Creamy Egg Curry

With the New year just starting decided to was time to revamp the blog and get it going again. The Football has now been moved to it's own page at www.Redhilltownfc.blogspot,com and I have decided the vary my entries. Food will probably play a major part in this.

So with this in mind a recipe I tried last week, which I have now cooked a couple of times and tastes great is Egg Curry. Very quick simple and cheap to make, and really easy to vary in size.

To begin fry up some onions, and add the Curry paste, Tikka masala is recommended by the Good Food where I got this recipe from, but any will do depending on taste, you can even make your own if you feel so inclined.

Whilst doing this hard boil your eggs.

Next you need to add a tin of Tomatoes and 200 mls of water or stock. Leave to simmer until you have a thick sauce. Then add some peas  and cook for a couple of minutes. Cut eggs in half and add  to sauce, until warmed through. Finally you need to add Greek Youghurt. Volume dependant on how creamy or how spicy you like it.

I also lke to add some baby spinach leaves and just stir them through.

Serve with rice and Enjoy.
For full details of this recipe please go to BBC Good food .

Also before I sign off a quick Tip. Do you ever have half eaten packets of pre-made  popadums in the cupboard. Yo know, the packet the you opened last time you had a curry and they didn't all get eaten. Trouble is they have now gone a bit soggy.

Well i decided to experiment with this and put them in the oven on a low head about 160c or gas mark 3 I think. Exact temperature doesn't really matter. Anyway don't leave them in their too long or they will burn probably around 5 mins. Take them out and you should have nice crisp popadums again.

I like to serve mine with chopped onion, coriander and lemon juice. but use what ever is your poison.

Redhill town Football club 8-9th Jan 2010

With the start of the New Year and the football getting going again with a slightly shakey start, due to the weather after Christmas, thought it was time to relaunch the blog. The reports below are as sent out to the local paper so mainly information from the teams with a few of the weeks, pictures.

Hope you like it.

AFC EWELL B 1 v 1 REDHILL TOWN U9 match report

  

 Redhill Town U9 stay 3rd in the table with a well deserved 1-1 draw against AFC Ewell B.

The first half was a hard fought battle in the midfield, soaking up a lot of early pressure until eventually conceding a goal in the 15th min to go in 1-0 down at half time.

       The second half saw the introduction of Haydn Puttick in midfield and Joshua Bayode in defence which gave a more solid shape to the Redhill town team. Luke Stevens and Haydn Puttick won some very important tackles and created some great passing moves down the wings to eventually set up Zach Layne to score his 12th goal of the season.

       Redhill Town goalkeeper, Adam Barber, had a superb game, making several important one on one saves, to earn Redhill Town a well- deserved 1-1 draw.

                      Man of the match: Zachariah Layne

  

Epsom & Ewell League Division 1 – League Match 08/01/2011

West Byfleet Scorpions U11s 2   Redhill Town U11s 2

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Having not played for 8 weeks it was inevitable that Redhill would be somewhat “match rusty”.  Scorpions had the better of the early exchanges but the Redhill defence held firm.

Having soaked up the early Scorpions’ pressure, Redhill managed their first effort on target in the 14^th minute, and 2 minutes later they were ahead when Harry Williams tapped home from close range. 

Scorpions got themselves back in the game just before half-time when Redhill failed to clear a free-kick and the ball was bundled over the line following a goalmouth scramble.

Redhill started to get their game together in the second half, and re-took the lead in the 53^rd minute.  Joel Sowton’s free-kick from the edge of the box evaded everyone and crept in at the far post.

Scorpions, though, proved they did have a sting in their tail.  With just 2 minutes to go, Scorpions broke down the left and the resulting low cross somehow evaded Case-Green and trickled across the face of the Redhill goal before hitting the far post and crossing the line.

On the balance of play, a draw was probably a fair result, but Redhill will be looking to push on during the remainder of the season.

Rosehill AFC 6 V 4 Redhill Town U12’s

Match started with a 10 man Redhill team, rosehill afc scored the first goal, but Redhill fought back with a superb goal from tayla Payne, Rosehill afc went in at half time 2 up. Great second half by Julian Ramsay who scored a hat trick final score 6 to 4 for rosehill afc but a heroic game by Redhill under 12's.

