Black Pudding anyone?

If I didn't write things down my husband would come back with everything but what we needed. Funny enough when he went shopping he always spent more than when I was with him .

He was a bugger though. He went to the chemist get a packet of Always for me . The assistant wanted to wrap them up he asked why she said in case he was embarrassed. He walked out the chemist holding the packet in the air saying my wife's on her period. Nothing embarrassed him .

But everytime I went into hospital had to write down instructions what went into each wash and what setting on the washing machine.

Work wise he could remember jobs he did years ago but home life he relaxed and forgot simple things . But he was a wonderful husband and father .

flappergirl

Labradora

My late mother adored Black Puddings.
A gleam used to come into her eyes at the thought of pig's blood that she believed to be an ingredient of the pudding. Don't know if that's true or not.
I can't abide them.

Yes of course. It's famously made with pig's blood, mixed with various spices. France and Spain have their own versions too and they're all pig's blood based.

Thanks , Flappergirl. Good to know.😊

H Ha! love it.
I wouldn't eat balck pudding if you paid me though.

My Mum grew up in rural Ireland. She often reminisced about when her father would slaughter a pig to feed the family and she said nothing went to waste. Rashers and chops for the frying pan and joints of bacon to boil in a pot over the open fire. All served up with potatoes and cabbage from their veg field.

But her favourite was my grandmother stirring in oatmeal and spices into a bucket of the pig’s blood to make delicious black pudding. She told this to my daughter when she was a child and she felt 🤢

I always freeze it and get it out a few hours before I cook it for DH, it's always fine, if I forget to get it out , I give it a blast on defrost in the microwave for 1 minute and that always defrost it enough to cook it. DH likes white pudding too, which you can get sometimes in our local Morrison's or the butchers in a local garden centre.