Vegetarian Haggis!!!

Made with real vegetarians.

It was actually very nice. Apparently I should have created a mustard sauce to accompany it but I didn't.

Brownsauce.org

I found this site whilst Googling to try and find out why Daddies brown sauce has mysteriously disappeared from the shelves at Tesco's. Brownsauce.org is a fantastic Birmingham based blog site by Adham that covers everything you need to know about brown sauce and gets involved with the ketchup/brown sauce debate. He has documented the rise and fall of HP sauce in Birmingham in a humourous and informative way. The site has everything from photographs and film outside the gates at HP, to a heartfelt song about his beloved condiment. The site also contains recipes including one for an original style brown sauce that uses tomatoes and Lea and Perrins Worcester sauce, incidently, a similar product produced by Lea and Perrins is now stocked at Tescos and is what we now buy instead of Daddies brown sauce. I haven't figured out the whole thing with Adham and his towel head-dress perhaps you'll have more luck. The effort put into this sites content makes it worth a visit. Also if you know or find out what has happened to Daddies brown sauce please let me know.

Link: Brownsauce.org

Its Vfestival weekend

Sadly I am not present at this years festival. As for many festivals this summer it looks like the revellers that are attending are going to have to contend with at least some rain. This includes several close friends who are either camping or have day tickets. The coverage on tele isn't as comprehensive as it was for Glastonbury but there is some coverage on E4.

Kenilworth town centre earlier this week

BBQ review 2



Last weekend we managed to have another BBQ and we roadtested another disposable BBQ. This time is was a Supagrill Instant barbecue (spelt this way), which was bought at our local shop. As with the Sainsbury's one this came with legs in the form of a wire stand. It lit easily and got to temperature better than the Sainsburys one and featured vents in the foil container to aid air circulation. It didn't come with a lighting 'stick' as the Sainsburys one did but this BBQ performed and cooked better (although the veggy burgers I chose to cook turned out to taste like shite). So enroute to becoming a disposable BBQ connoisseur I have now discovered that I can buy a better disposable BBQ closer to home and help support the local economy without going all the way to a Sainsbury's, who were out gunned here by a specialist manufacturer. I have a Morrisons one to test but looking out the window I don't think that will be this weekend. More later.

Mixed reviews and Bar B Qs

This week I’ve been listening to dance music mixes, its been some time since I last did and I just wondered what was going on. I had been hearing about the crack down on dealing and drug culture in Ibiza and the fact several of the big opening parties had been postponded and major clubs temporarily closed. It was during reading about this that I was first sucked into a DJ mix loop earlier this week. I discovered podcasts by Streetlife DJs & Roger Sanchez on iTunes both of which are free. Then last night a friend bought me round copies of GUO32 Adam Freeland: Mexico city and Fabriclive 32 Krafty Kuts. The Adam Freeland mix is a 2CD set. The first CD is a pacy techno mix and includes tracks and remixes from the likes of Carl Craig, Sebastian, Justice, Para One, Kavinsky and Adam Freeland himself. The second CD is an altogether more ethereal, steady and groovy experience and in the context of a lazy Sunday morning was preferable to the first. It contained such artists as Spaceman 3, Gui Boratto, Mylo and Andy Weatherall, out of the three CDs I was given this was my favourite. However, that takes nothing away from Fabriclive 32: Krafty Kuts. This Fabriclive mix had a hip-hop and funky vibe, it pulled no punches and included guaranteed favourites such as a version of The Message by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five but was also eclectic enough to include Funky Jam by Primal Scream.

We also managed do a BBQ this weekend and we roadtested a Sainsbury’s disposable BBQ with legs. It also came with a lighting stick – very posh!, the coals were in a bag which you lit. It roared away to start with but then unforunately nearly went out, after much wafting it got hot enough to cook but left a black carbon imprint of the grill on the bangers. So although a Sainsburys disposable with legs is a bit of a pose the performance was disapointing. Proving I shouldn’t have strayed from the usual Morrisons disposable.