SUNNY AND STILL WARM MANILVA ON SUNDAY

SUNDAY 6th/ OCTOBER 2013.

We had another nice lie in this morning and after breakfast we got tonight’s supper ready; “ Lancashire Hot Pot” made to my own recipe, I brown off the Lamb Cutlets after marinating them in Herbs( Secret) and Oil, then I layer the pan with the Lamb, sliced Onions, diced Carrots, Celery and Leek and the hand cut( No Mandoline!) Potato slices! Each layer is seasoned as I build up the Hot Pot and then add the Vegetable & Chicken Stock and finally dot the finished top layer with knob’s of Butter ready to go in the oven later!! Brenda got ready the Cabbage with Alsegas and as an accompaniment we are having Pickled Sliced Red Beetroot.

It was then time to have our showers and freshen up; this is when I play loud music off the PCs using the sub-woofer and speakers! My ‘Spotify’ radio station is called, guess what,’Sunnymanilva’and has on it all my sort of music, this morning’s selection was Bo Diddley, Carl Perkins, Chubby Checker, Muddy Waters and the Spencer Davies Group!

It was then time to go for a walk with the dog around the village before we called into Bar Rojas for a cool drink sat under the Sonbrajo in the warm sunshine. When we got back to the house I watched the end of the’Korean Grand Prix’- Vettel won again- boring! Last night in ‘La Liga’ Barcelona beat Real Vallolid 4-1 but the result of the night was at lowly Levante who were leading 2-1 after 90mins but lost 2-3 as Real Madrid scored twice in injury time!!

Last evening before supper we watched on TVE2 a very interesting documentary, in French, about the Head Chef at the Kremlin in Moscow who is the personal chef to President Dmitry Medvedev; he is French and trained under Michel Troisgros in Roanne, Jerome Rigaud is also a leading member of the ‘Club Des Chefs Des Chefs’ who are selected from around the world and who cook for various leaders in France, Germany, Monaco, USA, a lady called Cristal Comeford and even the Queen’s Chef Mark Flanagan!

They showed the inside of the Kremlin which is spectacular and then went to the ‘Venice of the North’ St.Petersburg and stayed at the ‘Grand Hotel Europe’ and visited the famous ‘Hermitage Museum and the summer Palace of the ‘Czars’ which takes your breath away! It also showed the banqueting food at the Kremlin as well as the Gourmet food for the Chefs and visited a Russian Champagne grower outside Moscow and the main fish supplier ‘La Maree’ which flies in all the best fish and seafood from around the world including Canadian Lobster and giant Kamchatka Crab!

The late film last night was called “Killer Elite” from 2011 and starred Jason Statham, Robert DiNiro, Clive Owen and Yvonne Shrahovsky; the original book was written by Sir Ranulph Finnes and was called ‘The Feather Men’ – lots of action, car chases, shooting etc.The bad guys are the SAS and the good guys are hired killers and they are all chased by government hired killer s at the same time!

Tonight Mano and Anna are joining us for supper; we are having some light Tapas to start, Russian salad, Chorizo and Semi-Curado Cheese before we hit the ‘Hot Pot’!

Thought for the Day; See above.

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