Recent Eats

Whew!

Finally, I have handed in my essay, tidied my room, done my laundry and now I can get back to the more important things in life. Food, and telling pretend people about it. Life is fun.

So obviously, there's a massive backlog of deliciousness that we have to get through. I'll be brief on each one; hopefully this will just be a luscious food-porn-picture-fest, but fasten your seatbelts nonetheless.

A week ago (a WEEK!) I had a rather pleasant surprise dinner made for me by my friend Iveta. Well, all right, it wasn't that fancy. It was some ravioli from Sainsbury's, and I made some cheesy garlic bread to go with it.

It was nice, and we had some fancy tomatoes with basil and chilli on them that really were nice; but the filling did taste suspiciously like sage 'n' onion stuffing. Perhaps they got their mixes mixed up.... Naturally the cheesy garlic bread was awesome. I don't know when it wouldn't be, really.

This is the best ice-cream ever:

It's Caramel Cinnamon Waffle. See what I mean?

On Friday, it was a Jane Austen Society meeting (I told you I lived the life of a crazy student) and we thought we'd make cakes: I made a lemon sponge.

It was really good (Do you know why? Because it had lemon curd and buttercream in the middle, and also icing on the top. That's why.), and there was enough left for afternoon tea with my mate Tomás:

Yum.

On Friday night, I made stirfried prawns with beansprouts and cabbage. Naturally, using prawns out of the freezer. It was really nice (if really quite spicy), and I felt really healthy and worthy. But then we went to the Jane Austen meeting and there was lots of cheese and oatcakes... Oh well.

On Saturday my friend Louise wanted to go to the farmer's market, and I couldn't resist a request like that, could I? I got to hers about 12 and she was just having lunch. I have to admit, I'd forgotten about breakfast and lunch and things like that so she very kindly treated me to one of her specialities: naan bread pizza.

 And do you know what? It was delicious. She claims not to be able to cook, but I think that's not true. She managed to get four duck legs for £3 at the farmer's market and treated us to a lovely roast dinner on Sunday (I provided the swede.)

Rewinding a bit, I wisely remembered my failure to eat breakfast the day before whilst preparing for a hard day in the library on Sunday, so I had a bacon butty.

Cor. That, I think, is the ultimate food.

Then, of course, I had bacon left over and cabbage left from my prawns, so what did I make? Well, cabbage and bacon, obviously.

Now THAT is good food. I used to eat that all the time at home, but I don't seem to much up here. I don't know why though, it's just delicious. Now I do have a confession to make. There wasn't very much cabbage left, so I was still a bit hungry when I'd finished, delicious though it was. I may have caved and had a hotdog. But it was totally worth it!

Nearly there: sausage and chips, with way too much salt and vinegar:

And the perfect spring welcoming food:

 So good.

Speaking of spring, here's the weather one day, and then the weather the next day. It's seriously confusing, I feel like I'm on a film set.

With all that, you must be dizzy. I'll leave it at that! It was a good weekend. (Week.)