We had Michael, Lil, Steven and Hilary round for dinner on Saturday evening. I decided to use my Ottolenghi Simple cookbook for the first time, and made two dishes that turned out very well. The first course was butternut squash, saffron and orange soup, topped with pumpkin seeds toasted with chopped red chillies and maple syrup. It’s the first time I have used rose harissa in a recipe. It was really good if I say so myself; the flavours went so well together. Then we had haddock cooked in a tomato chilli sauce, drizzled with a tahini sauce. The fish broke up a bit when I served it but it was still tasty. It was nice to cook something different from my usual repertoire, although I was slow to finish my preparation and was rushing to get changed just before our guests arrived. A very pleasant and friendly evening ensued.
After my Saturday cooking it was very nice indeed to go to Heather and Ewan’s for Sunday lunch, where we had a delicious meal. It was great to catch up with them and we had a cosy afternoon chatting. When we got home we were too full to have dinner so we just had some toast while we watched the start of the Amazon adaptation of the Wheel of Time, based on the Robert Jordan books that James has read. I haven’t read them but I’m enjoying the television series so far. It’s a bit reminiscent of Game of Thrones in its setting in a fantasy medieval kingdom, and the characters are interesting.
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