Nobody Wants To Know What We Had For Dinner

… and we didn’t go to Walton as we thought. We did the library, and then we did the Army & Navy to get the toilet stuff for the motorhome, and then Aldi for some food and stuff. Lunch was a brunch of lemon sole gujons from Aldi, with a salad. I think that was it for the day then. Maybe.

… because it feels like a Saturday. We didn’t have a ‘proper’ dinner, but I’d bought some Piegata from Sainsbury, which is (and I quote): “We ferment the dough for our Piegata for 24 hours to bring out the natural flavour and aroma. It’s then gently folded by hand and baked on volcanic stones for a light, fluffy texture.” It’s a sort of cross between a pitta bread and a bruschetta. Anyway, all I did was warm them up a bit in the oven, added mixed cheeses, put them back in the oven for 10 minutes, and did a green side salad. Nice.

… because it was John’s birthday. We went to Carluccio’s in Canary Wharf, and we started with a mixture of olives, really nice calamari fritti (squid), and antipasto di verdure (salad). My main course was a strange one – people called it a chicken burger, although on the menu it was called milanese di pollo. I had a pudding of torta di limone (lemon tart), although I shared it with Annie and Sue, who had ordered a chocolate bread pudding, so we all shared both!

… ‘cos Annie had Heather and Sue round for lunch, and she made vegetable soup for them, which I also had when I got home. An aperitif of home-made biscuit was rather scrummy too!

… with Annies tagliatelli, and a sauce of mushrooms, onions and creme fraiche. Very nice it was, and unusual for us to have a delicate amount of sauce. Normally I drown pasta in sauce.

… for having yesterday’s burnt garlic soup, with a few vegetables, like carrot and turnip and onion. It tasted OK, sort of like burnt garlic taste.

… and we had cheese on baguettes round at John and Sue’s, although that was lunchtime, but we weren’t hungry at dinner time. I made a soup which had burnt garlic in it (I was trying, yet again, to make garlic crisps like wot they have in Japan, but I failed). Paul had some.