Pasta for tea

Tomato and chilli sauce with gnocchi pasta

Afternoon tea

Marvellous afternoon tea at Betty's in Harrogate. Their tea room blend

And a raspberry ice cream milkshake

Adequate cooked breakfast

Hotel cooked breakfast - merely competent, although the sausages were very tasty

Dinner in Durham

A trip to Oldfields in Durham. Excellent food. Started with a crab dish

Followed by herb crusted shoulder of lamb

Finished with sticky toffee pudding

Fishfinger sandwiches

With plenty of mayonnaise

Lunchtime salad

Tabbouleh. Cracked burghal wheat with lemon juice, olive oil, mint, parsley, finely chopped onion, tomato and feta cheese. Elizabeth David recipe. Feels like you're adding too many herbs, but tastes fantastic.

Steak fun

Wholefoods wrap their steaks like some people wrap their jewellery

A dry-aged ribeye

Served with tomato, new potato and bearnaise

Tasty, but no different from a normal (and normally priced) steak

Ridiculous nectarine

A trip to the mildly over the top Wholefoods in Kensington.

A 'Grand Cru' Nectarine.

Tasty food

Hard work Monday, so tasty food. Started with nice Bruschetta

Followed by chicken breasts, wrapped in parma ham, stuffed with cream cheese and roasted with cherry tomatoes

Makes lots of nice tomatoey olive oily sauces

Served with a green salad

Tasty warming supper

Gammon with a demerara, orange juice, mustard and clove crust. Served with roast potatoes and cauliflower cheese

Pasta

Orecchiette with pesto, pine nuts, basil, parmesan and fresh tomatoes

Flapjacks

Flapjacks for friends

Fish

Roasted monkfish tail on a bed of crushed potatoes

Packed lunch for two

Assembling the ingredients


Two pasta salads and two fruit salads

Pasta salads contain penne, pesto, mozzarella, tomatoes, basil and olive oil

Fruit salads contain melon, grapes and apple juice

Improvised pasta supper

Frying porcini, white mushrooms, garlic and chilli


Added porcini water, pasta water, butter and lemon juice


Served with spaghetti

Surprisingly successful, and a change from my normal tomato based pasta sauces

'Mexican' Sunday lunch

A big plate of nachos with cheese, salsa, jalepenos and sour cream

Rack of lamb

Rack of Welsh lamb with new potatoes, green salad and redcurrent jelly

Picnic at the zoo

Bread, cheese , tomatoes followed by fresh strawberries


The Saint Agur was slightly warmed after a day in my backpack, but none the worse for it