Saturday 14 June 2008

The Strangest Meal

I thought a bread roll with sharp cheese, and a large bowl of steamed brussels sprouts with plenty of pepper and malt vinegar would be the weirdest dinner I ate while the bloke's away. But I topped it tonight.

Bacon fat and grapefruit.

Honest. I've been making a fairly proper boeuf bourguignonne, in honour of the bloke's return. To do that you need to render down the fat off a goodly quantity of bacon, and use that fat to brown the beef. So you have to scrape the cooked bits out of the pan, leaving the liquid fat behind, and, well, some of them have gone all brown and crispy, and, well, how could you throw out those little crunchy morsels of deliciousness? It can't be done.

And the grapefruit salad needed finishing. It was a little past its best, but still nice and sharp and clean. I didn't exactly need much dinner, since I had a stonkeringly huge and delicious lunch today at Poachers' Pantry.

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