In a Stew
26 June 2006 @ 10:19
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Despite my heritage I am for the first time attempting to cook Irish stew today. Before you all cry ‘but, you are a vegertarian Jess!’, it is my Dad’s organically reared, free-range, joyously lived lamb that I am using. So far it is proving very difficult. Large hunks of neck are cooking away, and I hope the meat will come off during the process. We shall see… Chris and I had a bad alarm accident today. Our clock radio is an annoying beast, which only has a 12 hour clock, supplying the post-twelve pm hours with a dot to indicate they are ‘PM’. We had managed to set the 7am alarm for 7pm. Not good. Still, Chris managed ot hurry in at 9am and will work through his lunch, so not too bad I suppose. A bit of a shocker though, to wake up at 8:19am! All the furniture is now up. Chris did the wardrobe as apparently my shouting was not helpful at all… We enjoyed the game (well, I did and Chicken played on the computer!) yesterday at my brother’s, and then all partook of a BBQ. Well, my Dad and I had BBQ peppers (lovely) and everyone else had BBQ meat! It is so nice to be based near the family now, having someone to watch the footie with a spend a long Sunday afternoon in the company of. We are in love with our house - it is just so nice to have an upstairs!!! Strange it should be so exciting, but after being students for years and years it is… We are also liking Devon, and even though it is raining today I am still delighted by the fact you can hear seagulls crying out almost everyday. I always wanted to live near the sea! I am missing Yorkshire accents loads though, I still can’t get to grips with being called ‘my love’ when it should be ‘duck’ (Mansfield) or something similar! Even more scary, my nephew and niece have started calling woodlouse “chiggy pigs”!!!!!!!!! |
