Week 20: (mostly) Slow in London by our community manager
This week I'm turning Japanese (did you hear the 80s pop song in your mind?) It's all soupy noodles and sushi trains.
Monday 3 November
The usual breakfast of a boiled egg with or without E5 Bakehouse sourdough toast, and a cup of Colombian coffee with raw milk.
A homemade sandwich: sourdough, Jarlsberg, tomato, pickled cucumber adds a good piquancy, and mayonnaise. Another coffee. A banana.
Some pistachios.Later yo sushi: pumpkin korreke, vegetable gyoza, salmon and avacado hand roll, aubergine, some salmon maki.
A chocolate bar.
Tuesday
The usual breakfast.
A homemade sandwich: sourdough, Jarlsberg, tomato, pickled cucumber adds a good piquancy, and mayonnaise. Another coffee.
Japanese for dinner: aubergine in a spicy sauce, salmon teriyaki, Asahi.
Cocktails at a near by bar. I get ridiculously disappointed when I order a martini and it comes in a champagne saucer not a martini glass.
A chocolate bar.
Wednesday
The usual breakfast.
Lunch: left over from Sunday spelt spaghetti with capers, yellow courgettes in a tomato sauce with grated cheddar. A banana.
Dinner: left over Saturday takeaway: local Indian veg samosas, a paneer dish, paratha. I cooked my own rice.
Thursday
The usual breakfast.
A homemade sandwich: sourdough, Jarlsberg, tomato, pickled cucumber adds a good piquancy, and mayonnaise. Another coffee. A banana, a mandarin, a plum.
Vegie ramen and gyoza, Asahi out.
No chocolate bar, some Jarlsberg at home.
Friday
The usual breakfast.
A bought brie and cranberry toastie, another coffee. A banana.
A toasted sandwich with soy and sweet chilli fried tofu + egg, tomatoes, mayonnaise, hommous, Jarlsberg, pickled cucumber, Sriracha sauce. A lager.
2x chocolate bar! It's Friday.
Saturday
The usual breakfast. Another coffee at the market. Didn't buy much except for fairtrade bananas, organic eggs, Isle of Wight tomatoes and ingredients for tonight's pumpkin and tofu laksa for friends, as I knew I'd be out most of the week. And bread nearby, my favourite E5 Bakehouse. The inspiration for the laksa was an Australian (of course) recipe I read. I went to Longdan for more coconut cream and those spongy tofu pieces you use in laksa. IThe recipe said to peel and roast the pumpkin. I settled for just roasting with black pepper and lava salt in olive oil.
During cooking had a piece of spelt toast with hommous and fresh tomato as I'd skipped lunch. Had bought laksa paste previously but again I didn't use it. Just low fried freshly grated ginger, chopped garlic, cloves x3, and British chillis half red and half a green, plus fresh coriander at the end and freshly squeezed lime juice. Noodles, no vegetable stock, only mostly coconut cream and some milk. I'm not that fond of bean sprouts so they didn't get a look in. Plus they're one of the few vegie foods that could be contaminated. Those delicious fried shallot sprinkles on top when served. Even if I say so myself, the laksa was delicious.
Red wine, during Doctor Who prosecco and home made cookies that my friend brought and whisky during sci fi scrabble. I argued the case for bront as an abbrieviation for brontosaurus and got away with it.
Sunday
Argh. The usual breakfast. More coffee. Dishes. Cycled to the cinema to see Interstellar. Hhmm. A glorious mess is the best non spoiler I can do (and pinched that from someone else). Pistachios and home made cookies.
Home to a toasted sandwich with soy and sweet chilli fried tofu + egg, tomatoes, mayonnaise, hommous, Jarlsberg, pickled cucuymber, Sriracha sauce. And Chocolate bar.
Read Week 19: “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy" - Benjamin Franklin
By our community manager Georgie Knight @slowfoodLondon aka @mermaid99.
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