One is fun !!

My turn to cook today. Back to basics with Delia's "One is fun!"- one of the first cookery books I understood.

What about Crab and mushrooms au gratin? Rice, onion, mushrooms, crabmeat, cheese, breadcrumbs and a drop of dry sherry: cooked in stages and finished off under the grill.

To follow? Chocolate mocha mousse to be served in tall stemmed glasses with a cream and coffee sauce to serve.  This to be made first because it needs a couple of hours in the fridge.

The main course comes under the heading "Fun Fish": the follow up under "Happy Endings".
How can you make a disaster out of this?

I'll tell you.

Open the frig door to watch the tall stemmed glasses with chocolate mocha mousse, which have been balanced in the door because the glasses are too tall to stand on the frig shelves, fly through the air with the greatest of ease and disintegrate as they hit floor with a great crash. Cleaning up chocolate moccha mousse is bad enough, but when it is mixed with two tall stemmed wine glasses, the language goes up a notch or two! "Dear me!" I think I said.

This is before starting the crab and mushrooms au gratin. Any good cook, or even an unfortunate one can tell you how difficult it is to proceed when half the meal has already gone for a Burton!

"One is fun"; "Fun Fish" and "Happy Endings" it certainly was not.

But, perhaps the earlier part of the day was better?

Look out of the window: weather fine; but Indians are sending smoke signals.

Go down to the sea to see what's going on.

Weather doesn't look too promising; nor does the smoke from the nearby oil field.

Bit of a problem getting into the restaurant because of parking problems.






But then, there's got to be sympathy for the poor bloke who has to come out and wash this after having just done his wife's car!

Fancy living in one of those luxury apartments on the right and finding this parked outside your bedroom window!

I forgot to mention the hot chocolate in the restaurant was cold!