Suprise Sunday session with my squeeze yesterday as his prior engagement was canceled. What a TREAT! Firstly he disappeared into the kitchen to make me breakfast (he’d brought all the ingredients with him) and to my surprise emerged with this:
Croque Monsieur a la Rathbone. Aint it pretty? It was the nicest breakfast anyone has ever brought me in bed.
Then we went on a little shopping trip and he bought me an ice-cream at Gelato Mio in Muswell Hill. I have never set foot in this place before because effectively ice-cream is BANNED from my life but occasionally I will make an exception. And then I love it.
They were freaking enormous ice-creams and magnificent. We sat on a bench outside the shop eating them and a woman who had seen us in the supermarket stopped to say that she’d noticed how lovely we were being to each other while we did our shopping. I resisted the temptation to say the same thing I did to Jane Horrocks the other day, “we’ve only been seeing each other for a few weeks!” by means of explanation..
In the afternoon we watched the first half of Gone With the Wind, then I made Southern Fried Chicken to Omar Sharif’s recipe which turned out mighty fine:
We scoffed it and then watched the second half. Mr. R seemed to enjoy it, although probably not half as much as I did.
Regular readers will know that Gone With the Wind is the film I traditionally watch when a relationship comes to an end. I throw the phone out of the window, pull all the curtains, drink wine and eat salty snacks for 4 hours solid. Scanning through the blog I see that I watched it under these circumstances once in 2006, once in 2007, once in 2009 and once in 2012. Funny how the memory works though, I can’t even remember who two of the men were who made me all miserable back then. I have high hopes for this new one…
I’ve suggested that we make a pilgrimage here:
A balti house in Rochdale. I’m not sure if you can eat in or if it is takeaway only, it’s hard to tell from the pictures:
I wonder if Omar would come out for a curry with us if we asked him?
Here’s Omar’s recipe, which is gleaned from this fabulous book
Recipe for Omar Sharff fried chicken please lhad the recipe years along but lost it .
Hi Nora – I’m away from my recipe books for a few days but I promise to seek the recipe out when I am home again and will post it here, and email it to you – best wishes from snowy Dorset – Jenny
Hi Nora – I’ve added the recipe to the post and I’ll email it to you too. Do let me know how your chicken turns out! Jenny x