The Splat Cooking Blog

I’m very, very proud of my small children, aged 6 and 8, who tried and ate Duck Massaman Curry on Sunday evening.

I spent Sunday playing with duck and venison to come up with game recipes for the Yorkshire Game Fair I’m demonstrating at this weekend (Harewood House, Sun 25 and Mon 26 May near Leeds). After spending my 20s with marinading ducks hanging in airing cupboards and making and fiendishly wonderful crispy duck salad with plum sauce I was a little miffed that I won’t have an oven so can’t do my usual duck recipes. With a 4 ring hob only I’ve had to get creative.
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Yesterday I did the traditional first 10k of the season, in Prestwood. This is a lovely route if you love hills, starts off going down a little, then up a little then down, down, down a long way followed by up, up, up a long way, to the 5k mark. Well, after all the hill training, it paid off, steamed up the big hill no problem and got round the whole thing in 53:04, was a little disappointed as I really want to do a 10k in sub 50mins but when I checked my time for last year I realised that I’d knocked off almost 5 and a half minutes off it – 58:26 last year – whahey, bit chuffed with myself now.

The next challenge is a triathlon, should be no problem after running the marathon, 400m swim, 20k bike ride and 5k run – apart from I have never learnt to do front crawl. I was taught breast stroke and reverted to back crawl of which I was school champion and am still quite fast. The thing is, I hate getting my nose under water which makes breathing in front crawl a little difficult, I can do it with a nose clip on but still have a problem breathing properly.
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