1. The shortest night and the longest day. I was up at Wellington Rocks with Anna, Paul and Jason. We couldn't see the sun through the mizzling clouds, but we had got up at 4am and were there observing the moment it came up, and that's what counts. 2. Food at The Junction Inn , Groombridge. All four lunchclub members were impressed by the quality -- although the portions were rather small. I had smoked eel with beetroot cream (Oli says that sounds like witch food, but it was delicious, and didn't taste of beetroot at all); Ed and Doug had wild mushroom risotto; and Johnny P got his face round a huge homemade burger. It had chips with it that were very good too -- I know this because I stole some. 3. Taking The Mother's homemade cakes to work. There were three -- one chocolate, one coffee and walnut and one lemon with homemade jam in the middle. There was a lot of stickiness in the office for most of the afternoon.
4. The way butter melts on the pancake, and the contrast between the crispy edges and the soft middle soaked with butter and syrup.
ReplyDelete(are you into maple syrup in UK like we are?)
You can get maple syrup, but it's always imported and it's seen as an exotic food! I have my pancakes with jam, black treacle or lemon and sugar.
ReplyDeleteI'll trade - I'll mail some syrup if you mail some treacle (whatever that is) or some good British marmalade.
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