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Good Morning Very Early Birds!
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Morning! Can't sleep so have given up lol. Was watching the torrential rain out of the bedroom window at 2.30am - it was running down our road like a mini river and our gravel driveway was turning into a paddling pool, but it seems to have calmed down for now. I can't stand it when the days get shorter and the nights get longer - just a couple of months ago it was B-road day.ightbat 4.30 am, and not it's still pitch black.As long as it's dry & light I like to be outside. Even just sitting in the garden. But as soon as it starts to get dark early the evenings just seem too long sat indoors.....
Anyway, I've a busy-ish day today what with one thing and another. Hope everyone had a good weekend?x
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Good morning Smow. Well, what a miserable damp morning it is.
Just craft club for me today, might pop into Sainsburys after to get a couple of small lamb chops for my tea. I just fancy them.
Lamb seems to be rather a treat for me at today's prices.
Other than that, pretty much a nothingy day.
Enjoy yours :)
Morning All. Windy and darkish here in B&H. I've got the chap opposite walking my dog for me at 12.30 ish, then my cleaner coming for an hour and a half followed by a Waitrose grocery delivery later. Also should get a delivery of some mousse stuff I'm trying to see if I can stop my wee dog from itching/scratching himself, day and night. Poor boy, vet says it's a summer thing and it'll go, so she was no help at all.
You should try venison, Smow, if you haven't cooked it before. Had a haunch of it, deliciously tender, ahich I had marinated in olive oil and lemon with oregano, ground juniper berries and yellow mustard seeds for six hours in a cool spot - seared for 15 minutes and then roasted at 200C (180) fan for a further 35 minutes....on a trivet bed of root veg... pots, chicory, carrots and beetroot. I had no celeriac but that's supposed to be good to use. 0.9kg was £11 at my local butchers.... 15 mins resting to make up a gravy, having used a pheasant stock that I had made last autumn.
Calda you could be right re the dark mornings - it tells the brain it's still night lol.
rosetta - I never really got into that (CTM) but seems to have been very popular?
brainiac - I was literally saying this lastnight. Not so much walking but I said I hated it starting to get darker earlier because as long as it's light and dry I will usually be outside in the garden, even if just sitting with a drink and relaxing. I just like being outside so when it's dark and the evenings are long indoors I hate it.
LB - I thought your post said MOUSE stuff lol. Was thinking what on earth have you bought?? lol
DTC - now that sounds delicious! I'm not sure I have tried venison actually but that certainly sounds divine, definitely worth trying to source some x
It does need a marinade as the meat is very lean (and said to be healthy) - I guess cooking it is like a cross between a fillet steak and roast beef.....
Like any meat and meaty fish liile monkfish, resting is essential at the end to allow the juices to backflow into the capillaries...with mine, I whack it back in the oven, the power switched off - and keep the veg warm too while I make the gravy out of the stock that went in (300ml) after the searing phase and then I basted the haunch twice while it was on main roast, my preference, a strong one, for rare/saignant meat.
