What are you eating and drinking tonight?

[Dujon]

For the first time in a long time I wandered down to our local 'Chinese' shop last evening. I'm not a particularly keen bloke when it comes to Chinese dishes but this establishment is only nominally of that type and provides many alternatives. So I plumped for a couple of chicken omelets, the 'other one' being for Mrs Duj. The servings (if you can call them that) are generous to the extent that neither of us could demolish the contents of our containers. So now I get to eat the same again for lunch or tonight's evening meal at no further expense. Given that it was delicious I'm not complaining.

Before anyone starts yelling at me for buying fast-food or its equivalent I can assure you that it isn't. Even if it was, it's a six kilometre round trip walk to the shop and back, which I reckon would burn off nearly enough energy to counteract any weight-adding components contained within the food. Cholesterol? I'll find out next time I walk around the place, which will probably be today.

[boltonboris]

And did you make it a perfect 10 of an evening, Dr Rock?

The Lamb Rogan Josh is nearing completion in the kitchen and I've just opened a Campo Viejo Reserva -2004. Absolutely bloody delicious.

Rioja the perfect wine with rogan josh... or any tomato concoction... Is 2004 a good reserva?

I really like those medium weight reds like rioja or valdepenas or burgundy or chianti or that carmenere we talked about ages ago... good sipping wine as well as for food... whereas those heavyweights - esp the oz ones - really are only good for chewing or making casseroles. imho...

Today.. 'lunch' with my cordon bleu trained and whites fanatic mate - who i've talked about before - for three whites fans (all of us going to west brom until the fulham fiasco made us change our mind) so the chef invited us for...

i can't quite believe this...

Smoked salmon fishcakes... i can't tell how good these were - served with tiny balsamic dressed salad and a rioja (red), don't know year but perfect...

Liver and onions in red wine and lemon sauce (!) with herbal mash and chilean cabernet red wine...

Strawberries and cream with ginger biscuits crumbled thereon (!)... friend reckons ginger bics and strawberries go well together - he's not wrong...

Blue and Lancashire cheeses with crumbed port wine (I'd never had before - spicy and really coated the tongue)...

And, as digestif, 12 year old glenlivet...

This 'lunch' started at 3.30 and finished at 8.25...

And we had the GMR commentary until 5.00 - this was a mixed blessing...

So... home now, one point on the board, not entirely sober, but very entirely full

I want to be your mates mate!

[BWFC_Insane]

For the first time in a long time I wandered down to our local 'Chinese' shop last evening. I'm not a particularly keen bloke when it comes to Chinese dishes but this establishment is only nominally of that type and provides many alternatives. So I plumped for a couple of chicken omelets, the 'other one' being for Mrs Duj. The servings (if you can call them that) are generous to the extent that neither of us could demolish the contents of our containers. So now I get to eat the same again for lunch or tonight's evening meal at no further expense. Given that it was delicious I'm not complaining.

Before anyone starts yelling at me for buying fast-food or its equivalent I can assure you that it isn't. Even if it was, it's a six kilometre round trip walk to the shop and back, which I reckon would burn off nearly enough energy to counteract any weight-adding components contained within the food. Cholesterol? I'll find out next time I walk around the place, which will probably be today.

Surely then the food is cold by the time you are back home?

[Bruce Rioja]

Rioja the perfect wine with rogan josh... or any tomato concoction... Is 2004 a good reserva?

Sorry, William, I'd missed this. One of my favourites. Really rich in fruit flavours and exceptionally smooth. One of those whereby you immediately know where your extra couple of Quid have gone. That is presuming, if you'll allow, that you don't buy at the dearer end for a nowt special weekend night in.

[Dujon]

. . . Surely then the food is cold by the time you are back home?

Funny you should say that, BWFC_Insane, as I expected it to be. Perhaps it was because of two little plastic thingamabobs being snuggled up together or that the ambient temperature was well and truly above freezing or that I walked faster than I anticipated. Whatever, I did not need to put it into the microwave oven on one of those low setting thingywhatsits in order to heat it.

[William the White]

Late supper after theatre - nice sweet potato and butter bean balti, a good standby from partner, bottle of becks, glass of Oz white reduced at sainsbury...

Nice...

[William the White]

Rioja the perfect wine with rogan josh... or any tomato concoction... Is 2004 a good reserva?

