october 2010

Mexican meatballs: meatballs, small black beans, tomatoes, chilli, cocoa powder; served with rice.

Colin asked: why are all meatball dishes based on national clichés? – Hungarian, Italian, Thai...

Remains of the tarte tatin with coing eau de vie and not inconceivably a dash of cream.

Lunch: pasta with shallot, garlic, tomatoes and chilli

Dinner: Basque chicken: with chorizo, red pepper, tomatoes, chilli, garlic; served with sauté potato slices.

Abandoned, I made 3 helpings. Expect a boring diary.

Raspberries in Framboise, shortbread, cream.

Lunch: spag with olives, tomatoes, garlic

Dinner: warm salad of sauté sweet potato, red pepper, soft cheese and rocket.

And chilli and toasted sesame seeds. Part of the pleasure is in seeing the cheese turn runny on a bed of hot food. In this case the cheese was St. Kinnian, pretty much à point a week after Waitrose had sold it off as nearing its end.

Frü [sic] passion fruit pot. There may be a secret to ruining a combination of passion fruit, cream and mascarpone, but Frü [sic] haven’t discovered it. (I suspect it lies in overpackaging the product, so Frü [sic] are making strides in the right direction.)

Back to the basque chicken...

...and raspberries.

ate out.

Yorks Provender beetroot soup...

... and basque chicken.

Half an avocado with tomatoes and chilli

Aubergine, bacon, and the other half avocado with rocket and ciabatta.

ate out

Lunch: spag with chorizo and tomatoes

Dinner: Carrot and ginger soup

Lamb loin chops with ras and yog; rice with puy lentils and caramelised onions

Lunch: spag with sundried tomatoes

Dinner: braised pigs cheek with mushrooms and porcini, peas, mashed potato

Lime curd set yoghurts

Sardines with chilli, lentils, cilantro

Salad of soba noodles, kohlrabi, red pepper, salad leaves; sesame - soy dressing

Tortilla soup, cilantro

Meatballs and black beans, salad, rice

Ate out

Zizzi with John, we needed b-i-g pizzas

salad or strips of sirloin, beetroot, watercres, potato

banana, lime syrup, toasted coconut, white rum

- Sunday 31.10

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