The girl with the yella hair and I share a common love of food, some I like that she doesnt and one such food springs to mind. I love Leeks with White Sauce, the girl with the yella hair does not like Leeks with White Sauce!! (no taste that chick) Anyway one night her mother dished up her dinner and leeks and white sauce was included, she promptly put them into a zip lock bag and sometime the next day someone put them into my letter box! I was at work of course and so they were sitting in the letter box in the sun for the whole day - needless to say I didnt eat them, but of course that is typical of the girl with the yella hair to think of someone else and pass them on.
Another time she came to my house when I lived with the wannbe bodybuilder. He had just got a brand new blender for making his protein shakes with. Well she had a cool idea that being winter we should make some pumpkin soup. So we start making the pumpkin soup but we really needed to blend it, so into the blender it goes and we put the top on and start blending away - well what a mess, apparently you should take the little bit in the lid out that lets all the steam out first. We hadnt of course, we were young and didnt know any better. There was I in a white sweatshirt that was now a lovely colour of white with pumpkin soup orange accents on it and it was all over the cupboards, floor etc. We never got to eat pumpkin soup that day!
When we lived in London, the girl with the yella hair taught me all sorts of things there too - and not just how many pints you can drink in a night either! Apparently if you eat rice or was it pasta, one of them anyway they fill you up for a lot longer than the other and mixed with frozen mixed veges you can call that a meal. Toad in the hole everynight is also quite filling. And no wonder there was no money for food, we would go to Waitrose first and buy these little Queen Cakes first and fill up on them. Then one day we had the shock of going and babysitting for someone that the girl with the yella hair worked with who happened to have scales in her bathroom!!!1 That was such a sad day, I wont reveal what the girl with the yella hair weighed but I had gone from 7 1/2 stone to a 10 stone tessie. I looked like Allison Moyet, does anyone remember her!!! Back in the stoneage again my daughter would remind me.
Another foodie memory was living in Sunnynook with the girl with the yella hair and we would go out drinking, then you could come home and make your own fillet of fishes easy peasy. Two slices of bread, fish fingers and then tomatoe sauce and mayonnaise mmmmmm yummy. We were such gourmet cooks. Another thing we used to do and it was excellent for not getting too many customers to our counter at the Bank, I would cook spag bol and load it up with garlic, actually I think that was the only thing I new how to cook, this was before going to London for my cooking lessons with the girl with yella hair.
The Garden Cafe on a Friday night in Browns Bay was a regular haunt, we would go there on our tea break and have the most devine vegetable pie with cheese sauce. I have to say I was a bit dubious about this when the girl with the yella hair suggested it to me - no meat!! But I should of trusted someone who was to become one of my bestest friends, it was so good I can almost taste it now. Those kind of dinners didnt last to long as then we found that in our half hour dinner break we could whip down the the local for a beer or even 2 and get back to work, no food involved in that little exercise.
Well all this talk of food has made me hungry so I must go and find something to eat, I am sure there is more that I could add to this food blog and maybe one day I will do another foodie one. But really I have way more to add when it comes to drinking with my old drinking buddie xx
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