The Candles & Quattro are fired-up, & the Moon is absolutely Beeyooootiful, so we have a fair bit of light lighting our way, Darlings.
Carinthia. xx
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I saw the moon all the other way home and it was gorgeous
We just fell into bed and fell fast asleep
I didn’t wake at all all night
From nine o’clock till eight am is a good sleep by anyone’s standards
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Bitterly cold night here.
The temperature ATM has reached the heady heights of 0° & feels like -4°
I was awake severial times in the night, viewing the moon, & talking with Posh at 0530.
Coffee will be made…
Carinthia. xx
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Only mildly chilly here in the Soft South, though it may freeze tonight.
(huddles into fevvery coat until all that’s visible is a brown and grey sphere wivvan gin-drinkin’ Beak)
yardarm
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I find bacon butties give one a thirst to make gin drinking a neccessity
Will you share this banqueting platter of said butties with me?
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Werl, if it is
[peckity][peckity][peckity][peckity][peckity][peckity][peckity]
absolutely necessary…
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Starts frying more bacon
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There will be cheese & onion mash, wiv smoked pancetta later.
Meanwhile, I may have an Snoozette…
Proffers Pitchers
Carinthia. xx
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There will be cottage pie and spinach here later
A tartiflette a la Good Food magazine is sitting in the fridge to bake tomorrow till the gruyere and emmental are golden and melty and almost fondue
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Mushroom stroganoff. roast broccoli and Turkish flatbreads, chez bee.
Soo xx
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Pork Julius, with salad potatoes and baked tomatoes and broccoli, here.
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Everything would sound even more delicious were I not so stuffed. {{{Burp}}}
Soo xx
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I went for a walk on a nearby beach today with Veronica the veloped today
I really enjoyed the feeling of security over the sand
A sort of walk she is designed for
She was perfect for me
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And when you named her you had no idea she was also in charge of the shop at Lower Loxley Hall.
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Nobody does just one job these days dahling.
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Not too sure what Pork Julius is, TBH, but it all sounds very nice.
I have been asweep for 2 hours
Carinthia. xx
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It was a recipe Gus’s Ma saved from Good Housekeeping many years ago (mid to late 60s). The internet has no idea what it is either.
Fanta
Yep. Appeared in a GH cookery leaflet thingy some time in the late sixties.
Anyway, and this is assuming you are grilling your pork chops to go with The Sauce
Finely chop a small onion, fry gently in a tablespoonful or so of butter or marg until softened and transclucent. Do not let it brown. That would be bad. Add a heaped teaspoonful of curry powder (mild or medium), stir and fry for a further minute. Add flour (one and a half to two tablespoonsful) to make a roux and cook out as for a white sauce. Proceed as for a white sauce with up to a pint of milk. When thickened and ready to simmer add two tablespponsful reducrrant jelly and one of lemon juice, whisk vigorously to disperse and begin simmering the sauce - takes about ten minutes very gently (taste and adjust the balance of jelly/lemon juice according to preference about half way through the simmering process).
Sounds odd and revolting, I know, but it is far from it. Serve with grilled pork chops. Counterintuitive, I know, but baked tomatoes go very well indeed with this, as do french beans. Resist the temptation to serve with rice: that is very nasty indeed, as I imagine mash would also be. Boiled or roast or new or saute potato.
If using pork shoulder steak, one can just sear them in a pan, shove them in the oven to finish, arrest the sauce after a minute or so’s simmering and pour it over them and let it get on with it. If doing that, it’s useful to know your own preference as to redcurrant/lemon juice balance first 
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Souds ab-fab to me. Now, I’ll go to bed with cravings. And, I am going to have to consider clearing a load of stuff from the hive as we must get a move on with moving. It’s distracting!
Best nights, Cellarites,
Soo xx
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It also works with strips of pork belly.
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And as Gus pointed out when it was first posted, for those of us who are not much fans of redcurrant jelly, it’s not especially redcurranty.
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