Monday, July 24, 2006
New Potatoes
July 24th.
Really new potatoes, i.e those that have just been dug up are almost irresistable. Cooked with fresh mint, there is no need to add butter, though the addition of butter adds further to the pleasure. I didn't resist the potatoes because guests came for dinner and the beef and vegetable stew was demolished. The addition of celery was a mistake I shall not repeat.
Only days to go before the first runners will be ready and within a few weeks I hope that home grown 'perpetual' spinach will be on the menu. The problem with spinach is that you have to cook so much to get so little and when you drain them I feel that a large amount of their goodness is thrown away. Perhaps one should drink that dark browny green fluid separately and then eat the spinach with the rest of the meal.
One icecream(wafer),one peach, one apple, many cherries, Four pints of bitter, two cocktails, two thirds of a bottle of red wine,three yogurts, some cheese, salads, three rashers and one egg completed the weekend's intake that I can remember today.Some gardening and one session of swimming. Trousers stii seem just as tight. Weigh again on Wednesday.
Really new potatoes, i.e those that have just been dug up are almost irresistable. Cooked with fresh mint, there is no need to add butter, though the addition of butter adds further to the pleasure. I didn't resist the potatoes because guests came for dinner and the beef and vegetable stew was demolished. The addition of celery was a mistake I shall not repeat.
Only days to go before the first runners will be ready and within a few weeks I hope that home grown 'perpetual' spinach will be on the menu. The problem with spinach is that you have to cook so much to get so little and when you drain them I feel that a large amount of their goodness is thrown away. Perhaps one should drink that dark browny green fluid separately and then eat the spinach with the rest of the meal.
One icecream(wafer),one peach, one apple, many cherries, Four pints of bitter, two cocktails, two thirds of a bottle of red wine,three yogurts, some cheese, salads, three rashers and one egg completed the weekend's intake that I can remember today.Some gardening and one session of swimming. Trousers stii seem just as tight. Weigh again on Wednesday.
# posted by Bob @ 9:58 am 
