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Big day out wines

With the dinner, we had wines from Chateau Franc Patarabet from the years of 2004, 2001, 2000 and 1928. It was thoroughly fascinating to compare them. It’s called ‘vertical tasting’ when you stick with the same chateau or region and compare years. All of these wines were silky smooth,...

Château d’Arsac Margaux 2001

Dinner with friends Originally uploaded by dynamist. This is one of the wines enjoyed with our dinner last night. I passed, being almost two months into teetotalness, but I did wonder what Paul would have made of it…...

A theme for the week

What I ate today Originally uploaded by dynamist. Okay, perhaps not a theme, or even a pattern, but: I had two very nice dishes this week which incorporated spinach, walnuts, and blue cheese. The first was a pasta dish from ASK in the King’s Road. What seemed to be...

A stunning lemon-raspberry shortbread tart

I made that shortbread tart Jackie recommended, and it was sensational! Jackie’s tips helped a lot. For example, I didn’t use my pan with the detachable base that fills the oven with burnt butter! I didn’t have a Springform pan, so I used a metal pie-dish, covering the base...

Drinking Debate

The final debate of the Model United Nations society took the form of a drinking game. I’ll cut the the chase and not try and glorify the wines in the style of paul. They were mainly filthy £3 bottles, someone was even caught drinking lambrini! Tequila and Vodka were...

Green-eyed

This was a truly surprising Oxford Landing, 2006, 11% and from South Australia. Peach and apricot came leaping out of the glass on the nose along with pears and a hint of cheese. The body was the usual deliciously tart, sharp and citrussy sauvignon blanc, although not quite as...

A good start and end

The evening started with a drink on the Tattershall Castle, a bar on a boat moored on the River Thames. It is located on Victoria Embankment just across the river from the London Eye, and we enjoyed the excellent views of London over a cool Corona beer (with lime)....

Simple but effective

Lunch was simple, but really good. I had one-sixth of a Pork Farms pork pie with English mustard. I made a potato salad, boiling the potato for 8 minutes to leave it quite firm, and cutting it, when cool, into cubes. I chopped up two spring onions and threw...

Big day out dinner

I’ll talk about the wines in a separate post, as there were many courses. The context was that of a day trip into the Suffolk countryside to visit pretty churches and villages, and also a quick visit to a Chilford Hall vineyard. Later, dinner brought to a fellow’s rooms...

Light Lunch

Looked in the fridge and made a quark, prawn and celery sandwich. Not sure I’ve ever had quark before, It seemed rather unpleasant on its own but I risked it in the sandwich and it tasted fine....