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Sunday 3 July 2011

HOME FOR TEA

Vintage Embroidered Napkin, Lemon on Sea Bass, Astrolabe wine NZ.

Alphabet Courgette Discs (patent pending)






# 5 Man Alive

Bringing It All Home.

Preparing and selecting food to cook at home is A1 fun. If you really can't be bothered, no worries simply eat out every night and hide your bank account from the debt collector. There are thankfully plenty of Eatery hang outs in an urban metropolis. Sometimes we can let the joys of eating out creep into our lives and it can be an effort to hold it at bay. 



DIY home cooking is like joining the free highway and encourages a sense of imagination. Home cooking also brings comfort, relaxation and familiarity. If it tastes good and is accompanied by someone to share with, there are little better pleasures in life.

There is also the subject of 'real cooking', using ingredients from lovingly home grown products from the veggie patch or greenhouse and experimenting to create a bespoke menu. Let's take a minute to drop tools and admire those lucky, lucky people.

There is also the half way house, purchasing selected ingredients which are carefully cultivated by true specialists and preparing and cooking them yourself.

Some supermarkets, more than others, enjoy selecting the best food, with organic, fresh and local produce. When unable to do that, they aim to source the best imported food from all the rest. Budgens is one such great little find and a favourite of the blogger. There are also few large scale food stores who compete with Waitrose on quality and customer service.

The blogger nipped into a Waitrose store on Marylebone high street to pick up few items for tea. A visit intentionally with no pre conceived idea of what may emerge in the basket.

The first encounter was to the green grocer vegetables department. Items of particularly curiosity and distinction were the round baseball shaped courgettes, long stem organic broccoli and the tiny wee miniature new season potatoes from Suffolk.

Next stop was the maitre d' of the fish counter who smiled and raved- like a post Neighbours Kylie Minogue- about the Anglesey sea bass. Even suggesting to the blogger a new expansive range of food products might flow from the self proclaimed Duchy of Anglesey rather than her step mother in law's range of Duchy of Cornwall. For those interested they may have read Kate was spotted with a shopping trolley in Waitrose on Anglesey island a few weeks before the big wedding.

The blogger's shopping basket contained ....

2 x Anglesey Sea Bass Fillets with Fennel Butter @ £6.49
1 x Long Stem Organic Broccoli
1 x Round baseball Courgette
1 x Bag New Season Suffolk Maris Peer miniature potatoes
1 x Bottle of White wine, Sauvingon Blanc, Astrolabe, Awatare Valley, NZ

The Preparation.

The prep was simple and fun and it was fairly easy to coordinate tuning in the radio at the same time, even for a man. The blogger is of course male.

The fish was handily sold with the fennel butter inserted in its gills, a fresh slice of lemon in a ready packed sealed foil bag and user friendly graphic - 3 easy steps for oven baking.

The baseball courgette was carefully carved at home into Alphabet shapes.

The tasty meal was garnished with Himalayan rock salt and Bart White pepper and served on the careful unintentional omission of non - heated, room temperature cold plates.

Et voila.
 


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