Set Up Like A Deck Of Cards

Gratin Dauphinois

Last month, at Download, one of the highlights of the entire weekend was finding this food stall that served French food.  It was known around the festival as “The French Food place”.  It’s official name was La Grande Bouffe and, to people more familiar with music festivals than I am, it’s already well-respected.

They basically served gratin variations and the nicest sausages in the world.  One of the best parts is that they cook their food in these huge pans right in front of you:

I know that you have to take the “this is the first real food that we’ve eaten in four days” factor but, honestly, this was the nicest food that I’ve had for a long, long time.  If it wasn’t for the fact that I knew I had to leave room for more beer, I would have moved my tent outside their stall.

Anyway, last night I started craving it, so today I made it for dinner.  I went shopping after work, bought everything that I needed and 45 minutes ago (9pm), it was ready:

Hopefully, it looks close enough to give some of my buddies flashbacks.  I’ll be honest, it wasn’t as nice as the festival food, but it was pretty good and will definitely be made again.

Also, anyone with access to a Marks & Spencer needs to get down there tomorrow and buy a pack of their Aberdeen Angus sausages, because OH MY GOD!

New food!

I get a ridiculously big kick out of opening new containers of food, whether it’s cereal, instant coffee, ketchup, butter, pasta sauce, booze, etc.

It just seems to taste so much better.

Life’s a bitch

I always try to take a late lunch break because:

a) I love short afternoons/hate long afternoons;

b) I’m most productive between around 11am-2pm, and I don’t want to get in the way of that.

But that means that, by the time I get to the sandwich shop, I have to choose from what’s left, instead of what I want.

Oh God, why do you hate me so?