ratatouille and chorizo & tomato salad

Early starts on a weekend are awfully vexing but this morning's driving lesson is enlivened by two things: It's a beautiful sunny day and even better, Mo (my instructor) gives me carte blanche to run over some Chelsea fans who are decorating a street behind the Kings Road ahead of the FA Cup Final. His reasoning? They are vile, and he's quite right.

When I get back ana disappear into the back garden to plant our remaining flowers, and me and the monkeys take a bus to the far side of Barnes and scoot back. Once again we go via Barnes Bookshop, this time for Wolf Hall (our next Book Club title), and controversially Sir Laughalot, and the usual fun and games by the pond.

A quick stop at the Corner Cafe for sausage and chips, and it's snoopy snooze time for a third of our crack team and Saint Hugh's ratatouille for other two thirds:


We don't do an awful lot in the afternoon - Waitrose and a trip to the tip - but it's quite relaxing because of it. Once monkey is bed, ana insists on the Fino chorizo and tomato salad for dinner and actually, now I've wrestled it out of the clutches of being teamed with the chicken and rice salad, I love this meal.


It's so simple with bags of flavour, and the goats cheese and crusty bread are the perfect accompaniments. I forgot the parma ham though...

Food of the Milos
Boiled eggs for breakfast and some rasins, sausage and chips at the cafe (obviously), and then ratatouille for dinner (obviously again).

sources
ratatouille - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, River Cottage Cookbook, p105
chorizo & tomato salad - Delicious, July 2006, p59