Food (light reading but not light eating)

It has been such a good morning for visual treats that I shall repay the travellers by describing some home comforts.

These days I have to do almost all the cooking myself so I have had to lift my game. Living with a lapsed gourmet cook is definitely a challenge but I think that I am starting to cope with it.

Last night I made Chicken Kiev…free-range cornfed chicken breasts, gluten-free crumbed, with lemon and garlic butter; Dauphinois potatoes… baked in cream and parmesan cheese; salad; apricot pie with a golden flaky pastry lattice top served with… more cream. This morning I am off to the gym and pool for two hours to work off come of the cream that I have already stored as fat while Mikey sleeps and hopefully converts some of the cream to fat.

The last few weeks’ highlights have included: Akaroa salmon crusted with brazil and pecan nuts; risotto (yes, I have finally learned to to cook it for myself) with grilled peri-peri chicken thighs; chicken pot pie (chicken, potatoes, bacon and wine and cream under a flaky pastry crust); free-range pork roasted with apple and sage; Heck’s Nurnberger sausages with fried onions; and Highland beef ribeye with fried potatoes (parboiled, sliced and cooked with bacon, rosemary and pinenuts).

Hmm, for some reason my stomach is feeling a little heavy so I shall take it to the gym now but if you give me more pictures of far away places I will give you more words.