Impy has been busy over the last 48 hours or so, not even having energy nor time to get a post done which has been not good. I had the Dt’s .. well in between snoozing. Let’s see over the weekend I reformatted a laptop and gained a cask of red wine for doing so, caught up with my brother and sister in law who both looked how I felt. Conversation was jilted and crappy and boring but none of us had the energy to chit chat. Mum rang all of us on Thursday night and told us that our uncle (who none of us have seen since we were all little) has lukemia and at present has a white blood cell count 4/108 which is bad enough for the hospital to have rung and called him in at 11pm at night. Mum is upset and worried but the three of us are all like well that is horrible but we don’t even really know him at all. We’ll all be there for mum though.
I went out with a friend and entertained ourselves at a top restaurant up here and spent four hours on Saturday night eating an eight course meal and accompanied by a different wine for each course … I was rather light headed and tipsy by the end of it with a very sated tummy. Awesome experience although I must admit when I looked at the menu sorted for the night I squicked…
Duck liver, compressed apple with honeycomb & rice
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Ostrich, beetroot, goats curd with salted raisins, coffee and sourdough
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Quail with soya beans, swede, peanut, marshmallow & coconut
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Market fish “sous vide” with chorizo, prawn, cauliflower, mandarin & seeds
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Free range pork, carrot marmalade, black pudding & cinnamon
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Beef fillet, potato & mushroom with watercress
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Apricot & vanilla with saffron whip
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Dark chocolate, white chocolate with pineapple & yoghurt
But, apart from refusing to eat the black pudding (ewwwww) I enjoyed every single bit of the meal and it was presented beatifully in all these little tantalising taste explosions in my mouth. Hugely expensive meal but I would happily go back again for a special occassion. We then went off to a local bar for more wine and I ended up sating my accent fetish by talking to a Canadian guy for a good hour asking all sorts of stupid questions just so I could get him to speak hehe.
I got a spa and cuddles with my two favourite peoples and I am always wanting more cuddles and time with them cause I am greedy yano. We watched “The Notorious Bettie Page” and I fell asleep after not much of it (had feck all sleep on Sat night) and then molten and I watched “The Story of O” dvd last night. Verdict …. “the story of O was like watching something worse than bad porn” but we watched it right to the end. I am thinking if I had to watch it again it would be termed “torture”.
Right off to have a coffee … yes one coffee … I have gone a whole week without coffee and we are catching up with friends this morning and I am going to hover over that one coffee and drool and smell it and enjoy every drop (I’m allowed one, that’s it). I’m not a coffee addict noooo. Afterwards I shall probably obtain the dt’s and wish I had never had it but thats why I am a masochist. I enjoy doing cruel things to myself.
Belladonnax
on Jul 27th, 2009
@ 11:49:
Ooh I’ve got that same Bettie Page dvd – can’t be that good though cos I’ve only watched it once. What did you think of it?
Glad Sat night was good *pout* *sulk*
x
vanimp
on Jul 27th, 2009
@ 14:05:
I fell asleep after the first 20 minutes or so (long weekend) so I have to watch the rest of it but I found it interesting. I don’t think I would watch it more than once (properly) though.
Dinner next week you get huggles then
will catch up with you this week xxx
Lilly
on Jul 27th, 2009
@ 14:46:
The menu looks…..weird.
I dont know what some things are, but I will admit that most I wouldn’t try. Rather said, I wouldn’t if I knew what they were first.
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Liras
on Jul 27th, 2009
@ 15:25:
Sorry about you uncle, VnImp.
That menu–had a lot of meat. I like meat geatly but wheewww!
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vanimp
on Jul 27th, 2009
@ 15:33:
@Lilly Actually most of it was presented in small amounts and you kinda ate little bits of foo dwith others, most of that is not normally food I would eat but prepared by a master chef in his special ways …. educating how much food can be played with and turned into something absolutely delectible. I loved the experience of going somewhere mindwise with food I wouldn’t normally try.x
@Liras Not huge pieces we’re talking little amounts, the ostrich was the best part … just about blue, meat that had been hung and was melt in your mouth. I wish I had got photos
mina
on Jul 30th, 2009
@ 07:49:
I am shocked you made it through O. Sylvanus and I quickly took it out of the dvd player the second we heard the music on the menu screen. Eugenie de Sade just ruined it for us.. lol
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