{"id":4307,"date":"2011-07-30T08:53:53","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T07:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/?p=4307"},"modified":"2012-03-29T14:37:38","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T13:37:38","slug":"ecky-thump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/2011\/07\/ecky-thump\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecky Thump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/P1070266.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px\" title=\"P1070266\" border=\"0\" alt=\"P1070266\" src=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/P1070266_thumb.jpg\" width=\"184\" height=\"244\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Now that\u2019s what I call a black pudding.&#160; A real great unwieldy thumper of a pud made by the butcher and just ready to be sliced and cooked.&#160; Hud me back.<\/p>\n<p>To be honest I can take it or leave it. Or so I&#160; thought until I slipped a morsel of the Stornaway black pud into my cynical chops. Dallying with being a veggy I knew the second that little beauty hit my tongue I was lost forever in black pudding heaven. <\/p>\n<p>The ingredients read like a Quatermass experiment. But who cares. The result of the magical mix is a true unmitigated mouth watering delight.<\/p>\n<p>The one you see above is not a Stornaway vintage but was handmade by Roddy Butcher \u2013 his name is Roddy but his surname is not Butcher \u2013 he is the butcher in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lochcarron.org.uk\/Food_and_Drink.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Strathcarron<\/a>. In fact to be more accurate he was. He has just retired and if I had the cash I would have a black pudding cast in silver and inscribed below with these words. Roddy Butcher. The Butcher. The King of Puddings. <\/p>\n<p>If you feel like experimenting here is a link to some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/lifeandstyle\/2010\/nov\/30\/stornoway-black-pudding-recipes\" target=\"_blank\">fabulous black pud recipes<\/a>. Just don\u2019t ask what\u2019s in the king of sausage shaped puds and all will be well.<\/p>\n<p>Vegetarianism in my next life.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that\u2019s what I call a black pudding.&#160; A real great unwieldy thumper of a pud made by the butcher and just ready to be&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,24,104,83,1161,77],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}