Cold snap

Last week I was feeling culinary and so spent lots of time pouring over cookery books or “food porn” as I call it, and then was inspired enough to get creative in the kitchen. This week however I have a stinking cold and eating anything is proving a challenge! Anyway, here are some pics from last week.
Firstly a farinata which is something I’ve been meaning to make for a long time. Sean and I really enjoyed this – junior, less so. It tasted even better cold the next day.

In a vain attempt to get junior to eat some homemade soup – lentil and tomato,

I promised to make some rice pudding for dessert. She laboured over the soup and moaned constantly but I still made the pudding because Sean started to moan when he thought he wasn’t going to get any!

On Friday night in Volos we went to the noodle bar where I had curried rice noodles with vegetables and mint flavoured water, which Sean told me apparently tasted like liquid polo mints. It was a shame I couldn’t taste anything due to my cold