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In which I cook dinner
Apr. 7th, 2018 12:09 pmA long time ago, I did a thing where about once a week, I took a different cookbook from my shelf and made a meal from it. I recently noticed I had several new books since then and started again. Macaroni cheese and Apple tarts with chocolate ice-cream from the Gilmore girls cookbook; lentil and red wine stew, lagana, celery with raisins and fried carrots from Roman Cookery by Mark Grant.
One of the side effects of my recent incapacity had been that, not going to band, I could spend an evening with Tom once a week. Next week, I intend to return to band and we will no longer have a weekly evening free between us.
So I took last night to make a three course cookbook project and lots it was mostly good. I chose the Microwave Cookbook by, er, I left it at Tom's so I don't remember. Fish timbales, which consist of a fish and Pernod mousse filled with caviar (the only fish I could find was cod and I think it would have been better with a different fish - Tom thought it would have been better without Pernod, but both of us were inclined to like it), followed by liver in red wine with pasta and cucumber in mango sauce (liver was great, cucumber didn't work for us) and for dessert, syllabub. You can't go wrong with syllabub.
Then this morning I found it hard to get up so did not leave the house at 8:45 as I'd hoped but rather at 10:10 but as we often don't get any morning together, one or other of us needing to be somewhere, it was nice to have breakfast (grilled Portobello mushrooms with spinachy scrambled eggs and toasted muffins with jam). But I did get to the opticians, where my glasses were being replaced (having broken within warranty) so I have nice new glasses.
One of the side effects of my recent incapacity had been that, not going to band, I could spend an evening with Tom once a week. Next week, I intend to return to band and we will no longer have a weekly evening free between us.
So I took last night to make a three course cookbook project and lots it was mostly good. I chose the Microwave Cookbook by, er, I left it at Tom's so I don't remember. Fish timbales, which consist of a fish and Pernod mousse filled with caviar (the only fish I could find was cod and I think it would have been better with a different fish - Tom thought it would have been better without Pernod, but both of us were inclined to like it), followed by liver in red wine with pasta and cucumber in mango sauce (liver was great, cucumber didn't work for us) and for dessert, syllabub. You can't go wrong with syllabub.
Then this morning I found it hard to get up so did not leave the house at 8:45 as I'd hoped but rather at 10:10 but as we often don't get any morning together, one or other of us needing to be somewhere, it was nice to have breakfast (grilled Portobello mushrooms with spinachy scrambled eggs and toasted muffins with jam). But I did get to the opticians, where my glasses were being replaced (having broken within warranty) so I have nice new glasses.
