So today marks the last day of Gordon Ramsay's recipes, then we are moving on to 2 of my other favorite chefs. I thought this would be a great one with Thanksgiving right around the corner and maybe not have such a boring turkey (even though we smoke ours) lol This recipe is a Roasted Turkey with Lemon, Parsley and Garlic and it serves 8-10. What you'll need: 1 free-range turkey (ideally Norfolk Black or Bronze), about 5–5.5kg sea salt and freshly ground black pepper 2 onions, peeled and halved 1 lemon, halved 1 head of garlic, halved horizontally 6 bay leaves olive oil, to drizzle 8 rashers of smoked streaky bacon Lemon, parsley and garlic butter: 375g butter, at room temperature 1 tbsp olive oil finely grated zest and juice of 2 small lemons 3 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed small bunch of flat leaf parsley, leaves only, chopped Create: Preheat the oven to 220°C/Gas 7. Meanwhile, prepare the herb butter. Put the butter into a large bowl and season with salt and pepper. Ad...
Meet Beauty she is one of our newer tarantulas in our collection or should I say Cory’s. The cobalt blue tarantula or Cyriopagopus lividus is a species of tarantula which is in the family Theraphosidae which is native to Myanmar and over the border into Thailand . It was originally described as Haplopelma lividum . The cobalt blue tarantula is a medium-sized tarantula with a leg span around 13 cm (5 in). It is noted for its iridescent blue legs and light gray prosoma and opisthosoma , the latter of which may contain darker gray chevrons.Males and females look the same until the ultimate (final) molt of the males. At this point, the male exhibits sexual dimorphism in the form of a light tan or bronze coloration and legginess. Additionally, males gain a palpal bulb on the pedipalps and tibial apophyses (mating hooks). The female eventually becomes larger than the male and lives years longer. The cobalt blue tarantula is a fossorial species and spends nearly all of its ti...