Had rather a productive day today, we took the nice chap from the WDA to look at the premises we want to buy for the business, he’s quite confident we fill quite a few of the criteria needed to be eligable for some grant aid for equipment n stuff, so fingers crossed. Turns out his daughter helps run a big website we use

www.downsizer.net

well worth a look, I got my “3 day bacon” recipe and lots of other useful stuff from like minded people who want to “downsize” life a little bit, on top of that our friends catered his daughters wedding recently, small world ( but I’d hate to paint it).

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Back again after yet another long gap in between posts, we’ve been so busy looking at new premises, working on new flavours and generaly being absorbed in other things and forgetting to keep blogging, will try and remedy that, though its easier from now , we’re away from home more doing interesting things I can type about lol, this weekend gone Suzie was at the Chester Food Festival, met some very interesting people did some great networking and was approached by a lady that does PR and wanted to help us out, she was also asked to participate in Britains Best Dish on the BBC so watch this space.

I on the other hand was at the Slippit Inn MAG rally in Gloustershire, as Rob put it “An interesting and windswept weekend !”. It was a reallgood weekend, well organised and full of friendly bods
We met some cracking people (waves to the British Legion Riders, The Sisterhood, The Petrol Heads and everyone else who came to the stall for jerky ‘n’ chats, I will be putting photo’s up as soon as I know how. The weather was unusual to say the least, in one day we had rain, snow, hail, sleet and lovely bright warm sunlight, though lots ‘n’ lots of wind, thursday night I didnt sleep at all due to the noice of the plastic tarp flapping, luckily suzie delivered a huge piece of canvas on her way to chester friday morning so we were saved. We met up with Alex ‘n’ Dave and proceeded to drown the cold out with cider and ale huddled around our brazier, fudge got walked by lots of different people and slept ALL day sunday on the sofa when we got back home. I invented the Passerole ( a thick homemade meat n potato pie broken into a pan of thick gravy its pieliscious specially on top of a windswept hill in the snow), we also discovered that in a dire emergency that can only be saved by warm wine , if you add an apple cinnamon and ginger fruit leather to a cauldron full of wine and orange juice it makes a passable mulled wine.

All in all a very relaxed and “chilled” out weekend

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well, 2 weeks since my last post  ‘n’ its been quite a busy couple of weeks, did the LARP show at Elsecar, great show with a great atmosphere, have a whole new range of ground meat Jerkies on the website which is why Ive been to busy to post, to busy inventin new snacks lol

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A great weekend, did mumbles market on saturday and riverside today, cracking weather, good crowds and the new ground meat jerky went down a storm, pretty tired now though lol, also found out The Creepshow are coming over from Canada in April, a really really good live band

www.myspace.com/thecreepshow

and suzie has given permission for me to bail for a week, and do all the UK dates,one of the many reasons I love her is her generosity  ( and her inability to withstand my constan t wineing n moaning n pleading LOL)

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Had a great couple of days, managed to hand slice 150 kilo’s of venison and invented 2 new snacks Ground Venison Curry Stick ( mmmmm not sure bout the name though lol) and Lewis and Clark Venison Trail Mix, venison jerky made using the orgional maricade recipe that was used on the Lewis and Clark expedition to explore  western american in 18** ( the date eludes me this very second ), mixed with cranberries, blue berries and other native american fruit, nuts etc and then smoked. Its lush

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Been to cardiff and The New York Deli are now officially stockinst of Martins Jerked meat, this week they took Red Wine n cracked Pepper  and Suzies Blueberry Squares, they’re going to see how they go and then maybe take on other flavours, though the Jack Daniels Teryiaki testers I took down there today were very popular with the staff lol, I also had the BEST mince ball grinder for dinner in the deli, abso-bloody-lutely lush. Also dropped  off the new label for Steven (owner of Wallys) opinions and also a selection of the other flavours we do as they liked the Red Wine I left them with last week, I also dropped off a selection of our veggie jerky n fruit scrolls to a sandwich bar in the Royal Arcade called Fresh, so fingers  crossed thats another one on the books .

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The meeting went very well lol, we have a few things to sort out but , fingers crossed, we may be in bigger shops in maybe 6 months to a year , we need waaaaaay bigger premises though so we’re looking around now for a bigger place, hopefully still in the same area but who knows .

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Just getting ready to meet the LocalProduce aisle stocking fella for Asda’s in Cwmbran about stocking their stores in Wales with our jerky, as its all locally reared  meat it “should” work lol, also invented yet another range last night, biltong n jerky cut very very fine tossed with peanuts, cranberries, blueberries, raisins , currants, dark choc bits, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds and its called Cowleys Jerkylicious Fruit ‘n’ Nut , tastes lush , well, looks like we’re going to Cwmbran now, see ya

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                                    SUCCESS !!!!

Just got back in, The New York Deli in the arcades in Cardiff is taking on the jerky and also the Blueberry Fruit Squaresm I have to ring Wallys on monday and also a lil veggie cafe called Fresh, so all in all a good days wanderin around cardiff ( though argos didnt have ANY external hard drives for the Xbox 360 AND THAT SUCKS !!!!!!!!!!!)

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Just off out to meet the owners of Wallys and also The New York Deli in Cardiff , fingers crossed , with luck they will want to stock our product . Sitting here munching on a meaty stick, they worked a treat, so thats a whole new range to play with lol, well of to catch the train .

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