Black Pudding, Lamb Cuttlets.

Black Pudding:
Some people get all grosed out by blood sausage (black pudding). I don't see what all the fuss is about. It's not like there made out of blood. Oh wait, yes they are!

Ox blood, oats, pork fat, salt, and pepper. Mix all ingredents well. Stuff into sheep intestine so as to make short fat sausages. Gently simmer the lot for a few hours. String them up to cool, makeing sure to cut off a couple to have hot and fresh with lunch.

Lamb cuttlets:

Pretty much mutton at this time of year. But these ones were fresh and tender. Coated in sour dough crumbs, lemon zest, rosemarry, tyme, and pepper. Gently fried in olive oil, and rested on a cous cous salad with slow fryed capsicums and shallots.

Riddel Burns

The bushland surounding where I grew up, and now live again, is/was known as temperate rain forest. This means it rains alot. When I was a yonger lad it would often rain right through the summer. Then it would rain night and day for the six months of winter. Inbetween, light snow squals would flatten the ferns and chill the uncountable streams, creeks, tributaries, and rivers throughout the region.
It was allways wet.

What now.

Drought.

Drought. And a bit more drought.

Climate change.

Only a few years ago a camp fire took a great deal of effort. Every branch was covered in lichen. Every log was rotton and covered in fungus. Bush fire was impossible, to wet.

Now; Leaves and twigs crunch like eggshells underfoot. I dare not strike a match lest I burn the forest down.,

How this fire started I don't know. But it means great change for the surounding environment. To what end?

Tomato Rainbow.

Lucky me. I got some very late season tomatoes. Coz it's been so hot and dry. (Prefect tomato weather). These babys were packed full of flavor. They were so good I gave them center stage in a salad. So simple, so yum. Look:

Ingredents:
500g Very vine ripened tomatoes of various colours.
Small handfull of flat leaf parsley choped.
Olive oil.
Juice of half a lemon.
Murry river 'Pink Salt'.
Fresh cracked pepper.

Method:
Slice thickly the tomatoes and place into a salad bowl. Add a good pinch of salt and pepper. Bung on the parsley, and drizzle over generously with olive oil. Gently toss, carefull not to break up the tomatoes to much. Heap onto a plate. Garnish, and serve.


Sir loin cut, from localy grown organic Black Angus, aged 28 days. Cooked on a super hot grill. Read the High Steaks posting for intructions on how to do this properly.

At plate up time the steak was used as a garnish. Be sure the beef is well rested befor plateing. Otherwise the heat from the meat will destroy the tomatoes. Yum-o

Thank for all the help in the kitchen Archer!