mushroom, garlic & spinach pasta

After last night's late bedtime, (and highly exciting midnight drive through the badlands of Tulse Hill), today is a busy day. We get up, we play Playdough, and we go to Kendra's en route to the Pirate Ship in the Princess of Hearts (TM) playground in Hyde Park. Today's celebrity entertaining their kids on the becalmed ship is Dominic West.

Breakfast is a mixed bag of porridge, toast and marmalade, toast and marmite, cornflakes, crumpets and marmalade, coffee, water, boiled egg and soldiers, tea, and/waffles depending on whether your me, ana, milo, kayosaurus or mikeplodocus. And we don't really have much until a very late, post-park and mini-snoopy-snooze in the car, teeny bread and cheese-based snack.

By the time Kay and Mike head back to the Island, and the little boy is in bed, I can't face Curry for a third night, so I use up the spinach and mushrooms in the fridge for a kind of experimental combination of Nigel Slater's mushroom & garlic pappardelle from Kitchen Diaries, and Billy G's spinach & garlic confection from Every Day. Even if I say so myself, it was a minor triumph *and* it meant I didn't have to waste a packet of spinach.


No Wallander tonight, sigh.

Food of the Milos
A waffle and some crumpet for a mini-breakfast, followed by boiled egg and soldiers for second breakfast. Whilst we're at Kiki's/The Park, he snacks on apples, bits of pain au raisin, and rice cakes, before having some of Kay's tomato pasta she made last night whilst we were lording it up at Rosie & Alessio's.