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Breakfast:

No breakfast. Tut tut. To be fair, I was still full from the meal last night.

Lunch:

Visitors from the US still around, so we went for sushi at Matsuba. I wrote a review on Qype ages ago, but since I always have the same thing – the Matsuba special bento box – it still applies.

Dinner:

After eating out so much this week and last week, it was a relief to have a good old spag bol, cooked by P.

Breakfast:

The hotel doesn’t seem to change breakfast at all, so I had the same as yesterday.

Lunch:

Tagliatelle with broccoli and salmon. Another work canteen special. The tagliatelle was rather overcooked.

Dinner:

We were taken out to a Swiss restaurant called Nola’s. Since we were a large group, we ended up having to choose from a set menu.

Starters were cheese-based dishes, such as baked goat’s cheese, and cheese and spinach salad. My choice of main was pork wrapped in pancetta, which was accompanied by green beans wrapped in bacon. The pork was slightly overcooked but the pancetta was pleasantly thin and crispy. More in my review on Qype.

I’m currently writing this with a stomach that feels like it isn’t digesting my dinner, so I may yet get to see it again some time soon…

Breakfast:

Croissant, with butter and seville orange marmalade.

Lunch:

Had a lunchtime meeting so had to nip to the local sandwich shop to get an egg mayonnaise and bacon baguette. Whilst I can’t fault the undoubted quality of the bacon, I think it’s a mistake pairing such a sweet-cure bacon with egg mayo. I was bad and had some M&S sour cream and jalapeno crisps, but balanced it out with a banana and an apple.

Dinner:

Spag bol, cooked by P. Tasted lovely, but it’s clearly sitting heavily in my stomach. Might be in for a rough night praying to the porcelain god.

One of those days when I didn’t eat at home at all, although I think I managed to eat relatively well.

Breakfast:

I didn’t have a chance to get breakfast at home, but luckily work provide some breakfast supplies. I had a bagel – actually a pale imitation of a bagel, since it was one of those New York Bakery Co. bagels which taste nothing like the lovely bagels I’ve had in New York. Covered in Philadelphia light cream cheese with chives, surreptitiously eaten while on a call with someone.

Lunch:

Took my boss out for lunch – yes, I’m such a brown nose – and decided to see what the H2O Floating Restaurant was like in cold weather. I’ve been here before, as part of a large group, in the peak summer months; unsurprisingly, the tiny galley kitchen they have struggled to cope with a large number of covers, but given that there was just the two of us in the whole place today, service was speedy and the food pretty good. I had spaghetti with scallops in a chilli tomato sauce. Nicely spiced, and plenty of scallops chucked in.

Dinner:

It was the annual quiz night at work tonight and as we’ve got such great facilities for social events like this, catering was ordered in. There was a nice selection of sushi, some not-so-nice fried things that looked like spring rolls but seemed to be filled with cheese (and they were cold), some weird flat-bread sandwich affairs, falafel and other bits and pieces. I majored on the sushi which, for mass catering, was nice enough.

I’ve been knocked sideways by a cold (unexpectedly for me, since I normally manage to shake them off within 24 hours), so the food intake was of the comforting variety.

Breakfast:

A warmed up baguette (warmed up out of necessity as it was a bit stale, so needed a sprinkle of water and a blast in the oven to refresh) with some out-of-date ham. Breakfast was taken relatively late at 10am, 3 hours after waking up. Being ill, I didn’t really have much of an appetite, but then I started watching Sky-plussed editions of Taste (the Sky food programme hosted by the impossibly gorgeous Beverley Turner) and the stomach stirred. I’m not sure I’d be so bothered about Taste if it wasn’t for the presenter – the chefs seem a bit B-listy, but it’s diverting enough.

Lunch:

A bowl of chicken and sweetcorn soup, followed by a bowl of crabmeat and sweetcorn soup. Made by mixing a tin of creamed sweetcorn with an equal amount of water and a sprinkle of bouillon (if I were being good, I’d use proper stock, of course), stirring in some beaten egg, thickening the whole lot up with a flour paste (if I had cornflour, I’d have used that instead), and boiling it up until it thickened a bit. Poured into a bowl containing some meat picked off the chicken wings I’d used to help the stock along on Sunday. Since there wasn’t really enough chicken to go round for two bowls, I cracked open a tin of crabmeat and stirred that into the remaining soup for my second bowl.

Dinner:

Was supposed to be tacos but P had bought just the taco shells, which didn’t contain a taco spice mix. I’d have knocked up a spice mix myself, but we didn’t have any dried minced onion or garlic powder, so anything I made would have been a bit anaemic. We ended up having chicken pesto pasta (with the pesto a ready-made affair from Waitrose, for shame).