… Smokey Pancetta, Melted Cheese & Pears
Tonight is my church home group night and its meant to be at my house and I’m meant to have people for dinner before hand.
Rain calls off play. This morning I only barely got into work. The roads were so flooded. My battered old car didn’t let me down though! Nevertheless it doesn’t feel right to make people drive in weather like this and so it’s called off. And so I’m cooking for just two tonight.
I am very glad that I had chosen this dish. It looks warm and comforting and exactly like the kind of meal you should have on a bleak raining night.
Despite my excitement to eat this meal, I’m remarkably sure that I won’t do it remotely in time. If I was feeling a bit slow last night, I just wasn’t feeling like I could cook at any speed at all tonight.
Three or four minutes in my confidence grow. There really are a lot of ingredients tonight, but it feels like I’m really getting though the recipe.
I made quite a bit of mess. More because I prepared the salad on the worktop and carried it to the serving platter on the table, rather than plating on the worktop and carrying the plate to the table, which would have been a much more sensible thing to do.
There are pears in this recipe. Cooked pears. Or rather griddled pears. Gavin is skeptical. I am not.
I’m done in less than fifteen minutes. I’m happy and this makes up for last nights, slightly disappointing, time.
This meal is really lovely. There is so much salad. It’s a messy one to eat and my trousers are now more than a little worse for ware from the spillage that they suffered. In part I think this was due to the greedy manner in which I approached the first few bites … I really need to stop leaving my packed lunch in the fridge when I go to work in the morning …
The pears were great, Gavin was converted.
Jimmy Eat world’s record – Bleed American, provided the background music tonight. It’s one of those records that makes me feel old because I remember loving it when it first came out and that was more than ten years ago!
Who with: Gavin (rain ended play for my other guests)
How Long: Fourteen minutes and twenty three seconds
