Mackay is fresh from his meat course at The Ginger Pig, Butchers, on Thursday. He prepared himself a large (I think rib) roast while there. Kirsty and I are going round to visit himself and family tonight. Armed with a bottle of Musar 2000, we will eat much good beef.
Pleasingly, the 2000 Musar is lower in alcohol than the somewhat overcooked 1999; a pleasing 13.5%. rather than 14+. If the acidity is any good then maybe we’ll stash a few bottles.
My experiments with brining went very well indeed. The chicken came out incredibly juicy with crispish skin. In the future, I won’t be putting any veg in with the bird though. Last night’s leeks were getting a bit too scorched and that prevented me from torching the chicken skin to my preferred “El crispo” level. Still, the whole exercise was a valuable dry run for Christmas.
Now here is a question. Why is it impossible for the UK police to murder someone? Whatever the rights and vast amounts of wrongs were, they did actually aim to kill Jean Charles de Menezes. Is that not murder? Was John F. Kennedy “Removed” rather than assassinated?
You’ll have to excuse me now. I could shoot dead a cup of tea.
give your brined chicken a rub over with some duck fat and you will get the skin you're after.