#Lucky Chip The Sebright Arms

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I don’t know what happened, but we’re becoming farm people. I just spent 20 minutes comparing different kids of manure.

Yesterday I saw that my favorite farm stand had opened for the season and I squealed and Justin was like why don’t I build you a fenced in garden and you just grow your own? A bit later I was talking about quail for their tiny adorable speckled eggs and getting a rabbit just to use its droppings in the garden and Justin asked “why are you talking about quail and a rabbit? Our next animals are goats.”

So that’s what we’re doing, living out our farm fantasy hahaha. Justin discovered that goats eat poison oak and that people pay big money to rent them out to eat excess vegetation and Justin is sold. I’m not ready for goats, seems like a big responsibility, but apparently sometime soon. And apparently their droppings are more beneficial than rabbit droppings, but so are chickens if you compost them right.

Why am I this way? What happened to me? Instagram? I had chickens in Texas and I loved my girls, but I wasn’t this level of obsessed with them. But now I see all these different breeds and characteristics and egg colors and I have become a chicken hoarder. I had to stop going to my favorite tractor supply because I became friends with the manager and he kept getting me to take his store’s injured birds home. So far we have rehomed 4 aggressive roosters (but kept our sweetheart silkie roo) and have 18 total. Three starlight eggers, three buff orpingtons, three mystic marans, two Easter eggers, two silkies, two booted bantams, a leghorn, a rhode island red, and a silver-laced sebright. We’ll get medium green eggs, light green eggs, maybe some blue if we’re lucky. And lighter brown, medium brown, and dark dark brown from the marans. And smaller cream colored ones from the bantam ladies. And the leghorn will lay the standard white you’re used to from the store, fun fact I hatched fertilized eggs from the store once and leghorns are what hatched!

I saw some reel that said that chickens are the gateway farm animal and ding ding ding. Once you have chickens you start looking up guard animals and then you want a goose. Then you go to a feed store and see that they have turkens (naked neck chickens that are social/sweet and are so ugly they’re cute), turkeys, ducks, and quails. I mean ducks are stinky and messy but I’ll take the rest please, thank you.

My grandma was an animal hoarder, is this genetic? She had an actual aviary and llamas and cats. We had animals growing up but I remember begging forever for a Guinea pig, it’s not like we had a farm. But at one point I was breeding Guinea pigs and fish. And incubating chicken eggs. So maybe it is in my genetics. A 10 year old asking for fish breeding supplies is not on my radar, what kid does that? Maybe this side of me has lied dormant under some depression fog. I don’t know.

Justin being on board is dangerous though. He didn’t even say anything when he came home from his work trip to 6 new chickens living in his office. He wasn’t as pleased about my “pointless” fish though, but I am loving my little aquarium. It’s next to my aerogarden and it’s such a happy little corner.

Anyway.

We need to push back the retaining wall in the backyard. Well *need* might be a little strong. But the wood panels are rotted out and need to be replaced. Right now it’s 2.5 high and the field of poison oak beyond is starting to travel down and I am so severely allergic my arms are constantly covered is weeping wounds. We’re going to push it back til it’s at 4 ft and then build the chicken run, originally it was supposed to be 10 by 8, but now I’m thinking it needs to be 12 by 8 minimum.

We’ve been chipping away at excavating ourselves but with between the kids, the boulders, and my rash reaction it’s just not worth it, we need someone with a machine so we hired someone to come excavate it next week. With the space, our backyard will eventually be dining area w pergola, chicken run/coop, fenced in garden area, swing set and jungle gym for the kids, goat shed/area, then Justin’s big shed that he hopes to break ground on this summer. When we’re done with that we’re going to build steps up to access our side yard, clear and level the clearing, and then put pavers or bricks down for a fire pit area.

I am absolutely obsessed with our property. I want to utilize as much of it as we can, and I never want to take for granted that we are lucky to have land and live somewhere breathtakingly beautiful. Life isn’t perfect by any means, but I still feel like I’m living the dream.

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The Chuck Norris - Lucky Chip, Sebright Arms

Although I love my girlfriend with all my heart and want to spend every minute of the day with her, it's also bloody convenient that she lives in East London, where the burger craze seems to be growing. This tidal wave of beef brought me to the Sebright Arms, in Hackney, for Lucky Chip. It wasn't a random visit, Lucky Chip has been on my list a lot longer than many of the places I've crossed off recently.

I had heard mixed reviews for the past 18 months or so. Some people love it and think its the bee's knees, some people say it fails to impress. Going by the uncertainty of what I would expect, I was never in a rush to eat here. But I finally have. I had studied the menu for days before, picking the perfect burger, and i decided on the Chuck Norris.

Two aged Chuck Beef patties, American cheese, cheddar cheese, caramelised onions, ketchup, mustard, mayo, and i paid extra to add bacon. It's advertised as the 'burger of the week', but I'm pretty sure this special has been running for a while.

I love the look of it. It's big, beefy and smothered in cheese (that's what she said). The first thing that jumped out at me though was the choice of bun. It's a classic seeded burger bun. I'm pretty sure they are the exact ones you get in packs of 12 from a supermarket. If they aren't then i sincerely apologise to Lucky Chip. But the point is that it looks like it. I will say that I'm really glad its not brioche. The thickness of the patties would have been tough with the chewiness of a brioche bun. But also, as you can see above, there is an extra slice of bun in the centre. I liked this, it added that little bit of extra security to stop all the toppings from sliding out, but also allowed more sauce to be squirted directly on to the bun.

The cheese was separated by having American on the top patty and cheddar on the bottom patty. This was good as each bite would give you a different mix of taste and texture. Even though I'm not a fan of American, I can see why it's so commonly used, it looks good. But that's why cheddar is added, that's where the flavour comes from. 

There was bacon on top of each patty, which is pretty generous. Usually in a double burger you would just have the 2 patties on top of each other. With this burger its separated by bread, cheese, sauce and bacon. It was good. Smoked and chewy, not too fatty.

The only salad was the caramelised onions. I'm not going to lie, I took those bad boys straight out and threw them to the side, so I have nothing to say about them =]

So now the patties. Sigh. Very similar to Yeah Burger, they were just your standard burger patties that could have come from Tesco's Finest section. They were cooked well, but too bland. It's a good mix of beef and fat, which means you get taste and the chew BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH you know it by now.

To sum it all up, it had the potential to be amazing, it looked amazing, but it was let down by bog standard beef and an uninspired bun. To end on a good note, their fries are AMAZING!

6/10

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Sebright Arms

31-35 Coate Street London E2 9AG

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Lucky Chip at The Sebright Arms

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Lucky Chip Returns To The Sebright Arms

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[theburgerlist]

Good news! @lucky_chip is returning to Sebright Arms! The relaunch of the Sebright Arms sees a familiar face returning to the kitchen. Patty kings Lucky Chip will once again grace the plates, serving up their juicy burger goodness to punters at the newly refurbed Sebright Arms. The much loved Hackney music venue and boozer has recently been taken over by the team behind the Old Blue Last and Birthdays, and will reopen its doors this week on Wednesday 15th March. To celebrate the reopening of the spruced-up venue, the Sebright are holding a series of intimate gigs in the 150-capacity space, with Spring King, Gengahr, Circa Waves and Elf Kid all headlining shows. (at Sebright Arms)