Sunday 11 October 2009

Weekend chef strikes again


Tonight's Soup du Jour


Hang on a minute! Large quantities of vegetables that haven't been totally murdered... what's going on?


Dessert. I knew it couldn't last! Fortunately before I could eat this fine fare my friend Sam dropped by with a takeaway smoked salmon salad from Mr Antony Worrall-Thompson's restaurant in Windsor.


It was hideous. I don't know how I managed to force it down, or the sticky toffee pudding that followed it. It's time old Wozza came here and learned how to cook properly.

15 comments:

  1. Are you sure you're not suffering Stockholm Syndrom :/

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  2. I didn't eat the soup, the main course or the dessert. That's a lie... I did eat the broccoli because it was actually cooked reasonably well. I did eat the smoked salmon, including the plastic container that it came in.

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  3. Nothing like a well-prepared plastic container... The salad looks delicious!

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  4. The soup doesn't look too bad. What kind was it? They do a lovely minestrone in the hospital I work in. The lentil and bacon smells lovely as well. The broccoli doesn't look boiled into submission which is good. That pasta looks a bit dubious though. My little one would be happy to have your jelly though. Perhaps they could have served it with the lunchtime ice cream and you could have had a little kid's birthday party!

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  5. what happened to the ice cream with that jelly?

    Squid in white wine sauce? hmmmm

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  6. The soup was tomato and butter-bean with a faint taint of battery acid about it. Not pleasant.

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  7. Is that jelly, real jelly, my goodness, did they give you a paper hat as well.

    Lentil soup perhaps, salad looked lovely, no wonder you wanted to eat the plastic container, bet you licked it though.

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  8. The pasta was specially formulated to have the texture of a lukewarm slug as each piece of rigatoni slid down the throat. Not one of the best dishes so far. As for the jelly... at least this time it was set. My last jelly was liquid and drinkable.

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  9. eurgh, hospital pasta.....I remember chasing it around the plate as it split into fragments after being boiled within an inch of its life!

    I like your blog, but it sucks you have to be in hospital though, I hope you're not in too much longer? Isn't it amazing how the days just sorta revolve around when they serve food or drugs! :o)

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  10. Funny you should say the pasta had the texture of a lukewarm slug - I thought it was lukewarm slugs. The salad looks lovely. It also looks pretty , which is one way to tempt an invalid's appetite - what a pity the hospital chefs haven't learnt that simple lesson.

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  11. Hi TM! I was out and about all day, I'm glad you had some salmon today as well! Barbara

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  12. Read out Blog http://bit.ly/ZrfDk for the truth about the AWT's food at Windsor Grill.
    Sam

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  13. Dear Patient (or IMpatient ?),

    Your lovely line about custard a few days ago inspired this villanelle :

    A WATERY GRAVE ?

    How much watery custard can one man take
    unto his system, without major breakdown,
    in a hospital bed which no one will make ?

    Couldn’t we have, please, a nutritious milk-shake ?
    I see caterers - all with thunderous frowns.
    How much watery custard can one man take ?

    “We don’t do no favours for no toff-type fake
    an’ all meals what we serve, soon enough turn brown”
    in a hospital bed which no one will make.

    Don’t know what’s worse, hunger, or damned tummy-ache;
    longing for days I could go out on the town.
    How much watery custard can one man take ?

    Should I die, then enjoy fat feast at my wake ?
    That won’t work, it would just get me down,
    in a hospital bed which no one will make.

    Give me some real food, have mercy, for my sake
    I would cure, or at least lose permanent frown !
    How much watery custard can one man take
    in a hospital bed which no one will make ?

    Alan McAlpine Douglas

    Wish you well on your journey to recovery, and the overcoming of ALL obstacles and hospital food.

    Alan Douglas

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  14. AAAAAAAAAAAAAARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

    WHAT IN GOD'S NAME IS THAT MUCK! THE WHITE STUFF I MEAN!

    *SHUDDER*

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  15. The dessert's the worst of the lot. Cranberry juice? Euuch! And everytime they serve the main, it's always accompanied with wet, bolied, vegetables. What a poor soul you are.

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