Redhill Town FC U18's vs. Wallington Wanderers. 

Final Score after Extra time 4-4.

Final score after penalties 9-8 To Wallington.

On Sunday town's U18's side took on a tough opponent in Tandridge A league side Wallington Wanderers in the 2^nd round of the league cup.

The game set off at a quick pace with chances at either end. The teams seemed equally matched from the start, and it looked like a stroke of luck would be the only thing to separate the two sides. Luckily this went Town's way. About 15 minutes in town were awarded a corner which was scored directly by Nick Harlow on his Redhill debut. After taking the lead Redhill looked on top throughout, and Steve Buxton had many chances after terrorising the Wallington defence all game, however he was unlucky not to have doubled town's lead before the break.

Town went in 1-0 up at the break.  

When the teams came out for the second half Town started well and looked determined to keep their lead and progress to the next round. This was helped 5 minutes into the second half when Steve Buxton was played through after some good play in the midfield from Jack Caffyn, Nick Harlow and Ross Mcgovern. Buxton was one on one with the keeper and made no mistake in slotting home to put town 2-0 up.

Town started to tire towards the end of the game, and this showed as Wallington got a goal back to make it 2-1 with 15 minutes to go. Town were rocked by this but tried their best to keep their cool. Wallington were then reduced to 10 men after poor discipline from one of the Wallington defenders. However, Wallington then equalized with only 6 minutes of the 90 to go to send the game into extra time.

After a good talking to by manager Anthony Reynolds, town came out working hard and fighting. Unfortunately after a good break from town, Wallington broke away on a counter attack which lead to a goal. The reds looked defeated but didn't give up and gave 100% throughout. On the stroke of half time in extra time, Wallington doubled their lead to go into the break 4-2 up. Anthony Reynolds and the Club's director of football, Janet Creighton, spoke to the side at half time and it seemed to work. Town came out for the last 15 minutes battling hard and as a team. It seemed as though Town were to lose in extra time, when with only 6 minutes of extra time to go, captain Jack Caffyn picked up a loose ball, drove inside and smashed home into the bottom corner with his left foot to get one back for town. This goal seemed to lift the side and give everybody involved a bit more belief. With 30 seconds left to play, the ball was hit long by Town's keeper and man of the match Billy Brawn. Jack Caffyn leaped the highest to head the ball on target and with a slight deflection and in dramatic style, town were level and the game went to penalties.

Town were unlucky not to win this game after going down 9-8 on penalties. But the whole club is proud of the side after the passion and desire shown by the squad. It was a valiant effort and the boys did the club proud, they will now concentrate on climbing the league table.

Hopefully will give you an update to Jan 15-16th this week though not many matches will be played.

Redhill Town U11's

Here we are in a new season with a new name. Redhill Town Football Club formally known as Redhill Juniors.

So even though Redhill Albion still exists as a team with a name change of club and a move to a new league Epsom & Ewell Youth League, So we are now the U11's . Keeps everything nice and simple.

Anyway this season has been a bit of a bumpy start for the U11's with two quite bad losses, but at match three things began to improve and against Horsley, much to their amazement we drew 3 all, Things went well from there with a one all draw against Roundshaw With these two draws we had two points, pushing us up to 7th in the table.

Then the Break through happened last weekend. Our first win, beating Anglo Saxon 4-1. We are now 5th

Neil Lewer takes up the story.

Epsom & Ewell League Division 1 – League Match 09/10/2010

Anglo Saxons U11s 1  Redhill Town U11s 

 Redhill U11s took the spoils in their battle against Anglo Saxons, with a 4-1 victory and a hat-trick for Harry Williams.  After a run of LLDD, their first win of the season should help boost confidence as they sit 5^th in the table.

 In what was a fairly scrappy game, Redhill did not play to their full potential but never looked in trouble after Williams scored his first on 11 minutes.  A well delivered corner from Ryan O’Donovan fell to Williams, who rifled home the rebound from close range after his first shot was parried by the Saxons’ keeper.

Two minutes later Redhill doubled their lead when Saxons failed to clear, and Tom Parker fired home the loose ball, but just before half-time, Saxons somehow managed to get themselves back in the game when a looping header crept in at the near post.

