We just watched Diary of the Dead and despite the woeful acting and the fact that I’ve seen it all before a dozen times, it frightened the living poop out of me. I screamed, like, three times. I find I either let myself get totally immersed and scream, or be all standoffish – the immersed version is infinitely more fun (even if my throat is a little sore now). We watched Cloverfield the other night and it worked for me too (better than tonight’s actually) – I didn’t know what it was when I sat down to watch it, I actually thought it was just a regular End Of The World blockbuster thing, little did I know! Oh, and speaking of ‘little did he know’, I loved Stranger Than Fiction, but then I’m just a complete sucker for Will Ferrell no matter what he does.

Tonight I made white pudding – vegan style! oats, pearl barley, minced onion, textured soy protein, seasonings and unfortunately, I had to resort to using the wheat gluten Gord sent me a few months back. I say unfortunately because although it was fun to use it (and the results are fabulous), I can’t become too dependant on it in my cooking – no point having an Irish food blog that tells people to use liquid smoke and vital wheat gluten all the time when you can only get them if you have a mate from across the pond who’s willing to post them to you! Anyway, it turned out delicious, not exactly as firm as pudding, but savoury and moreish and really moist – that’s what got me so excited about it. I’ve made fake pork stuff before, burgers etc. but getting the moistness right is so important, and I totally nailed it tonight. I have a rough recipe for it written up, but I need to test it again because there was a lot of letting stuff sit about while I tried to find the Marmite and helped Benny make a batch of oat milk. The verdict on oat milk? Very tasty as a drink, probably on cereal too, kinda pointless in Irish tea. Potentially excellent in baking though, nicely thick and a kind of gel like texture (= moisture!).

Anyway, I know, why isn’t this all up at the new blog. Have to make a header. Have to make a plan, at least a rough one. Must do it very soon.

Still no sign of the shit brickhouse (the brick oven) yet. It’s status is shipped anyway, but only as of yesterday apparently. Le sigh.

Okay, I’m going to have to go, I’m as jumpy as hell after that movie and I need to go check all the doors are locked, lol…. *eyes dart nervously*