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a lovely evening
We just had a lovely evening with Mr and Mrs Carrot Cake and our new to blogging friends, Mr and Mrs Profiterole. I was shocked to hear that Mr Profiterole had never heard of an iPod! How is that possible? Where has he been living for the last couple of years? Anyway, apart from that, I made, even if I do say so myself, a great meal. It started with parma ham, aubergine and red pepper rolls stuffed with ricotta cheese and spinach, served with a tomato and black olive sauce. This was followed by giant salmon fishcakes with spinach and roasted baby tomatoes. Pudding was a Tuscan orange cake with extra thick double cream. We drank a variety of red wines, a sweet wine with our pudding and liqueurs. We also ate a variety of chocolates and Pontefract cakes, which were a strange gift from Mrs Carrot Cake to Mrs McMuffin. It is some kind of odd childhood thing. Mrs Carrot Cake and Mrs McMuffin have known each other since they were about 7 years old.
Mr Carrot Cake told me that while he was reading our blog recently, he decided to do a search to find what a blog was! I think that indicates a certain lack of confidence in our ability to do it right, don't you?
Mr and Mrs Profiterole are new to the whole blogging 'scene'. In fact, they are not yet online. This is kind of strange, because everyone else we know has been for years. However, they have decided that they want to participate on our blog. I am not sure how they are going to do that without getting online, but they are resourceful people, so who knows what they will come up with. Perhaps they will make a satelite dish out of cornflake packets and tin foil, or something like that. I just hope they don't mistakenly build a doomsday device with which they will accidently destroy the world one day. I have seen this happen too many times in the movies. It has to be said that the future can be a dangerous place sometimes.
I think I need to go to bed now, but before I do, I just want to thank Retro Girl for making her mark on our map. I don't mean this in a scary, stalker, kind of way, but I now know where you live!
mr mcmuffin on 22 Feb 2004 @ 02:05 AM ✲ Permalink
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You're most welcome and you may stalk me anytime as long as you bring food. ;)
Posted by: Retro Girl | 23 Feb 2004 15:42:59
All that stuff sounds pretty fancy, but ham? How jejuene... don't you folks have turkey over there?
Posted by: Machete' of Cuisine | 23 Feb 2004 16:38:59
Turkey, Mr Machette!? This wasn't your ordinary 'ham', it was specially imported Italian ham from Parma. It is very thinly sliced cured ham. Although, in fact, when I say 'imported' I got mine from a supermarket, and with the British obsession Italian food, you can buy it everywhere. For some strange reason, in the UK we tend to eat turkey only at Christmas. Not sure why, but I never think about it any other time of the year. Of course, the turkey breeders would like to persuade us to eat it all the time, and are always trying new ways to interest us, all of which fail miserably. By the way, I know you were joking, or at least I think you were joking. You were joking, weren't you?
Posted by: mr mcmuffin | 23 Feb 2004 16:49:57
In the States, we tend to roast a turkey just once a year, too, at Thanksgiving. Sure, it's low in fat -- but in our family at least, we do not have that many dinner parties where we need to feed 10 or 12 people. And in California, we tend to stick with meats we can cook quickly on the grill. (Although some friends of ours do have a turkey fryer, which they brought over here one Boxing Day. They did it up Cajun style, and it was quite good.)
Posted by: Donna Mills | 23 Feb 2004 19:40:26
People deep fry turkey? I am amazed, and impressed. That must be a huge fryer.
Posted by: mrs mcmuffin | 23 Feb 2004 22:11:08
