Chicken wrapped in bacon with salad

What could be simpler.
Get some chicken breast, wrap it in bacon, but it in the oven covered in foil for 20 or 30 mins. Then add salad.
Reduced fat coleslaw, boiled new potato's, Swiss chard, iceberg lettuce, cucumber and tomato's.

I love it when a plan comes together.

Mead

Broardland Norfolk Mead 12.5%

I've never had mead so I'm not sure that this is a good example of it.

I'd like to describe the smell but I can't... ah heck I'll give it a dry.  The smell is unpleasantly pleasant and yes I know that that is a contradiction. It's like... It's like a compost heap full of blossoms and sugar!

The taste is of honey, a taste like pollen smells (if that makes any sense) and has a sherry like taste in there with a mild burn on the way to your stomach which fills me with a vague sense of doom.

That bee on the label looks like a wasp pretending to be a bee!
I knew that eventually they'd find a way to fool and subsequently kill all humans!!
I'm not suggesting that this stuff has been made as a hyper intelligent plot by the wasps to poison people.

Norfolk Nog - Ale

Drink name                  Drink makers                         Drink type             Drink strength
Norfolk Nog                Woodforde's                           Ale                         4.6%


Let me start by saying that at the moment this ale is my favourite all time ale... That may change but for now this is top of my list.

I tried a pulled pint from Woodforde's while in Great Yarmouth and loved it so much I found the brewery was near by and went there. I recommend you go. It has a nice pub attached and the gift shop is great.

Right, that out of the way, lets Begin.

This ale has a slight smell to it but nothing strong enough good or bad.
The colour is dark and the taste is rich yet refreshing with malt, hints of chocolate, liquorice and a very slight bitterness to finish.

The bottle label is nice too. Inviting and well representing what I saw of Norfolk.

The only down side is the live yeast in the bottle. Make sure you store standing up and leave the sediment in the bottle.



tasty rating
Good as a drink 10/10 Good as an ale 10/10
Can't put down factor 10/10
Good at getting you drunk 5/10
Bottle art 8/10
Rated = 86ish out of 100% because I can't count and I don't understand percentages.

Drink link

www.woodfordes.co.uk

rabbit pie

After looking at this recipe I decided this was the pie to try making!

Recipe link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/rabbitpie_89204

I freely admit that I bought a turnip and added it to the recipe and used veg stock and not chicken stock but apart from that I followed it perfectly... sort of... maybe.
Ok so I oven cooked the rabbit in water and I don't think that was what I was supposed to do but what the frak.

Here's the pictures of massacring .. I mean making the pie recipe.

By the way. It was nice but pulling all the flesh off of the rabbit legs has made me not want to ever eat rabbit again.

 sharpen all of your veg... in case of vampire attacks whilst cooking.

Citra - Beer

Drink name                  Drink makers                              Drink type             Drink strength
Citra                             Oakham Ales                              beer/Ale                 4.6%

To star with I like the bottle lables being used here. The Hopy character looks like someone gone wodwo.

The smell from the open bottle is of lychee which is a strong factor in the taste also.
Citrus hops and a dry finish make this one of the oddest ales I've tried.

It's good. I like it but it feels like something I couldn't drink a lot of.



tasty rating
Good as a drink 7/10 Good as an ale 9/10
Can't put down factor 09/10
Good at getting you drunk 5/10
Bottle art 8/10
Rated = 76ish out of 100% because I can't count and I don't understand percentages.
lol... wodwo

Drink link

www.oakhamales.com

Maple Gold - Ale

Drink name                  Drink makers                              Drink type             Drink strength
Maple gold                  Joseph Holt                                   Ale                        4.3

This drink is already promising a lot. A taste with a hint of maple? We'll see about that.

What a lovely colour. It certainly looks like syrup. It smells nice and sweet too with an element of crispness at the end.
The tastes of sweet hops and malt.

Dam. That does taste nice.

I like the label too. Good change in the colour balance if the image to match the drink.



tasty rating
Good as a drink 8/10 Good as an ale 9/10
Can't put down factor 08/10
Good at getting you drunk 4/10
Bottle art 8/10
Rated = 74ish out of 100% because I can't count and I don't understand percentages.

Drink Link

www.joseph-holt.com

Shut thi gob - Ale

Drink name                  Drink makers                              Drink type             Drink strength
Shut thi gob                 Barnsley Beer Company             Ale                         5.1% 



This is an odd ale with an odd name and an odd taste.
Not unpleasant, just unusual.

I've never herd of this brewery but they are from my neck of the woods... not really, they're about 2 hours away I think. I'm closer to Newcastle than I am to Barnsley!
But still.

The smell isn't great off this beer (reminiscent of a fart you'd be proud of doing in a friends car before getting out) but the taste has hops and a spiciness to it which is unusual enough that I can't put it down.

I think I like it but  don't know why!


tasty rating
Good as a drink 5/10 Good as an ale 8/10
Can't put down factor 09/10
Good at getting you drunk 5/10
Bottle art 8/10
Rated = 70ish out of 100% because I can't count and I don't understand percentages.
It's a puzzeler