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On a Bon Easter Weekend
Apr. 2nd, 2018 11:09 amA bon weekend was had by all. Mostly.
I did not end up making the sausage rolls. I was tasked to get an emergency supply of Starbursts so a small and somewhat hysterical boy could make edible slime from a recipe in his book about slime, Making Slime or Ways With Slime or Mastering the Art of French Slime. This meant I could not go to Waitrose for the puff pastry on the way home. (Or the fancy Easter eggs that I had been eying up for MLW.)
In any event football was cancelled because of the rain and the mud.
Instead the Captain and I made edible slime from Starbursts and icing sugar and then Bluebird and I prepared the marinade for a large kleftiko.
I explained the origins to the Captain and he seemed thrilled by the story of freedom loving Greeks stealing sheep and burying them in the ground to cook them and told everyone who would listen.
Bluebird is a very good commis chef. We marinaded the large leg of lamb overnight and I cooked it (with help) on Sunday.
Saturday afternoon was spent playing boardgames. We introduced the Captain to Machi Koro. He won both games. We also played a few rounds of Port Royal and Coloretto.
The Captain was a bit Boy on the Edge over the weekend. He's tired and mismanaged eating so he swung from charming to enraged very easily.
Sunday, no rugby due to Easter, so I cooked kleftiko. The lamb was delicious but I think I needed to cook it for a bit longer. The recipe I was following said cook it for 4 1/2 hours. I had a larger leg of lamb so I added another hour but it could have taken another hour and might have been a little better - or at least a little bit more like kleftiko as I remember it from Retsina Mousaka in Ealing.
It was Easter Sunday so there was the traditional chocolate egg hunt followed by the traditional eating too much chocolate on Sunday morning.
Once the lamb was in the oven I took the Captain for a bike ride around the Meadows after adjusting the height of his bike saddle and handle bars. These jobs always take me longer than they should because although I am perfectly competent at this sort of thing I have to think my way through an unfamiliar job and I'm conscious of the risk of injury if I make a mistake. We circumnavigated the Meadows, rode with gusto and elan down the hill, inconvienced a lady with a herd of little dogs and carried on a conversation about how the mother of a friend of the Captain's wants to keep everyone safe.
Later that day we explored bear hugs and how a bear hug is just a big hug and there is no need to take run up and certainly no need to take a run up and launch a surprise bear hug and that a surprise bear hug launched from the top of the doorframe was probably outlawed under the Geneva Convention and several local bye-laws.
Then we ate dinner, kleftiko with a Greek salad and a rather nice bottle of Chatteauneuf de Pape and a rather nice bottle of English sparlking wine, followed by Christmas pudding.
Sunday evening was rounded off by watching part one of Agatha Christie's Ordeal by Innocence. I like none of the characters and might give the rest of the series the miss in baulk if I can.
Monday morning - to the gym. My PT has been on holiday so I've had about two weeks of a break. Eased myself in. Did some weights, at 80 kgs, lots of reps. Bit of cardio. Bit of a chat about touch rugby. Then off to the office.
Edited to add: The Beer!
Oh the Beer! What bliss it was in that draft to be alive but Oh! to be young was very heaven.
MLW went shopping at Aldi the thrifty middle-class housewife's choice for a new generation (particularly those middle class managing directors of their own consultancy business whose management of the household finances relies on compensating for her supposedly financially astute husband's exhuberant jaunts to Waitrose) and bought beer.
Aldi have a good range of beer and are currently blessing us with a Festival of Beer. MLW returned with some very interesting and nice beers including a smoked dark ale with hints of Lap Sang Su Chong and a very toothsome brewed for Aldi pilsner. No voting this time on the beer but I enjoyed them although a number of them are less quaffable and more "interesting". MLW blesses me with her love every day but none more so than when she brings back interesting beer.
I did not end up making the sausage rolls. I was tasked to get an emergency supply of Starbursts so a small and somewhat hysterical boy could make edible slime from a recipe in his book about slime, Making Slime or Ways With Slime or Mastering the Art of French Slime. This meant I could not go to Waitrose for the puff pastry on the way home. (Or the fancy Easter eggs that I had been eying up for MLW.)
In any event football was cancelled because of the rain and the mud.
Instead the Captain and I made edible slime from Starbursts and icing sugar and then Bluebird and I prepared the marinade for a large kleftiko.
I explained the origins to the Captain and he seemed thrilled by the story of freedom loving Greeks stealing sheep and burying them in the ground to cook them and told everyone who would listen.
Bluebird is a very good commis chef. We marinaded the large leg of lamb overnight and I cooked it (with help) on Sunday.
Saturday afternoon was spent playing boardgames. We introduced the Captain to Machi Koro. He won both games. We also played a few rounds of Port Royal and Coloretto.
The Captain was a bit Boy on the Edge over the weekend. He's tired and mismanaged eating so he swung from charming to enraged very easily.
Sunday, no rugby due to Easter, so I cooked kleftiko. The lamb was delicious but I think I needed to cook it for a bit longer. The recipe I was following said cook it for 4 1/2 hours. I had a larger leg of lamb so I added another hour but it could have taken another hour and might have been a little better - or at least a little bit more like kleftiko as I remember it from Retsina Mousaka in Ealing.
It was Easter Sunday so there was the traditional chocolate egg hunt followed by the traditional eating too much chocolate on Sunday morning.
Once the lamb was in the oven I took the Captain for a bike ride around the Meadows after adjusting the height of his bike saddle and handle bars. These jobs always take me longer than they should because although I am perfectly competent at this sort of thing I have to think my way through an unfamiliar job and I'm conscious of the risk of injury if I make a mistake. We circumnavigated the Meadows, rode with gusto and elan down the hill, inconvienced a lady with a herd of little dogs and carried on a conversation about how the mother of a friend of the Captain's wants to keep everyone safe.
Later that day we explored bear hugs and how a bear hug is just a big hug and there is no need to take run up and certainly no need to take a run up and launch a surprise bear hug and that a surprise bear hug launched from the top of the doorframe was probably outlawed under the Geneva Convention and several local bye-laws.
Then we ate dinner, kleftiko with a Greek salad and a rather nice bottle of Chatteauneuf de Pape and a rather nice bottle of English sparlking wine, followed by Christmas pudding.
Sunday evening was rounded off by watching part one of Agatha Christie's Ordeal by Innocence. I like none of the characters and might give the rest of the series the miss in baulk if I can.
Monday morning - to the gym. My PT has been on holiday so I've had about two weeks of a break. Eased myself in. Did some weights, at 80 kgs, lots of reps. Bit of cardio. Bit of a chat about touch rugby. Then off to the office.
Edited to add: The Beer!
Oh the Beer! What bliss it was in that draft to be alive but Oh! to be young was very heaven.
MLW went shopping at Aldi the thrifty middle-class housewife's choice for a new generation (particularly those middle class managing directors of their own consultancy business whose management of the household finances relies on compensating for her supposedly financially astute husband's exhuberant jaunts to Waitrose) and bought beer.
Aldi have a good range of beer and are currently blessing us with a Festival of Beer. MLW returned with some very interesting and nice beers including a smoked dark ale with hints of Lap Sang Su Chong and a very toothsome brewed for Aldi pilsner. No voting this time on the beer but I enjoyed them although a number of them are less quaffable and more "interesting". MLW blesses me with her love every day but none more so than when she brings back interesting beer.
