{"id":2963,"date":"2012-01-29T10:44:12","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T15:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=2963"},"modified":"2012-01-29T10:44:21","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T15:44:21","slug":"burns-supper-house-of-king-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=2963","title":{"rendered":"Burns Supper &#8211; House of King style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our Burns Supper, like usual, is far from the traditional version. Yes, we have haggis, champit tatties and bash-ed neeps and whisky but that&#8217;s where the similarities end. We don&#8217;t toast his immortal memory, no toast to the lads or lassies.<\/p>\n<p>We do, however, have someone recite at least a portion of Address to a Haggis. This year was my turn to do the honours. So in my best Scottish accent, I muddled my way through. It was a good thing I had printed it out beforehand. My husband was the &#8216;official&#8217; photographer and he managed to get a few pictures of us before we got too &#8216;fu&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_2964\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2964\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_0693.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2964 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_0693-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_0693-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_0693.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2964\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The &quot;Guest of Honour&quot;<\/figcaption><\/figure> We were five for dinner &#8211; my husband, son, grandson, girlfriend and me and enough food for an army. Well, at least enough that I don&#8217;t have to cook tonight. Lots of leftovers.<\/p>\n<p>Our wee haggis, aka &#8220;guest of honour&#8221; was a tiny wee thing &#8211; probably about the size of a hardball used in major league baseball, if not a bit smaller. Well, I cut him up with ready slight, and as I finished reading Burns&#8217; Address to the Haggis, poured a wee bit of The Glenlivet over him. Yum!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_0699.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_0699-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2965\" srcset=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_0699-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/IMG_0699.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> Despite the fact none of us wore any tartan, in addition to the food, there was a Scottish flair to the evening. Tartan napkins, my good tartan China, and my Clan Robertson placemats and coasters.<\/p>\n<p>Before the end of the evening, bottles of Oban and Glenmorangie, joined in the festivities, but they didn&#8217;t stay long. It was The Glenlivet who was still around at the end when we decided to call it a night around midnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Burns Supper, like usual, is far from the traditional version. Yes, we have haggis, champit tatties and bash-ed neeps and whisky but that&#8217;s where the similarities end. We don&#8217;t toast his immortal memory, no toast to the lads or lassies. We do, however, have someone recite at least a portion of Address to a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=2963\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Burns Supper &#8211; House of King style<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-holidays"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Burns Supper - House of King style - Celtic Connexions<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/melanierobertson-king.com\/wp02\/?p=2963\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Burns Supper - House of King style - Celtic Connexions\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Our Burns Supper, like usual, is far from the traditional version. 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