 Redhill continued to dominate in the second half, with good work in midfield from O’Donovan and Joel Sowton, and it was O’Donovan’s pass in the 48^th minute which set Williams away to score Redhill’s third.

Two minutes from the end, Williams was harshly judged offside by the referee when the linesman’s flag stayed down.  He was not to be denied his hat-trick, however, when he pounced a minute later to slot home Redhill’s fourth.

Some Additional pictures from the matches

Spring into summer

Not Blogged recently, but after today, decided I had to. Sun was out and the arable guy's and girls were out doing the final spray on the wheat before harvest. So I was shooting pix of spraying. Whilst out shooting, noticed a rare site these days a butterfly, turns out it it is a monarch, which is fairly common, but still an intersting sight, none the less.

Along with a bit of wheat for good measure.

Mercedes C180 CGi Sport

C 180 CGI BlueEFFICIENCY 

ESTATE SPORT

The other week I was kindly lent a C Class Estate. The timing couldn’t have been better, as I was due to take my son to Liverpool to watch the second leg of the Europa cup Quarter final, Liverpool V Benfica at Anfield.

After spending a few minutes acclimatizing, myself to the controls and a few calls to the Mercedes Benz press office when trying to set up the hands free on my mobile phone, we set off.

Driving on the motorway was very easy and even after 4 hours with a few stops I still arrived in the Wirral, not as tired as I had expected.

The trip to Anfield went well, Car left safely at a relative’s house in the Wirral and the new form of transport the train and the bus. Even better, Liverpool won 4-1.

Living with the car.

When designing this car Mercedes clearly set out to produce a car that would be a load lugger as well as a relaxing drive on the Motorway.

With its 485 litre boot with the rear seats up and 1500 litre with them down, there is plenty of space to fit a shopping or larger items.

Performance wise, the car handles well and the acceleration from 1796 CC petrol engine is very good. With the 5 speed automatic gearbox you have three settings, officially called Comfort, Standard and Manual, manual being operated by the paddles on the steering wheel. I should say manual with nanny holding your hand, because if you dare to try to change up or down and the car feels, it’s a step to far. It is simple. You can’t. “As nanny knows best”.

You can also change up or down using the “gear shift”; I use the term loosely as this is the stick as with other autos where a manual shift normally is.

In terms of performance figures the official 0-62 is 9.2 secs and in terms of Fuel consumption I returned an average of 36 miles per gallon, but when driven through the country lanes in the S mode of auto box this dropped down to around 26 mpg.

Mercedes Benz call S standard mode, but quite frankly I think of it as sports mode as the car becomes far more responsive when the accelerator peddle is depressed and holds on to a gear much longer before changing up, which is great when you need to over take.

The Merc comes with all the usual luxury trappings, Cruise control, SatNav, plugs to connect with MP3 player, climate control and of course Bluetooth hands free for the phone.

The SatNav was very interesting to use as this also included a traffic message channel and if there any holdups ahead, it would suddenly reroute you, as happened to us coming up the M5. We heard there was a hold up beyond Junc 1, clearly so did the satnav, as it suddenly told us to get off at Junction 1 and took us through the back streets of Wednesbury, finally joining the M6 at Junc 9.

We also had another run in with the satnav on the way back. It decided I should drive on M6 toll road, I decided otherwise and wanted to go back on M6 and M5 before heading onto the M40.

I spent the next 3 junctions with the Satnav telling me to get off the motorway and go through the Centre of Birmingham. I don’t think so. Finally after junc 3 it decided to go my route and promptly knocked 20 miles off the journey.

Generally I thought the car was a great car to live with and really enjoyed driving it, but in terms of Torque I would be very interested to know how the Diesel version of this car performed, and especially the fuel performance

The Last two Matches of the season

Sorry. I have been a bit slow putting up the reports this time.

First Match Redhill Albion Vs Junior sport's. A great match played with a lot of spirit. The final result was well deserved to all.

Peter Appleby takes up the story.

Tandridge League Youth Football League B Under 10’s

Redhill Albion vs Junior Sports 18/04/10

Both sides had good possession in the opening minutes and after 5 minutes Junior Sports took the lead when a through ball was picked up inside the box and fired into the net.

It took Redhill 10 minutes to get into the game when an individual effort by Senior almost led to a goal.

