k. Could you please get a blue plastic bag of salmon out of the bottom drawer of the freezer?
p23 Fish pie mix in a black tray, yes?
k. Ehm. No. Salmon in a blue plastic bag.
[5 mins later]
A blue plastic bag of haddock lies on the counter.

And they say my animal recognition skills are crap.

Is what the Spaniards at the next table in St. Martin's Spice ordered.

Quite a specialised taste, IMHO.

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No sure that is a word. Poetry Pig Stuffed With Its Own Pig as an art form.

Why would you want to do that anyway.

Courtesy of the Landau

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With tiny k. standing next to me, going no no, mummy, don't hurt the fish, don't cut it's tummy. Fish go swimming, it's Dory. Not cook fish.

Never again.

my first attempt ever at risotto, served with chicken and ratatouille in a creamy white wine sauce.

and my food reviewers say:
p23 It's not the worst you've ever cooked. I remember once when we threw your food out and went for take out instead.
s3k I want peaches and cream.

It may well be my last attempt at risotto too.

How great is it when you invite people over for dinner, and they bring their own booze, carry all your tomato plants up to the loft after potting them for you, cook dinner, empty and refill the dishwasher and leave the kitchen cleaner than when they turned up!

We should do this more often :)

x

• Troute organique au parseley et limon avec les asparagee croises a l'hollandaise sprinklee
  
• Le grand graisse entrecote de vache aux potates miniature, les carrotes miniscule, les shallottes microscopique et petit pois
  
• Plateau de Robiole (fromage de vache et maeaeaeh) et Keen's cheddare avec les biscuits spelte
  

A boire, du champagne, du cidre et du

For the first time ever, I made a batch of absolutely perfect green pepper beef patties last week. Here's what I did, for future reference:

• roughly 3lb of prime, lean mince biggest reason for success. They do good mince at that butchery.
  
• a couple of finely chopped onions - or preferably grated, if you have the time
  
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Then I got on the wrong train which means two extra stairs to get back rather than step-free travel. grr.

Right. Vamos a la kitchen. Were going to garden, now shall cook instead. Where did I stash that wine?