An evening fry-up

There's nothing like a good old greasy fry up in the evening, it manages to taste totally different from how it does in the morning. Last night I was feeling particularly sorry for myself and when Mr P asked what I fancied eating I replied with sausage and egg.. so we had that.

Mr P made a gorgeous creation of sausages (pork and apple), egg, mushrooms, a potato rosti (perhaps my favourite part) and tomatoes. It was so so lovely. And then I drunk about a litre of hot orange squash, the perfect remedy for a rotten cold.

Today I went out for lunch with some colleagues to Nandos. On hearing where they were going I almost refused. I'm a bit of a Nandos snob you see, I don't understand why anyone would want to go to a restaurant where all they can eat is chicken - odd. You can surely have chicken and chips any day so on going to a restaurant I usually want to try something a bit different. Anyway, not wanting to be a bore I went along and was mildly surprised. I had a quarter chicken with chips and some corn on the cob.

The chicken was the star of the show, it was so so moist and really very nice. I'm not a huge fan of chicken being served on the bone, but I managed to get over that. The chips and corn on the cob were both pretty tasty, and I was as excited as a child on Christmas Eve about the free refills of soft-drinks. At over £2 I was hoping my beverage would at least be large, but on being given an empty glass I was slightly perturbed until I spotted the drinks counter with a choice of taps offering different drinks.

I have of course been visiting the toilet every ten minutes after the sheer volume of coca cola I consumed at lunch.

On another note I really fancy trying those new extra crunchy walkers crisps. I'm not sure how you can make crisps crunchier, but their ad campaign has obviously worked on me as I am extremely intrigued.

Toad in the Hole

Mr P made an absolutely delicious toad in the hole last night.

We didn't have enough plain flour and on ringing my mum she said to "steer clear" of self-raising flour, however Mr P took a chance.. and boy it paid off!

The sausages (Tesco finest Cumberland) were nice, a tad peppery perhaps but pretty tasty. The yorkshire pudding rose beautifully around the little porkies and was slighty crispy on top however still soft and doughy underneath.

It was quite simply delicious.

We had it with just gravy, peas and a little bit of Dijon mustard. I shall attempt to post a pic when I have figured out how.

I am very much looking forward to tonight's evening meal, we're going to have some beef kebabs and Mr P made a little rosemary marinade for the beef last night which it has been resting in ever since, so there are high expectations.