A Hot Dog Fit For A King- Pity About The Movie

On Sunday we watched King Arthur on DVD , the first DVD we’ve played on the new LCD HD telly. It’s a medieval fighting extravaganza about the ‘real’ King Arthur, the lead being played (a bit woodenly) by the usually good Clive Owen backed up with Ray Winstone, Ioan Gruffudd (that Hornblower chappy) and a number of other chiselled faces all overacting in the role of Arthur’s honourable (but highly lethal) knights .

It was ok, but only just ok - and it did regularly stray into the clichéd warrior/freedom territory far better serviced by movies like Gladiator and Braveheart - with a bit of Monty Python’s Holy Grail (unintentionally) mixed in to boot.

So, to liven up proceedings I decided a superior cinema snack was in order halfway through – and I baked a delicious pork sausage from the Sillfield Farm in Cumbria (they have a stall in the new Arndale Market – see link in previous post) in the oven with some olive oil and half a sliced onion for about 20 minutes, before wrapping a piece of Sillfield’s dry cured streaky bacon around the nearly cooked sausage. Ten minutes later the sausage and bacon combo was sat inside a fresh piece of crusty baguette, topped with caramelised onions together with a good dollop of tomato ketchup mixed up with some Indonesian red chilli sambal. It was simple, low maintenance & delicious - and much more satisfying than most of the stilted dialogue in the movie.

Oh, and King Arthur also starred the ‘English rose’ Keira Knightley - who put in yet another performance as a flat as her chest. Not even a billion hi-resolution pixels could bring her pouting, ‘I’m great with a bow & arrow me’, Guinevere to life.