Burns Night

Now, who's going to give the toast 'to the lassies'?

I did suggest papaoscar join us, anno, but I don't think he thought I was serious !

Shall be thinking of you all tomorrow - - DH and I shall have our mini Burns night. I'll have a wee usquebaugh and DH might be bousing at the nappy!

A farmer in Banburyshire has revealed his plans for the first-ever English haggis breeding farm.

ninanco.com/2013/12/banburyshire-farmer-save-rare-breed-haggis/#comment-8917

And do follow the link on that page to the article on "The use
of ultrasonography in the reproductive management of this species."

Note - No haggii were harmed during this study. Hagglet 9 has been
rehomed to a little old lady in Plockton who has called him Hamish,
and he is living happily on a diet of hand-picked heather and Old Pulteney.

I've got mine and the swede. Looking forward to it.

Wish I could have come Elegran but it's a long way from North Aberdeenshire! Hope you all have a wonderful lunch-I shall think of you when I'm sitting down with MacSween's veggie option!

There is always next year . . .

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Oops....it's a date!

Well it was great. Good food and good company -in fact it's still going on! I had to leave at 4 so it was a looooong lunch! baubles addressed the haggis, marelli did the toast to the lassies and hostess Elegran toasted the immortal memory. Grans slaved in the kitchen to produce the haggis neeps and tatties. Fabulous puds courtesy of marmight and marelli. Sigh. Replete. Burp emoticon!

My thanks to all of you for coming, you made it a great day. The glasses have been washed and are drip-drying, the second load of dishes is in the dishwasher and I am sitting down at the computer to see what has been happening on Gransnet in my absence.

Thank you so much for having us, Elegran . It's so good to get together again with these lovely people! x

I have been with you all in spirit today, I knew you all would have a great time.

What a wonderful time you all had.So jealous of all these meet-ups, you all seem to get so much out of them. Keep them going for you all,such good memories being made.

Elegran, thank you once again for being so hospitable. A lovely day in great company.

I think that next year we should have a Burns lunch/supper south of the Border. Would someone please remind me when the time comes?

I was also with you in spirit, although the spirit was not whisky which I blushingly admit I dislike intensely. Pleased to hear that you all had a wonderful time. I haven't spotted any haggis (which I do like) grazing the green pastures of the South Island so I have foregone a Burn's Night celebration this year.

Thank you again from me too, elegran, for you wonderful hospitality. It was great to see people and chat.

We''ll hold you to that Anno Put it in the diary to start thinking about after next Christmas!

Interesting that this year's haggis was exceptionally tasty. MacSween don't make the haggis-shaped ones any more, they now sell tubular ones that look like giant sausages, so we had a chieftain . MacSween could lose their place as market leader at this rate (but it could just have been good because it was in the oven longer than it should have been)

Did Mr Bags enjoy his leftovers?

Lunch works well because everyone can get home at a reasonable time, and it can be less formal (don't think anything could be less formal than our efforts)

! And we even did a bit of picture-hanging, too!

The droopy bits are even more pronounced now. (wait for the replies to that)

Well.....it was that sort of afternoon.....!

Mr Bags hasn't eaten his leftovers as he's really under the weather with his cold. The leftovers will warm up nicely tomorrow and if he doesn't want them I shall enjoy them myself.

marmight, that pud was just sooooooper! I must make it. Is it really as simple as you said? Double cream, I presume? Any special natural yogurt or will anything do?
Just post the recipe in the recipes section, wouldya? [slurp]