Different food
As promised on Monday, I am doing the action that was set out for that day, today. The action I am doing is to ‘cook or eat food from a cuisine you haven’t tried before’. This has actually turned out to be a bit of a challenge to me as we have a fairly eclectic diet and eat from a variety of countries on a regular basis.
To digress a little, I just want to reflect on the Diocesan Synod that was held today. It was a very good meeting. Not just because I wasn’t chairing (and all thanks to Canon John Patrick for his sterling work today), but also because there was a great deal of debate today. So often it seems that there is not a great amount of debate about the motions on the agenda, but today, there was a large range of comments and an obvious great deal of thought and prayer that had gone on beforehand.
Whilst the debates today were about finance and deployment of resources, I really hope that, as a diocese, we can invest as much effort and energy in debating more kingdom facing motions over the months and years ahead.
Anyhow, back to today. We have been really blessed with our girls in that they have been generally very happy to try new dishes of food. When your two year old is asking to try the curry and then is eating it for several weeks running, then I sincerely hope that we are giving them a wide ranging set of experiences for their tastebuds to work with over their lifetimes.
I love cooking and tinkering about in the kitchen – which Sue tolerates with good grace – or is it just that she gets food cooked for her! So, to find a different cuisine was a bit of a struggle. After a deal of thought (and a bit of looking in cookery books) I came upon something we have never tried before. So we had a lemon chicken tagine, with lemon and garlic couscous to eat tonight. We have never had Moroccan food before, so this was a first!
I tried to ring a change with the drinks as well – I think I was trying too hard, but never mind. So the girls had a sour cherry lemonade and we had a different type of wine. I couldn’t find Moroccan wine to match the food, but we are just finishing off a nice bottle of Lebanese wine from the Bekaa Valley. Truly it is a very small world………
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