Day-off after working Sunday night so doing some chores. Of course, the starter cable on the lawn mower breaks … one more chore added to the list.



Found a replacement cable at the hardware shop easily enough - it's about 30cm shorter than the original.

Was pretty easy replacing it … until I tried to figure out how to put it all back together.



Finally figured out the trick - you need to give it a few turns to tension the spring BEFORE you feed the cable back out and attach the handle. Duh!

Don't let go!



Just like new!

Something different we tried! Blue cheese butter on BBQ steaks. Wife and I got our blue cheese (or 'aurajuusto') obsession from our time in Finland.

The butter was pretty simple to make:

• 100g softened butter,
• 100g blue cheese,
• two crushed cloves of garlic,
• two teaspoons of chopped sage leaves.

Mash the ingredients all together and then form into a log on some grease-proof paper. Wrap the ends and put it back into the fridge to firm up.



Cook the steaks on the barbie as per normal (just some salt & pepper seasoning), and then put a couple of knobs of the butter on the steaks as soon as they come off the barbie.

Simple & delicious.



(from 'BBQ Food' by Murdoch Books, p184)