Pork cracklings !

[Jody]

Bad girl, Shoesy!


I have a feeling none of us will be attending this event in SC.

www.chitlinstrut.com


I am not a Chitlin' eater;
But a Chitlin' eater's son.
Someone else can eat de Chitlin's
'til de Chitlin' eater comes

[Anne]

Demarais, please put my name down for the Chittlin' Queen contest
Who wants to take part in the Hawg-Calling contest ;D ?

[iank9]

North Yorkshire Moors, Sat 3/11/07, Belly Pork with Crackling.



Went down well with a crisp New Zealand, Withers Hill, Sauvignon!

And a couple of views from the village:



Our "apartment" is to the left in the background!



The red boxes are a rarity now in the UK



The view from the front of our "apartment"



The Pub! And yes it was cold!



It wouldn't be a posting without a picture of the girls in an Autumn pose especially for Gittek!

[annettecinca]

Beautiful, Ian! If I lived close to such gorgeous countryside, I would be out in my RV every weekend too!

[Becky (Berkeleytravelers)]

What a lovely village! Thanks for posting these.

[Shoesy]

Ian - That village seems like a charming get-away, and your beautiful girls look so content to be in such picturesque surroundings. I'm only sorry I don't have anything nice to say about that meal you ate.

[GitteK]

to my very special friend, Ian:

I have learnt to mistrust all those cute English villages of yours .......... they are DANGEROUS ! I mean, have you EVER seen how many people they kill on a weekly basis in the English countryside ??

I am expert in these matters as I have watched almost all episodes of
"Inspector Morse"
"Barnaby - Midsomer Murders"
"Inspector Frost"
- and each time there are at least 3-4 Brits who get knocked over and sent away to the morgue in a zipperbag !!

And if those murderers can't handle it all, I am sure your pooches can always lend them a hand........ paw...........

ps. Have you SEEN the teeth on those woofers !!!
pps. Have you asked your insurance company for a discount on your homeinsurance ??

[Shoesy]

Gitte - Since you have seen the movie "Frantic", would you also say that Paris is a dangerous place?

[Jody]

Gitte, even though my DH and I love English villages..he always says exactly the same thing about the murders and mayhem on those series! Oh I miss my darling cantankerous Morse!!!

[GitteK]

demarais - a karma point is coming your way for your refined taste in detectives !
shoesy - what a stupid remark ! "Frantic" is just a movie, everyone knows that !

[geordy]

Those red phone boxes are now a rarity because, as Gitte referenced, they've all been shot to bits or blown up when some one was making a desparate phone call!!

But murders per capita...how about that charming Maine fishing village Angela Lansbury(Murder She Wrote) inhabited a few years ago! And really they should have stopped that woman from attending conferances!

That pub, and that lunch, look mighty fine to me!

[jsmla]

I was browsing OT trying to find out what karma is when I saw the word cracklings and I just had to read. My family is from the deeply rural part of the deepest, most southern part of the Deep South. My grandmother raised pigs and the guys butchered them. After the pig was cut up my grandmother threw the "extras" into a huge kettle and rendered the lard out of them. The brown crispy bits that rose to the top were what we called cracklings, only it was more like craacklins. She used them to season things, especially cornbread. My brother loved them but I couldn't get past the whole "ick" factor. They butchered chickens in the yard too. I can't believe I'm not a vegetarian.

Jennifer