Jigg's Dinner !

Well HI

Long time, no POSTIES Life is bizzy, innit ? Altho I find THAT a strange thing to TYPE as, now that I am employed, I am posting a blog entry, huh, WEIRD.

AnyWAYS, I find meself in the company of a Large Man from Newfoundland @ work, and we've

been yippin awhile aboot allthings Newfie, this coupled with Jane's gift of a Downhomer Almanac a few years ago and ahm ready to try a JIGG'S DINNER...

Oh boy, sure had a BALL with the kids and their inevitable question of Whats for Sups ? And being able to answer BEEF BELLYBUTTONS is PRICELESS I say !

FIRST, to secure a pail of Beef navels, ENSURE they are packed in St Johns bye says me new Chum, so I do, altho I wonder HOW they can charge almost $20 for a bucket of seeming YUCK, beef spineshanks I figure, and am told that STRONGER MEN THAN I STEEL THEMSELVES with a shot of the brine these baybees are bobbing in. Not today, Keith, oh no. Praps enough SCREECH and I may be persuaded....

I've spared u the AUTOPSY shot of pail contents in favor of a couple of chunks enjoying FRESH water tactics. MUCH prettier picture methinks, scritch that, KNOWS

So, here I post the recipe, lifted DIRECTLY from Pg 258 of the Downhomer :

2.5lbs Salt Beef

1/4lb Junk Salt Pork

350g Split Peas

3.5lbs Potatoes

1/2lb Carrots

1 Turnip

1 Cabbage

Cover salt beef with cold water and soak overnig

ht. Drain and add fresh cold water, salt pork and puddin bag loaded with split peas. Bring to a BOIL, reduce heat and simmer for 2-3hrs. Add veg about 1/2hr before you'd like to EAT. Serves 4-6

SIMPLE eh ? I changed the water out about three times the nite before, had no JUNK SALT PORK so I used a 1/4lb of slab bacon from The Mad Butcher. And, forgive me, my newfie brudders and sisters, couldn't HELP but add a bay leaf or three and a couple of heads of garlic split in harf.

HOURS passed, it started to smell CURIOUS, th

en INTERESTING then DELICIOUSO ! I was getting quite RAVENOUS at this point I must tell youse. Keith said his fam eats Jigg's with a Roast Chook, so roast a chook I did. Jane said hers enjoys it with Fish n Brewis, but, alas, I am out of salt cod ( and thusly, an excuse to GET MORE and writ a BLOG about it too ! )

Chucked ALL the veg in and WAITED SOME MORE, had a few more tins o beer, Dale, Claudia and the kids were joining us for sups, they brought some fine Newcastle Brown, eee-yummy. he and I bilt 2 batches of beer around New Years, one of them being a BROWN ALE and the other a RED LAGER, they've been in secondary fermenter for about 3wks now, stay tuned for bottling shenanigans. Mmmmm, beer. Where was I ? Oh yeah, final producto :

Scrumptious I say, SALT MEAT SWEATS gooder, I ate four bowls...urp.