Birthday Food and Drink
My thanks for all the birthday wishes. They are much appreciated.
I had planned to go for a birthday lunch at one of our favourite local restaurants, the Bluebell in Chigwell, but the road on which it stands was closed for repairs on the 16th, and anyway we had an agility class, which meant no drinking in the daytime - driving to the venue and getting the dogs round the courses is difficult enough sober! So I baked some mini cakes (using a packet mix - yes, I know, but it came with a sweet little daisy cutter which I will be using for other bakes in future) to take along and deferred posh lunch to Friday.
AS it turned out the other road, between us and the restaurant was closed from Friday to Monday (in this case there had been no prior warning notices, and since it's also the road to one of our favourite dog walks some warning would have been helpful, though it is definitely in urgent need of de-potholeing - we suspect that diverting all the Thursday traffic down it may have opened up some more which needed emergency filling). Our taxi driver didn't charge us any extra for doing the long detour and we arrived at the restaurant on time and had a wonderful meal which was punctuated with little chef's touches, an amuse bouche of salmon with a tomato consome between starter (hadddock) and main (duck) and a palate cleanser of Mohito sorbet before dessert (rhubarb and pistachio).
MMMMMM.
I am still using Lil's laptop for internet connection - really must phone the helpline and see whether I can get mine connected again.
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I had planned to go for a birthday lunch at one of our favourite local restaurants, the Bluebell in Chigwell, but the road on which it stands was closed for repairs on the 16th, and anyway we had an agility class, which meant no drinking in the daytime - driving to the venue and getting the dogs round the courses is difficult enough sober! So I baked some mini cakes (using a packet mix - yes, I know, but it came with a sweet little daisy cutter which I will be using for other bakes in future) to take along and deferred posh lunch to Friday.
AS it turned out the other road, between us and the restaurant was closed from Friday to Monday (in this case there had been no prior warning notices, and since it's also the road to one of our favourite dog walks some warning would have been helpful, though it is definitely in urgent need of de-potholeing - we suspect that diverting all the Thursday traffic down it may have opened up some more which needed emergency filling). Our taxi driver didn't charge us any extra for doing the long detour and we arrived at the restaurant on time and had a wonderful meal which was punctuated with little chef's touches, an amuse bouche of salmon with a tomato consome between starter (hadddock) and main (duck) and a palate cleanser of Mohito sorbet before dessert (rhubarb and pistachio).
MMMMMM.
I am still using Lil's laptop for internet connection - really must phone the helpline and see whether I can get mine connected again.
This entry was originally posted at http://inamac.dreamwidth.org/96713.html. You may comment here or there (or not).