Beautiful Norway
10 01 2008 Comments : No Comments »Categories : Life
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Update: The chief of this creation, Jo, contacted me and was kind to provide me the recipe for The Meat House. (Thanks, Jo!)
Here it is, with his own words.
Starting to lay the walls on a bed of breadcrumbs
Building up the walls more
We decided kebab sticks would be a good addition to hold it together during the cooking
Creation of the lawn, (750g of sausage meat, seasoned with sage, and a load of food colouring)
Laying down the lawn, and starting the roof
Adding the roof, streaky bacon of course
A few more additions, some seasoning, a paprika car and a bird bath
Oven time!
100 minute later
Kebab stick removal, now everything inside is totally edible
And that’s it, meat house complete
Ingredients:
~20 sausages
12 rashers of bacon
1kg of sausage meat
2/3 a packet of bread crumbs


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