Burgers tonight Cottage pie tomorrow We don't do puddings as the wife thinks I'm big enough I want soopers puddings
Home made pasta and meatballs ( very yellow pasta made with lots of eggs ) Desert was not forthcoming. Still very content.
Brillant, Steels. I've always admired quality buildings and any building where booze is on offer, is a thing of beauty! ( .... or, so l'm told )
Supported a restaurant in Waterford tonight.......3 course take away €30. Starter mackerel with crab and potato salad Main duck with orange crumble and potato gratin Desert strawberry sabayon tart The starter was ok but the main was disappointing the duck was pulled and tasteless could only taste the orange crumble, also killed the taste of the wine which was a gorgeous rose...... Desert was grand.... If that was the quality of the meals when it reopens I won't be going.....
Lovely evening here, so we decided to celebrate our loosening of lockdown with a selection of huge pizzas eaten in the garden. We were joined by the Young Team (jnrs pals), good fire pit blazing away and watching the solstice sun go down whilst supping on homebrew, Brew Dog Clockwork Tangerine (a lovely IPA infused with tangerine) and Brew Dog Hazy Jane (IPA with pineapple, mango and lime), and finished off with some shots of Eldorado (we're dead posh here!!!). Sun is now down so alarms set for 4:30am to catch the solstice sun rising (live streaming from Stonehenge) at 4:52.....question is, after all that beer, will I make it?
I am promised a huge chilli con carne with all the trimmings for Father’s Day, plus the boy coming to see us - haven’t seen him since we went to see Stewart Lee live in Birmingham the Friday before lockdown.
Last night I had the best home made cesear salad. ...with shaved parmesean, two types of flavoured chicken and garlic croutons cooked in anchovy oil So good, I forgot about the football
Excellent chilli, most of a bottle of red and a very typical family day - the boy watched the UFC from Las Vegas at about 5 this morning, forgot to charge his phone and was thus incommunicado until 3.00 this afternoon, and a new tradition - when we plan to eat outside THERE WILL BE BLOOD. Wife sliced a chunk off her finger opening the tin of kidney beans. Someone always cuts themselves somehow when we eat outside. Plus an excellent family face time with my 80 year old Mum who has stoically ploughed her own path through the lockdown and made us all laugh by swearing prolifically. Good Fathers Day.
Tonight was beef massoman. Really scrummy...with a Margherita to start...now on water to avoid hangover. Have I said this cooking together every night had been wonderful. Tomorrow another home made pizza... everything made from scratch
Well done, Beth. I always acknowledge those who enjoy a good pizza, especially those who make everything from scratch. Yours faithfully, Mr Didley Squat Managing Director Poppas Pizzas ....................... and now, Poppas Pies!
Found a frozen pepperoni and red onion gourmet pizza down the bottom of the freezer Six months out of date Everyone else will be having chicken nibbles cooked in BBQ and sweet chilli sauce I made yesterday
Slightly over-did it on the port and ale last night - it was Fathers Day after all. Tonight cooked the family nice thick sirloin steaks, plain seasoned with rock salt and pepper, served with potatoes and crunchy veg. Strawberries and double cream for pud - then maybe sneak a couple of big glasses of port (well, it would be rude to let the other half of the bottle get lonely).