30th May 2021

James and Kathryn came over today, it feels forever since we have seen them and so it was so so good to actually see them and catch up.  BlueJeans/Zoom etc are all fine but nothing beats actually seeing somebody.  I decided to go Moroccan – which was inspired by Nargisse Benkabbou’s wonderful book Casablanca.  I made her wonderful peach short beef ribs and I made a vegan version with seitan which we finished off outside on the fire and served with a gorgeous couscous dish.  In Casablanca Nargisse explains in Morroco couscous is actually a dish, it is grains and meat and nothing like how we describe couscous but mine was the English version of couscous with some gorgeous raisins, feta, pine nuts, pepperdews and lots and lots of fresh parsley.  The whole meal was just gorgeous and the sun makes everything feel better!