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My Sweetie is leaving me. She is going to Italy and will educate herself in classical mosaic making skills.

I will have the place to myself!

I can do things!. Things like invite a bunch of Terrorists to my house!

Drink beer and have a bonfire!

Make Haggis and hope someone besides me will eat it!

March the third!

Please, all of the folks who would like to come to Tacoma, please do so! Send me a PM and I will give you my address. It is a saturday, so anytime after ten A.M. will be great.

1 couch, plenty of floor, and a camper to sleep in if you wish.

Residential neighborhood with children and old folks, (even older than me!) and they all know who I am, so, just sayin!

Notice, I didn't specify just the PNW clade, no no, I don't want to be exclusive, we want folks from Kanada, DC, California, Texas and every other where there is.

So, there.

Oooh, man... wish to hell I could make it -- I loves me some haggis.

--Jaeger

You're taking this much better than I would.

Sisyphus wrote:You're taking this much better than I would.

i disagree...he must be hurting pretty hard to eat haggis...

Haggis? That sounds simply offal...

12ci wrote:

Sisyphus wrote:You're taking this much better than I would.

i disagree...he must be hurting pretty hard to eat haggis...

Nothing wrong with haggis. If you think a sheep's stomach stuffed with yummy goodness is bad, consider that when you have a sausages you're eating an animal's shit chute.

rolly wrote:consider that when you have a sausages you're eating an animal's shit chute.

I try not to.

Oh, I SO wish I could do that!

If you substitute goat stomach, is it still Haggis?

Well,

I give myself permision to make it however I want.

I prefer beef to sheep, and I can't find any kind of casing bigger than a bratwurst.

So, the ingredients will be beef liver, kidney, heart, & shank w/onion,steel cut oats & spices wrapped in cheesecloth instead of intestines. It's still sausage, "The king of the puddin' race!"

So, not original, however it is a dish prepared all over the world in different ways with different ingredients.

The Scots don't have a patent on the idea!

piccini9 wrote:Haggis? That sounds simply offal...

Boo! (I LOL'd)

Pint, I'm a bit Scot, and as such I am required to eat haggis at some point. I think. And toss a caber, but that has already been accomplished in dim light and with fast internet connection.

So fly me out and back from MHT or BOS, and I'll help out best I can. With the haggis, not the caber.

Well,

The Sweetie didn't go. She got sick instead. Had been suffering w/a low grade sinus infection, and wanted to be up to snuff (heh heh!) for the trip, so her P.A. gave her an antibiotic. Well, this time, the antibiotic did the BAD antibiotic thing. Killed off all the good biotics as well as the bad. Visited the P.A.'s office, the Emergency room, Got admitted to the hospital for a few days, got out and has generally been feeling quite poorly. She's doing better now, and will re-schedule the trip soon.

I DID make the haggis, though! Without a stomach casing, I tried cheesecloth, didn't work. I tried using a steamer, didn't work. Those attempts just washed away all the spices.

Got some boiling bags, stuffed the haggis in, used a seal-a-meal thingy and boiled it for 3 or so hours. MMMMMMMM!!!!

The meat got soft, the pinhead oats swelled up, and the spices and onion permeated without being able to escape because of the airtight cooking container.

It was good. I've had haggis once at a restaurant,(from a can I think) and once out of a can.

This was a lot better!

Hope to share sometime, but it looks like Jaeger and Zim are the only brave ones!

Canned Haggis. If I ever have a band, that will be the name of it.
Personally, I think going to europe to study mosaic making is a much better idea than going to the hospital.
Tell her to try again, and get it right this time.

I've had both tinned and "fresh" -- the latter is obviously better.

I confess, I actually smuggled back two haggises (hagi?) my first time in England. I asked the butcher "how long will these keep unrefrigerated?" Answer: "Oh, a week or so."
"Oh, I suppose a 6-hour flight is no problem then, eh?"
[Laughing] "Oooh no."

--Jaeger

Last time I had Haggis was on a little ferry to Castleby on the Isle of Barra in the Outer Hebrides back in the 70's. I remember liking it. I also remember pretty much everyone i ever told saying i shouldn't have... <g>

I should prbably let Stiles tell his own story, but since he hasn't chimed in:

When we were in grade school, his parents decided to take a family trip to the ancestral homeland (Scotland) and visit the distant cousins. After the trip, he told me that on about the sixth day, his dad noted with surprise that Stiles seemed to have fallen in love with haggis.

"Not really," he replied to his father.

"But, you've ordered haggis at every meal for two days."

"That's just because no matter whether I order baked chicken, meatloaf, green beans or a hamburger, everything the Scots cook tastes just like haggis, so I figured I might as well order the haggis and be done with it."

His dad was less than happy.

Well damn... this is the first time in my life I can say that haggis sounds pretty good right now.