It's going to be a bacon sandwich. I got the smoker going out the back door and a kilo of thick sliced bacon held together with 4 kebab skewers over the hickory for almost an hour now, with a little syrup drizzled over it. I'm trying to replicate the double smoked stuff Ukrainian Co-op has. A bit later on I'll take the kilo of chicken parts I have brining and get them going in the smoker as well.

This warrants a photograph (as you know bacon is a BE obsession).

I'm having a bit of trouble with that, sent you a pm.
Er, email, it was an email. Ha ha.
There, I sent both, let me know if the pics don't come up. Thanks.

Ok, downloaded your pic:

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Looks like a good smoker and a big (!) slab of Canadian bacon...

<Can't seem to post the pic myself >

Oh well,
I wound up smoking 2 kg of bacon, (which came out really good), plus the chicken, now it's time to put that machine back in the basement.

Call it a late lunch, I had smoked chicken and rice wth some chili garlic sauce on the side. Vodka tonix, beer. I sauteed it in a little olive oil while the rice was cooking because it doesn't cook through in the smoker so always needs to be finished off somehow. That chicken is #1 but the skin sort of gets tanned in the smoker, (way too chewy). It was a shame because I like chicken skin, so I advise discarding the skin first to avoid the downer. Absolutely delicious and that's the Giant Tiger's sale chicken parts @ $2.50/kg, half price and I only bought 3 bags, darn.

A mate of mine has a smoker that I use but we only do salmon. Today we had crudités with a roasted curry cauliflower dip that HID had seen on cradle tv. As a result, I'll be popping up the road to MacDoanlds for a little chicken nugget livener before tea.

One good thing about The Plains Hotel getting torn down is I'm not walking home pissed going past McDonalds. I'd need the pit stop and buy something, (usually) and always felt mildly poisoned the next morning.

Having cable and so the Food Channel is changing what I do; this time I brined then put a spicy rub on the chicken for a day then a few hours in sauce before smoking it. After 2 hrs over mesquite I sauteed it and deglazed with bourbon. That worked pretty well. I threw some hot Italian sausages on the smoker at the same time, and sauteed the sausage chunks in the same pan after the chicken was done. It's good, the chicken is good cold with a ranch dip and I want to get some blue cheese dressing tomorrow and try that.
Lunch was spicy beef tacos, as predicted, and I may just have another with a little shredded cabbage and carrot.

Delivery pizza as I'm still on Christmas holidays. Just to add, this housework stuff is a doddle, press the button on the oven that says clean, go in other room as it's a bit smelly, drink beer and a play video game. I don't what HID is always moaning about.

At work I had the 2 brownies my friend gave me yesterday, and so far for lunch I've had half a bottle of rose' and about half a pound box of Cadbury Selection choc covered biscuits.

Inspiring tweet from a pub I frequent when visiting London:

"We've got a beery beef casserole with rosemary & horseradish dumplings and a pint of ale for £10"

Would hit the spot at lunchtime. Shame I'm here and not there.

Sounds lovely, especially the dumplings, but spill the beans... which pub?

I was going to buy some venison for lunch but it was dear.

Two rounds of egg and lettuce sandwiches with the crusts cut off. Smokey bacon flavoured crisps, a few grape tomatoes and a nice large slice of raspberry cheese cake.