I don’t know how I do it, honestly. Normally I eat crap because normally I can only afford crap, but here I am house-sitting chez gourmets, and I still managed to make myself a dinner burritto that smells like nothing so much as sweaty horses. Unless it’s the parings the farrier trims from their hooves; that, too. Charming.
Now, it’s reasonably certain that Lydia and her family haven’t stocked the fridge with horsemeat in anticipation of my house-sitting reign. I figure that stew-looking ingredient was a benign ratatoille but I could be mistaken; eggplant can be tricky. And you’d figure if the cold cuts were in reality Dobbin dogs, someone might have mentioned it, if for no other reason than that I’d then give them a wide berth.
If that’s not actually the case, and mine hosts are, in fact, caballaro cannibals, I will be forced to undertake a penitent pilgrimmage to Louisville Downs upon their return.
Secretariat, I am so, so sorry.
Still, nummy!
raincoaster 
Sorry you can`t cook R. You were so close to getting into the frame for next but one Mrs. N as well … I love cooking and. you should taste my…… about nine disgusting jokes have occurred to me . ….best not
Never mind , if you ever travel you are welcome at Chez Newmania to gnaw a bone . Thats just an expression R , better clear that up.
Have a good weekend .
Next time try this:
http://www.laterradipuglia.it/ing/Pezzettidicavallo.htm
Did you know that the image of the United States Cavalry was recently invoked in an apparently serious speech which helped persuade lawmakers to pass a law banning the overseas sale of horsemeat?
Just remember to exercise your rights on March 15th.
Yes, actually, I know one of the people behind the movement to ban the slaughter and sale of horses for meat. The loophole that now exists is that they can be sold to status American Indians who can then do whatever they like with them. There’s a rescue home outside Toronto where mustangs preserved from slaughter can go. And naturalists are thinking seriously about putting some in the Cariboo to replenish Canada’s wild horse population, as with the injections of draft blood over the past several generations, the horses are too large and heavy to be able to live off the range, and can starve.
Really? I had something slightly different in mind.
McSeabiscuit’s. Nice ring to it, eh?
Have you never read the Stainless Steel Rat series? McSwiney’s is way ahead of you.
Aren`t they sci fi books R , do you read such things , I`m impressed . Sadly i have consumed bucket loads of the stuff . In short story form especially I think the writing is really good . Have you ever seen the nebula collections ?
You mean the Nebula Award anthologies? Probably, but I don’t read much Sci Fi anymore.
Yes I do , and I have also given it up
I am going through a ghost story phase at the moment. Classic stuff, William Hope Hodgson and Oliver Onions and MR James and suchlike. We’ve had crappy weather and ghost stories, a soothing beverage and a warm fire are comforting.
If only I could afford the soothing beverage!
Throw another Liberal on the fire for me R …snap crackle and pop. Might try one of those , Mrs. N loves ghost stories and we recently visited Englands most haunted house .(Arguably)
What’s that, the Tony Blair What Might Have Been Memorial Hut?