Monday, monday...

I love public holidays, an extra day to sleep in and potter around. This morning I got up relatively early and made some scrambled eggs. I make them in the microwave (so simple and easy) and add shallots and cheese and a splash of milk to the mix. I just use whatever cheese is floating around the fridge; today it was some mersey valley.


Yum! I get my eggs from "the egg lady" a lovely older woman who comes into my work and sells the eggs from her backyard chooks. They are the most amazing eggs ever, huge with bright orange yolks and they taste great. Much better even than free-range supermarket ones.


After breakfast I went shopping on the pretext of having my eyebrows shaped when I suddenly found myself in the Tea Centre. Oh my, how did that happen, I may now have to purchase some tea. And I did.

I bought a cute tea tin and a 50g packet each of the tea centre "Cream" and their "Tea Centre OP". I tried the Cream as soon as I got home.

Very, very nice. It tastes like a creme brulee, but not overpowering.

Over the weekend I bought three books, all of them food related , they were all a bargain though!

The Pleasures of English Food: a fun little paperback with articles on various English foods; e.g. apples (8 pages!), stargazey pie, yorkshire puddings, separate entries for high tea and afternoon tea, kipper etc.

This is kind of like Kitchen Confidential but an expose on food critics and their influence on how we eat and cook.

Started out quite good, haven't finished it yet.

A Year in Provence

I'm about halfway through, very entertaining.

Thats all! I bought some beef I will attempt to pot roast in my slowcooker, I am going to go and brown it and get it started. If it is nice I will put some pics up tonight. If not I will delete all mention of the pot roast from this post!!!