Friday 24 June 2011

The end of a long week

Well, many thanks to my devoted army regiment platoon squad of readers, we've had a fine week of food despite it being the end of the month. Mrs Jay has been responsible for most of the creations this week as I've been busy with doing those things a person must do to pay the bills (not that Mrs Jay hasn't been busy, of course. She's had time to not only look after Master Jay but also have a heavy cold and find a job - not a bad week's work).

So we took up one of the ideas and had a lamb tagine using various leftovers that we had lying around. Well, "lying around" probably isn't right, I have a better idea of food hygiene than that, but the point is that we didn't have to really buy anything to make it. In fact our entire grocery bill this week, including the sundries and enough foodstuffs for the ever more voracious Master Jay came to about £38 - around half of our normal outlay. I won't post a recipe for the tagine, as this one was out of my hands, but here's a picture, and if you were to do a search for a quick lamb tagine on the BBC Food website you would easily be able to find it.

Lamb Tagine (left), Resident Moggie (right)
As you can see it wasn't just the human family members who decided this was a meal fit for kings. However excited Resident Moggie got about the tagine though, it didn't compare to her reaction to this, which was our lunch today:
What every lunch should look like
Yes, that is exactly what you think it is. A rare delight, a treat of the highest order, a true example (you could say) of culinary genius. It's a fish finger sandwich.

Bring it on.

3 comments:

  1. I nearly forgot to post this, by the way. I think the young folk might call this an "epic fail". Which is the sort of phrase I'm practising to embarrass Master Jay at a later date.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13782645

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  2. You appear to have only three fishfingers, as opposed to the regulation four. Either your fishfingers are larger than usual, or your bread smaller...

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  3. Sadly, fish finger manufacturers don't seem to have taken this in to account, and they put 12 in a packet. Shall we mount a campaign to ensure that each packet can make 4 rounds of top-quality sandwiches?

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