food

an identity tag, just in case you weren’t sure what your steak was made of.

i had a business lunch with someone yesterday in a very posh restaurant, but they were 50 minutes late and i only had an hour for lunch so i didn’t eat (the cranberry juice is nice though). During my waiting time i did study the menu quite well and noticed you could get broad beans with jam on. which was a nice idea.

i went out for a stodge-fest with Big Eye and Richard last night. i had a great square orchard pudding with piles of mash and sausages (and a little pot of gravy plonked in the middle)

i had some parma ham and melon at Cafe Uno in Henley yesterday. it came with just a teeny weeny bit of ham and black bits on the melon. just in case you were interested. a small amount of ham is a hamlet

you say panini i say paninis.

this is like a mini-version of something which would appear in Russell’s book

jane’s parents came for dinner last night – they read this so hello Pooch and Party !
kezia had her favourite pudding which is hot custard and cold icecream. and i took one of my usual wonky pictures. i forget most of my pictures are wonky. i don’t do it on purpose. that’s just how they come out.

apologies to anyone i make feel sea sick by my wonky outlook !

there was a fancy meal in a Scottish gallery on one night of my conference last week. we sat amongst all the famous paintings and ate our scran.
this chap shouted like a complete madman at this sausage for about 5 minutes before we were served with haggis. i think i’m going to adopt shouting at haggis in to our family dining routine

here’s the starter (haggis, neep and tattis i think)

scottish beef

scottish chocolate pudding

of course if you’d tried setting up a table and having a meal during the day you would have been thrown out:

with apologies to all vegetarians … and pigs

it would probably be wiser to do ‘eat as much as you like’ rather than ‘eat as much as you can’. the latter is asking for trouble.
and how can you have such an offer as a take-out service ? you could feed the entire neighbourhood and claim it was for yourself. And all this fun for just £3 !

here’s the remains of a luxury meal on a bench. i think this contains all of the recommended daily amounts for all the basic food groups, but i could be wrong.