CDWM: Suzy’s main course

29 June 2010

Right, with 7 Days finished, let’s get back to what really matters: food. If you remember, we’d dealt with Suzy’s starter and we’re now on to the main course of beef wellington, cabbage, carrots and red wine gravy. A helpful note to you all, by the way: when the conversation inevitably turns to food, don’t dismiss soup as being something that nobody would ever dream of serving in the summer. Unless of course you want to see the next hostess Lauren crumple into a dejected heap next to you. You’re welcome.

As with the other evenings, there was a little time to let things settle between courses and Lauren took the opportunity to show us a picture online of the dress she’s bought to wear at Helen’s wedding. Just today I paid the balance on our hotel booking, so it’s getting close. A few days in Jersey, with nothing to do but go to our friend’s wedding and then lie about on a beach. Oh yes.

I could tell you what’s happening here. But I prefer to let your imaginations run wild.

This is Clara, by the way, Suzy’s delightful landlady, who joined us for the evening. She fights crime, rides horses and hands out drinks to arriving guests when Suzy the hostess is up to her elbows in flour and vegetables. Earlier in the day she’d been on duty in London, taking sneaky sideways glances at the Queen, while she kept the crowds in check at the royal birthday celebrations.

And the food of course: beef wellington, made with minced beef and packed with mushrooms and a variety of vegetables, rather than just using the more traditional beef fillet and wrapping that in pastry.