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Anyone doing this tonight?
As a Stewart, albeit my Great-Grandfather emigrated to New Zealand in 18-something, my Father came to England in 1957 and I now live in Wales, I enjoy doing something for Burns Night, it helps that I like haggis.
We're doing haggis pie, haggis on the bottom, layer of bashed neeps, layer of bashed tatties and a whisky sauce, followed by marmalade, ginger and whisky ice-cream. Accompanied by a few glasses of Islay, Highland and Speyside malts.
Just the two of us tonight, rather than the usual eight or ten people.
Did ours on Saturday night via Google Meet which worked very well.
We all did mashed up bits of Burns poems and a quiz for the kids at the end.
First time that I have done Toast to the Lassies,think I got away with it:-)
Seeing as its my 49th birthday (gulp....) I'll be celebrating by having a homemade pizza and a beer, heresy to some seeing as im Scottish and stay a few miles from the heart of burns country but Im veggie and don't like haggis.
Veggie Haggis, tatties with huge amounts of butter, neeps ditto, whisky cream. Mibbe a wee can of Punk AF.
Veggie haggis rules somafunk.
Anyway... our haggis arrives tomorrow, because I is idiot.
Yup, veggie haggis, bubble and squeak, carrots and neeps, oh and a big bottle of Irn Bru, I’ll have dram too
Not a fan of Haggis, sadly, but as a descendant of Rabbie Burns (named after him) I usually have a dram or two of Whisky in his honour.
Had ours last night, ate way too much and drank just one too many whiskies for a Sunday evening. Final dog walk of the night was a Haggis/turnip/whisky belch fest of epic proportions.
Also did on Zoom with the family, was fun. A wee bit of Jimmy Shand Gay Gordons for good measure.
On personaly positive note, I need to get my Kilt taken in a bit or my next Ceilidh could be a buttock exposing disaster.
Veggie haggis, neeps and tatties here, ill leave the whisky til next week for my birthday but may embarrass myself reciting a few lines of Tam o'Shanter....
Final dog walk of the night was a Haggis/turnip/whisky belch fest of epic proportions
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Oh what a sleekit horrible beastie,
Lurks in yer bellie efter a feastie,
Just as ye sit doon among yer kin
There starts to stir an enormous wind.
Those neeps and tatties if you please
Start working like a gentle breeze
But soon the pudding wi' the sauncie face
Will hae ye blawin' a' ower the place
Whenever I see Burns night in text I always read it as Bums Night.
No idea why.
Veggie haggis, neeps, tatties and various other things that my gf is making. Never done it before, but there's not much else to do is there?!
Also saw my first pro Scottish Independence flag flying today.....we're in Cheshire 😂
As a Stewart
*waves in Stewart of Appin*
Despite living in Northumberland there is usually a Burns Night in our village where we get together in the village hall, have a ceilidh and some haggis.
Not happening this year for obvious reasons.
May have some haggis. The kids are big fans of both meat and veggie varieties, though we usually do a sweet potato mash wit it rather than neeps.
And the family secret-recipe whisky sauce of course (packet of Schwartz Creamy Pepper sauce with couple of shots of cooking whisky in it) 😂
I had my Burns Supper a couple of weeks ago, just before the new restrictions came into force.
Parboiled some neeps and tatties at home then heated them up, along with a tin of Grants haggis, on my wee stove.
Not happening this year for obvious reasons.
On the positive side, now that my youngest has started high school, this is the first time in 12 years that we haven't had to endure weeks of kids practicing bloody poems.
Here we got curry night in Dollar. Shameful. I did hit the local DH hard and now a 6 pack into the evening.
@somafunk you could always nip down the Selkirk for a pint. If some stories are to be believed about where the grace was penned.
Hahaha @Houns that's us!!! We even got our veggie Haggis from Waitrose 😂
I used to work in the Selkirk (barman) and there is a bit of contention as to whether or not he penned the "Selkirk Grace" in the hotel, he certainly stayed there a number of times in 1794 but he also spent time at the Earl of Selkirk's (Thomas Douglas) house at St Mary's Isle (less than a mile from Selkirk arms pub) where he was often asked to say Grace before dinner (this is verified), I expect the Grace before dinner theory is more truthful.
I used to know his entire life story and decent number of his poems off the top of my head as I was asked to repeat them so many times from "rabbie burns fans" who stayed in the hotel.
Same here Tom-B, just polished mine off
Currently in a food coma after finishing ours off, gf got it all spot on (she was briefly a chef apparently)
I love haggis, but we didn’t prepare properly this year and ended up with haggis baked beans and oven chips.
‘Twas banging though actually will crack a bottle open later too 🥃
Let’s not forget Houns haggis is Greek dish.
Pic of traditional "burns" night birthday pizza, no haggi were harmed in the making of this pizza
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When I lived in Edinburgh the local pizza shop did a haggis pizza which tasted much better than it sounds.
Jesus my guts are in disarray this morning.
I'm now feeling slightly the worse for wear. It's been a while since I hammered the whisky and my alcohol consumption has dropped dramatically so 3 home measures (somewhere between triples & quadruples) meant my mouth felt like the bottom of a hamster cage this morning.
Haggis pizza is awesome.
Although last night I had a Stovie pie instead.
Ooh nice! We served stovies at our wedding as the mid-evening snack.
Between those, the ceilidh, kilts, the bracing St Andrews weather, and my selection of Scottish ales, the English and overseas side of the family got a fair education that day 😁
I had a couple of Brewdogs and watched an episode of the 90's Highlander TV show (which is on Prime now). Great Burns night! 👍 Oh and one of the meals in the Gousto box this week was a vege haggis thing, but we had that on Sunday 😃