Yes, tdracer, I think you're right. Coleslaw works well with BBQ'd food.

The Weber at Chateau Courtnage has been busy this Spring. My local butcher makes the best marinated brochettes, so I'm being a bit uncreative at the moment. But very happy. It means I can be composing and recording right up until cooking time. The only prep so far has been putting a few pommes de terre, the hottest spring onions I've ever had and some big red tomatoes.

My beloved has retrieved large Kangaroo steaks for Sunday.

No VB in stock however.

Kangaroo was great, last of stock for the moment but ...............

NOGO this weekend. Anywhere in NW Europe.

Langley ...

What's this I hear that a Funnel Cloud frequented Oxfordshire today ? I hope BEagle's 'Orb' hasn't been sucked up into oblivion :eek:

Orb functional check satis (very! :ok:) yesterday.

Nothing special - only Milady T and self - so a beer-can chook with some "spiralized" butternut squash (using Milady's latest toy .......) and corn on the cob.

Veggies done whilst chook was "resting", squash in a baking tray "indirect", while the corn did nicely on "direct" heat at the orb edges........ Yum!

Nope, CoffmanStarter, my trusty blackfellow hasn't been sucked into the heavens. But the recent thunderstorms have made it a bit of a guessing game here in British West Oxfordshire.

Waitrose, the rotten barstewards, have stopped selling Bratties :( . But I've tracked some down in the Oxford Tesco - a fearful place infested with lower orders from Blackbird Leys....

Still, the weather-guessers have alleged that it'll stay dry this afternoon, so there's a piece of pork fillet having a swim in some marinade for later....:ok:

Gas gays won't be concerned at this, but the latest sack of lumpwood charcoal I bought 'tother day seems to have a much higher calorific value than hitherto - I hadn't seen such a high reading on the blackfellow's thermometer as I saw on Monday evening!

BEagle ... BBQ Inter-Flight banter aside (for the moment :E) ... Very pleased to hear your equipment remained on the pan ... Clearly it was properly 'chocked' :ok:

But ... Obtaining provisions from a place called 'Tesco' ... I hope you went under the cover of darkness and wore a suitable disguise ;)

Wife's friend gave us a ~15 lb. frozen turkey recently. I really wasn't planning to, but it was taking up so much room in the freezer that I decided to smoke it last weekend.
Stuffed it with my favorite dressing recipe, then 8 hours in the smoker at about 230 deg F with plenty of hickory wood chips.
Ex-cellent :ok:
Problem is the wife doesn't each much turkey so I've got a lot of leftovers to deal with :}

Turkey curry?........

Our local germanic-owned price-efficient outlet does a very good range of bratties. The "lower orders" are offset by '16 plate Mercs and Range Rovers so it can't all be bad.

BTW, they also do mini-kegs of weiss at the moment.

If that's the L-place, I gather that there's one of those not far from here. I have to take a wrongly-delivered parcel to someone on that side of town (same address, wrong village) later today, so might risk taking a look on my way back..

And why is just about everything "spiralised" now - what will be the next fad?

There are two L-shops within range, and we have become fortnightly swoopers in the Stamford branch.

Decent quaffing red at prices unseen elsewhere for a year or two; bratties; Kanga, and a good range of "de Luxe" with black/white labels such as pates, bikkies for cheese .................

Boys toys on Thursdays, pre-advertised on internet.

And yes, definitely a two-type clientele, a weird sensation. If I go there straight from up a ladder or gardening in Compo mode, I belong.

If I go in jacket & tie with hat, I merge with t'other.

Makes no difference to the bill either.

Recommended.

Thanks, son of brommers, brattie hunt was successful!

Also a box of 6 different Belgian beers....:ok:

3 x BMW (although 2 were diseasel) plus one other Merc in the car park. As well as some Audis.

Quite a few tatty old Corsas and a few white vans though...:uhoh:

If you L shop does them I recommend the Toulouse sausages

I think I know what has b*ggered the UK weather.

My beloved and I re-laid an old patio area [she does the grafting, I supervise] and made a good level and ample area, with lovely old mellow brickwork as a backdrop. Facing SW, a sun trap.
New bistro set, and repainted old ones.
Moved umbrellas into position.
Had one swift BBQ.

and the rest is history.

Question is: what must we do to undo the offence caused to the sun-god? Sacrificing virgins in Lincolnshire easier said than done .............................

LB

Soon you'll have one even closer then!

'Flaming June' hasn't allowed the faithful blackfellow to perform much Weber magic of late.

The weather-guessers managed about 5 hours of suckers gap sunshine on Friday 17th, just enough to cut the rolling verdant acres around BEagle Towers, then a quick bath before an evening barbi' featuring Bratwurst mit Senf-Mayo und Bratkartoffeln.... Then came the rain again...and on Saturday, Sunday evening, Monday etc. etc.....

Back in the late '50s " 'tis they bombs" was the locals' opinion down Zumzett way when the weather turned bad. But we haven't had any atmospheric testing for ages now :confused:

Yes ... But some nutter in North Korea is playing with some Medium Range Rockets :uhoh:

You could just stop blathering on about a weatherman back in the the 60s/70s / 80s and get on with life :)