Lunch
I lay the final pleacher at midday bringing a close to hedge laying for another season. In total we laid 248 m of hedge in seven days and that feels like quite an achievement. As in the final day tradition, we cooked our lunch over the fire. Last year it was jacket potatoes topped with beans and Stilton with roast duck on the side. This time C provided pitta breads stuffed with home cured ham and cheddar. The heat from the fire was intense and it was a struggle to get close enough to the grid to flip the Panini's with a billhook but they didn't burn too badly and were absolutely gorgeous. It was a perfect day for pictures, with blue skies and bright sunlight and today's blog is devoted to some of those images.
Dinner
French sausage cooked with beans in a tomato and herb sauce with jacket potatoes.
Last time we made sausages I experimented with a French recipe for garlic and cumin sausage. Continental sausages differ from our own because they don't contain rusk and this lends them far better to being boiled. The improvised dish was very successful, rather like a simplified cassoulet and the sausage certainly gave it an edge of authenticity.
Smoke over finished hedge
104m of laid hedge in perspective
Wood chip left after stake sharpening
Handy Spatula
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