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I bought a whole hogget (slightly older lamb) from a farmer friend of @RokDok's last weekend. Knowing that I had asked for lamb's kidney's, the farmer decided that I must like all other offal too. So...he gave me a bag full of lamb's hearts and a couple of lamb's livers. Aaargh. I am squeamish about hearts and much prefer calf's liver to any other liver but I did not want to waste any of the meat I had been given. What to do? Yeah, I know, take the highest risk option and feed it to 20 of my best friends, that's what! The organs were very clean and tidy so I just had to cut off the hard bits of fat and arteries at the top of the hearts, cut them open and clean out the blood before mincing them with a bit of breast meat to introduce some fat. I know, at this stage you are probably shouting, "that looks like what I feed to my dog" but have faith, things get better. I had gone for a Turkish theme so the minced heart meat was mixed with herbs and onion and formed into kofte kebabs. Easier said than done, keeping the damp meat on the skewers even after chilling them in the dry ager. It would have been helpful to grill them using a fish basket but I didn't have one, so they were grilled on a hot plate in the 23 and @RokDok did a sterling job of keeping most of them from crumbling. On to the liver. I sliced it thinly, soaked it in milk and then, just before deep frying, Mrs Rokdok dredged the pieces in a delicious spiced flour. The lamb shoulders (my saving grace if the guests revolted) were cooked for 8 hours at 130C in the 32. The good news is that lamb three ways was a roaring success, even though lamb's liver and heart were new to many, including me!

I agree with you. No fighting just end to end hockey, only 1 penalty, not a lot of off sides. It couldn't have been better.

I Stayed up to watch this game, it was a wonderful experience, best hockey you'd ever see. It's our game.

Belated update. Watching the SuperBowl in an Italian bar was indeed good fun. Our Italian friends were surprised by how much they liked buffalo wings and blue cheese sauce. I had to admit to having used a French cheese, Roquefort, to make the blue cheese sauce but they liked it all the same. The best compliment was seeing the, normally very critical and conservative, bar owner mop up some of the sauce with a piece of bread. And I enjoyed the result of the game too!

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I was just about to post that notification as well. I'm happy for their retirement, but it sucks for us BBQ'ers, as they were a great source for smoking woods. Anyone got a "Plan B?"

Super Bowl means WINGS! Half with dry rub (Hot Wing Rub) and half marinated in Jamaican jerk sauce.

Congratulations to the Eagles fans here. They were the much better team yesterday.

Fly Eagles Fly !!!!!

I ordered some peach wood today. Not surprisingly, it seemed several of their other woods were out of stock.

We jinxed them, just got an email they are closing 4/15 🤬