So, having watched the now-traditional midnight Marple last night and with Ana Louise still suffering with a cold, we don't have the most romantic Valentine's Day, but it's one of the more lovelier ones we've had recently.
This is mainly because Ana comes into the kitchen and we make a really rich, chocolately chilli together, whilst drinking some champagne. Who needs a lovenasium when you can have hot chilli, champagne and Glee?
Chilli is another of my favourite dishes to cook. At the weekend's it'll take two hours and involves creating a sort of spicy gravy to cook everything in, and then adding the tomatoes last, but tonight's is Valli Little's super-quick 45 minute recipe. Horses for courses innit?
Also, the other benefit of cooking chilli is the stewing time gives me ample scope to knock up a soup for lunch over the next couple of days. Tonight, new-classic roast tomato soup, with the cunning addition of four red peppers Ana found in her fridge clear-out, which got roasted and skinned with the rest - mmmmm!
Food of the Milos
Breakfast: Toast, apple, cheese, banana;
Lunch: Beans on toast and a yoghurt;
Dinner: Spag bol - which he was telling his nursery teachers this morning that he was going to eat - and half an apple.
sources
rich chilli beef with fresh avocado - Valli Little, Delicious circa 2005/6, now The Skull Book
roast tomato soup - The Parsley Book
Mmmmm, delicious.
ReplyDeleteI like that the 'lovenasium' has 'fantastic views' I would want that above all else. (I was slightly afraid to click on the link by the way)
ReplyDeleteEvery lovenasium should have fantastic views, and sweet sweet sham-pag-um. I see myself as Zapp Brannigan to Dave's Kiff...
ReplyDeleteof course you do....
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