Stormy Weather

[Nick Armstrong]

Cor! You'll need a big bib when you're noshing that, Cali

Others will be partaking, and I have therefore invested in a large tarpaulin

[Nick Armstrong]

... the very same! Caliban obtained them in some discreet settlement, so discreet it never even reached the pages of 'Private Eye' ...

[Anna]

Others will be partaking, and I have therefore invested in a large tarpaulin

Ha! I suspected as much - Cali is out to impress .......... Oooh! Is Romance in the air ..... Oh, do tell who is the object of your desire....
It does sound very delish, I love chorizo.

[Nick Armstrong]

It does sound very delish, I love chorizo.

Me too. Another easy pasta number I love is to fry some chorizo chunks and sliced onions and maybe a chopped chili, and chuck in some farfalle... Yum.

Ha! I suspected as much - Cali is out to impress .......... Oooh! Is Romance in the air ..... Oh, do tell who is the object of your desire...

Are you sure you don't watch Downton Abbey?

On topic: strange weather - blue skies and wispy white cloud, and yet the sort of heavy drizzle one would associate with a leaden sky... Nippy, too...

[Anna]

Me too. Another easy pasta number I love is to fry some chorizo chunks and sliced onions and maybe a chopped chili, and chuck in some farfalle... Yum.

Are you sure you don't watch Downton Abbey?
On topic: strange weather - blue skies and wispy white cloud, and yet the sort of heavy drizzle one would associate with a leaden sky... Nippy, too...

OMG, Cali is revealing a side to him hithertobefore unknown! He knows his way around a chorizo ... and doesn't think pasta is just spaghetti hoops ...... <swoon>
Weather here, ok, but it's nippy, now I am really off to the kitchen for a while.

[Nick Armstrong]

pancetta, leeks, courgettes, creme fraiche, ricotta and grana padano shavings.

Incidentally - absolutely scrummy for a cold, dank evening - though I would personally be happy without the courgettes. I have an ambivalent relationship with said veg. I usually find it disappointing. I am confident, however, that your skills with a courgette would make my eyes water, Anna...



Either way, perfect for the sort of dark chilly evening which appears to be in store!

[Serial_Apologist]

On topic: strange weather - blue skies and wispy white cloud, and yet the sort of heavy drizzle one would associate with a leaden sky... Nippy, too...

Yes - it's associated with torn off upper fragments of thunderclouds - magnificent examples of which have been on display today, and currently viewable to the northwest, west and southwest of the metropolis without need of binoculars. There were even a couple of mock suns (rainbow colours to the left and right of the setting sun) when I looked 5 minutes ago.

[Anna]

Incidentally - absolutely scrummy for a cold, dank evening - though I would personally be happy without the courgettes. I have an ambivalent relationship with said veg. I usually find it disappointing. I am confident, however, that your skills with a courgette would make my eyes water, Anna...
Either way, perfect for the sort of dark chilly evening which appears to be in store!

Yes, not my first choice of vegetable I must admit but, shopping today, they spoke to me and said 'take me home, marry me with virgin olive oil, spike me with garlic, strew me with flat leaf parsley, seal me with sea salt and kiss me with Bristol 5 spice pepper, and I will astound your taste buds' So, what could I do? How can one resist?

[Serial_Apologist]

'take me home, marry me with virgin olive oil, spike me with garlic, strew me with flat leaf parsley, seal me with sea salt and kiss me with Bristol 5 spice pepper, and I will astound your taste buds'

Isn't this a bowdlerised quote from some famous '60s Beat poem about the Vietnam War?

[amateur51]

Yes, not my first choice of vegetable I must admit but, shopping today, they spoke to me and said 'take me home, marry me with virgin olive oil, spike me with garlic, strew me with flat leaf parsley, seal me with sea salt and kiss me with Bristol 5 spice pepper, and I will astound your taste buds' So, what could I do? How can one resist?

Never heard of that one, Anna - BS5's a part of Bristol called Easton so maybe it adds Easton promise to your noggins?

Or not

[Nick Armstrong]

Yes, not my first choice of vegetable I must admit but, shopping today, they spoke to me and said 'take me home, marry me with virgin olive oil, spike me with garlic, strew me with flat leaf parsley, seal me with sea salt and kiss me with Bristol 5 spice pepper, and I will astound your taste buds' So, what could I do? How can one resist?

There be magic in them Welsh hills!!!







Do you often have such... ahem... conversations at the greengrocer's, Anna?

*reaches slowly and discreetly for the telephone emoticon*

[Nick Armstrong]

Yes - it's associated with torn off upper fragments of thunderclouds - magnificent examples of which have been on display today, and currently viewable to the northwest, west and southwest of the metropolis without need of binoculars. There were even a couple of mock suns (rainbow colours to the left and right of the setting sun) when I looked 5 minutes ago.

Thank you S_A - amazing. Rather rare, what?

[Anna]

Isn't this a bowdlerised quote from some famous '60s Beat poem about the Vietnam War?

S_A, is it? I thought I may have been doing a sort of Song of Solomon type thing or just some soft-porn food writing!

[Nick Armstrong]

S_A, is it? I thought I may have been doing a sort of Song of Solomon type thing or just some soft-porn food writing!

I'll nominate you for the "Stiff Peaks" Book Prize!!

[amateur51]

I'll nominate you for the "Stiff Peaks" Book Prize!!

Damn' fine cherry pie, ma'am