There used to be two things that my mum would regularly commission from me for breakfast on Christmas morning. The first (strawberry daiquiris) has been banned from Riches family festive proceedings since 2006 due to the fact that everyone was so smashed by 10.00 a.m. that Christmas lunch became all but impossible. We now have a vastly more civilised Campari and orange and / or champagne cocktail while we open presents which seems to make it easier to get to the post – pudding glass of Benedictine.The other thing is my peaches poached in rose geranium syrup. » Read more: Rose geranium peaches
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WHAT HAVE I BEEN EATING?
- GUAVA PASTE - it's a party in your mouth and only the funniest and sexiest people are invited. LEMON LICORICE MINT - why isn't this available everywhere? I need to make ice cream with this. LAPHROAIG SINGLE MALT WHISKY - the taste of peat, smoke and fisherman without the fish. Would it be wrong to actually steal it from dad's liquor cabinet? GREEN MANGOES - perfume, juice, joy, bliss. RICE PADDY HERB - swampy,peppery, utterly unique. Suddenly I'm back on the Tonle Sap in Cambodia... LAST WEEK'S FAMILY DINNERS: Thai style pork omlettes and steamed rice. Lions head meatballs and steamed rice. Orange and tarragon roast chicken,Vanessa's squash,crusty bread and green salad. Chinese take away (spicy squid, bbq pork in plum sauce, crispy skin chicken, steamed rice). Fragrant squid salad with herbs and lemongrass. Home-made pizzas. Tomato, lentil and basil soup. And the winner was...lion's head meatballs.
