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Breakfast:

The usual hotel stuff.

Lunch:

A mixed bag – potato salad, sweetcorn, tomato, butter beans, kidney beans, cucumber, along with some chicken nugget type things, cheese-filled chili peppers, and breaded mozzarella.

Dinner:

Italian place called Malatesta (which, I was told by my linguist colleague, means ‘headache’). Lovely restaurant, and food was ok. The Italian in our party reckoned it was pretty close to the real deal. I had fried squid to start with, followed by a main of linguine con vongole, which was well-seasoned and gave a nice hint of the sea. My review on Qype

Breakfast:

Hot cross bun + green tea.

Lunch:

Met up with a friend from work for dim sum at Wing Yip. Amongst the food consumed: har kau (prawn dumplings), paper-wrapped prawns, beef cheung fun, fried dough stick cheung fun, mixed meats with crispy fried noodles, turnip paste with dried meats (A’s favourite), and loads of other things I can’t remember.

Dinner:

Since dim sum is always so filling (or we always order too much), we never really bother with dinner. Having said that, we were peckish enough to make some tuna mayonnaise and sweetcorn baguettes to munch on during Grand Designs revisited.

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up out of necessity as it was a bit stale, so needed a sprinkle of water and a blast in the oven to refresh) with some out-of-date ham.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).