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Sunday Dinner Spread

We had a fabulous homemade dinner on Sunday. While still lounging around on Devil's Dyke, Yukiko texted Olduvai to say she had bought some mussels and would like us to join her for dinner if we didn't already have dinner plans. We were planning to have a homecooked dinner anyway, so it was just perfect. The more the merrier! Seriously, eating alone is just depressing. Companionship and good conversation are all integral to a good meal.

Our dinner spread consisted of mussels, baked pork ribs, mixed salad dressed with lemon juice and olive oil, baguette and dessert.

The mussels were SO easy to make. The tedious part really was identifying, one by one, which mussels were still alive by having to tap them and making sure they clam up. Then we had to scrub them individually as well. Mind-numbingly boring task. But after that was done, all we had to do was put them in a pot [fyi - Brits call it a 'saucepan'], put in 200ml of white wine together with some garlic cloves, chopped tomatoes and a bunch of basil leaves. Cook for about 4 minutes and it's done!

The mussels were really fresh and it tasted fantastic with the fresh flavours from the wine, tomatoes and basil.

Olduvai's baked spare ribs were great and satisfied my meat craving.

Our dessert platter had the absolutely divine Duchy's chocolate tart. It's seriously good with its dark bitter taste and the buttery shortcrust pastry. I ate far more than I should, but what the heck. The strawberries, grapes and English plums were the healthy desserts. And lastly, some Stilton and Gongozola cheese - but we kinda passed that over in the end 'cos the chocolate tart was too tempting.

Needless to say, we were completely stuffed!

Posted by DSD at August 30, 2007 9:29 AM