Dinner

[desperance]

Since you asked:

Mark kindly brought me sea bream fillets from the fish quay. So I am going to marinate the fillets in saffron oil and flash-fry them; and then eat them with sweet-and-sour red peppers and brandade potato-cakes (that's mashed potato mixed with smoked haddock and the milk it was seethed in, then fried like a fishcake. In fact, come to think, it pretty much is a fishcake).

Om-nom.

[I need more foodie icons. 'Specially now I can't grow chillies any more. But my camera is missing: somewhere in the new chaos that has so recently replaced the old chaos in my office. I remember taking the camera off my desk and thinking "now where shall I - oh, I know!" And putting it somewhere. Yup.]

ETA: I was just putting the potatoes on, and I dropped a chunk on the floor. Whereupon it was seized and made away with, and om-nom-nommed. I cut my finger in surprise; and you may have seventeen guesses who it was who did the seizing and the making away, the om-nomming thereafter.

*adds raw potato to Mac's List*

Comments

[icudoc.livejournal.com]

Yum Yum!
Sounds gorgeous - not the camera bit obv.

[lamentables.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmmm, sounds delicious.

Reorganising things is dangerous. I've temporarily mislaid a couple of things since I had my office redecorated last summer.

[esmeraldus-neo.livejournal.com]

...raw potato...

That are not a cat what you has.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Saffron oil?

It sounds fabulous; I'd come right over, only there's too much work to do right now.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

If it's nice, I'll do it again. Promise.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

That does sound delicious. Down here, in a rare break in tradition, I am about to embark on making rhubarb pie.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Om-nom. Does that actually involve pastry? I don't believe I've ever eaten rhubarb with pastry. (thinks: venison-and-rhubarb pasty? Would that work...?)

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Most certainly with pastry (although I am cheating and using frozen, as I am, as we know, a cooking-avoider and I do not like making flaky pastry).

I am also reading Shelter and cursing you for being so damn good.
Though the beard is curious.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

How is the beard curious?

*is curiously bearded*

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

It has a certain desperado air. Did you also possess a donkey jacket?
Rough puff I will make. Rough puff has *manners*.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

It has a certain desperado air.

I once wanted to write a novel set in post-Iron Curtain Europe, where a Soviet satellite rump of a country was forced into independence all unready; and being compounded of various tribes, none of whom would consent to speak any of the others' languages, it became the first nation state to adopt Esperanto as the national tongue.

I was going to call it Desperanto.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Also, I used to make rough-puff pastry for a strawberry tart. I kinda liked doing that.

[ci5rod.livejournal.com]

I am trying and failing to imagine pastry with five-o'clock shadow and a frilly shirt.

On Mac's implausible eating habits, presumably you've read the LJ post about the dog and the sweet potatoes?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Hee. Thank you; I will treasure that notion.

And yes, the dog/sweet potato interface is a treasure already.

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

Doesn't crumble count as a sort of pastry?

I've had a rhubarb and apple pasty. Yes it does work.

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

How strange are your cats? They're THAT strange.

I just made a strawberry sponge. Must be something in the air.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Strawberry sponge is good.
But why are we all hanging out in Chaz's lj talking about *food*?

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

Breaaaaaaaaaam!

Baby.