Unusual suspects

  Standing around outdoors with my top off In England is a pretty rare event. Even rarer is doing that while manning a BBQ but, as you can imagine, it fills me with deep joy when the chance presents itself. With any luck, you got to fire up your BBQ, or join someone who had, at least once one this weekend. If not, why not?

​​​​​​​  As we'd been out for a walk, (where the discussion started), there was quite a delay between talking about eating, and actually eating. As things do, my plans got slightly out of control. It started with the butternut squash that has been in my kitchen for a while. It has been getting glanced at occasionally but as it's a winter veg, I never felt inspired. Until today.

Barbecued salad. Who'd have thought?

  Creativity spawned the image of an orange ring of butternut squash covered with crumbled feta atop a salad. It's a perfect combo of salt and sweet and that would have been fine as it was, but while we did a speedy dash round the supermarket, some streaky bacon and scallops somehow managed to leap into the trolley.

  Putting smoked, streaky bacon on the BBQ is always a pleasure but then putting it on a salad and topping it with scallops, pan fried in butter and finished with a squeeze of lemon, is utter heaven and surprisingly, a delightful match for the squash. 

  Though full from the heap of salad, we still managed to find a small gap to squeeze a few strawberries in that had also managed to stowaway in our shopping trolley. (I must pay closer attention in the future to such wilful ingredients). The bank holiday may be drawing to a close but let me remind you that it's only May. We're still a month from the longest day so there's plenty of opportunity to BBQ this year. Don't miss out!

Kirk out

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