On Weekends of Mexican Cricket and Sunshine

[danieldwilliam]

Mostly the weekend was spent in the sunshine, listening the Test Match or eating Mexican food.

Had a Mexican takeaway for Friday dinner. It was fine. MLW suggests that Mexican food is perhaps best eaten hot and freshly delivered to your table. I think she is probably correct. Got a takeaway from a small chain. Enjoyable and some interesting food but perhaps not a great delivery option. I fancied the even more interesting and closer local restaurant but their website was pretty unclear about whether they did takeaway, delivery, or what and on what days they might do this - so on the grounds that it was too hard to do business with them, I didn't.

Watched the final episode of Taskmaster, Season 11. Glad to see Sarah Kendall win, partly because she's an Aussie and partly because she's the spitting image of an old uni girlfriend, which just made me warm to her.

After everyone else had gone to bed I watched Guy Ritchie's Rocknrolla. I enjoy a good Guy Ritchie film but they are very similar. He does a decent crime caper film. Not convinced Thandiwe Newton is a good actor.

Saturday a day trip to Roslyn to inspect the holiday home for the guinea pigs. It is apparently lovely (I didn't go in) and run by a colleague of a friend of ours who, the friend, is our friendly go to expert on guinea pigs. So MLW and the Captain are delighted by that. Then on to some friends' house to sit in their garden. One of them reviews things for Amazon and had a host of interesting canned drinks. We talked a little about how COVID-19 might change the way people work and then, when MLW and the Captain returned from their guinea pig errand, caught up generally, discussed Guy Ritchie films, breweries and summer holiday plans.

Home, cooked some chicken fajitas to use up some of the spare Mexican takeway sauces. That was nice.

Sunday was a intra-club P6/P7 touch festival. Mashed the P6 and P7 groups together in to 5 teams and played a round robin tournament. Nice to see the kids getting a bit of game time. The P7's are definitely more organised and quicker to respond but our P6's were not too far off the pace. I didn't have much to do, the P7 coach assigned to our team did most of the thinking. Mostly making sure the kids were hydrated.

Home after the rugby. Cooked pork chops. Listened to the last few sessions of the Test. Pretty poor gumption by England and a very poor effort in their second innings.

MLW was out meeting a friend on Sunday evening so I took myself off to bed with an audio book, Troy, by Stephen Fry. That was quite pleasant.

Comments

[andrewducker]

I have a vague memory of her being good in Crash, but other than that have no solid memory of her acting.

Mexican isn't something I've had a great success with, for takeaway. With the exception of Los Cardos, which is over in Leith and sadly doesn't deliver near us!

[danieldwilliam]

I've never seen her in something and thought she was bad but I've not seen her in something and thought you are not Thandiwe Newton.

I might have a think about top ten delivery food options and top ten takeaway options. What do you reckon works well?

[andrewducker]

What would be the difference between delivery and takeaway?

(I ask as someone who has never had many places near enough to collect from)

[danieldwilliam]

I think the important difference here is that delivery you are expecting to eat the meal at home and takeaway you are expecting to eat the meal outside.

So, my local Indian and Thai, which are so close that I tend to collect the order as it's quicker than having them deliver it I would class as delivery for the purposes of this chat. Fish and chips and a kebab would be takeaway.

[andrewducker]

Gotcha. In that case I think I like chips, or anything that has a coating on the outside to keep my fingers at least somewhat cleaner. Chicken Nuggets are good, for instance. There was a McDonalds between my old flat and Holyrood Park, and we used to grab a "McPicnic" on the way to the park sometimes. KFC also good, or decent burgers. (Another tradition I miss - grabbing a Burger King in Waverley Station to start a trip off.)

Takeout, my favourites at the moment are Vietnamese (I recommend https://www.senrestaurant.co.uk/) because it's wheat and dairy free, and does the most amazing spring rolls, Italian (I am in love with Pizza Express's gluten free doughballs, and their pasta is also very good), Turkish (Ada on Antigua Street delivers to us), and Fish & Chips (Bertie's - Jane loves their "Sea Dog").

[alithea]

I thought Thandiwe Newton was good in ER but then the advantage of a long running TV show is you get plenty of writing to warm to a character. Looking at her bio, I have seen two or three films she was in that I have no memory of her being in.

I want to like Mexican food but I have yet to find any dishes that meet my low chili tolerance and don't swap heat for sour - I do not enjoy sour. Kev finds it very frustrating because he loves it and only gets to indulge when he's on his own!

[danieldwilliam]

I did not watch ER but I see that you'd get a different experience watching an actor do their job over hundreds of hours of television.

I like Mexican but it is right on the edge of my enjoyment of heat. I quite like hot and sour but very hot is not something I like. I'll try a hot spicy chicken wing just for the amusement of it being too hot but I prefer spicy flavourful rather than spicy hot.

[alithea]

Sadly I have very low capsicum heat tolerance so it only takes a tiny bit of chili before my mouth is burning and I can't taste anything :( Kev has to make curries with ginger for heat instead.

[danieldwilliam]

I do like ginger as a flavour more than I like chili as a flavour.

[mountainkiss]

The lack of a comma in the title disrupts its message a bit.

[andrewducker]

Mexican Cricket is very big this year. I assume.

[danieldwilliam]

A sudden craze for cricket has swept the Mexican world. Likewise, a sudden craze for Mexico has swept the cricketing world.

[danieldwilliam]

A genuine observation - COVID restrictions appear to be driving huge interest in European club cricket competitions.

[andrewducker]

I'm not at all surprised.