Bank Holiday Monday

Bank Holiday here today – actually, since retirement, this doesn’t make a lot of difference. Weather was vile anyway.

So, dinner: I’d roasted some beetroot earlier in the week, a vegetable I’m really fond of. I peeled and sliced them and dressed with some decent olive oil and served as a starter with mozzarella and chives.

The main was Tuna steak (briefly seared for me, cooked through for my beloved) served with Puy lentils. I cook the lentils almost like a risotto, frying onion, spring onion or leek, celery, lardons and tiny diced carrots then adding the lentils for a few minutes then vegetable stock and simmer gently until tender. Then add chopped parsley and a teaspoon of Dijon mustard – this is really very good. Generally, I think of lentils as a wintery food, but it was only 14C yesterday, so I guess that counts. Dessert was cheesecake. We drank a rather nice Medoc (Ch. Haut Barrail, 2004 and a 2011 Sauternes with dessert).

Hoping the weather might be  bit better today, though the rain will have been good for the lawn, which I recently treated with weed and moss killer, so it looks as though Agent Orange has been applied. Will be nice when it’s green again (and with luck, no more buttercups).