Recharging batteries

[purpletigron]

Unanimous house committee decision to treat ourselves to a nice lunch today, to reward ourselves for surviving this far. We went to the Thai House Restaurant*. I had mushroom toast with hot dipping sauce, fried tofu salad with peanut sauce, and tropical fruit salad with home-made mango ice for dessert. Wow!

D had satay chicken, followed by hot basil chicken with rice; G had hot seafood soup followed by seafood and mangetout stir-fry with rice. Then we came home and floated around in a partial food coma for a while. Things seem a little brighter now :-)

* Some of you have been there with us :-) We learned today that they have an ethical trading arm, SkyMarket, to import speciality ingredients from Thailand and pay a `Fair Trade' style premium to the producers. Hoorah!

Comments

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

Ohh, is that *that* Thai restaurant? Man. I hope you had dessert?

-J

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Yeah ;-)

Fascinating!

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

You all themed your meals!

You had vegetarian (duh!)
D had chicken and G had seafood.

Was this deliberate, or did you each choose for yourselves and then found that you'd each picked a theme? Or is each of you in some way restricted to only a single section of the menu (by diet, religion or personal avocation?)

Sounds gorgeous! Where can I find this restaurant then?

Re: Fascinating!

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

D found that the Lunch Express menu lead that way... and I had the only vegetarian Lunch Express choices available.

G was in a mondo spicy seafood mood (choosing from the full menu :-)

The restaurant is on Churchill Way in Cardiff, and was apparently the first Thai restaurant in the UK outside of London. It's good!

Re: Fascinating!

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

Actually I had mixed satay, with two chicken sticks and one beef one :-)

[crazysoph.livejournal.com]

Oh drool! I wish I could visit!

Crazy(*sniffle*)Soph

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Poor SniffleSoph!

[ethosgurl.livejournal.com]

look, i'm posting in your journal! the reason i hadn't posted before really is i had no idea what you are talking about with all this house stuff or whatver :O

but now i can say: mmmmmmmmmmm mango ice!!!

Fruity taste explosions :-)

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

We're trying to move house, to buy a new one close to an office of the company that my partner G works for since currently, we live 2+ hours drive away (because I used to have a job where we are at the moment, but I was made redundant 18 months ago). However, we have had real problems with actually arranging the sale and purchase - and it is rather stressful (moving house is always described as `up there with bereavement, divorce, marriage, severe illness and changing jobs' in the major life stresses league, but we've had unusually bad luck...)

Anyhow, since I've started eating vegan food, I have realised that I much prefer sorbet to ice cream for any fruit flavours. I have been experimenting with home-made sorbets, since I have a sorbet machine - recent successes include organic lemon, scrumped* blackcurrant and hedgerow elderflower :-) (The blackcurrants had been frozen, hence I was able to do it out of season). The fruits don't need to be cooked, of course, so they are still packed with vitamins. And now, it is strawberry season!!!! :-)

Now I just need to find organic Fairtrade vegan chocolate and nut ices that I like, and I may never miss eating ice cream :-)

* To scrump - to pick a few of someone else's apples, or other fruit: they won't notice, they are bound to be overwhelmed with a glut :-) As it happens, these were amazing, large, sweet blackcurrants growing on an abandoned allotment garden, so hardly belonged to anyone. I also pruned the bushes last autumn to encourage better fruiting this year, although I sadly seem to have failed to propagate new bushes from the prunings. But I still have friends gardening just nearby, so I hope to get more cuttings ... and maybe, fruit! ... this coming season :-)