AFTER breakfast I get the smoker going for tonight’s pork belly. Our pal’s Davie and Jane are coming for the night.
I also make a batch of Japanese BBQ sauce – we’ll have the pork belly win rice bowls with green beans as Jane is celiac and can’t eat gluten/wheat. Making the sauce I realise that there’s soy sauce in it which has wheat extract, so after the main batch I make a smaller amount of the same but using liquid aminos instead of soy sauce.
Mid-afternoon we’re all tidied and ready when they arrive. We chat over tea and coffee while the wind and rain howl outside. Later on the rain stops and things brighten enough to take our guests a wader up the lochside. It’s still really windy tho’!
Back home we chat and stuff until the pork is ready then I prepare dinner.
We have a grand night of food, drinks and chat – Davie is one of my long-time online guitar students (they’re based down in the borders) and Jane’s into a lot of outdoor stuff so there’s plenty to talk about.
