In the past two days a couple of very mysterious incidents have occurred.
The first, like it does, concerns some seitan jerky I was in the process of making. I love Primal Strips and have been wanting to try and make my own jerky for a while. After all, I love them but hate the plastic involved. I set about fiddling around with a seitan recipe I use quite often now, slicing and then coating it in some homemade BBQ sauce (combine tomato puree, cider vinegar, crushed garlic, maple syrup, soya sauce, a few drops of chilli sauce and a few drops of hickory smoke) before baking it. Thirty minutes later I went to check it. Hmmm, it seems that our oven is so smoking hot that one whole slice of jerky had completely evaporated. Mystery number one.
Okay, so it really wasn't that much of a mystery when you live with a food loving Phil. I went to tell him about it, with a wry smile, to find him still chewing......innocently. The mystery was more how he had astrally projected himself past me at some point in the preceding minutes to nick some.
Well the jerky was ready anyway so I thought it was my turn to try it. Phil obviously requested another bit. Before we knew it.........well it was history. I told myself that the cooler it got, the crunchier it seemed to become anyway so best to eat it whilst it was fresh and experiment again with making some more soon. Taste wise, it was damn good. Texture wise, it needs more work if we weren't going to scoff the lot straight out of the oven.
Mystery number two occurred today. Again, like it does, it involves bats. Have you ever seen bats during the day? I'm not talking about dusk time but a clear, sunny day around 4pm. There were about 4 or 5 of them flying around quite happily for about 5 minutes or so in a quiet Cornish wooded valley in the back of beyond we happened to be tiptoeing around. Weird huh? I looked it up when I got home and it seems that it isn't unheard of. Mystery again solved but it was pretty amazing to see.
Oh I do like a good but trivial mystery to solve. I guess that is the Scooby Doo coming out in me?!
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