Ian M.
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When I was reading over my recipe and comments in regard to putting dill into a soup we make here, I recalled a conversation I had with my brother's wife about two or three weeks ago in which she accused me of attempting to "murder" my brother. I had a recipe for my own version of Barbecue Sauce that was used within my family at every cookout we ever had - and I'd sort of "accidentally" forgotten to leave a copy of the recipe behind when we moved to Ireland. Anyway, Barbara emailed me and asked if the recipe was available and I messaged her immediately with all the pertinent information. Unfortunately, it was late at night and I was a tad bleary when I typed the recipe up and inadvertently typed 1/4 cup of Cayenne Pepper as an ingredient in the sauce, rather than the correct 1/4 tsp. of the Cayenne. Directly, Barbara emailed me back, asking if I was attempting to "do Sean in" with that kind of an amount of red pepper and had I grown a cast-iron stomach since coming to Ireland? She said that she had a mental picture of all of us here sitting around, eating red pepper by the spoonful! She allowed as how she'd always believed that food in the British Isles was fairly bland - was this my idea of "bland"? I was absolutely gob-smacked when I re-read what I'd originally emailed in that recipe! How could I have typed it, proofed it and totally missed a glaring error like that? Who knows? But I'll bet my brother would have eaten that sauce if Barbara had made it for him - and it could easily have done him in completely. The man has a hole in his stomach you could drive a tractor-trailer through - has had that ulcer for lots of years and coddles it like a baby!
Ian
Ian
