Recent Mars Images (Marvin the Martian throws down the kaboom in a guest zot)

[mcshot]

NAH Just the success of “Muslim outreach” The only thing I can figure is that it means they will be lying about all things ET.

[Monkey Face]

Check your text messages...

[moose07]

450g white breadcrumbs 350g golden caster sugar 225g vegetarian suet 100g self-raising flour 50g almonds, roughly chopped 225g currants 225g sultanas 225g raisins 175g mixed peel 1 tsp each mixed spice, ground ginger and grated nutmeg 2 tsp bicarbonate of soda 2 eggs 2 tbsp treacle zest and juice 1 lemon zest and juice 1 orange
1.Place all the ingredients, except the eggs, treacle and lemon and orange juice, into your largest bowl with 1 tsp salt, then mix. Add the remaining ingredients along with 700ml water, then mix to a consistency that drops off your spoon. Cover and leave in a cool place overnight. The mixture will become firm.
2.The next day, add enough water to bring the mix back to a dropping consistency, then spoon into greased pudding basins – we used a 2 litre and a 1 litre. Cover with pleated greaseproof paper and foil, and secure with string.
3.Lower the puddings into a saucepan with upturned saucers or scrunched-up bits of foil in the bottom (so the puds don’t touch the bottom), then fill with boiling water from the kettle until it comes halfway up the sides of the bowl. Simmer the smaller pudding for 2-2½ hrs and the larger one for 3-3½ hrs. Cool, wrap well in foil and chill for up to 3 days.
Or: this is more traditional,and heavier.

[Monkey Face]

I like the traditional pudding!

[moose07]

Oh yeah, yummy.
Forgot to mention the ....points heavy....brandy cream that goes with it.
Roll on Christmas, literally. :)

[stephenjohnbanker]

” It’s probably like writing a whole book without using the letter “e”. “

(E)xactly!

[stephenjohnbanker]

Merry Christmas to all of you UT characters!

[Monkey Face]

Once a year? Who cares? LOL!

[moose07]

Merry Christmas to you and yours, Stephen.

[moose07]

Nom ,nom, nom,
I can see Christmas from here.

[ArGee]

I’ll add my Merry Christmas, and may those who celebrate the birth of The Christ Child at this time of year, may that be merry as well.

[moose07]

Odd statement, ArGee..?

[Tax-chick]

I’ll bet you could crack someone’s skull with that!

[moose07]

At 1600 fps it would pass through 8feet of reinforced concrete.
I believe the recipe comes from the tudor era, sure i heard that somewhere.

[ArGee]

Here in the States Christmas is mostly a secular holiday. It’s not necessarily a given that those who like trees and tinsel and giving gifts and a fat man in a red suit know who Jesus is.

[NoCmpromiz]

Well...

Merry Christmas mcshot.

I see you have stumbled into the undead thread. Make yourself at home.

But be wary of the lower levels...

[moose07]

Thought it could be something like that. :)
The ‘religious exposure’ in public areas is greater this year than I’ve seen it in years.

[NoCmpromiz]

Black pudding... Watching people on vacation try that for the first time is always entertaining.

Before or after you tell them what's in it?

Black pudding is something like scrapple in the wilds of Pennsylvania... If you have to ask what's in it you probably don't really want to know...

;-)

But when they finally figure out how to get the 'oink' into the mix they will have succeeded in utilizing the entire pig.

[moose07]

A Zimbabwean friend of mine, !Xosa, introduced us to fried pig snout.
Porky Scratching has nothing on it.

[moose07]

The Oink doesn’t cook to well.