Weaner Wednesdays

Weaner Wednesdays, last reported at reference 1, continue with just the odd lapse. So on one occasion, I forgot not to take bacon at a hotel buffet breakfast. With the penalty taking the form of the bacon being far too salty. And on another, quite late in the evening, I forgot not to flash my credit card at an online shop. With the penalty taking the rather mild form of the wine concerned failing to turn up in a complete box, the top half of the box being absent. So no use for packing with rock wool to add to the insulating pile around the cold water tank in our now colder roof. A project last mentioned in these pages at reference 2.

This Wednesday, it was the turn of macaroni cheese with garlic, but on a previous occasion BH went the whole hog (so as to speak) and did us a full-on nut roast. A catch, from her point of view, being the large amount of preparation involved, not least passing the nuts through a food mixer. But given that it was her first attempt at such a thing, not bad at all, with a good flavour. But more work is needed on the water content, with this roast being a little soft to my palette.

Bets hedged with a conventional crumble, quite possibly plum crumble made using those big, dark, foreign plums you get in supermarkets. Even when proper English plums should be in season.

PS 1: the white specks on the roast are sesame seeds, much smaller than the yellow sesame seeds we used to get on the flat loaves sold by Cypriot bakers in Green Lanes of Harringay. But the Wikipedia entry suggests that there are lots of different sorts.

PS 2: I don't think the baker right is the right one at all. Neither the right tone nor quite the right place, which I think was the next block or so to the left. The white building at the end of the line, on the other side of the North Circular was, in our time, called the Cock Tavern. I remember it as more Irish than biker or acid (as mentioned at reference 4), but then, I was never or very rarely there in the evening.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2022/11/weaning-wednesdays.html.

Reference 2: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2022/10/loft-ladder.html.

Reference 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame.

Reference 4: https://www.closedpubs.co.uk/london/n13_palmersgreen_cockinn.html. '1974/75 used to go to The Cock Inn when it was a Biker pub coz you could buy acid there. It was a bit rough and the sinks were usually full of pee. You'd be pushed around and it was a heavy place. But you could buy good acid, so you'd come back'.