 Look at this! Spring is well and truly underway and summer is just poking its head around corner and it's exciting times in the UK. The smell of wild garlic in the woods, there's just lambs doing push-ups in the fields, daffodils of sprouts. It's lovely, a lovely time of year. Hope springs eternal. So I've come out to the woods to do a little bit of cooking and when I show you what I've got to cook mate you're gonna, it's bonkers. It's somewhat of, it's somewhat Fred Flintstone'd cook but we're gonna get into it. I'll tell you a little bit more about it when we, when I start to cook it but let's get a, let's get a fire going and get everything sorted out first. I picked these up on the way in. I picked these up anyway off an ash tree. You'll often find them on ash and it's for anyone who watches regularly. You'll know these are cramp balls. It is a fungus, cold fungus, King Alfred's cake and when they die they go, they're ever so dry and they take us back brilliantly. So we'll try with that and we'll try flint and steel over it and then into a nest and then we'll blow that nest into flames, twigs on top. Old faithful, a little bit of flint. Freddy flint off, we've got a striker, yeah, steel striker, Rude Van Nistelroy. You should try it onto this big unit, see what, go on. I think we'll just do it old, isn't it? It's just one, that's all we need, one spark to it. There we go, there we go, look. You can't really see very well, can you? Can you tell what it, cold fungus, right. And you've got plenty of time, plenty of time mate. And when we get our nest so that'll stay, that cramp ball will stay alight for quite some time. It's alright, don't worry about it. And then we're going to pop that into said nest. We have flame. We'll take some of these cramp balls for, just put them in fire starting kit because you never know. I'm cooking some at pretty beastly so I'll have to let that die down a little bit but we do want a few flames because we want it to be flame grilled. Where's all that water come from? So the ground is wet, we have had a little bit of rain. Underneath the first few layers it's pretty damn, so there's no danger with the fire. I've moved everything out the way, dug myself like a little pit, moved all the earth to one side which I'll put back over it once I'm 100% sure that the fire's out. If you know you know, look at that man. You can just tell with that noise that's proper dense wood and that is seasoned, very seasoned oak. Barclas seasoned oak, perfect. Perfect for coals, so we'll get that on. Here's the best I can find so now I can get it. No critters can get it. Cut out for a mad flex mate. Have a game of cricket with that. Scotch egg, boom. Tomahawk steak, ribeye. Get it on the board. Monstrosity, innit? So what we're going to do with it is just a simple, I'll just put this together which is just sea salt, ground black pepper and garlic and that's it. We're just going to give it a good old cutting. You want loads of it on there mate, loads of it. Get it all tapped in there and on the other side, we'll put some on the board actually and we'll get it in that fat all around the outsides. There we go. Mop it all up. There you go. That's just crusted in the salt, the pepper, the garlic. They probably break the grill won't it, do you imagine? No. Oh yeah, it has. Houston. Houston, we are a doughnut. Houston, I'm a doughnut. But that's life innit? That's life as a doughnut. Got some of this. They sent me some of this as well. Camembert. So they take the plastic off and then I've just soaked it in a trickle of water whatever I could find so it doesn't burn up and then I'm going to just bake that at the side of the fire. So what I want to do is just sear the outside of the steak over quite high heat to create that crust and then on a lower heat for a little bit longer and then just let it rest. I want it to be nice and rouge. We're going to keep all the flames to one side and that'll just do the steak and then cheese on the other side just to keep warm and hopefully just melt. So what we want, these flames are licking the side, the side of that fat. I think that'll be about done. Leave it out on there to rest. So a good rule of thumb is to let it rest for half the time that you cooked it and I didn't time it. It was about, what do you reckon, four or five minutes I think each side. So we'll leave that for five minutes just to, I don't think it's falling in it. Seasoning from the trees. Treason. So we're just going to leave that to rest for five minutes, let all the muscle relax and just let all the juices run back into it. It is cooked absolutely beautifully, charred on the outside. I like it like this, just pink in the middle, rested beautifully. Wonderful. Right, let's have a look what this cheese is saying. Look at that bone, we'll have a gnaw on that, gnaw her batty. Lachies, look at that, which is going to just, you see it oozing out, man. That is dumb isn't it, look at that. You having it? Of course you aren't. Quick, how am I going to do it? I don't know. So a quick, I'm adding a little bit of this test stuff from Tubby Tom, which is honey with chilli, like chilli infused honey, which I'm just going to, which I'm just going to drizzle over the cheese like that because self care. This is a good one in it. We've got the, look at the cheese just oozing out of there. That is, that's what self care looks like if you're into it, have