lunchtime salad

the endless sausage

This is actually perlmonger’s lunch: I loathe raw tomatoes, don’t care for strong cheddar (that’s unpasteurised organic there), and I’m not that fond of kabanos.

But I do always bite the end off his sossidge [fnaar].

I know it’s wrong …

We have had a trying morning, involving a web server running out of steam, and a Dishwasher Incident requiring me to hotfoot it shortly to B&Q to get some drain rods. Also, I failed to make any soup for this week’s lunches, as it was dead warm yesterday.

To console ourselves, we stuck a couple of part baked baguettes in the oven. For mine, I hacked off some Red Leicester cheese, and some home cooked gammon. It’s worth mentioning here that I Cannot Carve, or slice bread. And then I hewed some chunks off a cucumber, and realised that really, I’d need a ladder to eat the baguette if I put the cucumber in, so I had it on the side.

And then - oh the shame - I slathered the cheese and ham with Heinz Salad Cream. It’s wrong, but it tastes so good …

bitsa lunch

We had a bag of salad leaves from Riverford this week. Neither perlmonger nor I are especially fond of salad; it always seems too much effort for little reward. However, we also have three mozzarellae which need eating (bought a tub full at Costco the other week). And so, today’s lunch:

1 packet pancetta cubes, gently fried in olive oil with a couple of cloves of garlic
3 salad onions, chopped
1/4 cucumber, diced
1 mozzarella, chopped
1 bag salad leaves, torn and destalked
1 can chickpeas
juice of half a lemon
some soy sauce
mixed seeds

Mix ‘em all together. Eat. Delicious.

a guilty lunch

I baked a couple of those Sainsburys part-baked baguettes for lunch - they are a godsend when you work at home, and have forgotten to put bread in the machine.

Chopped up a shallot and some Red Leicester to make a cheese and onion-y sandwich, then added some cucumber.

And then, the final flourish - oh the shame - Heinz salad cream.

I know, I know - I shouldn’t do it. But sometimes it’s just … right.