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[Recipe] Stuffed turkey breast

Posted on November 10, 2009November 10, 2009 By admin

I tried this last weekend, as a practice run for our xmas roast.

Start with a 2.5 kg turkey breast from our local butcher and cut it open.

Stuff it with 500g of sausage meat and one envelope of Paxo stuffing.

Roll it and tie it back together and season with pepper and rosemary.

Top it with latticed bacon and give it a good glug of lemon-infused olive oil and leave it overnight in the fridge.

The following morning, put it in a roasting pan, add about an inch of water to the pan and put two large pats of butter on top of the roast to keep it moist while cooking.

Make a tent out of foil and place it over the turkey breast to hold in heat for even cooking. Remove it during the last hour of cooking for a nice golden brown colour.

Check the water level periodically and add more water if needed.

Cook in a pre-heated oven at 170oC

The typical turkey breast cooking times for thawed turkey breast in a conventional oven are:

* 2 to 3 pounds – 1.5 to 2 hours
* 4 to 6 pounds – 2.5 to 3 hours
* 7 to 8 pounds – 3 to 4 hours

Cook until the internal meat temperature is above 165oF and the juices run clear. (Took us about 2.5 hours in a fan-assisted oven)

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Enough cuteness to choke a horse

Posted on October 26, 2009 By admin

More pictures from the weekend.

I took the beastie for a walk on Saturday to give Katy a bit of quiet time at home so she could study. Beastie was just getting over the worst of his fever, so he zonked out as soon as we were mobile.

I just love the BenBen deathgrip he has on his bunny :)

When we got back home, the beastie went down for a nap and when I came back downstairs, I saw that Reen-pig had adopted the bunny for her own.

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A pictorial post

Posted on October 26, 2009October 26, 2009 By admin

The beastie was feeling a lot better yesterday (he’d been running a bit of a fever for the past few days) so we were able to go out and about for a while.

We went to Scottsdales to start buying some Christmas decorations. Yes, I know it’s still early, but we’ve made a deal to not put anything up until Guy Fawkes has passed, and the tree can’t go up until December. Besides, it’s fun and the beastie seems to really enjoy garden centre Christmas displays.

Which brings us to this.


Who the hell thought disembodied, shrunken Santa heads would make for good tree ornaments? I mean, wtf?!?? Just look at the eyes of the one in the first picture. Doesn’t it just say “please, kill me! I beseech you, let this torment end?”

Then, there was this.

Don’t get me wrong, I love Meerkats. I think that Aleksandr Orlov and Compare the Meerkats is one of the best publicity campaigns I’ve seen in a very long time. But what the hell do Meerkats have to do with Christmas???

But there is a happy ending.

The beastie, he is getting very excited about Christmas.

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Birdies!

Posted on October 20, 2009 By admin

From the John Lewis Christmas display.

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Again with the shopping

Posted on October 20, 2009 By admin

Katy and I were in Leicester this past weekend. Katy’s mom officiously retired (she officially retires at the end of this week but had some leave time coming) and she had a little leaving do for 40 or so of her co-workers. Seriously. Scary.

We went to Palmers to check out their Christmas display and I was finally able to buy a pair of Foo dogs for our backyard. HAPPY DANCE! It only took me 6 months to find some. Jaysus. They’re being ordered now and I should have them in a few weeks. Woot!

We did some Christmas recon work to try and find some ornaments that would be nice, yet still be able to survive two cats and a BenBen. We have some good candidates and when the time comes to decorate (and we have a bit of spare cash), we know where to go.

While we were out, we stumbled across this year’s hot fashion accessories. I give you the Elvis sunglasses with extra sideburns and the penguin earmuffs:


We also shopped for a new car seat for the Beastie and some winter coats for him. Right now, I’m looking for some thinsulate fingerless gloves with a mitten flap that will fit him. Does such a thing even exist?

Anybody?

Bueller?

Bueller?

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I call Bullshit!

Posted on September 10, 2009September 10, 2009 By admin

Last night, I, like 3 million other losers, stayed up late to watch the broadcast of Derren Brown’s latest stunt of “guessing” the lottery numbers before they were drawn by the National Lottery. We’d been talking about it all week – as expected from the massive hype generated by the publicity campaign. I was, in a word, unimpressed. I can think of three ways right off the bat how the stunt could have been pulled off.

If he’d said, plainly and without any jibba-jabba, I predict numbers X-Y-Z-A-B-C and that’s what came up from the draw, *then* I’d have been impressed. This BS of “we can’t legally show the numbers because BBC1 has the legal right to announce the numbers first” is just a flimsy excuse to buy time to make a grand revelation after the event. So yeah. I call bullshit and won’t watch the rest of the events.

