Bubble And Squeak and Slaughter House

Gordon Ramsay's family fare cook book challenge day 47:

*Bubble And Squeak and Slaughter House

Recipe online: http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/3033/bubble-and-squeak-cakes

This is actually from one of the five ways with XXX(potato, cabbage, onion) in the book. They are small two pages sections that will list five quick and simple ways to cook these common foods. Particularly, this is the five ways with Cabbage chapter

Have not seen Gordon used these quirky words often, but "bubble and squeak" was a really cute name for this dish. (A update here, just heard that this dish is from a traditional English dish, so yeah, Gordon does not use quirky words for his dish....) It was shredded cabbages(the squeak part I guess) mixed with mashed potato and then fried in a pan. It was creamy but still got some bite to it because of the crunchy cabbages. The out layer was the best part though, potato touches hot oil == delicious. It reminds me of the fish cakes I liked which are basically flaked fish instead of cabbages. 

I need to buy beef tenderloin  for the beef willington dish this week.

 

Butcher usually would not take out the tenderloin part since it ruins the sirloin cuts. My fav butcher from the farm market recommended a meat shop at a area I had never visited. So today I searched the route from google and start to drive. Pass the bridges, pass the houses, left behind the area I am familiar with. I ended at a wide and wild farming community where you see houses only few kilometers. The view was beautiful and lonely while driving there,  occasionally I saw sheep greasing on the green pastures and cattle relaxing under the sun. I got off the car and found myself surrounded by a huge empty pasture area except a few grey log farm barns, and there were chickens jump out from no where and then slowly disappear behind the yellow grasses tall as two feet again. It was quiet. 

 

I started to walk closer towards the biggest barn which is labeled "inspection by government". I could hear the wind and my foot steps, and they hit the water puddles from time to time. A dog's bark broke the silence and I start to hear the noise of huge machine running. Maybe it is the grinder or something, it almost sounded like a laundry shop.  I knocked on the door since the door seems to be locked. No one answered, so I called , I could hear the phone running in the shop. Finally a kid looks about 8 dressed in a red butcher uniform came out and open the door for me...

Ok, they were the nicest butchers I ever knew. I did not had enough cash with me since I did not know they only accept cash, the kid's dad/shop owner who is a big guy, gave the meat to me even I was 3 dollars short. The kid bring the meat all the way to my car and told me "next time try the door nob on the top"...  I will go to this shop again. 

Finally something for cute: 

My cat-- Yummy -- stretching the superman stretch under the sun, it was a bueatiful fall day. 

My first piece of Christmas Decor, so excited, love Christmas.