UKCruiseJeff

Good Afternoon Coolers, from a warm and sunny England. Today we had Keralan lamb curry with a bhindi, aloo, gobi pilaf. But I think we were both out of salts today and was recovering from the shock of what has been a consistent regular annual seam of our lives which was our Eurovision. It has become so extremely poor, and also so unrepresentative of the majority’s normality. It has become a freak show of untalented performers with poorly written material derailed by angry ignorant minorities trying to ensure that the minorities control the quiet lives of the long-suffering majorities. One of the enriching new’ish and growing components of Eurovision is how it became a real annual adoption and focus for the gay community. I think they elevated and made the experience considerably more fun for those people that aren’t gay. But yesterday, most of the London pubs were cancelling the gay Eurovision events through fear from political violent Gaza protests. So we had already lost a Eurovision that we could make any sense of and lost the gay events that enjoyed it anyway and made up for it’s awfulness and took us along with them. I have no idea whether this makes any sense to non-Brits let alone fellow Brits but that is where I think a quiet but large number of Europeans felt. We feel, bewildered, bereaved and marginalised by loud groups that make no sense. Anyway ….. here is the plate! Jeff

I must admit that was the one thing I didn’t think of asking anybody. 🙂 This won’t be everyone’s cup of tea but perhaps as an addition to the daily funnies Coolers might not have come across a lovely Youtube channel called Letters Live. The majority are extremely funny and tickle the cranial buds and this is a nice one from Miriam Margoylyes. I got her to do a Cameo for my wife acouuple of years back for our anniversary and she was lovely. These letters nearly always bring a smile.

It was all so utterly depressing, we spent most of the evening listening to live music stream of early music from Assisi and it was captivating. Jeff

I asked them but they wouldn’t answer me.

Excellent. It is once of our favourite vegetable dishes. Waxy reds diced largely and steamed until just under, fried slowly’ish in butter and olive oil with a sprinkle of ground nutmeg, pepper and sea salt and parsely. It is sweet and lovely. 🙂

Glad it was helpful. We’ve been talking about taking a few trips back. We are so fortunate that Paris is so close and so miss our stomping grounds of Coupole, Bofinger, Lipp etc and all those great value Michelin lunches. A bit surprised by the ptice of the laurent perrier grand siecle. Hope you get there. Jeff

I thought you would be interested in this story from The Times: The Paris restaurant where you choose your wine — and it chooses your food. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/7bf5820e-648b-422f-b5a0-eef184b2c255?shareToken=6aab31af42c7cde24309336e91a371ce

Been watching the live Primavera streams over the last few days .. not sure how much is left …

Good Afternoon `Coolers, Today was a special request from The Boss. Salmon and my cheats sauce. And for Spins ….. PEAS!

Cassettes? 8-Track surely much better! And with it brings the opportunity to listen to two tracks at the same time plus a loud clunk in the middle when changing tracks. 🙂 Do I detect slightly less bounce in your step in the last post? Hope stuff isn’t exceeding the mid-niggle point. Keep your pecker up. Lie back and think of England. Jeff

I saw what you did there.

Take your wine with you so that you do not need to subsequently whine.

I appreciate wine. I like almost any wine. My preference is if someone else buys it and pours it in a mug for me. And when my mug is empty buys more. It has in fact never happened, I am the dribbling man in Dirty Rotten Rascals.

Lucky you … nothing this far south but watching it live on Youtube from an East Midlands back garden. You can run the feed back to see some earlier highlights. Hope the link works …

Good Evening Coolers, An unsuccessful day on the cake front! 🫣 The boss declared she was in a cake mood this afternoon so I set about making an almond cherry Madeira cake. But even with the proper precautions the cherries sunk. 😞 So I’m too ashamed to post a piccy. Last night was another heavily sleepless night and at around 3am I had the yearnings for some bread and butter and a little jam. The great thing about always having a couple of boxes ready in the fridge is that you can be eating some slices from a well developed dough in less than an hour. The new oven proves bread in 20 to 30 minutes and then I can bake it with a few steam squirts in another 30 for a lovely crisp fresh baton. So last night was a lightly malted onion ficelle with butter and house red in a lovely silent kitchen. Always keep a box of dough ready for emergencies. Have a great evening all. Jeff