There are two days you never eat in a restaurant, Mothers' Day and Valentine's Day.

So I always cook something nice on V-Day (if I am in the country). Tonight I made Pancetta wrapped Monkfish with a pea puree filling; I served it alongside crushed New Potatoes with mint and steamed mixed vegetables.



Before the meal and with it we had a bottle of 1998 Nicholas Feuillatte champagne.



LN

of course valentines day is long gone for me. i just ate some orange poppyseed cake baked by a school mum and leftover after yesterday's infants club morning tea. tad too much butter in the icing, frankly, but i think it may have had to do with the fact that the (lovely) mum who baked it is dieting at the moment so she was trying to be generous to those of us who were going to eat it.

Lietz, That has the look of a fine evening indeed.
We have candy at school right now. HooooeY

Hummus.

Now everything else tastes like garlic.

mmmm hoummus.....

salad out of a sandwich bag - iceberg lettuce, grape tomatoes, carrot sticks, lebanese cucumber sticks, lemon juice & salt.

the cucumber tastes a bit too much of dirt. enought salt, though, and even dirt isn't that bad.

lebanese cucumbers? What, pray tell are these? I know of english cucumbers. Are these really from Lebanon?

Over the weekend, i ate foie gras with pain d'Epice (which is french, more specificly alsatian, gingerbread). A very odd, but oh so delicious combination. And i don't even like foie gras that much when it's served plain.

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Are these really from Lebanon?

it's one of those questions i ask myself everytime i buy one, and never remember to look up. i'll try.

their skin is thinner than your regular green cucumber, and sort of warty looking. they always leave a little stalk on them, and at the moment they're half or a third the price of the regular green.

and then apple cucumbers, the white, stubby, fat ones are so overpriced it's crazy.

i'll have a look.

very lazy search, seems they are a traditionally lebanese gourd, of course it hadn't clicked, they're the one's you'd make pickles/gherkins out of, what with all those warts.

Coco Pops. And Coffee.

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Originally posted by misty:
very lazy search, seems they are a traditionally lebanese gourd, of course it hadn't clicked, they're the one's you'd make pickles/gherkins out of, what with all those warts.

yes the pickeling cucumbers are 34 cents each here, a regular cuke is 1.oo and the thin skined long rather seedless kind are 2 dollars each. I cant wait for my garden to start comming in.

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the thin skined long rather seedless kind are 2 dollars each

tele (telegraph) cucumbers! they wrap those ones in plastic so i won't touch em.

Yes, they wrap them in plastic here too. I always thought it was because their shins are so thin that the palstic wrap prevented bruising. And why would a plastic wrap preclude your buying them?

Cucumbers with their very own condoms!

I buy these, even if they're over-packaged.

Saves you putting the condoms on them at home, eh, Gromit?

baked oatmeal with peaches and cream

instant "kim chi" noodles bowl

mennonite sausage, baked potatoe, and ceasar salad

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Originally posted by lithos:
Saves you putting the condoms on them at home, eh, Gromit?

ahh, posts about food AND sex! Im gone for over a year and still the wgb remains the same. Some things never change.

Um, yeah, I ate pizza. Sausage and bell peppers on it. My favorite kind.

LN, you never ever fail to impress. Really! *S*