Tales from Madagascar

Hi there! We have just returned from a wonderful holiday in Madagascar. Happily, the post-holiday blues have not kicked in – you’d think the grim weather or being back at work would bring me down, but honestly, I find myself relaxed and, well, really quite content with life. Maybe it’s all that vitamin D I’ve built up over the last two weeks.

Lemon curd crumble slice

I’m not feeling very inspired at the moment. Sorry, that’s probably not what you want to hear and it’s certainly not a great sign given I’m only 11 posts into this blog. I think it may be because I’ve had such bad luck with food recently.

Loaded potato skins

Every now and again we will make a rare trip to the big Sainsburys at Finchley Rd. This is going to sound extremely sad, but I’ll say it anyway – I love the big Sainsburys! Generally, we are restricted (by our laziness) to the Sainsburys Local and so the selection of ingredients is despairingly poor. No fancy cuts of meat here. You’re lucky if they haven’t run out of fresh veg by 6.30pm. And, for some unknown reason, they insist on only stocking golden yellow icing sugar! Maybe I’m the only one who finds that annoying?

Baked Asian salmon

I’ve been thinking about babies recently.

Not in the context of having any of my own right now. I mean, obviously, obviously not right now. Lord, I can barely look after myself, let alone another helpless human being. No, what I mean is I’ve been thinking about the general concept of having a baby. And no, not the labour part, because frankly I’ve seen enough episodes of “One Born Every Minute” to understand I will NEVER, EVER want to think about THAT. No, I have been thinking about how irrevocably life changing having a baby will be.

Chocolate orange cookies with Cal

I’ve eaten far too much over the last few days.

Tuesday was a particularly indulgent day. I was taken out for lunch with work where I enjoyed a starter of steak tartar, before digging into a super rich main of lobster ‘mac’. I later remembered that I was due to have dinner at a seafood restaurant that night – urgh, more seafood?!