SUNDAY
Weather was OK for the time of year: reasonably bright
but with temperatures only around 7C. Windy, too.
We took my mother out to lunch at the Miller & Carter
in Sutton Park. Got a great table overlooking the pool and good service from
Emma: thanks.
We ate:
Grilled
Chicken Breast with Pancetta, With a tomato &
chorizo sauce, served with green beans and crushed herb baby potatoes (Ali
& Bob)
Smoked haddock with a crumbed poached egg
& new potatoes (Mum)
Crème Brulee (Mum)
Glazed
Clotted Cream Rice Pudding Served with
strawberry jam (Bob)
Deep
Filled Bramley Apple Pie With custard and
vanilla Beechdean Farmhouse dairy ice cream (Ali)
It was a
pleasant experience and not expensive, though there were some parts of the meal
that were not as good as others (Ali didn’t think much of the dessert, for
example, though mine was excellent).
By the
time we got home, it was raining, cold and windy: we still went for a walk
though, feeling very virtuous.
MONDAY
At home. A
grey, blustery day.
We ate:
Wild Alaskan salmon fillets, crushed new
potatoes with garlic & parsley, broccoli, green beans, parsley sauce.
TUESDAY
Sunny for
the most part. Not warm.
Spent the
day externaling (a made-up word that means ‘being an external examiner for a
programme at a West London university') MA dissertations. Some excellent; some
less so. Will have to try to get them returned asap.
Walked a
couple of miles, suggesting that the new medication might be beginning to work.
Everyone I talk to about it says it has to build up in one’s system – still waiting...
My plan
for tonight’s meal was to have pied de cochon farci (stuffed pigs’ feet). This
was a debacle since it turned out that the trotters I’d got were really too
big and hairy to be useful. It was an interesting experience trying to bone
them out, though. Good for the knife skills! Eventually abandoned this and
boiled them up to make jelly (absolutely fantastic – set like rubber!).
Therefore,
we ate:
Seafood Risotto.
(For reasons that I won’t go into here, the rest of the
evening was a bit of a disaster, resulting in our returning home at about 05:15
hrs. Hopefully not to be repeated!)
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