The weather may remain hot. Indeed I’m sure it remains hot. But
we need a change from salad. Even as I write some beef is plopping away in a
mixture of stock & red wine, along with some onions & mushrooms, ready
to leap into some pastry when it’s tender & cooled. In other words we’re
having a Beef & Red Wine Pie for dinner tonight. My concession to the heat
is that the veg I’m serving with it are also going in the oven so there is only
one source of heat & that’s pretty well insulated. As for the spuds we’re
just going to have a few boiled new potatoes. They can cook while we’re outside
in the garden enjoying a pre-dinner glass of red wine. We feel we’ve just had
so many salads this year we want something other. Tomorrow will be a slow
cooked joint of venison. By Saturday we may well be ready for another salad.
When we came out of Morrisons supermarket yesterday we were
pleasantly surprised to see a bank of white clouds appearing in the direction
of Cumbria & the Lakes. Rain on its way? No such luck. Still the heat goes
on, but at least there is a bit of breeze to make it a bit more pleasant today &
stop it getting too airless.
We can’t help feeling sorry for the poor fireman still fighting
the moor fires on the Pennines. The thought of so much physical work, literally
beating the fires out, wearing breathing apparatus & protective clothing,
in the heat of both the sun & the fires is just too much. I can only admire
their grit & determination. And they reckon the fires will go on for at
least another week. It’s not helped with people deliberately starting copycat
fires around the area. I just can’t understand why anyone would want to do
that.
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