Gearing Up, Giving Away and Doing Research

 

I am in the process of gearing up for this Challenge, which is now becoming more of a way of living for the future for me rather than just a month-long Challenge.  But I will be doing a month of wartime rationing to kick-start things and sticking quite rigidly to my modern wartime rations and then re-evaluating at the end of the month.

In the meantime, alongside eating my way through modern foods from the store cupboard and donating the modern processed foods that I no longer want to eat via the Olio App I am doing lots of research.

Some might call it reading books and watching Dvd's but I am calling it research.  😁

Sue xx

Getting Back on the Rations

 

And the last post was just where this particular blog just ended.

Without a word of a goodbye!!

Gosh that was so rude of me ... I apologise and hope to rectify that in the very near future with a resurrection of my modern style of rationing.

My only defence for the vanishing act was the sudden lockdowns and the changes they caused, and then my back breaks and a whole new way of me having to live.  

But life goes on ... and so do blogs.

So ... it's time for me to dig out my books, ration, recipe and inspirational.  

Re-watch some of my favourite 'how to' DVD's and generally get myself back in the mindset of shopping better, spending less and eating more in-season vegetables.

I will be back on the rations ... soon.  

In the meantime I will be tweaking this blog to make it relevant to my new life now and the times we are facing with the current rising cost of living and fuel price hikes, alongside actual wars causing so much heartache in the world.

So if you think you might like to Follow along once I get this blog up and running properly why not click the Follower button on the right-hand sidebar and I will see if this is actually of interest to anyone.  But I might just chatter away to myself anyway ... I'm good at that.  😀

Sue xx

 

Wartime Recipe - Potato Floddies

 

I think it's about time I started sharing some recipes and some more photos of the food that I've been eating.  Life has been a bit hectic these last couple of weeks and I really don't feel I'm doing this Challenge the justice it deserves.  So the first recipe I'm sharing with you was on the menu on Tuesday of this week and was  Potato Floddies.

How brilliant I thought to make something that sounds filling and vaguely nourishing out of such limited ingredients, so I thought I'd give it a go.

I used the two small potatoes you can see in the bowl in the first photo and I added a pinch of garlic granules for a bit more flavour.  I have read that garlic was occasionally available during the war years,  although I guess this would have been seen as quite an exotic ingredient back then and it was usually considered more as a medicinal item than a foodstuff.  So with this in mind I will just be using up the dried powder, granules and frozen cloves that I had already in my store cupboard at the start of the Challenge and then just not buy anymore as though my 'rations' had dried up.

One example of my research into garlic in the UK during the 1940's is HERE.  And indeed I must have a copy of the leaflet mentioned somewhere in my replica leaflet stash.

I think I added a touch too much flour, in total I added three desert spoonfuls ... two would have been sufficient and although they smelt garlicky as they cooked I could barely taste it.

So what's my opinion of Potato Floddies?

Very filling, quite tasty ... especially when very hot ... but very stodgy.  Perhaps though that was due to me adding a bit too much flour, so if you have a go be a bit lighter with the flour to potato ratio.  What would make them so much better would be the addition of some grated real garlic cloves or perhaps a quarter of a grated or finely sliced onion.  They just needed something else added for more flavour, but I guess these days we are just used to our foods being a lot more flavourful and my taste-buds need to adapt a little bit more.

I would give them a 5/10.

The recipe pictured above came from this book.  

I have put links to Amazon on my sidebar for the books and DVDs that I have been watching, just so you can go and have a look and get other peoples opinions of them and not just go off mine or maybe get yourself a copy.   Some of my books are only available in the Used off Amazon, but then that's to be expected as that's where I got mine from 😀

Sue xx