Priceless Paintings from W7

This week, I’ve been mostly eating minimum-effort home-cooked meals, and been eating out. We certainly didn’t have the pleasure of a home-cooked Pfaelzer Platte, as depicted here. Oh well. One cannot have everything:

Spicy Spaghetti, spiced with Chorizo Picante, chilly peppers, garlic, oil, basil. Always a delight under normal circumstances, but the inconvenience of cooking in the current arrangements takes most of the fun out of it, to be honest.

Lasagne Tricolori, in defiance. Tricolori being red (from tomato sauce), green (from basil) and white (from a spiced mix of parmesan cheese, blue cheese, yoghurt and egg yolk, all in place of sauce béchamel). Nice, and ‘cookable’ in a single small oven.

Mata Hari and a Belly Dancer at Joie de Vivre, St. Mary’s Road, Ealing (in honour of S’s b’day). Nice (but loud) place. Good Mediterranean food – maybe not outstanding but good, flavoursome, varied, and moderately priced. Certainly outstanding through the accomplishment of running all orders through a very tiny kitchen, by a single chef, and still serving our party of 10 at the same time. Well done! We’ll be back.

Defiance Pizza at home. Also easy to make in a single oven of course, once I figured a replacement for the pin, which has temporarily moved into storage. Also in storage is the food processor that normally kneads the dough, but short of kneading by hand, I found the perfect assistant in my Panasonic SD-255 bread maker.

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