Vegetarians look away now!
After the high winds/gales of yesterday today seemed a perfect day for a backyard cookout.
I had popped out yesterday to pick up a joint of beef from our local butchers (remember everyone shop local!) and brought it home and seasoned it with some Cajun spice. I then left it resting in the fridge for 24 hours.
After a morning's gardening, sorting out sweetcorn, brassicas, and six different varieties of tomatoes it was time to send out the Bat Signal and request assistance from my partner-in-crime; my big brother.
Whilst Bruv was sorting out the fire I set to prepping the beef in the Dutch oven - a few onions and some Hobgoblin Beer. It was at this point I realised that the joint I had bought was too big for the pot. So a quick bit of butchery and I had a nice sized joint in the Dutch oven and one in the freezer for next week.
By now the senior partner had a good fire going so we got the tripod ready and also the charcoal starter so that we had some coals well under way to put on top of the oven.
Once everything was set we hooked the oven up on the tripod and placed the coals on top
, and then sat back in the sun for half an hour with a cold beer - it's a hard life sometimes isn't it? As we sat there chatting and drinking the smell of the beef was wafting up to us tantalisingly and getting the saliva glands on overdrive.
After 30 minutes we added the jacket potatoes to the glowing embers and let them rest there for an hour, turning them occasionally, whilst the beef finished cooking. We now had the smell of the potatoes assailing us as well.
With some corn on the cob bubbling away on the stove dinner was ready.
Happy eating y'all!
I had popped out yesterday to pick up a joint of beef from our local butchers (remember everyone shop local!) and brought it home and seasoned it with some Cajun spice. I then left it resting in the fridge for 24 hours.
After a morning's gardening, sorting out sweetcorn, brassicas, and six different varieties of tomatoes it was time to send out the Bat Signal and request assistance from my partner-in-crime; my big brother.
Whilst Bruv was sorting out the fire I set to prepping the beef in the Dutch oven - a few onions and some Hobgoblin Beer. It was at this point I realised that the joint I had bought was too big for the pot. So a quick bit of butchery and I had a nice sized joint in the Dutch oven and one in the freezer for next week.
By now the senior partner had a good fire going so we got the tripod ready and also the charcoal starter so that we had some coals well under way to put on top of the oven.
Once everything was set we hooked the oven up on the tripod and placed the coals on top
After 30 minutes we added the jacket potatoes to the glowing embers and let them rest there for an hour, turning them occasionally, whilst the beef finished cooking. We now had the smell of the potatoes assailing us as well.
With some corn on the cob bubbling away on the stove dinner was ready.
Happy eating y'all!
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