A OVERCAST & MILD SUNNY MANILVA ON SATURDAY;

SATURDAY 31/st OCTOBER 2015.

We managed another short lie in this morning as the village is quiet for the holiday weekend; we first had breakfast “ Sausage Butties” made with English Pork Sausage’s,HP Brown Sauce & warm buttered toast along with a mug of steaming tea!

It’s over cast and grey this morning at the start of what looks like a wet weekend into the start of next week as the Atlantic front hits us! It’s still mild with the temperature still in the mid 20s even though its a little cooler during the night.

I then started on the preparation of tonight’s supper “ Beef Wellington” I first made the ‘Mushroom Duxelles’ with chopped Baby Mushrooms, Onions & Shallots along with Tarragon & Parsley which I blended in my new small hand blender, then I dry the puree slowly until it forms a proper paste; next I seared the Fillet Steaks in foaming Butter to seal in the juices, left them to go cold and then smeared English Mustard over them! This evening I will wrap them in the paste with Smoked Bacon before creating a Puff Pastry blanket around them.Its then time for them to go in the oven! We are having whole Baby Green Beans & twice-cooked ‘Frits’ – they are served on a pool of Red Wine Demi-Glaze. See below;

This afternoon/ early evening we will be watching the final of the ‘Rugby Union World Cup’ from Twickenham when New Zealand clash with Australia, meanwhile over in England in the ‘Premiere League’ Liverpool travel down the M1 to Chelsea,if they win it could be the end for ‘Mourinho! Manchester City are at home to Norwich and tomorrow Everton welcome Sunderland, over here in ‘La Liga’ Real Madrid are at home to Las Palmas and Barcelona travel to Getafe outside Madrid. 

The ‘Grand Prix of Mexico’ is taking place for the first time in 23 years at the “ Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez” which has been improved with a new circuit including a large spectacular grandstand arena which the track goes in and out of!!

Last night after supper we had our now usual Friday night English TV extravaganza as we watched ‘Great Continental Train Journeys’ in Italy from Pisa via Florence to Lake Garda, then ‘QI’ before coming back to BBC TV 1 for the ‘Graham Norton Show’ with amongst others the excellent Dame Maggie Smith who was in fine form for her first appearance on a chat show for over 40 years!?  We finished by watching ‘Later with Jools Holland’

PS; Andy has just called and set up on the new system the site for booking the 'ITV - MOT ' - so its Wednesday 18/th November at 11-18 am!  Fingers crossed and watch this space.

Thoughts for the Day; See above.

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