Until then, take care and enjoy life.

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It’s actually pretty straight-forward to make, although I will admit its a bit of a palaver. But, you’d only do it once in a while, and you won’t make more than a teaspoon for each of your diners. Just like with real caviar.

Step 1:

Find a flat bottom bowl or dish that can take two fingers deep of vegetable oil. For once, use the dullest, least aromatic oil you can find – I used what I buy for maintenance of woks and non-stick pans and pots. So, pour two fingers deep of said oil, cling film it, and deep freeze it for 3 hours.

Step 2:

Check how your oil is doing. It must still be fluid, but more like thick honey.

Step 3:

Make the caviar mix. You might want to reduce the port wine, or clarify the stock. Make sure it is cold, then add just enough gelatine to set it. For my first Cointreau and port wine caviar experiment, I did nothing, just added gelatine.

Step 4:

Remove oil from freezer, and slowly drip drop after drop of the caviar mix into the vey cold oil.

Step 5:

Let sit for a couple of seconds, in which time the oil chills down each caviar pearl, and sets it. Then take the pearls out (using slotted spoons, forks, whatever), clean with kitchen paper and greaseproof paper.

Serve as fancy decoration. Or, mentally put it onto the list for The Alice Project, for those of you who know what The Alice Project is. It’s still alive!

Seared rack of lamb, served with rose potato dauphinoise and green beans, followed by mini strawberry cheesecakes,

One-egg omelettes with smoked salmon, served with a mixed garden salad and courgettes. A favourite quick-fix.

A Spanish meal (reported earlier), consisting of Gazpacho, Sea Bream with risotto, and Crème Catalan. This will see a repeat performance shortly.

Tomato soup, followed by Greek-Roman Freestyle: rosemary rump steaks with Greek salad and Tzatziki. Always one of the best ways to stabilize a marriage.

Hmm. Interesting question. He co-presents, in the wake and in the shadow of John Torode, so what’s Gregg’s role? He’s Dr Watson, that’s what he is.

I believe it really was Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle who invested the classic duo: the genius lead figure, and the friend or assistant who asks all the questions on our behalf, and sometimes translates for us poor simpletons, when the detective head presenter goes into cryptic mode.

Amazing that most mystery novels or TV productions follow the same scheme. I hadn’t yet realized that the scheme goes far beyond the mystery novel. Think Breakfast TV, presented by a couple (where the woman adopts the role of the stupid blonde for unclear reasons), Masterchef, Nature Watch, Jamie Oliver’s Kitchen programme, …

Fascinating. A toast to Sir Arthur!

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Welcome back. You come at the right time, because I have an important question for your:

It’s hard to soar like an eagle when you’re surrounded by turkeys, they say, and I guess it is true. But, does it apply to chickens, too?

Chickens kept for meat or egg production have some of their wing feathers clipped. Subject to the clipping, this prevents take-off, or makes flight very lopsided, thus preventing flight. Now, what if you don’t clip the wing feathers? Like, a chicken might escape, find a like-minded cockerel, lay fertilised eggs, and then what? Would the offspring learn to fly and soar like an eagle?

Chickens are pretty large birds with pretty small wings, so I guess it wouldn’t be a very elegant sight, maybe more a turkey-style flapping up into the nearest tree, and a slowed-down gliding type of fall back to the ground in the morning.

(And no, I haven’t been watching too much Chicken Run, but I have been looking after the neighbours chickens.)