Good pressure from Williams created a chance for Stevens on the left.

In the 14^th minute Meldrum and Senior worked the ball to give Stevens another opportunity and 1 minute later Stevens went close again picking up a long ball. The ball came out to Appleby whose shot grazed the post.

In the 16^th minute O’Donovan hit a cross from the right wing which almost floated into the net and 1 minute later O’Donovan headed over the bar after connecting with a cross from Stevens.

In the 18^th minute Senior hit a superb through ball to beat the Junior sports defence but it was just too far ahead of O’Donovan.

Redhill kept the pressure on Junior Sports and just before half-time O’Donovan headed over from a Senior cross but at half-time the score remained 0-1.

Within 30 seconds of the restart Redhill were level when “lad of the match” Senior passed to O’Donovan who played a one two with Smart and drilled the ball into the net.

O’Donovan and Smart were combining well on the right creating problems for the Junior Sports defence but could not add to the Redhill tally.

A break away by Junior Sports in the 4^th minute looked like a certain goal until Senior who was tracking back made a saving tackle and was injured in the process.

2 minutes later Sowton took a ball full in the face and was replaced by Appleby.

Junior Sports were getting back on the offensive and Lewer was working well at the back.

After 10 minutes Senior, O’Donovan and Smart created another opportunity only to see Smart’s powerful shot blocked by a junior Sports defender.

Hickman worked a good position down the left flank to create a chance for Smart who shot wide.

Junior Sports continued to pose a threat on the break but Lewer and Meldrum were solid at the back and making sure Case-Green was not troubled..

After 40 minutes O’Donovan played a great through ball to Williams who was unlucky not to score.

After 43 minutes Hickman made an important tackle to win the ball and passed it to Senior who went close.

Redhill looked the more likely to get a second goal but it was not to be and the game ended a draw

Final Score: Redhill Albion 1 (O’Donovan) Junior Sports 1

Albion vs West Wickham

This was the last match before Easter, and very exciting it was too.

Peter Appleby takes up the story.

Tandridge League Youth Football League B Under 10’s

Redhill Albion vs West Wickham A 28/03/10

Both sides had attacks in the opening minutes with Smart gaining an early corner and Case-Green pulling off a fine save.

In the 6^th minute O’Donovan set up a chance for Senior which was saved by the goal keeper.

West Wickham were showing why they are second in the league, but Redhill was resolute in defence with Smart, Sowton and Meldrum working hard protecting their goal.

In the 16^th minute, Redhill took the lead when Senior played a ball out to Williams on the wing and Williams used his speed to get to the edge of the box fired an unstoppable shot in the top left hand corner of the net.

2 minutes later Senior laid another ball to Williams who rifled a similar shot but this time the goal keeper made the save.

This goal fired up Wickham who laid siege to the Redhill goal for the remainder of the first half with “lad of the match” Meldrum, outstanding in defence.

Just before half time Redhill made a rare foray into the Wickham half and some neat interplay between Williams, Hickman and Stevens almost led to a second goal for Redhill.

On the stroke of half time Wickham hit the post with a header but when the whistle blew Redhill were still in front.  

Within a minute of the restart Wickham were level with a shot from inside the box.

Redhill needed to “steady the ship” as the defence was kept busy. In the 7^th minute the ball was pinging around the box and hit the post but somehow Redhill kept the ball out.

But in the 9^th minute a long ball put the Wickham attacker through and he made no mistake with his shot to put Wickham in front.

Lewer had come on at half time and was giving a solid defensive performance at the back. Stevens was helping out at the back and Case-Green was putting in another great shift in goal.

Having withstood further attacks from Wickham, Redhill started coming back into the game in the last 5 minutes of the match. Appleby floated a cross into the box but it was just too high for Senior who put the header over the bar.

In the 47^th minute Williams played a ball to O’Donovan on the right wing who flighted a superb ball into the box and this time Senior kept his header down to score Redhill’s equaliser. Every Redhill player including the goal keeper rushed to congratulate Senior.

The last 3 minutes were tense but Redhill held on to gain a well deserved draw against one of the best teams in the league.

 Final goal scored by Ben Senior for Redhill Albion

Final Score: Redhill Albion 2 (Williams,Senior) West Wickham 2