Looking Out To Sea

It may be hard to tell, but we’re doing a metric crapload of cooking at the moment. I know, you would never have guessed. The real trouble with cooking (apart from the time, and the expense and the motivation and…) is finding people who want to eat food! Hard to believe, but people apparently have lives and obligations which take precedence over free food. Can’t understand it, myself.

Luckily Nick had no life excuse and came round to help us with a Thai curry this evening. We had a good laugh and great food, which you can read about on Helen’s blog right now.

That means we’ve done at least one recipe every day this week, in case you were having trouble with the numbers. Obviously that might not seem odd — doesn’t everyone eat several times a day? — but let me tell you it’s fraught with difficulty. Getting someone round for a relaxing evening and still getting through a recipe was quite gratifying. We often end up very stressed when there are lots of people coming for a meal, which probably makes everything seem all the more awkward.

I guess that’s the perils of entertaining.