Crackling and ashes

When I was going to post something about this piece of pork meat with it's crackling

I thought

have I written about this before?

I've been doing this blog since 2007, so I probably had.

I searched my blog

(feel free to do the same)

and found one post:

Almost exactly 3 years back in time

(give or take one day)

This is a common Christmas dinner in Norway

only not in our house,

it's kind of frowned to eat this in November

Many people take their Christmas food tradition very seriously!

We enjoyed in November anyway, as we did 3 years ago

according to my blog.

It's a bit nippy outside

so we keep a fire going when we are home.

Every now and then, the fireplace needs to be emptied

It is full of ashes!

Dinkie is waiting impatiently because she just loves the warming fire!

The ashes must be cold, the bucket shouldn't be flammable

(like mine is)

and you should never leave it on the steps outside your front door for later.

A few houses has burnt down over the years because of that!

Embers can keep warm inside of ashes for a long time!

My house is still standing, I emptied the bucket far from my house straight away!

Corny pork

Having english as my second language can be challenging

when it comes to naming ingredients when I cook.

I might name them all wrong, but bear with me I'm doing the best I can

If you see me make an obvious mistake, please tell me

I love to learn!

Anyway lets call this meat

smoked pork chops

Its not too far from the truth I think.

Corn as sweet as candy

A rare pleasure!

Potatoes au gratin, chop and corn.
Maybe not the most elegant plate
but genuine and tasty!

Yummy good food

When we were in England last week,

we had a good feast at my husbands sisters house.

Her husband Glyn is making this grub like a king!

He prepared lots of good stuff for us,

chicken, beef, duck, pork

vegetables, noodles, rice you name it!

This is his famous "sticky chicken"

I didnt get my hand on the recipe

bot the chicken was gone in a moment

Ah the taste of it!

My plate of goodness:
For starters (I'll mention it last just to be peculiar)

We had something called Bhaji, I munched mine and then the second one

before I thought of taking a photo so I pinched this one from the web

for you to see:

I'll try to make that one day!

With a little help..

Some porksome veggiessome rice
And a little help from Uncle Bens: Tikka Masala

We can't be inventing everything always!

Voila! One tasty meal in minutes!

No eating nicely with knife and fork

just eat like you want, with a spoon, with a fork,

or with your bread.

Put your plate on your lap, on the floor on the table,

and don't forget

in this house you can lick it if you want.