When we stayed at Annette and David we were very impressed with Annette’s cooking skills and would like to pass on Annette’s special cooking tips as follows.
1. The plastic lettuce cutting knife- this ensured there was no bruising of the lettuce when cut.
2. When cooking a flan you put on the base of your flan tin 3 strips of greaseproof about 1.5” wide 10” long. Once flan is cooked you can pull the strips back and forth and this release flan from the tin. Once this is done you use the strips to lift out onto a cake cooler.
3. The thin plastic chopping board was a special tool Annette used as once the chopping was done you lifted your board that would bend it into a chute that enabled the chopped food or peelings direct into the bowl, bin or saucepan.
4. The frozen Banana. This is very useful tip – Any bananas surplus, pop them in the freezer in their skin.
When making a banana cake, smoothie etc., remove banana from freezer defrost cut of the end and squeeze out banana. Annette Magic.
On our last day at Annette and David they invited 4 couples over for a BBQ. They were all people that had come over from the UK about 40 years ago. It was great to talk about times gone by and how their lives have changed having left the homeland. The thing that all the ladies said they missed most was Christmas UK Style in the cold wind and rain, with carols.
