Relaunch!

Hello everyone. You might have noticed I took a short break in between posts. About a year to be precise. That doesn't mean I stopped making and eating and thinking about food - far from it. But I felt things were getting repetitive - after all you can't eat something new every day which is what I thought a food blog was supposed to be. 

Clearly it's not, but even so I don't know how professional bloggers do it. Most of my time each day is taken up with wife, dogs, children, some time for me, errands, wife (yes I know she is in there twice .. love you honey!), stressing about piles of junk in the garage and not doing anything about it, planning things and then seeing the plans go awry at the last minute (case in point - I was going to mow the lawn today but as I sat down to write it began to pour down), travel, work ... and so on. Who has time after all that to research new recipes, visit new restaurants and supermarkets, revisit and rework old recipes - you don't just make something once and then cross it off the list. There is always some improvement you can make and I'd say you would try a dish at least a dozen times before you can safely say it's done. Then again, that may just be me, but I'd be very disappointed to find out that any of the sites I read engage in anything less than scrupulous testing and re-testing.

So, here we are looking ahead. I do have quite a few new things to write about: I have got a dry rub mix I really like for barbecues, as well as a very tasty sauce that goes well with ribs; I've been playing with pork belly a fair bit, and venturing out more into the world of desserts - not having a sweet tooth makes desserts drop all the way to the bottom of the list of interesting things to try. having said that, I found a chocolate cake that has turned out really well each time I tried it - courtesy of smitten kitchen. I've also been dipping into Gordon Ramsay's playbook from time to time and been very happy with the results.

What else? Well, we got a new dog, making three in total. His name is Charlie Brown, he is a chocolate brown toy poodle and he is 8 months old. I'll post one or two pictures of him later.

So until next time. 

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