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The end of an era

Posted on September 10, 2009September 10, 2009 By admin

Hail to the chief! It was Lennart’s last day at the office yesterday. Even though he’s only leaving next week for Belgium, he’s on holiday from today to use up the last of his leave time. It’s going to be weird without him at the office. I’m happy for him though – a full tenured professorship and senior lecturer and he’s only 33. That’s impressive, and it’s also an offer he couldn’t refuse. As a gag-ish gift, we bought him a tweed jacket and had leather patches sewn on the elbows, as now befitting to his stature ;) Getting people to sign the card was a nightmare though. Between holidays, sickness, conferences and general not-being-at-the-officeness, it was a cast iron PITA to get hold of people.

On a professional note, the office is going to be rudderless for the next 6 months – at least – until we can hire his replacement and that person comes in and gets a feel for things. I can only hope that it’s somebody with a decent head on their shoulders and that will fight for us, not against us. Said person will have mighty big shoes to fill. I have to say that we’re all a bit anxious about the state of things to come.

On a personal note, I’m saddened that a friend is leaving. I don’t have many of those in the UK and I’m going to miss him and his various zen koans and happy demeanour.

I shall take inspiration from his greatness :)

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I shall call him Victor

Posted on September 8, 2009 By admin

My staff association meeting this morning had moments where it was less than productive. In these moments, Victor was born.

Victor!

Admit it, he kicks ass.

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More stupid tattoo goodness

Posted on July 16, 2009July 16, 2009 By admin

As a follow up to this previous post, I give you more tattoo idiocy.

Canadian Lane Jensen made a radical move to have one of the most bizarre operations of the year — to insert silicone implants not in his chest, but in his leg.

before after
Before Now with chesty goodness

A devotee of body art already, Lane had a tattoo of a large busted lady on his shin. He felt the tattoo wasn’t entirely dramatic enough, so he had silicone implanted underneath the breasts on the tattooed woman to make the inkwork more effective in the right areas.

“I thought for sure I’d be light headed or sick from the visual but in fact, after 15 minutes I sat up and watched. Today it doesn’t feel any worse than a minor bruise. It looks great and accents the tattoo very well.” said Jensen.

“My leg breast implants are doing great 1 week after the implant was inserted. The one spot where the nipple rubs against my pants is a little sore. It’ll callus up and be fine soon.” he adds.

UPDATE:

The implants were put in on December 9, but by Christmas Eve the sutures had split, and large quantities of lymphatic fluid were oozing out of his leg, Lane told the Edmonton Sun. “There was so much fluid in there. I went back to the studio and pushed on it gently — the implant shot right out.” He says that there was nothing wrong with the implant procedure. “My body just rejected it. I guess my girl wasn’t meant to have 3D breasts.”

And, as a further treat, I present:


What your tattoo says about you

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This is why you always *think* before you get inked

Posted on June 23, 2009June 23, 2009 By admin 1 Comment on This is why you always *think* before you get inked

Girl with 56 stars tattooed on face admits she asked for them

A teenage girl who claimed 56 stars were tattooed on her on her face as she slept when she asked for three has admitted she was awake the whole time – and lied because her father was “furious”.

stupid girl

Kimberley Vlaminck had insisted she dozed off after asking the tattooist for just three small stars – then woke in horror to find her face was covered. The Belgian blamed the Flemish-speaking tattooist for not being able to understand her French and English instructions.

Amid a frenzy of media attention, she then pledged to sue the tattoo artist, Rouslan Toumaniantz, for the £9,000 she needed for laser surgery to have them removed.

She said after the tattooing last week: “It is terrible for me. I cannot go out on to the street. I look like a freak.”

But the 18-year-old has finally confessed she did not fall asleep, that she wanted all the stars and was “fully aware” of what Mr Toumaniantz was doing. Ms Vlaminck told a Dutch TV crew: “I asked for 56 stars and initially adored them. But when my father saw them, he was furious. So I said I fell asleep and the that the tattooist mad made a mistake.”

Mr Toumaniantz – himself covered from head to foot in tattoos and piercings – had consistently denied he had made a mistake and always insisted Vlaminck wanted all 56 stars. He said at the time: “I maintain that she absolutely agreed that I tattoo those 56 stars on the left side of her face.”

But despite insisting she had asked for 56 stars, he still initially agreed to pay for half of the treatment to remove the tattoos. He said: “Kimberley is unhappy and it is not my wish to have an unsatisfied client. I don’t regret it. To tell you the truth, this has given me some publicity.” Mr Toumanaintz is now said to have withdrawn his cash offer and said from now on he will get written consent from clients before he begins tattooing.


I’m sorry, but the girl is an idiot precious-snowflake-attention-whore. Remember kiddies, this is why you actually need to think about the consequences of getting tattooed and that it pays to reflect on what you’re actually getting inked onto yourself. I have ink. I do not regret it at all. I want more, and I think that the design that I want is starting to percolate towards a solid concept. Just remember this:

ganked from cracked.com

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