Gulp...

[davidgillon]

My plan for this week to ring my gastro consultant's secretary to find out what's going on with my gall bladder op date (they initially said 6 weeks in mid-December...) and how much notice I'll get to plan around it just got short-circuited. She just rang and asked if I can do the 29th - so I guess the answer is about 8 days... Gulp.

Annoyingly that puts it just before my favourite weekend of the year, so I guess this means a very low-energy participation in Sweeps Festival this year, if at all.

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[davidgillon]

Dairy?!? Goes to check out the link.

Hmm, that's not quite what most Brits call a bacon roll, though doubtless yummy*. Roll in this case just means a bread roll (or bap, bun or half a dozen other regional variations in naming), sliced open, maybe lightly toasted on the grill while the bacon cooks, stick a couple of rashers of bacon in the bun, then add liberal amounts of ketchup. Basically the bacon equivalent of a burger**. This article goes completely over the top on the subject (though I don't know where the author's living that she has difficulty finding bread rolls in a bakers, or any other food shop for that matter)

*It seems like we'll wrap bacon around most things, including the Christmas turkey, but pigs in blankets, small sausages wrapped in bacon, are probably the most common as a party food. The cheese one in your link is probably a spin-off from Devils on Horseback, leaving the prune out.

** My personal variation is to lightly toast a pitta, while briefly pinging a rasher or two in the microwave (crispy bacon is anathema), slit the side of the pitta, slide in the bacon, maybe spoon in some mustard, then squeeze in a whole lot of ketchup. Nom (and great minimum prep spoonie food).