{"id":202,"date":"2016-01-24T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/01\/24\/burns-night-comes-early-in-wales\/"},"modified":"2023-12-18T12:40:42","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T12:40:42","slug":"burns-night-comes-early-in-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/burns-night-comes-early-in-wales\/","title":{"rendered":"Burns Night comes early in Wales."},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-4ZqU9BBeJkc\/VqTM9rczowI\/AAAAAAAAhXs\/Dgg5r8zLOWs\/s1600\/haggis01.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-4ZqU9BBeJkc\/VqTM9rczowI\/AAAAAAAAhXs\/Dgg5r8zLOWs\/s200\/haggis01.jpg\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-qr4GA4EPGsE\/VqTM9gP_gNI\/AAAAAAAAhXw\/U8s4GJchyjg\/s1600\/haggis02.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-qr4GA4EPGsE\/VqTM9gP_gNI\/AAAAAAAAhXw\/U8s4GJchyjg\/s200\/haggis02.jpg\" width=\"150\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">W<\/span>ell, Burns Night doesn&#8217;t really happen earlier in Wales, but when one of you is going to be away on the actual night, it makes sense. Sadly, I completely forgot to arrange for a piper to pipe the haggis into the dining room, and the food would have gone cold if we had read all of Burns&#8217; ode to the beastie&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-_yOnFEUC9jo\/VqTM-fQZ5LI\/AAAAAAAAhX8\/dmq_PooxUU0\/s1600\/haggis03.jpg\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-_yOnFEUC9jo\/VqTM-fQZ5LI\/AAAAAAAAhX8\/dmq_PooxUU0\/s400\/haggis03.jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">I<\/span> put those sauce jars on the table for no sensible reason, and neither of them got used. The potatoes were roasted in a little olive oil, with a sprinkling of salt. In the dish with them are a couple of Jerusalem artichokes that needed to be used up. To the left, mashed swede and onion; to the right, mashed parsnip and turnip. Simon Howie&#8217;s haggis has a plastic skin, but the contents are very authentic, and delicious.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-qUom6LJMR9g\/VqTM_a4gG8I\/AAAAAAAAhYE\/t2Hp26r_g6k\/s1600\/haggis04.jpg\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-qUom6LJMR9g\/VqTM_a4gG8I\/AAAAAAAAhYE\/t2Hp26r_g6k\/s400\/haggis04.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">H<\/span>ere&#8217;s mine. It was very tasty, but extremely filling. It was a good job I had forgotten to make any dessert!<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Burns Night doesn&#8217;t really happen earlier in Wales, but when one of you is going to be away on the actual night, it makes sense. Sadly, I completely forgot to arrange for a piper to pipe the haggis into the dining room, and the food would have gone cold if we had read all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/burns-night-comes-early-in-wales\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Burns Night comes early in Wales.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doctor-dark.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}