What is in Kelvin's Head?

Mr Provost’s Finest Reindeer Receipt

26/12/2012

Roughly chop a leek, couple of slices of bacon and as many cloves of garlic as you dare.

Heat a frying pan to a sizzle and fling the leek, bacon and garlic in, closely followed by the reindeer steaks.

After five minutes turn the steaks over and scoop the leek/pig/garlic into another pan.

Heat this as far as you dare and tip in enough cheap gin to make you wonder whether this is a waste of good gin.

Throw in a handful of blueberries

Heat until kitchen is covered in fog reminiscent of the incense at midnight mass.

Remove from heat and gently stir in several good dollops of crÃ¨me fraÃ®che.

Rudolph steaks will now be ready having cooked for a further five minutes. Artfully plate them up and cover with the sauce that will now be advent coloured.

Serve with oven roasted potato, butternut squash, red pepper, courgette ensemble.

19 responses to “Back to work”

Kimberly

28/04/2007

I’ve been trying to get the last line of each verse to scan better in the absence of the ‘O’ (which is hidden in the vocative, but well hidden indeed since deus is an irregular vocative…)

perhaps,

care deus, cum ba ia — ?

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Zebadee

28/04/2007

Kimberley,

The time spent feeding you all those fudge doughnuts was certainly not wasted

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Moyra

28/04/2007

How did we get from Kum by Yah, or even Cum ba ia, to fudge doughnuts?

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Kimberly

28/04/2007

Moyra, you have to realise that fudge doughnuts are Zebadee’s equivalent of Mornington Crescent. With enough ingenuity, a link is always possible.

(It’s a St Andrews thing…)

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Moyra

28/04/2007

I understand….

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Sarah SSM

30/04/2007

I’m sure that there is something holy about fudge doughnuts. Holey, anyway. Come by here, my Lord, we have fudge doughnuts?

Unfortunately, I live in a convent not sufficiently hol(e)y to have them. Too bad. Nor do we have cum ba ia around a candle, but perhaps Compline counts? I’ll suggest to our Superior that we do cum ba ia for our Compline hymn Tuesday. I’m sure she’d be thrilled (Kimberly can comment on that, I’m sure, as they are acquainted).

I’m sure someone could come up with an appropriate analysis of cum ba ia from a hermeneutic related to fudge donuts and liberation theology…

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kelvin

02/05/2007

personally, I’m not sure that I have ever tasted a fudge doughnut. I’ m sure I have no idea what you are all talking about.

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Kimberly

02/05/2007

No, Kelvin. You have never bought a fudge doughnut. That’s not the same thing.

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Kelvin

02/05/2007

Ah.

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