I had to satisfy my craving for satay tonight so I treated the household to some Chinese takeaway. The girls who work at our local place are from Malaysia, so they know a thing or two about satay, as does their brother who does the cooking. Unfortunately they are not in charge and so the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Food'
A bad day?
March 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Work
A fair definition of a bad day would be realising that it is eleven hours since you arrived at work and you are still there. That sort of sums up today, but it didn’t feel bad – probably a combination of having done a bit of work I was proud of and a colleague bringing [...]
Tags: Food
Careless Whisper
August 4th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Life
Is it really such big news that Cadbury are bringing back the Wispa bar? I’m not saying that I wouldn’t turn one down, but they have only been out of the shops for five years and, lets be honest now, were always a poor attempt at trying to appeal to Aero fans, and when Aero [...]
Watch what you eat
April 3rd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life, Politics, Technology
The story in today’s Crawley Observer about food hygiene standards of local business was endlessly fascinating. There is nothing new about premises being inspected of course, but now the results are easier to find and easier to understand and compare.
I smell a rat
February 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Work
I think I may take sandwiches into work tomorrow. Just in case. Our canteen seizes on any event as an excuse to do a topical menu, hence the shark steaks and pavlova on Australia Day, everything cooked in alcohol on Burns Night and so on. Today we had an e-mail telling us that they are [...]
Tags: Food
One a penny, two a penny…
February 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · Life
There are so many rules about advertising and packaging now. I’m sure everybody heard about that case where a company could not call their sausages “Welsh Dragon Sausages” because they did not contain real dragons. And you can’t put a picture of a plate of beans on baked beans tin without saying ‘serving suggestion’ in [...]
Tags: Food
Turkey
November 25th, 2007 · No Comments · Life
Today we either had an early Christmas dinner or a day-late Thanksgiving dinner. We went up to Essex to visit my sister for lunch and she was kind enough to cook turkey. I like turkey, but we never have it at home. For Christmas we usually have beef and pork. The afternoon was a bit [...]
Stuffed
November 25th, 2007 · No Comments · Life
Today is a special day in the Sikh calendar. I’m not sure of the details – I think its Guru Nanak’s birthday or something like that – but I know its a big deal. One of my work colleagues invited me down to the gurdwara to see what goes on, and so we went there [...]
Under the channel
November 11th, 2007 · No Comments · Music
Yesterday we went on a sort of works' outing to Calais for the day. It was an opportunity to pick up some cheap wine & cigs, browse some unfamiliar shops, and have a meal out and to see what its like going through the tunnel. Having to get to work for 6:15am was a bit [...]
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