I'm cooking a New Zealand leg of lamb with roast potatoes, onion and garlic, aided and abetted by a bottle of Australian red wine.
This creates a need to find that fine balance between the intake of red wine and the output of perfectly cooked roasted food.
I'll let you know.
Now look what you've done. You've made me hungry.
ReplyDeleteOh, around what o'clock do New Zealanders eat their meals? Is it like the British, dinner at six pm? Or is it totally different?
Well ... sorry about that, the house smells delicious ... roast meat, potatoes, garlic and onion. Yum.
ReplyDeleteNew Zealanders ... okay, some eat around 6 or 7 like the Brits but I thought this 6pm thing was a Belgian thing. Have you ever been to the supermarket around 6pm?
Me, I love the Spanish/Italian thing best of all... big lunch, late dinner, late nights, late mornings.
I always find it weird that people eat at six. You are bound to be hungry again when you go to bed. I usually eat around seven or eight. Never been to a supermarket at six, but I can picture the crowdiness.
ReplyDeleteYea, Spain is lovely. Eating at ten or eleven o'clock. I'd love it.
Where's my invite Di? :)
ReplyDeleteSpain ... Italy, let's agree they are perfect then Manic.
ReplyDeleteMark, there is the small matter of the 24 hour flight getting here. But anyway, open invitation, as you know.
Next time try to make Belgian sprouts with your New Zealand lamb ... a perfect match! And ... it's not taking 24 hours for me to come ... but I just had my dinner (past 8.pm!). So it will be the next time.
ReplyDeleteSee you!
Lut
Belgian sprouts ... you know, I once picked them for one hour for a friend I also picked apples for when I lived in Marlborough on the airforce base.
ReplyDeleteI stood up after one hour and said, I'm sorry, I can do this. I went home, took off my muddy gumboots and my wet weather plastic trousers and swore that I would never pick them again.
Eating them is okay as long as they are tender and there's lots of butter involved.
Hmmmm, you guys must come to diner ... we would love that! Expect an invitation one day soon, maybe you could meet Peter and Hans too, let's see whose around. I have this little dream of one day organising a big long wooden table for huge Italian dinners out on the balcony, until then, we should start having small dinner parties inside, especially over what promises to be a wet grey winter.
Talk to you soon Lut
That almost sounded like an invitation (Trust me, I'm no party crasher) :-)
ReplyDeleteLol, I know you're not and you surely know you're invited. I'll get back to you on that one Peter. I just have to get through Sinterklaus and then let's see what we can organise during the holiday season.
ReplyDeleteReplace the lamb with silken tofu and I'm SO there woman! YUMMMMMMMMMMM! I'll even bring the wine! PS - Sprouts roasted with olive oil and thyme - try it sometime. TO DIE FOR.
ReplyDeleteAnd now, I REALLY must get to bed.