An ordinary meal becomes amazing when laid out well.
Something that looks horrible can taste amazing.
Something that looks really horrible can taste REALLY amazing,
Something ordinarily nice can be made incredibly amazing by adding the thing that doesn't look amazing but actually is incredibly amazing to it.
Put the ordinary thing and the incredibly amazing thing together with some home made strawberry jam and you have a cream tea. Which is TOTALLY amazing. Oh yes.
Sometimes things just look amazing and taste amazing as well.
I love my mum's cooking - you are a very lucky man - yummy!
Posted by: ruth Marshall | January 31, 2006 at 10:33 AM
I love my mum's cooking - you are a very lucky man - yummy!
Posted by: ruth Marshall | January 31, 2006 at 10:34 AM
Well... thats amazing, Andy. I particularly like TOTALLY amazing, toasted.
Posted by: Rebecca | January 31, 2006 at 03:47 PM
It's much easier when things look disgusting then taste disgusting - you know where you are with food like that. Also, point-of-order. The photo labelled "custard slice" looks a bit Fresh cream slicey to me. Can you verify the presence of custard please.
Posted by: John Cooper | January 31, 2006 at 05:51 PM
No that is definitely custard John, it is obviously a high quality one, not your normal supermarket yellow.
Posted by: Rebecca | January 31, 2006 at 06:08 PM
The clotty cream only looks horrible in the picture. In real life it looks yummy.
I'm glad you like my cooking, Ruth. :-)
Posted by: Liz Marshall | January 31, 2006 at 09:07 PM
Only the top one is your mum's cooking. