chicken stock, mushroom risotto & fragrant chicken and spinach curry

Good morning, good morning, you only slept to 0130 and then flapped around in our bed until 0430, and then woke up again at 0600, good morning, good morning to you!

What starts quite badly and ends as the longest day of this year, is also the most star-studded; me and magic 'run into' Phillip Glenister in Barnes, and we all get to lurk behind Penelope Wilton in the baby/shower gel aisle in Waitrose. Woo - but it doesn't make up for only having three and half minutes sleep though.

Seeing as he's back in bed earlier than usual we have time to plan our shopping and meals for the week, ana finishes her OCD cleaning of the windows, and we have a pre-Richmond lunch of mixed mushroom risotto using last the chicken stock from last week's roast.


Later for dinner as we had experimental cookery last night tonight we have a curry, bill granger's fragrant chicken with spinach curry, although I go slightly off menu by adding the left-over mushrooms and the remaining stock rather than canned tomatoes. I blame Radio 7s version of Rebecca for leading me astray, although it ultimately doesn't matter because whilst i'm culturing it up in the kitchen the anas are dumbing down with My Best Friend's Wedding in the front room.

Food of the Milos
Not sure what went on last night. He wasn't unhappy, just 'awake', but on the upside there are signs his appetite is coming back as today he had:

• two-egg scrambled eggs for breakfast,
  
• some risotto for lunch (he's so middle class),
• annabel karmel pizza and a yoghurt for dinner.

Plus the usual raisins, breadsticks, fruit and milk of course.