What a splendid dinner we had tonight. M cooked his best basmati, which is very very good, I made a rich yet sharp Thai green fish curry with bamboo shoots, peppercorns, cauliflower and asparagus, which totally exceeded expectations, as I haven't done one for years and the last one was crap, and we washed it down with possibly the best possible wine for the dish, a 1997 Riesling Kabinett. It was a taste sensation.
Ten years of knowing how to cook (me), at least double that (M), and the wine expertise of plumbing S, who advised on party wine (which we are still drinking) in Majestic: it does pay dividends sometimes. Thank god I don't have to put a ready meal in the microwave and crack a Spar lager anymore.
Not yet anyway... after doing better than usual at University Challenge we made the most of newly acquired BBC4 and watched Pensioned Off. Only a matter of time, surely.
joella
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