Sorry, William, I'd missed this. One of my favourites. Really rich in fruit flavours and exceptionally smooth. One of those whereby you immediately know where your extra couple of Quid have gone. That is presuming, if you'll allow, that you don't buy at the dearer end for a nowt special weekend night in.

Found a 2004 in morrisons tonight, but was a tenner, and too expensive for wednesday... saturday maybe, in a good mood... that the going rate? Makes it more attractive in a sense - special treat

[Bruce Rioja]

Found a 2004 in morrisons tonight, but was a tenner, and too expensive for wednesday... saturday maybe, in a good mood... that the going rate? Makes it more attractive in a sense - special treat

It is indeed, Sir.

[boltonboris]

Tesco have reduced one of their bottles of Sancerre and a cracking Chablis, both delicious tipples..

[CrazyHorse]

Just enjoying a Terry's chocolate orange (the last of the Christmas chocky!) and a can of Strongbow. Qual-ee-tee.

[William the White]

Eating late - was at daughter's A Level drama 'exam' - a 30 min play... she was brill - tho i am ever so slightly biased...

But sea bream baking, new potatoes boiling, asparagus waiting for the steam and a portuguese dry and fragrant white wine freshly poured.

Life's a bitch.

[Verbal]

Eating late - was at daughter's A Level drama 'exam' - a 30 min play... she was brill - tho i am ever so slightly biased...

But sea bream baking, new potatoes boiling, asparagus waiting for the steam and a portuguese dry and fragrant white wine freshly poured.

Life's a bitch.

Hope she does well William is she still wanting to go to Bath Spa?

[TANGODANCER]

Sometimes, the simple things are best. Just opened a tin of tuna, gave it the salt, vinegar, pepper touch, added some sliced cucumber and whacked it between two thick slices of toastie loaf. Mug of tea, job done.

[William the White]

Eating late - was at daughter's A Level drama 'exam' - a 30 min play... she was brill - tho i am ever so slightly biased...

But sea bream baking, new potatoes boiling, asparagus waiting for the steam and a portuguese dry and fragrant white wine freshly poured.

Life's a bitch.

Hope she does well William is she still wanting to go to Bath Spa?

Thanks for the good wishes... she has offers at all her ucas choices... but bath spa offers the most interesting course for her, though not the most demanding offer... she wants such an unusual combination that only 5 unis offer it, of which Lancaster is the most 'prestigious' (and closest, more important to me and her mum than to her!) and Worcester the least...

It's between Bath Spa and Lancaster, and there's four weeks left for her to make the decision... I'm almost certain she'll go for Bath Spa, because it's the only one with the absolute precise course she wants. And we'll support her in that.

In any case she's going in 2010, doing an arts foundation diploma in between a levels and uni... i think it's a kind of treat, art is the thing she's most passionate about, and to spend a year studying nothing but is a dream for her... though she doesn't want to do art exclusively in her degree...

Hey, verbal, you asked me an innocent question, and got a dad rabbiting on about his daughter... sorry... your positive report on Bath as a place to live for students did make me feel good about her going there... so thanks for that...

[TANGODANCER]

Jane Austen lives again. I can almost hear those carriage wheels rattling.

[William the White]

Jane Austen lives again. I can almost hear those carriage wheels rattling.

This is a reference to???

[TANGODANCER]

Jane Austen lives again. I can almost hear those carriage wheels rattling.

This is a reference to???

Well, erm the Bath of the dear lady's literary world?

[William the White]

Jane Austen lives again. I can almost hear those carriage wheels rattling.

This is a reference to???

Well, erm the Bath of the dear lady's literary world?

LOL... The place of gentility... which Verbal already enhances and my daughter may decide to grace if she passes the soddin a levels...

[TANGODANCER]

Jane Austen lives again. I can almost hear those carriage wheels rattling.

This is a reference to???

Well, erm the Bath of the dear lady's literary world?

LOL... The place of gentility... which Verbal already enhances and my daughter may decide to grace if she passes the soddin a levels...

Well, I 've never actually been there, although I've meant to for ages. Went over to Bronte land last Sunday and with the wind howling across the moorland you could almost hear Heathcliffe calling for Kathy. Not sure what the Bronte girls would make of the wind farms of today though.

[Prufrock]

It's my standard student I've ran out of money and need to beg the rents to lend me some more meal tonight. It's called a what's left in the fridge omelette. Turkey, chopped cherry toms, bit of sandwich ham, tad of melted cheddar, and a splash of tabasco. Lovely. All washed down with corporation pop.