{"id":997,"date":"2011-12-22T00:13:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T00:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=997"},"modified":"2011-12-22T11:36:11","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T11:36:11","slug":"foodie-christmas-presents-and-gravy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=997","title":{"rendered":"Foodie christmas presents and gravy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had our Christmas Day early as we&#8217;ll be working on the actual day.  Here are some of my presents:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_1215edit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_1215edit-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Jamie Oliver mezzaluna &#038; board\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-998\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_1215edit-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/IMG_1215edit-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"clear:both;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Ottolenghi-Cookbook-Sami-Tamimi\/dp\/0091922348\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ottolenghi_cookbook-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ottolenghi_cookbook\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-999\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ottolenghi_cookbook-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ottolenghi_cookbook-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/ottolenghi_cookbook.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"clear:both;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I used the mezzaluna and board to chop up sage to add to the gravy I made to go with our sausage and mash tonight.  The gravy turned out very well.  I sliced 2 shallots and fried them very slowly in olive oil.  Towards the end I added 2 chopped cloves of garlic and continued the slow frying.  When the garlic had just browned I drained off excess oil and added some plain flour, probably 3 heaped teaspoons in total.  (Delia says not to use corn flour to thicken gravy as the gravy ends up with the wrong texture and I must say I agree.)  Once the flour was fried, little by little I added a 500ml bag of Waitrose beef stock and boiled it all gently until the gravy was reduced by about half.  There was no need to add salt.  The result was a meaty, garlicky (but not too greasy or gelatinous) rich gravy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had our Christmas Day early as we&#8217;ll be working on the actual day. Here are some of my presents: I used the mezzaluna and board to chop up sage to add to the gravy I made to go with our sausage and mash tonight. The gravy turned out very well. I sliced 2 shallots [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1052,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997\/revisions\/1052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}