We had an awesome day, kicking around the house, cooking, and doing our thing. We watched John Wicks 1 in the afternoon and The Man from U.N.C.L.E in the evening. Both great movies which we've seen more than once before.
We prepped our lamb shoulder for dinner after a rather late brekkie. Andy did the spiced tandoori marinade before going out into the freezing cold to fix the cave door which had a bent hinge. He came back in, he was freezing but it was fixed. At least he came into a cosy house because he lights the fire first thing.
While he was fixing the door I scored our gorgeous fridge dried lamb shoulder (there's so much extra flavour keeping something in the fridge uncovered for a few days with a little salt) and slathered on the tandoori marinade. We knocked up sauteed onion and parboiled potatoes in butter with toasted cumin seeds and cooked them off until crispy and delicous. I made a simple fresh mango chutney with lime zest, lime juice, fresh green chilli and toasted cocoanut. We knocked up a simple salad, steamed basmati rice, made a riata and in the final 2 hours of that lamb cooking added sliced onion to cook in its fatty tandoori juices before grilling it off. Charred flatbreads finished off the meal.
We decided to ditch an entree. There was enough food.
We took the whole thing down to the cave. It had been snowing most of the afternoon and it was incredibly pretty.
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