Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

LydiaJ

viva, you would have been proud of me on Tuesday.

I was teaching yr10. We were just finishing the topic on the electromagnetic spectrum, and had to discuss harmful effects of different parts of it, including UV and skin cancer, natch. I was able to remember your ABCDE of moles, and tell them about it.

chewmylegoff

lostinrates wrote: »

Capsized, innit? I do not sail so not sure of watery terminology and unlike viva hate the idea of a cruise.

good album but i prefer bona drag.

i could never go on a cruise. i get horribly sea sick, which is actually more to do with the stench of fuel oil everywhere on a ship i think. used to ruin my holidays knowing that i would have to get the cross channel ferry back at the end of it. would have been ok if dover-calais but my parents insisted on sailing poole to cherbourg, which was 7 hours (or something like that) of hell.

just want to complain again about SW trains, and the jubilee line, which teamed up horribly once more this morning. and also about gordon ramsay restaurants, which are unacceptably expensive. i reckon there are people on the old style board could live for a whole year on what i spent last night. all future meals will be restricted to GBK, i think.

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

and also about gordon ramsay restaurants, which are unacceptably expensive.i reckon there are people on the old style board could live for a whole year on what i spent last night. all future meals will be restricted to GBK, i think.

was it good? What did you eat? What did you drink?

PasturesNew

Grabbing a GR lunch menu at random, I note he's not exactly veggie friendly is he:

Starters

Butternut squash soup with West Country snails, toasted pine nuts
House cured ocean trout with crab beignet and mustard dressing
Chicken and leek terrine with sauce gribiche
Burford Brown egg, devilled mushrooms and black pudding pur!e

Main courses
Grilled plaice with saut!ed curly kale and burnt butter and parsley sauce
Smoked sturgeon and brown shrimp fish cake with lobster sauce
Grilled hanger steak, sprouting broccoli, pepper sauce
Potato and bacon pie with tarragon braised turnip

Desserts
Spotted !!!!!! with cranberries and custard
Treacle tart, clotted cream ice cream
Sherry trifle, vanilla short bread
Seville orange parfait with Earl Grey ice cream

Three courses £26

I'd only be having the spotted !!!!!! and custard.

The most expensive meal I've ever had was about £12.

chewmylegoff

lostinrates wrote: »

was it good? What did you eat? What did you drink?

Of course it was good!! We had the chefs tasting menu thing with matching wine, which was delightful from a culinary standpoint but brutal financially. Starter was foie gras, bit rich for me. Then scallops, pork belly some posh fruit salad and a lump of chocolate to finish it off. The odd amuse bouche here and there. Can't remember much of what the wine was but with the granita, or fruit salad as normal people call it, we had a moscado d'asti. I know you're not supposed to guzzle dessert wine but I could happily spend an evening pummelling a few bottles of that.

Coffee came with a little chest of drawers full of chocolates. I think you were supposed to have one or two. I destroyed the lot to get them back for the excessive bill, but I think they won the war.

chewmylegoff

PasturesNew wrote: »

Grabbing a GR lunch menu at random, I note he's not exactly veggie friendly is he:
I'd only be having the spotted !!!!!! and custard.

The most expensive meal I've ever had was about £12.

His restaurants are mostly French cuisine so you wouldn't expect much for veggies as the French haven't heard of the concept of not eating meat.

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Of course it was good!! We had the chefs tasting menu thing with matching wine, which was delightful from a culinary standpoint but brutal financially. Starter was foie gras, bit rich for me. Then scallops, pork belly some posh fruit salad and a lump of chocolate to finish it off. The odd amuse bouche here and there. Can't remember much of what the wine was but with the granita, or fruit salad as normal people call it, we had a moscado d'asti. I know you're not supposed to guzzle dessert wine but I could happily spend an evening pummelling a few bottles of that.

Coffee came with a little chest of drawers full of chocolates. I think you were supposed to have one or two. I destroyed the lot to get them back for the excessive bill, but I think they won the war.

Dh loves dessert wine too. I'm not that keen...but would drink Sauternes with fois gras happily.

PasturesNew

I've never heard of dessert wine.

Must be time for a posh alert!

chewmylegoff

We had a red dessert wine last night as well, which I've never had before. Was interesting to try. I'm not a massive wine drinker at all, and I struggle to tell the difference between the fancy stuff and cheap plonk from sainsburies. It all gives me a worse headache than lager does!!

chewmylegoff

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've never heard of dessert wine.

Must be time for a posh alert!

Just imagine normal wine with a tablespoon of sugar chucked in it!