Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Here's a question for you to mull over. What is the natural accompaniment to a beef and Guinness pie?
Long slithers of raw runner bean inserted under the pastry and an eyeful of tomato relish? No, I didn't think so either. I merely enquired if I could order a side dish of some sort of carbohydrate such as potatoes to soak up the gravy and you'd think I'd suggested passing the port to the right. "I can bring you a salad," said the waitress, "We don't serve chips." I think she must get asked a lot. So I ate the raw beans first as a salad starter. They were very nice. Then I removed the pastry lid and smeared it with chutney. That was lovely too. Finally, I ate the beef and gravy. Very tasty but it really did suffer from the lack of something to mop up the juice (or should i say, 'jus'?) Perhaps I should have asked for a bit o' white sliced.
Current weight: 79 kg. (the result of a very pleasant weekend away)
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Long slithers of raw runner bean inserted under the pastry and an eyeful of tomato relish? No, I didn't think so either. I merely enquired if I could order a side dish of some sort of carbohydrate such as potatoes to soak up the gravy and you'd think I'd suggested passing the port to the right. "I can bring you a salad," said the waitress, "We don't serve chips." I think she must get asked a lot. So I ate the raw beans first as a salad starter. They were very nice. Then I removed the pastry lid and smeared it with chutney. That was lovely too. Finally, I ate the beef and gravy. Very tasty but it really did suffer from the lack of something to mop up the juice (or should i say, 'jus'?) Perhaps I should have asked for a bit o' white sliced.
Current weight: 79 kg. (the result of a very pleasant weekend away)
