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We went out to have a b'day lunch.

I had my regular (as in, b'day regular) pint of "nice" beer - this time I went with Kilkenny. Smoothe. Delicious, clean and refreshing as always.

Margerita pizza...it was shitty...too little sauce, too much cheese, and a few leaves of basil on the damn thing doesn't cut it for herbal content and seasoning.

Shared part of a meal of some carved roasted pork, gravy, pumpkin, potatoes, apple sauce. Yeah I mean it was nice. Stock standard, but nice. Who doesn't love a decent roast dinner?
Nothing to write home about but nothing bad to say.
In fact, we ordered too much so took more than half home for River.

Salt and pepper squid with some kind of...I guess they were trying to emulate thai spices...dipping sauce.
The sauce was ok. Needed more chilli and maybe some tamarind, kaffir lime.
I can't not do this now when I eat out, I analyse food too much.
The coating on the squid could have leaned a little more towards pepper...but it was light, there wasn't a lot of absorbed fat on it.
It came with a mixed crunchy salad that didn't do much flavour wise but added a little texture and freshness...theme wise they could have thrown in some bean sprouts and mint leaves, but it was ok.

The squid though - was absolutely NAILED. Done to perfection...and there is a pretty small window in which that can be achieved...it was just one of those occasions you bite into something and it's everything it should be. Excellent.


At home...

Spal made a cake last night.
Chocolate, with purple vanilla light buttercream icing and a few different types, including choc coated, of popping candy. It was fun to eat, and had extra, good quality cocoa mixed in, so the chocolate ratio was pleasing to me.

Had a half a can of coke, will probably continue to say "fuck it" to my no soda rule for the remainder of the day.

Just ate a single piece of chicken from some frozen organic baby/little kid meal.
Acceptable amount of flavour, easy to bite, palatable. I can see why a small child would like this.

Tonight, since it's hot we'll be having something cold.
Crackers, smoked salmon with lemon, avocado, kale coleslaw, tomatoes, some brie we picked up earlier, some hommous...just a bit of a "plate" of stuff.
I like this kind of meal.

I'm assuming throughout the remainder of the evening there might be some chai and/or tea as well.