raise the red lantern
January 28, 2008
How naughty! Three whole days without a post. Luckily I have so much to share after a weekend in the Lowlands (though somehow almost all of it seems to involves food, both the eating and the making of).
The perfect weekend got off to a fine start with the perfect meal out in the Hague with Double D and Bobby the Preacher (sporting a very debonair new hairstyle).
The key ingredients:
1 bottle of Chard at home
1 great Vietnamese restaurant
lots of red lanterns
6 months’ worth of news to catch up on
beers (lost count)
2 bottles of Viognier out (which mysteriously did not make it onto the bill, extra hurrah!)
aforementioned dining partners
an array of finger-lickin’ly tasty seafood parcels
lots of fresh green herbs and leaves to wrap it in, not to mention a light fish-chilli coriander sauce to dip it all in
1 playground with silly chairs to play on on the way home
1 tram-ride home in a nighttime cityscape
more chatting, this time half comatose, but still determined to talk
Thanks for the best night out. I appreciated your sacrifice of sleep! Do it all again soon? Maybe we could even swap a few of the ingredients and try new ones…
January 29, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Word, sister!
February 28, 2008 at 5:22 pm
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