Saturday, October 07, 2006

Carluccios and ready made meals

No pictures to post today. Only words to describe what we ate and did. M wanted to go to a designer warehouse sale, Nicole Farhi so we had lunch outside. Carluccios. One of those franchise italian restaurants.

http://www.carluccios.com/CarlucciosSite/pages/home/default.asp

I quite like it, its relatively cheap and you get enormous portions of pasta. I had potato gnocchi with blue cheese and spinach, an excellent combination incidentally, something i would explore on my own when M isn't eating. M doesn't like spinach. M had lasagne. The sale was alright, M didn't manage to get anything, she did get something for me though. Its her new pet project, revamping my wardrobe. We came back late, massive grocery shopping, I have to cook dinner for M's friends tomorrow. Wanted to cook porridge but two hours to prepare chicken stock was too long a wait for us and so we decided to have pasta instead. Waitrose ready made tortellini stuffed with ham and cheese and a four cheeses sauce from Waitrose as well. I added the chicken meat from the preparation of the stock and some mushrooms and thats a complete meal.

Anyway, going to be a long day tomorrow. Hopefully, the menu I prepare is good enough for guests. Its potato and leek soup and chicken chasseur. If all goes well, I will post the pictures tomorrow.

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