tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10604532635019375042024-03-13T18:31:07.642+00:00laurelbudlaurel budhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10359439737647600493noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060453263501937504.post-74252066436909622552012-05-21T12:51:00.001+01:002018-04-05T11:54:22.703+01:00Jackbit - BBQ Pulled Pork<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Every now and then Sainsbury's will have an offer on shoulder pork which isn’t
my favourite cut but is great to buy at the right price to make pulled pork
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I have made pulled pork in quite a few different ways now, like most recipes
like this the more time you have to cook the better but with a busy work/family
life 6 - 10 hours cooking isn’t always an option.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">By all means cook this for longer, it's never going to harm, just keep an
eye on the liquid so it doesn’t disappear into disappointing glue welding the
meat to the pan ( a lesson learnt too many times on my part).</span><br />
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<u><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Ingredients</span></u><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">1 joint of shoulder pork</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">1 jar of M&S Hot and Smokey BBQ marinade and sauce</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">2. Firstly free the joint from the string and allow to fall out of
shape, carefully cut the skin and as much fat as you can off the joint. I
then lay this flat onto a stone baking sheet, sprinkle liberally with salt and stick
in the oven as a bit of a bonus.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">3. Heat the oil in a heavy cast iron casserole dish and sear the
opened up joint on all sides until golden all over.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">4. Remove the skins from the garlic and add all six whole.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">5. Add the contents of the marinade and sauce, once empty fill with
water close the lid, give a little shake to wash the remaining sauce in the
bottle and pour into the pan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">6. Mix the sauce in well, all over the meat, then add the whole bottle
of ginger beer. The joint should just about be covered but not quite.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> 7. Place in the oven and leave for at least 2 1/2 hours or as long as
you can.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">8. Remove the joint from the dish, it should be falling apart.
Remove the garlic cloves and put aside. Place the dish back on the stove
and bring to a boil. Allow to simmer for another 20 minutes or so until
the juice has reduced. At the same time, shred the pork using two forks
and keep at one side.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">9. Return the shredded pork to the sauce and stir well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">10. Mush the garlic cloves into a paste and add back to the pan, stir
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">11. Serve on toasted ciabattas, or as a filling on a jacket potato.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">12. If you had placed the skin in the oven, even with
just over 2 hours cooking it will still be quite rubbery. Turn up the
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so. Take out of the oven once nice and crackly and allow to cool a little
before cutting into irresistible chunks.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;">So many lovely treats to take home, Yorkshire chocolates, cheeses, meat, chutney, oh and a few pairs of smoked kippers for Dad. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;">No trip would be complete without at least one visit to Betty's, how could you go to York and not visit Betty's??? We had breakfast there on the Saturday which was perfect but instead of having afternoon tea we tried a new deli near to Betty's in St Helens Square called Mannions. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;">I can't find a website sadly but they are quite new. They stock the best quality local deli produce and I can highly recommend one of their platters. There is a charcuterie platter but being someone who doesn't want to miss out on anything I opted for the 'bit of everything platter'. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;">Oh my goodness, I can't tell you how good this was! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;">Sorry Betty's, you know I love you but I'm afraid Mannions will also receive a visit from now on.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">To avoid floats and also to keep the amount of wool down that it uses I've decided to use fish floats (don't think this is what they are really called, but I call them that) to take the wool up on the vertical stripes and then just carry wool across from the ball for the horizontal stripes. This way the scarf isn't too thick and the reverse looks almost as neat as the front.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I stumbled across </span><a href="http://andreajoseph24.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Andrea's blog</span></a><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> and was simply blown away by her amazing sketches.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">jackbit: local colloquial slang used primarily in the North West town of Wigan in Lancashire, UK, meaning "food". usage: "I'm proper clempt, lets go 'shop fot get sum jackbit".<br /><br /></span><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_30o9edyfrA8/TU_w4AENkhI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/y3WElYfnIM8/s1600/plait+002.jpg"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/_30o9edyfrA8/TU_w4AENkhI/AAAAAAAAAEQ/y3WElYfnIM8/s320/plait+002.jpg" /></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">To our delight the Little Man arrived, and he <i>is</i> a little man. As much as the girls are girly he most certainly is a boy, which was quite a shock on the system and one that still surprises me and catches me off guard two years on. He climbs! Oh, does he climb. Runs too! In fact, he is fearless. The more I speak with other Mum's with little boys I find this is not unusual and I am not on my own yet sometimes I am still astonished at his rough and tumble ways.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Some of the wool I’ve had for years, some of it I dare say I’ll have for many more years yet despite how much or how useful any of it may be, I keep it all.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> Truth be told I have much more stashed in my loft space which is made up of mainly mohair and ribbon wool from the 1980s, the various bags of bits in my stash are what I consider to be either fairly recent or wool I can’t bear to banish to the loft space.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> Much like my time tidying the cutlery drawers I enjoyed going through the various bags and it was almost like Christmas again for me, finding yarn I forgot I bought. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">It’s a work in progress and I think I may try a couple more incarnations, the possibilities are endless! Want to try some with bows, some with buttons and maybe a 'woodland' theme with cute little ladybirds or acorns. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: medium;">To my amazement, both girls like them.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> I expected my youngest girlie </span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></div>
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laurel budhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10359439737647600493noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1060453263501937504.post-8699020044348086762011-01-04T13:09:00.000+00:002018-04-05T12:12:25.418+01:00Does anyone actually Spring Clean in Spring?<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: "candara"; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;">Following a rather sickly and messy Christmas I particularly enjoyed my annual enthusiasm to start afresh in 2011 and have a Spring Clean before the New Year began. It’s something I always do towards the end of December each year, some years I make more of an effort than others and as far as December 2010 went, a minimal effort was made, but made nonetheless.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "candara"; font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">It’s quite amazing and also a little pathetic how much satisfaction I felt after cleaning out and rearranging my cutlery drawers. Finding once again the little gadgets and gizmos I’ve accumulated over the year, the clever little garnish widget from Lakeland rediscovered and now placed in full view in the top drawer because this year I really will use it!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "candara"; font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">I’m sure I’m not the only woman who has at least one drawer in her kitchen which seems to accumulate all manner of miscellaneous items through the year, and despite it clearly being a job I don’t do often (hence the two bottom drawers jamming by mid October) once I start to empty all the drawers and sift through the piles of bits I enjoy it. Little reminders of the nearly finished year are brought to mind; the mass of pink and blue candles from birthday cakes, the St George flags from the World Cup BBQ and the variety of seasonal cookie cutters I haven’t been able to resist from Valentine’s day, Easter, Halloween and of course yet more Christmas ones. All bringing back happy memories and making me smile.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "candara"; font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">Once done I whizzed each drawer open with ease and looked over my highly organised bits and bats all good to go for 2011, sadly I don’t think my better half or Mother felt as much excitement as I proudly displayed my work to them but I certainly felt upbeat, fresh and that a good start had been made.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "candara"; font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: #444444; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16pt;">With this renewed energy I thought a New Year was as good a time as any to start something new, a blog perhaps? Although a little embarrassed at being what seems the last person in the world to have a blog, I start. So Happy 2011 to anyone who may stubble across my ramblings and I hope your year has started well.</span></span></div>
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