEKS YUMMY RECIPE

Potato Salad Sandwich

Makes 1 serving.

Prep Time: 5 Minutes
Ready in: 5 Minutes

Ingredients:   
1 hamburger bun
1-1/2 tablespoons mayonnaise
2 leaves of lettuce
2 slices tomato
1/3 cup prepared potato salad

Directions:
1 Open bun and spread each side with mayonnaise. Place lettuce leaves and tomato slices on bottom half of bun. Scoop potato salad onto tomato, and gently spread toward edges of bun. Cover with top of bun.

ENJOY!

"RANT OF THE WEEK" (ROTW) IS NOW "RECIPE OF THE WEEK" (ROTW)

I have waited in the shadows for many months - hoping and praying that the owner of this blog would eventually drown in his own drivel. The day has finally come. Rejoice!

I have commandeered this blog. From this day forward the ROTW (Recipe of the Week) will be home to some of my favorite recipes.

Check back often for the latest culinary offering.

TODAY'S RECIPE:

Brussels Sprouts Provencal

This vegetable dish, delicately flavored with garlic and basil in a colorful tomato sauce, makes a basis for a vegetarian lunch.

Preparation: 15 minutes
Cooking: 15 - 20 minutes
Calories per serving: 135

For 4 Servings
450g (1 lb) Brussels sprouts
1 onion, chopped
1 garlic clove, crushed
1 tbsp oil
450g (1 lb) tomatoes, diced or 397g (14 oz) can tomatoes
1 tsp dried basil
salt and pepper, to taste
50g (2 oz) Emmental cheese, grated (optional)

Preparation
Prepare sprouts and put on one side.
Saute onion and garlic in the oil for about 5 minutes until tender. Stir in tomatoes, basil and salt and pepper. Simmer for 8 - 10 minutes, stirring from time to time.
Meanwhile, cook sprouts in boiling salted water for 6 - 8 minutes, until tender. Drain well.
Add sprouts to tomato sauce and stir gently to mix. Heat for 2 - 3 minutes. Transfer to warmed serving dish, sprinkle with cheese, if using, and serve.

Good served with:
Scalloped potatoes and gammon, pork or plainly roasted lamb or chicken.
For fast results:
You can use 450g (1 lb) frozen Brussels sprouts to cut down on preparation time. Cook according to packet directions.

What sound does one hand clapping make? Watch the rich people at the proms who are far too important to be bothered using both hands and you'll find out.
With which parting words I call this session of 'The Rant of the Week' to an official close. I have mountains to climb in search of Neolithic circles. I have sea beds to plunder in the hopes of discovering missing Roman ports. I have Anglo Saxon carvings to preserve and the dark vaults of museums where normal people never tread, to...er...tread...in...
In other words, it's been fun (not for me, of course, but I'm sure it was good for the rest of you) but, for now, there are other fish to fry. So I'm resigning my position as ROTW Editor as well as putting Scrag Ends on the back boiler where they can simmer into an illegible stew like most American cartoons.
There...I've done it. I feel a great weight lifted from my shoulders. On reflection I should never have bought a scarf knitted from granite.
I shall leave you now with these words:

"I go into Lancashire tomorrow, that part of the country lying beyond the mountains towards the western ocean. I go with a kind of dread and trust in divine providence."
William Camden (1551 - 1623)

TTFN - B. Hughes (Ex-Editor)

You know it makes sense ...

Tolerance

Dep. Ed. is computer challenged at the moment. Browser hijacking, sundry mega glitches, ruptured gall bladder on the 'C' drive, etc. So in this brief appearance online I leave you with the dulcet thoughts of Ranter Extraordinaire "Slamming Sam".

"When we were very young our mothers use to teach us about taking turns. You all remember; if someone was playing with a toy tank that you wanted, all you had to do was to wait until you were ready to have your turn and then beat the snot out of whoever had it and off you go.

Peter Costello wants to have a turn at being Prime Minister but so far has got it all wrong and is waiting in the corner until John Howard gets bored with shooting fish in a barrel and retires.

Some use waiting time to do useful things, like writing hundreds of complaining about the building of a mosque on vacant land in outer suburbia but Peter has gone very weird. He is now making speeches espousing all manner of nonsense.

Recently he was advising us all to get to know our neighbours. Neighbours are for abusing as you back the jeep over their hydrangeas and I know far more than I need to know about the human excrement than live next to me.

He says it would increase trust and tolerance, which is exactly what we’re afraid of. I’m deadly serious, this is actually what he said: “A tolerant society will allow dissenting views, it will allow ethnic minorities to live in peace and security.”

I realise he is trying to carve out a niche for himself, to create some points of difference between him and bullet-proof John but doesn’t he understand what the last 8 years have been about?

We have battled long and hard to increase suspicion and distrust, to foster hatred of difference and resentment of other viewpoints and we are now the envy of bigots around the world.

Soon countries everywhere will be supporting foreign nations imprisoning their citizens without charge, and spending millions of dollars challenging court decisions that oppose the mandatory detention of children in desert prisons.

To be frank, I’ve never trusted Costello, what with his soft-cock sentiments, supercilious smile and that bleeding-heart Mother Teresa wanna-be that he calls bro. When, and if, John Howards retires there is only one man for the job. Phillip Ruddock. Sure he might be slightly mad but at least we know there won’t be any of this tolerance nonsense."

Yet another crappy Micra advert.

How would you describe a car that's both sturdy and nimble?
That's right...Stimble. Now you too can speak Micra.

Editor's note: Or alternatively you could say 'Nurdy'. I can't believe the Micra advertising team are handing these things to me on a plate. What's next? How do you describe a car company whose adverts are both mindless and crap? That's right...you've got the hang of it now.

Chiz chiz its the sumer hols and wer al of to sunny spane to get az drunk az skunks an kik a few daygo waiters in the teeth hurra! old hedmaster woolsack he closed the big durs on parliaiarariament an gave the big rusted old kee to mr blak rod (parliaiamentlery caretaker) and he say her mr black rod maik sur non of the boys sneek back in now that the hols ar her we dont want any shenanigans of the sort we had last sumer wen fore bakbenchers broak into the westminster bicikel sheds an slashed mr livingstones tires!
so deputy hed boy prescott he say to himself, ahha thers loads of grub an crisps an sozzages in the parliariamentury refektory and im big an fat (hem hem) an want to eat them so prescott throws his cap on the roof and pretends he haz too clime up after it an rescue it sos he can brake in thru the parliararaimnetory skylite an get his chips (fat hem hem!)
But halfway up the dranepip starts to sagg an prescott he shout oh shit am goin to die and down he hurtlez to the growd with a big splat. well what a toodoo!!!!!! hedboy tony he come up and say john, yoove been after the secret stash ov pies agen havnt yoo yoo big swetty lardarse an prescott he say sorry sir but i was hungry. so peter mandlebrot, hed sneek, he say yoo need to invent a storee abowt having an illygitimait sun or sum such to throw the meeja ov the track.
Whoo! all this an we havnt even started ar hols proper yet! well, so long yoo chaps see yoo all next turm wen ill be all sunburnt an full ov lager an pasta saurz. ttfn...NIGeL!!!!!!!!!!