some friends. I purposely didn't have anything to eat all day because I knew I was going to be eating this. That's unbelievable, it's just good quality, quality ingredients. Smoking into the fire and the crust on there from the sea salt, the pepper, the garlic. This is one of the nicest things I've cooked in out in the woods. That's an airplane going over but never mind. I saw some people online saying that grass fed beef is the way to go. I went to the supermarkets and there was nothing, everything that was organic wasn't grass fed, it was just maybe fed organic, whatever it is they're fed anyway, not grass. So I got online and searched grass fed beef UK and came across, came across the Dorset Meat Company. Now I bought a box of, I got a couple of rib eyes, some steak and some short rib. Paid for it myself, got it, tasted it and I was like, oh my god this is delicious. So I then emailed them and said, I'd happily promote you guys because I like what you're doing. Do you want to send me a steak up and I'll, I'll cook it and give you a little shout out and they said yeah. He actually phoned me so Nick, if you're watching, hello Nick, I doubt you will be watching but hello mate. A lovely man, we had a nice chat and he sent me this Tom Hawk steak and he sent me a couple of cheeses which is nice. I've been enjoying using the Karimaw Sabre 30 Day Pack or Summer Camping Bag. Really enjoying it, big up Karimaw. There we go, so yeah go check out the Dorset Meat Company. I'll leave a link below and I believe there is a discount code for, I think it's 10% off your first order so if you want to get some of that grass fed beef they also do other things but it's all good quality product which I searched out myself, like I said they didn't reach out to me, I reached out to them because it's something that I'm interested in putting inside my body. Grass fed beef. Sorry to all the vegans out there, it's all about balancing it. Balanced diet I'm trying to have but that's not going to happen, that's another story isn't it? I hope everyone's well anyway. I was going to make this a show as your steak challenge but I mean I've done a few in the past and I didn't want to sort of get a bit, I didn't want to preach to you and then tag people and put people under pressure to do it and stuff so I'll just leave it at that and I will send you love as always because I feel like we will tap right okay well while you're there I feel like we've just gone from a pandemic to like right forget about the pandemic now that doesn't seem to exist straight into rising the cost of living going through the roof and a war which is just it's blown my mind and I know I believe a lot of people are feeling the same way it's kind of relentless in it where when do we get respite we're all just coming out of the my mate Louise said it best last night she said it's like when you open a rabbit's hutch and it's just like oh I don't want to bolt out because it's like oh actually the real big world so we've all come out come out of out of a pandemic like that like oh what's going on war inflation like our way mate so a lot of people's noggings are struggling at the moment so I'll just say be aware be as kind as you can to your fellow man start with yourself obviously be as kind as you can to yourself and then that should project out and rub off on other people and I'm not talking about severe mental illness because that's another story I'm just talking about just anxiety depression and just feeling a little bit disconnected from the world and there are things that you can do and even just sort of hearing stuff at times helps so I hope this helps me saying this because I know in my dual drums of late I've been helped out by people that I don't know namely a Scottish comedian called Limmy and he's helped me out more than he knows out of the dual drums just by making me laugh and and offering a little bit of escapism and I had a light bulb moment when I tweeted him and he messaged me back and I'd said how much you know his streams and his videos had really sorted me out and then somebody had commented or a couple of people had commented and saying that that's what my videos had done for them and it was just like a oh I got it I welled up I was like oh my god that's hitting it there is a responsibility and there is it and I can be proud of this what I'm doing or you know I don't know I just got it I understood full circle I think I'm just out making daff videos and you know drinking on top of ills and whatever but people do get something from it and it helps because I've been helped by people's vids so positivity spreads done it and a bit of laughter goes a long way and I don't really know what I'm saying but that's it man I'm just trying to send you a bit of that in it look after yourselves and all that sort of gear mate same old gear isn't it I keep spouting same old gear look after yourselves but I mean it what else can I say if I want to sign off I don't want to just skip off into woodland which I am going to do I just want to send you a little bit of love and also I've not uploaded for a while so it's nice to check in in it I'm going camping in a couple of days two days I'll be going camping subscribe if you want if you don't want to don't bother right look after yourselves take care see you later shenanigans I do feel quite like though it's 30 with their pack on it makes a difference love you bye