After nine years of chasing my tail, the day of reckoning is upon us all, no matter which way you lean.
If there is a politician (that is not a gelding or the female equivalent) who will stop my mates and me from being driven crazy by this fireworks bollocks and just ban the bloody things, they would get my vote. What kind of people celebrate some blithering Pom trying to blow up their House of Parliament?
If it was ours I could understand, actually more than understand, lately I could have done it myself.
This is the man who should run the country, my mate Johnny. At least I would get supplied with plenty of food. Get in and see him this week.
Roast Cranberry Turkey
Serves 8-10
Ingredients
3.5kg turkey
2-3 Tbsp oils
4 cloves garlic, peeled and sliced
2 onions, peeled and quartered
6 rashers streaky bacon, trimmed roughly and chopped
2 oranges
1 cup roughly chopped toasted Brazil nuts
2 Tbsp chopped fresh thyme
300g bottle cranberry sauce
10-12 rashers streaky bacon to cover breast
Method
1 Defrost the turkey according to the directions on the bag.
2 Heat the oil in a frying pan and cook the garlic, onion and bacon until lightly browned and softened. Cover and cool.
3 Grate the rind from the orange peel. Cut away the pith and then segment the orange.
4 In a bowl mix together the garlic, onions, bacon, orange rind and orange segments, nuts, thyme and 1 cup of the cranberry sauce.
5 Fill the cavity of the turkey with the filling and tie the legs together to secure the filling.
6. Glaze the turkey breasts only with a little warmed cranberry sauce and cover the breast with bacon rashers.
Cranberry Gravy
Stir 1½ cups of light turkey or chicken gravy with ½ cup cranberry sauce and simmer 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
Cranberry Mayonnaise
Mix 1 cup of your favourite mayonnaise with ½ cup cranberry sauce.
Ab Fab
30ml vodka
60 ml cranberry juice
Sparkling wine
Strawberry
Pour vodka and cranberry juice into a champagne flute. Top up glass with sparkling wine and garnish with a strawberry.
Well that's it from me, but if you are concerned about the state of our great country get of your butts and do something about it.