sunday luncheon with peter magnus leary

It's a beautiful spring sunday, and after a quick trip to for some lawn rescue (and hopefully two virile raspberry plants which means we won't have to pay for any berries this year), we're back for a double-experimental-gut-busting-lunch with la Leary.

Naturally it comes with added challenging ana points as beetroot reminds her of worming medicine, so she's not happy with the arrival of the borscht.


Sadly the soup was the only peaceful part of the lunch as due to a slight miscalculation we have to get monkeynuts up. Consequently we quickly move from a salon style intellectual powerhouse of conversation to kindergarten, with repeated hiding beneath the table, and demands for crisps. Still, the tarragon-stuffed chicken (utilising my new-found knife skills) is definitely a success.


Just as well as I've got a load of marscapone & tarragon stuffing in the fridge then. Afterwards, there's just enough room for tarte tatin, and then coma for the rest of the day.



Food of the Milos
Fruit bread for breakfast, followed by porridge and apricots. Scrambled eggs for lunch and spaghetti with cheese for dinner. Plus crisps (obviously), half a tonne of grapes, rice cakes, smoothies and some apple.

sources
beetroot and apple borscht - Delicious, March 2010, p40
stuffed tarragon chicken with cannellini bean stew - Delicious, March 2010, p46
apple tarte tatin - Donna Hay, Modern Classics Book 2, p170

oven-cooked beetroot risotto

It's the last night before disembarkation on Tewkesbury Vets weekend tour to Dieppe so it seems right I leave ana something to remember me by; a combination of experimental cookery *and* beetroot, which she hates. It looks absolutely bonkers doesn't it?


As it turns out it's pretty bloody lovely to the extent even the anas like it. I promise it didn't look so 'livery' - it was a delightful creamy purple colour. Further 'mmmmmms' were provided by Jamie's classic Eton Mess.


Food of the Milos
It's half-term so mynci isn't at Julia's today, instead he gets his usual fill of avocado, cheese, bananas, eggs and some defrosted ratatouille.

sources
oven-cooked beetroot risotto - Delicious, June 2009, p85
eton mess - Cook with Jamie, p392

salted rosemary roast lamb with fennel & garlic boulangere potatoes, and tarte tatin

More entertaining, only today it's the lovely kate from school. However we're running about an hour and a half late because we spent too much time drinking frothy style coffee by the pond, so she arrives just as I've put the lamb and potatoes into the oven. It's nothing wine can't fix.



Because we ate late-ish and had a pudding, we don't have anything for dinner. Although the fact I failed to buy any butter, which meant the ana's couldn't have toasted sandwiches after lady detectives might have been a contributory factor.

Food of the Milos
He has porridge for breakfast, scrambled eggs for lunch and squash risotto for dinner, although he doesn't really eat much of the risotto.