Cooking for four different appetites, four different tastes - and for one latecomer, who would only be able to join the party at 10pm - added spice to the overall menu planning. Whatever happened to 'you'll eat what you're given' I grumbled, whilst frantically paging through recipe books and scouring Pinterest for something to suit the requirements of our fussy foursome. What felt like days later, weary with food fatigue, I settled on the following:
Starter
Zesty smoked salmon on Nigel Slater's classic corn fritters.
Main
Roast sirloin with cauliflower cheese, steamed green beans and my famous roast potatoes (if I do say so myself). I also fashioned a sauce with the pan juices and a splash o' cream - hardly Delia, but it did the job.
Dessert
The Londoner's famous/infamous slutty brownies with good quality vanilla ice cream. I may not have her bottom, but her simple brownies are a dream to whip up.
Slightly overcooked sirloin aside (curses!), the empty plates seemed to indicate less indigestion, more indignation that there weren't more brownies. And I have to say, Jamie Oliver's Know Your Onions food game (picked up by my sister in a Clapham Junction charity shop for a song) did add to the overall foodie atmosphere - one for Christmas stockings in 2013?
