A Good Idea For A Restaurant
This window display took my eye in Upper Street today.
A Good Idea For A Restaurant
Especially as the restaurant is closed on Monday.
Equation Dining Room, Islington
I shall try it for lunch one Sunday. Especially, as it looks like they can do gluten-free.
The Best Chicken Tikka Dupiaza In The East
When we lived near Woodbridge, C & I usually went every Monday evening for supper in The Royal Bengal.
I usually had chicken tikka dupiaza and this picture shows why.
Chicken Tikka Dupiaza
Being in the area, I couldn’t resist popping in for lunch.
It was just as good as I remembered it and served by the same staff as when it opened in 1982.
Nutritional Pizzas
This article about Nutritional Pizzas, caught my eye on the BBC’s web site, as I like a nice pizza and haven’t had a good gluten-free one since Naples, a few years ago.
The company behind the new pizzas is called, Eat Balanced, from Glasgow. I spoke to them today and their marketing person is actually a coeliac and she told me that gluten-free pizzas are in their company’s development plan.
So here’s hoping!
Dinner From The Microwave
The Times today is having a go at microwave cookers. It didn’t stop me from eating one of Marks & Spencer’s Fuller Longer meals tonight. It was called Chicken in a Smoky Tomato Sauce.
It was surprisingly, quite well-endowed on the chicken front, although the sauce didn’t appear very smoky. But I could do without that! The only allergen was a small amount of cow’s milk. Here’s a picture.
Chicken in a Smoky Tomato Sauce
Note the Estrella Damm Daura beer.
I will have one of these again.
Hayley Turner Rides for the Queen
Hayley Turner is riding Momentary for the Queen in the Ribblesdale Stakes today.
Hayley is a coeliac and now is the best lady jockey in the UK. Many will say the best lady jockey ever to ride in the UK.
A Dunking Biscuit for Coeliacs
I have found that Waitrose’s new gluten-free ginger biscuits dunk well.
A Dunking Biscuit for Coeliacs
My mother and my late wife, C, would be horrified at the picture. Dunking was not for polite society!
But my mother would have been pleased that I’ve stopped biting my nails, which C knew anyway.
A1950s Sunday Tea Updated to Gluten-Free
For many of my age, Sunday tea was generally sandwiches and cakes washed down with a Cup of TyPhoo or other tea.
The sandwiches were often of the dreaded fish paste variety, with the paste coming from Shippam’s. For a treat my mother would often add malted fruit bread with currants and sultanas.
I can still taste it all now.
Today for tea, I had fish pate sandwiches and fruit bread.
Here’s the sandwiches, which I made from Genius brown bread, Benecol buttery spread and Waitrose mackerel pate.
Gluten-Free Fish Paste Sandwiches
I cut the crusts off to make them easier to eat. And here’s the Genius fruit bread.
Gluten-Free Fish Fruit Toast
I did toast it, as I prefer it that way.
So I can now go back to the 1950s for Sunday tea.
Who Ate All The Bread?
I took this picture of the gluten-free bread shelves in Waitrose in Islington
Who Ate All The Bread?
Obviously, they believe in a lot of choice for customers. Or are they following Marie Antoinette‘s philosophy of “Let them eat cake”? And biscuits
An Insult On My Front Wall
I can drink beer, but it has to be gluten-free.
An Insult On My Front Wall
This one certainly isn’t, and it’s n0t even the type of beer I drunk, becfore being diagnosed as a coeliac.
Strangely, the can was three-quarters full, so I poured the contents down the drain and put the can in my recycling.
The French Are Coming
Ever since 1066, the French have always been invading these isles. In some ways the only time they have been successful was in that historic first attempt, which put William the Conqueror on the throne.
But now is this, the first of another wave of invaders? I took these pictures by Chapel Market in Islington.
As after all, London is now the city with the sixth largest population of French nationals in the world.
It’s just that I’ve never found any gluten-free crepes in a trailer like this.
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