Balls and Walnuts
more than you ever wanted to know
Drawing inspiration from just about anywhere
Yeah, not often I find a new recipe playing Facebook Scrabble (oh, they don’t call it Scrabble, but are there really any differences?) But when it occurred to me to check whether I could add a E to BARD to create BARDE, thinking perhaps it would be an alternate spelling, the game said yeah, go crazy guy. So then I wondered, is BARDE just an alternate spelling for BARD, or is it something else?
Yes, it’s an alternate spelling. But it’s also:
bard or barde 2 (bÉ‘Ëd)
— n
1. a piece of larding bacon or pork fat placed on game or lean meat during roasting to prevent drying out
And it so happened I was roasting a chicken at the time. So I quickly cut a few bacon strips in half and decorated the top of my chicken with them. This was about 3/4 through the roasting process; I always start with the bird breast-down, do her ’til she’s toasty, then flip her over and finish her breast up. And then I make dinner, yuk yuk yuk.
Karen and Jake both liked the end result, and they finished all the bacon, too. Which just goes to show, (as we all knew) everything is better with bacon.
D.
Everything, indeed.
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And then there’s this (from Jake):
and, apropos of nothing, this:
Seriously, hamster — eat a whole human, and it’s the eye you can’t digest?