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29th February! Cor, I've been up to a lot this month. Skip to the end for the super-awesome part!
On a very cold and clear Winter night, Emily and I met up at Waterloo and decided to take a ride on the London Eye. While it looks like the Eye rotates quite slowly from the ground, when you're in a pod time seems to go fairly quickly. It was pretty cool picking out all the landmarks we knew.
It only got colder for the first weekend of February. I met up with Emily and some of her friends for an early birthday meal at a pizzeria called Bianco43 in Greenwich before having a walk around Greenwich Park. That night it snowed, and I met up with the Hampstead crew again on Sunday, where Emily's friends had been up since dawn making these rather awesome snow sculptures:
I suggested making a snow Dalek, so we did! It's harder work than it looks, but the snow was great for clumping together into shapes.
I have eaten well this month!
On the second weekend, my parents put our family up in a hotel in Portsmouth overnight so we could meet up and have dinner with my aunt and cousins. We ate in a private room in a pub on Gunwharf Quays called The Old Customs House; I had fish and chips for the first time in a long while and everyone's meals looked really good. It was really nice to catch up with my cousins.
For Emily's birthday (and totally not for Valentine's Day, nuh-uh), Emily brought over her fondue set and we sat on the floor eating fondue before watching modern Doctor Who. A week later it was Shrove Tuesday, and we made pancakes; I had savoury crêpes for the first time (asparagus, mushroom and cheese) and it was totally awesome.
In my entry for December I mentioned that Emily had booked a restaurant for my birthday, and this weekend we made it there. Dans le Noir? is a restaurant where you eat in pitch darkness. The menu is also a surprise, within any dietary requirements you have, and is designed to appeal to your remaining senses.
We were lead by our (blind) waiter to our table, and the feeling of distinct unease dissipated quite quickly after I was seated and able to find Emily's hand. The restaurant doesn't make any particular concessions to the darkness - we were expected to pour our own water from the jug and we used cutlery during each course (although I tended to prod my dish after finishing to make sure I hadn't missed anything!)
What we actually had was revealed to us afterwards, but in the spirit of the meal I won't say what we had in this post in case anyone else fancies going (and I'd highly recommend it!) and they don't happen to rotate the menu often. However, I will describe it:
A very odd thing that Emily and I both noticed was that we can remember vision from that evening.
It only got colder for the first weekend of February. I met up with Emily and some of her friends for an early birthday meal at a pizzeria called Bianco43 in Greenwich before having a walk around Greenwich Park. That night it snowed, and I met up with the Hampstead crew again on Sunday, where Emily's friends had been up since dawn making these rather awesome snow sculptures:
I suggested making a snow Dalek, so we did! It's harder work than it looks, but the snow was great for clumping together into shapes.
I have eaten well this month!
On the second weekend, my parents put our family up in a hotel in Portsmouth overnight so we could meet up and have dinner with my aunt and cousins. We ate in a private room in a pub on Gunwharf Quays called The Old Customs House; I had fish and chips for the first time in a long while and everyone's meals looked really good. It was really nice to catch up with my cousins.
For Emily's birthday (and totally not for Valentine's Day, nuh-uh), Emily brought over her fondue set and we sat on the floor eating fondue before watching modern Doctor Who. A week later it was Shrove Tuesday, and we made pancakes; I had savoury crêpes for the first time (asparagus, mushroom and cheese) and it was totally awesome.
In my entry for December I mentioned that Emily had booked a restaurant for my birthday, and this weekend we made it there. Dans le Noir? is a restaurant where you eat in pitch darkness. The menu is also a surprise, within any dietary requirements you have, and is designed to appeal to your remaining senses.
We were lead by our (blind) waiter to our table, and the feeling of distinct unease dissipated quite quickly after I was seated and able to find Emily's hand. The restaurant doesn't make any particular concessions to the darkness - we were expected to pour our own water from the jug and we used cutlery during each course (although I tended to prod my dish after finishing to make sure I hadn't missed anything!)
What we actually had was revealed to us afterwards, but in the spirit of the meal I won't say what we had in this post in case anyone else fancies going (and I'd highly recommend it!) and they don't happen to rotate the menu often. However, I will describe it:
- Starter: There were three small round chunks, served warm, with the texture of the inside of roast potato, with a delicately spicy taste (corriander/cumin, perhaps). Each one was topped with a dollop of something I couldn't associate a flavour with but had the texture of whipped cream.
In the centre of the plate was probably my least favourite part of the whole meal; again I had trouble identifying any kind of flavour, but had a texture that was lumpy and slimey; like a cross between cold baked beans and the protein mix they eat in The Matrix ("If you close your eyes it almost feels like you're eating runny eggs" // "Yeah, or a bowl of snot") - Main: This one was easier. There were three pieces of meat, quite thin and roughly 10x5cm each. The first one I identified as some kind of meaty fish, possibly monkfish, but seemed to hold together better than monkfish. The second one I placed as a really good steak. The third one, somewhat of a mix between beef and lamb. They were all super-tender. They were served with green beans.
- Dessert: Easily the best chocolate mousse I've tasted, inbetween two layers of what tasted like chocolate but were somehow rather versatile, like a square of American processed cheese (although minus the cheese flavour). There were also two jelly cubes
A very odd thing that Emily and I both noticed was that we can remember vision from that evening.
