What I Have Eaten - the week in review

This week I have been away in Kaikohe - eating not very exciting food mostly. For dinner I went to Kerikeri... there is a rather decent restaurant there called Cilantro where I spent an awful lot of money, and ate affogato after affogato. Mmm, affogato with amaretto rocks my tiny world.

I've thus cooked the last two nights - Family Dinner for Dad and two youngest brothers last night and Flat Dinner for Boy and Bella and Brother this evening. Tonight I made Toad in the Hole, a la Delia Smith's online recipe, thus indulging both my love of retro food AND my love of sausages and gravy... I grew up with Delia looming large in my culinary life... clutching an egg on the cover of the massive cookery class book of my mother. I always found the perfection of her hair to be simultaneously unnerving and strangely compelling. It made me trust her, I feel. Also, I quite like caressing eggs.

The gravy was very good. Never underestimate the power of mustard powder and Worcestershire sauce. Delia encourages us as such. I will never again dismiss her worldly wisdom.