Have arrived back in "Italia" after several weeks away and still can't get my head around the number of take-aways there are in Accy -do people no longer know how to cook over there I ask myself?
During the last week my friend and her husband were back at work -I was acting part-time au-pair as well as doing my own thing but was never trusted to cook the evening meal after making a rather nice (though I say it myself) authentic mushroom risotto early on during my stay. Seems that if I don't jazz-up my cooking "Brit-style" with tons of excessive fried onion, chorizo, chili oil, peri-peri sauce or whatever, "you-name -it" and chuck it in, my cooking is not appreciated. So a string of take-aways it had to be, until Friday evening when my friends hubby, Dave, made one of his famous chilies and attempted to kill me -seems my body does not tolerate red kidney beans -had never had them before and never will again after throwing up the poisonous blighters all night!
Never mind, the remedy to all ailments the next evening, after my being so ill and not eating all day, was a Chinese take-away -Barb-q spare-ribs in some evil red sticky sauce, fried rice, chips (just in case I didn't fancy the chinese), prawn crackers with sweet chili sauce, chicken satay with green peppers, and the only thing I ate (which I ordered myself ) was crispy duck on it's own!
It was so nice to treat my still pained stomach to some fresh tomatoes and mozzarella this evening...perhaps next time I'm over I'll go for the kebabs, Less!
