Poll Burns Night Doing anything special for the big night.

Risotto recipes often call for beef marrow.

Yeah, I used to be able to buy it - I think Campbell's made it at one time, but I haven't seen it for years, hence making my own.

I also haven't been able to find tinned apricots and yellow grapefruit juice. All there is is tinned peaches and pink grapefruit juice. Also can't find dried bananas. What is the world coming to??

This is the one I use. My Forking Life has really authentic recipes.

https://www.myforkinglife.com/jamaican-oxtails/

I think a mixture of Covid and the Ukraine war had caused certain shortfall, we've got bloody Bexit as well.

I had no trouble finding yellow grapefruit juice in Nicaragua or Colombia and they didn't have the pink stuff. That was pre-Covid. You know another thing my dad used to buy and I haven't been able to find? Hovis bread. Loved it. Does the UK still make it?

Hovis is a major bread brand. It's not just the wholemeal loaf any more, it's the whole lot.

I just might give this one a shot, I'll have to shop around for Oxtails or order them online. I won't tell the kids what their eating until after dinner then surprise them

Oxtail braised is a widespread traditional dish. In Italy it is known under the name "coda alla vaccinara", in Spain it's "rabo de toro".
In Germany it is a legendary classic dish from the old days, but now it is coming back into fashion.

I have a similar aversion to unripe "weet peppers", except for some the hotter capsica varietals. unripe jalopeno are great in sauces or tejano foods.
I dont get reflux, i get dizzy.

Yet I can chew and enjoy scotch bonnets.

The host of the PBS show,"A Taste of History", Walter Staub is a rather well known chef manager of a chain of 3 restaurants in SE Pa.
He has a running menu item of oxtails, in a beer sauce or Haitian style sauce used in jerked meants.

"Oor Wullie" is a popular comic strip in Scotland that's been going before WW2.




Recently Viz magazine has co-opted the strip to parody the royal family.