Since the last post a few things happened, most importantly my adventure with Dinings came to an end. I will be popping in there again to collect papers, tips and what not, grab a take out and I think take one more final cake for the guys, I feel I owe them for a nice send off.

I had no time to take this fact in, as right on Sunday afternoon Moka and Ivan came to visit, they left a few hours ago, I’ve done all the cleaning and laundry and can now post my soup. Florek and I are both experiencing a nasty flu, mine milder than his, lost of disgusting coughing going on, a basket with drugs next to the bed and so on. I thought a nice hot soup would be in order for my man, so I roasted off some tomatoes, red peppers, shallots and garlic, seasoned and topped with dried oregano, when roasted I threw it onto some chicken stock with half a chopped sweet potato for the texture and after about 20 minutes I blitzed it all into a nice soup. Must be said, that I used my new Bosch hand blender. I was treated by my Dinings colleagues to a 120 pound Divertimenti voucher, which I have spent on 2 decent knives, the said blender, a ceramic pizza baking plate and a microplane grater, recommended by Cathal. Topped my soup  with parsley and parmesan, served in a cup, as per request. It was lovely.