HEAD BLOG

It has been a lazy weekend for me. After the excitement and travel of last week I found my creativity needed washing and ironing, leaving me naked for a couple of days. And cooking whilst naked, creatively or otherwise, is never a good idea. So I fished around for an easy recipe and found it on The British Larder.

Rarely a day goes by when I don’t take a good look at this site. That and the excellent Food Pornographer’s. Daily Internet use for me is a scramble to read news, design blogs, game news and advertising journals. It’s not easy cramming all of this into an already overloaded day but even so, I do try to squeeze in a little food viewing. It’s one of the ways I relax each evening without resorting to the TV so neglecting that would be like quitting reading or hiking through the Lake District.

When it came to cooking this eye wateringly good dish, however, I couldn’t get it all and so had to improvise a little. Cauliflower was substituted for parnsips and I’m afraid I had to resort to plain old beef rather than venison. And what’s that about only TWO meatballs? Pah!

Despite my tinkering the meal was still a success and one that will be going into the scrap book for repeated cooking. I will get the venison in next time; although I hear it’s a little deer.