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Greying_Pilgrim

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

.....for Mr MWC's birthday - street food for lunch at Broadway Market....... then a 5 course meal at Theo Randall at the InterContinental

Firstly; healing vibes to Miss LRH, hope it's just an adjustment to the summer-y-ness after all that rain

Secondly; Spill - WHAT type of street food????? and what was on the plates x 5 at Theo's gaff?????



Greying x

gallygirl

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

- Miss LRH is a little under the weather

give her my love and some extra meal worms

muddywhitechicken

I think she's on the mend as I had to wrestle with her this morning to administer the tablet - not sure that I'll be able to do the whole 5 days of antibiotics!

She hadn't been eating very much so vet recommended cat food.

Back later with our menu choices Greying - need to turn myself into nasty client and phone supplier who hasn't delivered to agreed timelines...:mad:

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

Morning MWC, sorry to read about Miss LRH, but glad to see she's brighter this morning. They are such little personalities

Mr MWCs birthday celebrations sound fab and you must have had a truly brilliant day.

Take care, Tilly x x

muddywhitechicken

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

Secondly; Spill - WHAT type of street food????? and what was on the plates x 5 at Theo's gaff?????

Vietnamese street food, of course!!! We were looking to buy some Vietnamese coffee (we're down to our last bag :eek:) but the market trader hadn't turned up this week

Here's Theo's menu

Plate 1: bruschetta and focaccia
Plate 2: me - smoked eel with red & golden beetroot; Mr MWC - squid with lentils
Plate 3: me - mixed green ravioli; Mr MWC - pasta with asparagus
Plate 4: me - turbot with roasted red peppers and swiss chard; Mr MWC - sea bass + we shared a side of courgette fritters
Plate 5: a selection of desserts to share - Amalfi lemon tart, pannacotta with raspberries and grappa, soft chocolate cake with mascarpone and vanilla ice cream with espresso

All washed down with a bottle of a fabulous copper-coloured pinot grigio

Don't look at the prices Greying, they'll make your eyes water

MWCx

Greying_Pilgrim

muddywhitechicken wrote: »

Don't look at the prices Greying, they'll make your eyes water

MWCx

Aw hun, I wouldn't - it was a birthday treat. Make every one count!

Oh, you made lovely choices though, super yum Were the lentils with the squid little dark green/black ones? I was surprised when I watched one of the Giorgio/Andrew art/food progs on BBC2 that lentils are a huge crop in Italy - they were in the north I think, at the foot of the Dolomites? Think that was the episode.

And what leapt out at me on the desert plate was the Amalfi lemon tart - I bet that was lush Funnily enough, when we were in a large mrW the other week, I was looking at some of those lemons, they were in a box with the leaf still attached. I did contemplate buying them, but I couldn't have justified them in a dish at the time, so they remained on the shelf :D

Thanks for sharing MWC - I love reading about food And imagining how it might taste/be presented in restaurants etc

Greying x

muddywhitechicken

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

Aw hun, I wouldn't - it was a birthday treat. Make every one count!

You're only 44 once!!! And so begins the 11 year countdown to early retirement... no more fancy pants restaurants until my birthday in January!

After recollecting Mr MWC's dish (of which I only had a teeny tiny taste) and asking Uncle Google about lentils di Castelluccio, I think Theo substituted haricot or cannellini beans instead

The lemon tart was delicious :drool: and in hindsight I would rather have ordered 1 regular size portion of that to share instead of the dessert selection

Miss LRH has made a full recovery :T She's only had 5/10 of her antibiotic tablets though - I'll try to dose her again this evening but I'm tempted not to bother with Days 4 & 5 as it's stressing us both out.

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

Excellent news about Miss LRH :j

Early retirement sounds like a good plan.

Have a good night, Tilly x x x

muddywhitechicken

Having a stressful evening due to work issues... stupid supplier has failed to deliver VERY important report as scheduled and might be able to get me something (but still not what I asked for) in a couple of weeks... !!!!!!!!! :mad: :mad: :mad:

I'm looking forward to receiving my customer satisfaction questionnaire - they'd better not forget to send it to me!

I will never, ever willingly work with them again, ever.

muddywhitechicken

So I didn't get the early night that I wanted/needed and I've woken up early stressing about work I'll head into the office soon-ish but I'm definitely not working on my afternoon off (she says determinedly!)