The butter chicken last night was excellent. It is a Gordon Ramsey recipe and you can find it here http://www.channel4.com/food/recipes/chefs/gordon-ramsay/butter-chicken-recipe_p_1.html. I can thoroughly recommend it. But please note you need to start it around 4-5 hours in advance in order to let the chicken marinate.
Today was supposed to be a day to relax a bit, but I seem to have been busy all day. The first job has been to wash all the bedding, including the dogs’ bedding. Then I’ve been tending to Max. I checked his leg first thing this morning and tweezered & cut away some fur that had matted & dried into the wound. I’ve also sorted out how to give it a salt water bath, so that I can leave it in there for a few minutes. I’m using a 2 litre plastic drink container. I’ll get Chris to take a photo – poor Max has to stand there with his leg in it. Chris says it’s humiliating. But I noticed this afternoon that it’s nevertheless a bit weepy. I think it’s where he occasionally licks it, so I’ve put his buster collar on him.
The other thing I’ve been occupied with today is getting my blog on WordPress. So now it’s in 3 places: Bowienet, Blogspot and WordPress. The reason is that I’m planning to lapse my B’net subscription in April, and I’m not at all keen on Blogspot. Mind you, I’m struggling with WordPress. At the moment it won’t link to photos on Flickr (within the text of the blog). It will link to Photobucket though. And I can’t work out how to get links to other blogs (like Jez’s) on the side of the page. Otherwise it seems ok. I’m sure I can do a lot more with it, although first I need to understand it all. Most of it is a load of gobbledygook to me. Somehow I think I’m getting past it.
Chris took Jez out this morning, and she behaved well. I’ve taken her over Upton Heath this afternoon and she was good, although she did have an attempt at not coming to me when I wanted to get her lead on – until she went in the wrong direction and then had to come running to catch up with me, which gave me my chance.
Since I’ve come back in I’ve been getting dinner. I’m doing a Jamaican pot roast from the Levi Roots book. It’s a good meal for tonight as I can leave it cooking while I go and have a bath.
Well that’s the bath over with. Just waiting for Chris to finish now then I can cook us a Yorkshire pud each to go with the pot roast. Ok I know it doesn’t exactly fit with the Caribbean theme, but Chris loves Yorkshire pud with his beef & veg. Unfortunately, since getting out of the bath I’ve noticed that Max’s leg has been bleeding again – I think it must be where he was racing around playing with Jez.
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