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[psycho]

CBBB,

Actualy we call it Bumbar .

http://www.cypnet.co.uk/ncyprus/culture ... umbar.html



Bumbar (Cypriot sausages)

Stuffed intestines with rice; serves 4-6

Ingredients
3 thin intestines (with no hole)
700 gr minced beef
1 large onion -grated
160 gr rice -washed and drained
750 ml (3/4 litre) water
2-3 tablespoons salt
3 tablespoons parsley -finely chopped
2 large ripe tomatoes -peeled and chopped
1 tablespoon tomato paste
100 ml cooking oil
Vinegar
Lemon juice

How to clean the instestines
Wash all the three pieces under cold water.
To clean the inside, take one piece and hold one of the ends with one hand, then with the other hand start turning inside out. Fill the intestine with water, so that it runs out like a long sausage. The fatty outside is now in. Do all the three pieces in the same way.
Wash them again with cold water than rub in some flour, so that all the thick mucuous is rubbled out of them. then wash again.
Lastly, clean with lemon juice and vinegar.


For the filling:
Grate one large onion, chop the tomatoes and parsley.
Wash and drain the rice.
Add all into the minced beef, together with tomato paste, 2 tablespoons salt, and 3/4 litre of water.
Mix all the ingredients well.


Preparation:
Turn all the intestine inside out in the same way. Then with a special funnel which has a large mouth (made for this purpose) fill the intestine with the prepared filling and tie the ends with a thick string.
Put all the stuffed intestines into a large cooking pot. Fill with cold water just to cover all. Add 2 teaspoons of salt. Bring to boil and simmer 30-45 minutes.
In the middle of the cooking time, make holes on each intestine with a skewer, so that all the air escapes. When cooked, take them out of the water and drain.
Keep 3/4 litre of the hot cooking water separately. The rest can be used in making soups or in cooking. Then fry the bumbars (intestines) until brown all over, without damaging them. After frying, take them out and serve warm.

Sorry but - yeuch!

I remember the UK selling brawn (boiled brain I think), pig's trotters and we all know what haggis is! Doesn't mean I have to like it though!

It sounds excellent!!

Brawn is not boiled brain, but the meat from from a boiled cows head (OK, their might be a little bit of brain in it).

Haggis is an excellent dish, I wish it was easier to find here.

Once again I will refrain from mentioning little pickled birds.

I seem to think I mad the mistake before mentioning little pickled birds, but I am sure the pickled birds that come to the Saturday Piss Up will not be so little!

Saturday Piss Up Where, when Who's invited

[cyprusgrump]

Combine rain ban could be eased

Here is an excellent example of the stupidity of the EU - coming to Cyprus soon!

An EU law banning farmers from using combine harvesters on wet soil - branded "one of the most stupid ever" by a Tory peer - could be relaxed.

In England the regulation has been waived for the past two years because of wet weather at harvest times.

But environment minister Lord Hunt said it could be eased permanently after it was attacked in the House of Lords.

Former farmers leader Lord Plumb said it was "stupid" and Baroness Boothroyd branded it "ridiculous".

Source

Imagine that some bunch of EU idiots, representing us sat down at our expense and decided this would be a good thing.

No doubt sat down in some expensive conference facility or over a dinner at an outrageously expensive (yet fashionable) restaurant with no receipt or proof of expenditure required so they all claimed for it!

And they dreamt up this 'law' which has to be applied across the entire EU, no doubt translated into a billion different languages, printed out a thousand times and consuming an endless amount of resources...

And yet it is completely unenforceable because it pisses down all the time in the UK and if they waited for it to stop raining they'd never be able to get the harvest in...

Utter, utter madness...

[cyprusgrump]

This is where your taxes are going…

You don’t really need to watch it if you don’t want to. The video shows MEPs arriving at ‘work’ at 7am on Friday morning with their suitcases.

They sign-in so that they can claim their daily pay then had off for the weekend, no doubt travelling by train yet claiming a first class air ticket (they need no receipts remember)…

This is not just one or two MEPs, there are dozens of them – it is clearly the accepted thing to do. See their shame as they head back into the elevator.

The film was made by made by RTL of Germany who used the EU Press secretary’s promise that they could film anything anywhere to film everything everywhere.

At the end of the film they are prevented from continuing.