Not All Celias Are Blond
My Celia was a dark natural blonde.
Celia at New Year in Venice
And up until now all Celia gluten-free lagers were the same colour. But not any more.
A Dark Celia
This dark variety is rather good. I only ordered four from Ocado!
But that’s the problem, I can never get enough of Celia.
Variations On Mary Berry’s Salmon
I cook Mary Berry’s salmon with parmesan crust regularly. If I’ve had one problem, it’s the cream cheese that seems to go mouldy quickly, so I waste a lot, as you don’t need one, when cooking for one.
Recently, I’ve started to cook the dish with this M & S Welsh Goat’s Cheese.
M & S Welsh Goat’s Cheese
I’ve also started to use their Loch Fyne boneless and skinless salmon.
I’ve also started cooking two small steaks and having one a couple of days later, as they keep well in the fridge.
Mary Berry’s Salmon With Potatoes And Tomatoes
I do like boiled new potatoes and quality tomatoes.
This picture shows a section through the salmon.
A Sectio Through The Salmon
It almost has a cake-like texture,
Marks and Spencer do a boned and skinned salmon joint, which I’ll be trying, either hot or cold for a party.
My First Ocado Delivery
I finally had an Ocado delivery today.
There are a lot of bags. But then there were a lot of bottles of Celia gluten-free lager and a couple of boxes of Coke.
A Lazy Man’s Supper
This was my supper sourced from the De Beauvoir Deli.
I wouldn’t normally be so lazy, but I had a lot to do and as I was buying some paint from the DIY store opposite, by buying supper, it saved me another trip later in the day. The steak came from Downland Produce and the potato dauphinoise from Ginger’s Kitchen.
I enjoyed it immensely!
Krakow – A City Of Maps, Clocks, Trams And Gluten Free Food
Krakow is well-known for its buildings, but I found some other things equally fascinating in a delightful city.
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- A Large Map With Seats
All of the maps, clocks, trams and excellent gluten-free food, made the city a real joy to explore and I would recommend the city to anybody.
To see all the posts for my Home Run From Krakow click here.
Lunch With A Swing In Spitalfields
Sometimes on a day when the weather is good, I go for lunch in Leon’s in Spitalfields.
Today there was a free bonus cabaret with every meal! And the brave could dance! Which I’ve never been able to do!
The girls are twins and go by the name of Twin Swing. They probably fall into the “Twice the fun, but double the trouble” category. All my experience with children growing up leads me to the opinion that boys are more difficult, but I’ve met a couple of sets of very naughty girl twins. Boy twins on the other hand seem to behave well, except perhaps for Ronnie and Reggie.
They are appearing at the Waldorf Hotel on the 19th of July as entertainment for the Traditional Afternoon Tea. It’s all reported here in this article in the East Grinstead Courier. The report contains this immortal line.
Lingfield twins Jessica and Emily Evans, both 24
It would be rather unusual for twins to have different ages.
Where Are The 33cL Water Bottles?
In the UK, I generally carry a small bottle of water. Usually, it’s a 33cL Evian or if I’ve been on a train a 33cL Harrogate.
As the pictures show, these bottles are smaller than the 50cL ones that you have to use on the Continent. On my recent trip, I never managed to find a smaller bottle.
I prefer the smaller bottles, as there is less to carry. And they fit my jacket pocket!
I would have thought that there might be an economic advantage for both consumers and retailers in the smaller bottle. Not knowing the costs of production, I can’t do a full calculation.
Braunschweig
Braunschweig is known to the British as Brunswick.
I passed through on a train on my Home Run from Gdansk and as it was a place I’d never heard of before that trip, when I planned this trip, I noticed that I could change trains at the city.
This Google Map shows the layout of the city.
Braunschweig
It could be a sensible stop on a rail trip across Europe.
It was also a friendly stop, which started when the lady in the tram information kiosk, gave precise instructions on how to either walk or use a tram to the centre and then sold me a pair of tickets for the tram. The tram was not very new, but it was in good condition with very good information. Incidentally, the tram system has a unique metre gauge, which is being updated so that the tram routes can share with trains. Sounds like stealth train-trams to me!
As I had a good late lunch in the Cafe Alex, I’m glad I visited. It was only after I returned that I found that it was a brand controlled by Mitchells and Butlers. Some of their UK restaurants I’ve eaten in, don’t know their allergies as well as the Germans.
I must try out some of them again.
Lunch In Chemnitz
It is probably interesting to compare my lunch in the Ratskeller in Chemnitz with the scraps I scrounged in Middlesbrough a few months ago, on a day when Ipswich lost and the trains screwed me up rotten.
I only had a tuna salad.
I’ve tasted worse, but it lacked a certain tastiness, although it was very unlikely to do me any harm.
At least the menu indicated gluten, which is very difficult to detect in many places in the UK. The German system of a series of letters and numbers would be welcomed here.
A Wet Evening In Dresden
The weather up to now had been hot and sunny, but by the time I got to Dresden it was raining hard.
But hey, I’m English and we may go out in the mid-day sun, but we also don’t shrink from the rain.
The meal was excellent and it would warrant a separate post if more of my pictures came out properly.
The Anonymous Widower 