Most contemporary chefs would be alarmed at the amount of time Bette cooked her scallops for (30 minutes parboiled then 10-15 minutes under the grill) and I was a bit concerned they would be chewy, but they turned out fine. Here are before and after shots of the bacon-y little tidbits.
I am already mildly addicted to checking the new dating site I have joined. Had a really nice chat via the ether with a lovely man who is a 78rpm dealer – what a shame I am in London and he is in Texas!
I like this new site – and not just because it is free. It does the psychometric testing thing but in a much more fun way than eHarmony. Questions are things like “Can anything be made the subject of a joke?” but also things like this:
In the line Wherefore art thou Romeo?, what does wherefore mean?
- Why
- Where
- How
- Who cares / wtf?
Ha ha. I made a schoolgirl error and got it wrong. The correct answer was explained to me by someone I am going on a date with on Tuesday. I do like men who know their Shakespeare – even when I so obviously don’t.
