Things I did last week

[kake]

On Monday I had Ecuadorian lunch at El Rincon Quiteno in Holloway, then went shopping for Burmese groceries at Mum's House in Wood Green. After that, I trundled across to Walthamstow to have a half of locally-brewed beer in the Olde Rose and Crown before grabbing a quick bite to eat at Priya (RGL review to come) and then getting a bus down to choir in Leyton.

On Tuesday I cleared a backlog of admin stuff and had another (failed) bash at making almond burfi.

On Wednesday I went to the Ledbury in Notting Hill for ewan's birthday meal. The food was good, but the service was completely lacking in rhythm and terribly slow. superpitching and I left before dessert because it was getting on for midnight (and we'd sat down just after 8pm).

On Thursday I was in pain.

On Friday I tried to sort out some of my photos from the Ledbury, but there appears to be something weird going on with colour profiles in one or all of: Snow Leopard, the GIMP, Firefox, Preview, and Safari. (Yes, I know the default gamma has changed — I always used to set my gamma to 2.2 anyway, so I doubt it's that.)

On Saturday and Sunday I slept. A lot.

Comments

[nanaya]

Ooh! Burmese food! I must remember that.

[kake]

Oh, are you a fan? I know very little about the cuisine, and what I've uncovered so far seems to be quite heavily fishy (if not explicit fish, then dried fish/shrimp paste/ etc). Meemalee is Burmese, and has a few Burmese recipes on her blog, if you're interested. I can't remember if it's eggs or dairy you don't eat, but she has an egg curry recipe I've been planning to try. I also want to visit Mandalay restaurant on Edgware Road at some point.

[nanaya]

I don't know a lot about it, but I want to learn more. I tend to like a lot of South East Asian food, so I hope I would like Burmese.

It's dairy I don't eat - I eat free-range eggs.

[kake]

I found the egg curry recipe! It is here, and it's ovo-veggie if you omit the optional fish sauce.

[nanaya]

Ah, tasty! I recently discovered a vegan 'fish' sauce recipe, designed to substitute for just such occasions. I haven't tried making it and so cant give any kind of review, but I could try and find you the link if you're interested?

[kake]

Yes please! I'm guessing there's probably seaweed involved, mmm seaweed.