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The love of my life celebrated his birthday yesterday, so nice to have it on a sunday. I must say he's looking good. He still has most of his own teeth, walks well, nice and straight. Really nice wavy silver grey hair and the kindest eyes. All things considered I chose well.
Samantha and Sion and their families came to lunch, Timothy and his ladies were away for the weekend. Some time back an old family friend gave us a piece of venison (I didn't ask what) from her area in the Free State. Vegetarians, I'm sorry. So, the meat cooked for 5 hours at 170 in the oven on saturday and on sunday I put it into an onion and mushroom sauce, with a handful of raisins, left it to warm in the slow cooker and it was really good. I roasted a big fat chicken and cooked loads of vegetables. Dessert was chocolate and caramel mousse with two colours of jelly and apple cake. Basically we were pigs.
A while back I had a conversation with a customer who sells venison, mostly to the trade but he had asked if I wanted to buy from him. Seeing the look on my face he said "I suppose you're one of those people who don't want to eat Bambi" I agreed wholeheartedly and so he went on to make some quite valid points.
The meat that he sells is born naturally, lives completely free range and is killed humanely, unlike some other commercial meats. I have to say he made his point well. I didn't buy from him but his arguement still holds so I didn't feel bad eating the meat yesterday.
Even so, for me the best part of the meal was the gem squash, the carrots, the roast potatoes, the roasted butternut with just a hint of chilli sauce and the peas. Vegies do indeed rule.