Maddog's Box: January 2007

Sweet Spicy Sticky Ribs

I have decided to blog the noteworthy meals I prepare - some may say this is "Boring", "Stupid" and even "trying to just make up stuff too fill the blog"! However, I will only put up the noteworthy ones AND BOY OH BOY is this one a winner!

Simple to prepare and ready in under 2hrs, with say 30minutes prep time...

Courtesy if BBC Saturday morning kitchen - Sweet sticky spicy ribs with red onion salad

Of course I ditched the salad option and had oven chips!

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Infanta Christmas 2006 / 2007

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Originally uploaded by Maddog Mardon.

After two long cold Christmas's on the wet Isle I decided it was time to once again return to the best place on Earth - our holiday house at Cape Infanta, in sunny South Africa!

It was the first holiday since my mum had passed away so it was a good time to go fishing with my dad, let my sisters enjoy the honour of my company and for me to enjoy a bit of sun-sea-and-sand!

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Annual Company "French Trip" (hummmm..)

Okay so now that we are part of a large multinational engineering company on Friday 8th August 2006, the company (the original smaller one) went on a "Team building day out" to France and Brugge (Belgium) - via coach and ferry. The fact that we spent an hour our two in a LARGE french supermarket and filled our coach with wines, beers, spirits, cheese and meats gave an indication of the true motivation for the trip - It was a good old BOOZE CRUISE!!!

The trip started off at some godforsaken hour of 4am, a quick ferry ride over to Calais and then we hit the supermarket. After successfully buying a selection of wines and some stinky cheese I finally boarded the coach (much to the annoyance of everyone as I was the last one on - 30 minutes late!!!). Then we set off to get the hell out of france and into the country of beer and chocolate - Belgium. The rest of the afternoon was occupied by a fabulous meal (on the company) at a resturant in the older (and better) section of Brugge.

Post meal we hit off looking for good beers... unfortunately I was the tour guide and was trying to find a perticular belgium pub 't Brugs Beertje. After standing around in the rain a bit I put a call through to Aussie Steve back at work in London (poor bastard) and got some directions. After getting the correct street (Kemelstraat) we were there in no-time and put about tasting 9 and 10% beers :)

Then it was time to get back in time for the coach trip back, making sure we weren't late becuse otherwise they would leave us.... haha... ya sure, whatever! OR SO WE THOUGH.... Actually one of our guys who made it all the way back to the coach pickup point managed to get himself lost (he was completely smashed) and then managed to get himself LEFT IN BELGIUM!!! Apparently our couach drivers couldn't - much to the anger from his drinking partners in crime at the rear of the coach - but he managed to make it back to the UK, the next day! The coach trip was as it always is after one of these "Team building" events... a complete and utter boozed mess!

Made it safely back to the office and managed to break one of my expensive bottles of red - DAMN! Then home and SLEEP!

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Company Spring Dinner Dance (in October!)

Due to the takeover of the company in July we thought that our annual Spring Dinner Dance had unfortunately been crushed under the wheel of big business. However, the old directors stumped up one last time for a night a swish hotel and a bit of a party! The location for the dance was the company favourite - The Passford House Hotel in the New Forest

The best news was that this year I could finally take Deanne with and get the full benefit of getting the tux out and giving it a little walk around. Deanne didn't dissapoint with a fabulous red dress that forced me to source a red bow-tie and braces to compliment - Shot to Guy Laister!

The next day after the Dinner Dance we had some proper Tea and Scones (with all the trimmings) and then took a slow drive up the Southern England coastline, getting out an enjoying a bit of fresh air!

Compliments to the Directors for a great bit of staff pampering :)