A life-affirming Zoom call last week helped to give all participants some advice on life and how to live it. It also gave me some inspiration to try a bread sauce recipe, a sauce that one of the participants will not eat their Christmas Dinner without.
The fog had closed in again. It was like the toxic, clingy, misty, web in the recently re-discovered nineteen sixties Doctor Who noir classic "The Web of Fear". The fog gave the impression that touching it would result in something nasty. It was certainly not a day to travel very far and so I cheered myself up by cooking an early Christmas Dinner which featured my friend's Bread Sauce recipe.
The night before, following our Zoom call, I had a downloading spree and obtained the Bonus EP Tracks for the Queen albums that were re-issued in 2011. It was a good opportunity to do this before Amazon ban the use of many types of credit cards, including mine, on 19 January.
At any time of year the music of Queen gives inspiration to smash it at parties or in sporting events, while in winter time it takes on the extra dimension of showing how the band members were able to feed of each others' stress in tough times to make something special. That's a lesson we can all learn from if we have the winter and the Christmas Blues so as we can turn potential hard times into something good.
Suitably inspired by collections of rarities including "I Go Crazy" from the re-issue "The Works" and kick-ass live versions of some of the songs from the re-issue of 1982's criminally underrated "Hot Space", I tackled the bread sauce as part of a special Festive Sunday Dinner.
The ingredients for this Bread Sauce are as follows:
One Chicken Oxo Cube- crushed heavily.
One Hundred and Twenty Grams of Gluten Free Breadcrumbs.
Two Tablespoons of Boiling Water.
One Onion, diced and lightly fried for around ten minutes.
A pinch of Nutmeg.
A pinch of All Spice.
Two Sprigs of Fresh Thyme.
A teaspoon of White Pepper.
A pinch of Garlic Salt.
Point One Litres of Oat Milk.
The way to make this sauce is to mix the crushed Chicken Oxo, Boiling Water and Breadcrumbs together into a paste in a measuring jug.
After that's done add the Onions, All Spice, Nutmeg, Thyme, Garlic Salt and White Pepper and stir these in.
Then add the mixture to a sauce pan and stir on a low heat while gradually adding the milk. When the milk is stirred in serve. With my meal I served it with Pigs in Blankets and Chicken Breasts marioneted in homegrown herbs from my local farm shop together with steamed carrot and frozen peas as well as some cabbage that was still growing in my garden.
The sauce added a new dimension to my early Christmas Dinner as it is savoury with a touch of sweetness and in that way encapsulates in one recipe what the taste of a traditional Christmas Dinner is really like. I can well see why my friend insists on having this with all her Christmas Dinners.
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