Homemade Winter Onion Bhajis.

We have lots of winter /Japanese onions 🌰 ready for eating at the moment.

We bought 20 onion bhajis mixes a few months ago from Aldi if you recall me mentioning them on here?

You peel and slice your onions and mix them in the bhajis mix/ batter and drop them in heated hot oil and finish them off in the oven:

They looked right and we had yogurt and mint and chutney with them.

They weren't very spicy but they looked the part.  

You don't seem to be able to get fresh spices down here.  Just the powdered bottled/ jar type with little umph.  

Another meal made with our homegrown winter onions. 

 

Heavy Jazz.

 I found a new version of 'Paranoid' by a band called Jazz Sabbath.

The pianist is Adam Wakeman (son of Rick who I saw play keyboards with his dad) and the English Rock Ensemble at Cropredy music festival last August in Banbury in Oxfordshire.

They played all of The Journey To The Centre Of The Earth.  They finished with a twenty seven minutes encore of  the Yes song: 'Starship Trooper'.  It was a very memorable performance  from the caped crusader, his son and his band.  Please check it out on good old YouTube.

'Paranoid' by Black Sabbath is 55 years old this year and went to number 4 in the UK music charts.

Regular blog readers will know I love my prog rock music.  

Jazz music 🎷 🎶  is said to be a big prog influence and a lot of future prog band members played in jazz bands.  People like Rick Wakeman and Ian Anderson to name a couple of them.

Any way.  Enjoy the following tune.  I think I could regular visit a jazz club if there was one near me.  Especially if they played some prog.

Adam also plays keyboards some times for Black Sabbath.

I read somewhere that London had 100 jazz and folk clubs in the nineteen sixties and you could go to a concert every night of the week if you wanted.  

Back in the days when you could catch a bus to town, drink 10 pints, watch a band and you still had change out of a tenner for a chippy supper and the bus ride home.😀

You wouldn't  need to carry a load of amplifiers either.  That's  my thought.😄

Time To Harvest The Japanese Winter Onions.

 We seem to grow more Alliums than any other vegetable.  All year round we have onions growing.

In Spring we plant Summer onion sets.  In September we plant Japanese Winter onions.

We also grow leeks.  These are very enjoyable especially in Winter when we make potato and leek soup.

Yesterday I harvested one of my Japanese onions 🌰:

Nice and fresh.

I have a lot of leeks and onions and I must think of some recipes especially to use up the leeks.

I have blogged on here before about making onion 🍕 pizza.  I wonder if I could make a leek pizza?

Jubbly Time For Heidi.

 It's thirsty work and a  👧 girl needs her refreshment.

A four sided  frozen tetrahedral iced lolly or jubbly for short.

Heidi is quite content to stand there licking if someone holds it for her.

She says ice lollies 🍭 and jubblys are not paw friendly.

It's still not rained here and I am watering my plants and vegetables every second day.  

Living in the Emerald Isle I never thought we would be hoping for some much needed rain.

I suppose when it starts it will never stop?

Tightwad Fish Supper Treat.

 Half a 🐟  and a bag of chips 🍟. 

It could be the name of a Prog Rock band 🎶 ✨️. 🤔

I treated J and me, myself and I to a slap up chippy tea on Friday night.

However being a tight wad smallholder.  I asked J to go and buy us one portion of fish and chips to share between us.

We unwrapped our fish supper and cut the fish in half with a knife.  The meal was very filling and we both said we couldn't possibly eat a full portion.

I am not a fish eater except occasionally for the battered ones you get in England chippies or a chipper like they call it in Ireland.

In Scotland they cook Mars Bars in batter.

Remember this?

More Scenes From A West Cork Veg Plot.

The lovely weather is making the vegetables grow verdant at the moment. 

Here are some latest photos for your perusal:

Spinach growing in a repurposed IBC tank.

Globe Artichoke growing in a old tractor tyre.  I grew the veg plant from seed last year and it's a perennial that let's you divide it.

Japanese or winter onions planted last September. 

I have earthed up my first early potatoes 🥔.  They should be ready in a few weeks for digging up and eating. 

More spudatoes. 

Perennials filling up a groaning with  plants bench or even an old table from in the kitchen. 

Celery.  I cut this back severely and divided it into more plants.  They are growing well and loving it growing in the soil and compost filled repurposed plastic oil tanks.

More Summer onions 🌰 growing in repurposed oil tanks.  

Repurposed tanks and baths.  I won't need to replace them unlike my wooden plank raised beds.

The brand new veg plot extension where the lawn use to be.  No repurposed plastic baths or heating oil tanks in this plot.

Hope you like the veg plot photos 📸 📷?

British-American Neo- Medieval Folk Rock On A Friday.

 Why do they make these music genres?  What's wrong with prog or folk-rock?

I have been a fan of Rainbow for a long while.  No I don't mean the ITV children's programme with Bungle and Zippy. 

 My late friend who I told you about us feeding the Polar bears at Belle Vue Zoo in Manchester with our home made sandwiches many moons ago.  Complete with salt and pepper.

His dad used to rush and drive home home from work every dinner time to watch the programme.  I jest not.😀

No I am talking about the heavy rock band with Graham Bonnet and Ritchie Blackmore and later the great and late Ronnie James Dio.

I was fortunate enough to see Ronnie and his band Dio in 1987 at The Monsters Of Rock Music Festival in 1987. I repeat myself when I am stressed. 😀

Any way or any road.  Ritchie Blackmore formed Blackmores Night with Candice Night who is now Ritchie's wife.

Ritchie was also in Deep Purple and he is now 80.

I have followed Blackmores Night from a far for several years.  Mainly through good old YouTube.

If they were to tour West Cork and play Bantry, Drimoleague or even Dunmanway.  I would buy tickets.  

They play renaissance medieval folk/heavy rock.

Here's a cover of a old Rainbow song.  Enjoy:

Ps.  They are playing a few gigs in the US in aid of animals charities.  Do your best please Debby and other cross the pond bloggers to support and see them!