Thursday, December 29, 2005

Cold, Cold, Cold

thewife wanted to go to Glasgow yesterday to visit a Chinese supermarket for a number of things, for tonight's dinner. We are having Lady El round for a few drinks, okay loads of drinks and some tunes. thewife has decided that she is going to to do a couple of Chinese dishes and therefore requires a whole host of authentic jars of sauces. Interesting place too, lots of really weird shit as well as interesting stuff.

Our plans for an early start were somewhat blighted however, by the refusal of the motor to do anything. I reckon its the battery and ring for help in the form of a jump start. Doesn't help at all. I'm still convinced its the battery though, given the extreme cold. I reckon the jump-leads are just too wussey to do the job.

Half an hour later I'm fifty quid lighter, having a new battery, anti-freeze and a set of disc pads. New battery installed and it starts first time. I'll really need to get the brakes seen to though, there's a noise like its metal to metal when braking.

Despite the unexpected expense of vehicle parts, we didn't skimp at all on last night's dinner of Pheasant au Vin. Actually we did. I took two pheasants from the freezer where they've been hiding since the neighbour gave us them in early autumn. A Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, (who else?) recipe worked out just perfect, although I'm quite sure he'd have frowned at the site of Peruvian asparagus. We frowned too, not at the unseasonality of it. Quite the opposite in fact as it was overseasoned. Top tip folks, don't EVER cook asparagus in leftover stock. Apart from that we dined like aristocracy.
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