I do not like Talisker anything very much at all.

Nor Laphroaig.

Nor many of the Islays in general.

Like drinking a liquid bonfire generally.

Nightjar wrote:

I do not like Talisker anything very much at all.

Nor Laphroaig.

Nor many of the Islays in general.

Like drinking a liquid bonfire generally.

That's just what I like. The contrast between the smoky taste and the cool ice. A bit like lapsang souchong tea.

The room only stopped spinning about an hour ago. Thank God I remembered to have my pre bed pint of water and two paracetamol, or I'd currently be in hell.

Tangle Foot golden ale,

Franziskaner Weissbier,

Alkoholfrei

Microwaved sausage rolls.

Just made my first champagne c*cktail of the evening.

With Crémant.

The first chug glug has made me go a bit queer.

I had 4 gins at the pub at lunchtime with an old friend. It was a pub we used to meet in 1996, so nostalgia hung heavy in the air.

When I got back in the afternoon I was tempted to carry on boozing, but instead I let the gins wear off peacefully while I watched the New Year episode of the Avengers, Dressed To Kill.

Then I had a load of cheese and biscuits and swilled down 4 large vodka-vermouths, before going to bed at 10pm.

New year Absinthé.

Makes the heart fonder or something. Fondant, possibly.

Now on the Ricard.




There and no further.

Feeling a bit ropey this morn.

Punchily strong IPA, buttered, oaky Chardonnay, champagne c*cktails (with raw cane sugar cubes, cognac and bitters), then whiskey (yes, whiskey with an e cos it's Irish).

Not the wisest of boozular combos for sure.

I am making myself a mildly spiced stew or chicken, potato, leek, carrot, celery and courgette.

I've just realised I've forgot the potato!

I'm off to microwave some fish fingers.

Y'know, I genuinely thought people would be upset about my potatoes.

Nightjar wrote:

Y'know, I genuinely thought people would be upset about my potatoes.

Ohh I just thought you'd had the mildly spiced stew instead of the chicken, potato, leek, carrot, celery and courgette.

Nightjar wrote:

I am making myself a mildly spiced stew or chicken, potato, leek, carrot, celery and courgette.

I can see this ending very badly.

I actually very quickly roasted some spudulikas and added them to the stew.

I then, quite unwisely, threw a load of rice in - y'kner, to, uh, soak up the gallons of thin gruel-like muck...

Anyway, it was, that evening, when freshly made, really good - delicious and hydrating.


It did however make for a less-than-satisfactory left over meal (over the next 2 days ).