Cheese - it makes everything better

Sometimes life deals you a shit hand but you have to dust yourself down, put a smile on your face and move on. Nothing helps you feel better than dipping things in hot creamy cheese! (reading that back sounds a bit wrong!) Richard and I needed some comfort food after a couple of rough weeks and a baked camembert with some roast potatoes, mushrooms and crusty bread to dip in was just what the doctor ordered.

Not exactly rocket science, yet this meal seems to look and sound a lot more lavish than it is, and with a couple of bottles of wine to accompany it, it was a real treat.

I simply cut a few slits in the top of the cheese, inserted some slice of garlic, splashed with wine white - if I had thyme I would have added that - and stuck it in the oven. Potatoes and mushrooms where drizzled with oil and seasoned and joined the cheese to roast.

I think ten minutes past of complete silence as Richard and I dipped and chewed, and finally smiled for what seemed like a long time!

Friday 2nd April - Hen weekend - Guillanos

Tonight marked the start of my hen weekend to Edinburgh, after a few drinks down on the train, cocktails in Harvey Nichols, followed by wine and then a bottle of champagne. Continued with more wine back at the, hotel as I got ready meant by the time we got to Guillanos I was pretty well on my way!





This meant that while I know what I ordered - Calamari Fritti and Lasagne, I have a picture of the starter and the rest is a blur. I'm sure the food was lovely though, the wine certainly was and it was flowing!

Friday 19th March 2010 - Pizza, I think!

Well the new blog hasn't exactly started how I wanted, mostly because I couldn't find the cable that attaches the camera to the laptop, so while I started it in ernest it didn't quite work out that way! Nevermind Richard has managed to get the photographs onto our home network somehow, so let's get started!

Friday after a few drinks in the pub we went a quick shop to the new Tesco, we bought a couple of pizzas and a box of sushi. After a few wines I started the sushi, almost forgetting to take the picture then I remembered!

A few more drinks later and a comedy fall off the kitchen chair by myself, well I say fall the whole chair with me sitting on it fell over, I blamed the chair maybe I should have blamed the wine, we stuck the pizzas in the oven, or atleast I think we did! The packaging was in the bin and I took photographs but I don't remember eating it! Couldn't have been that good!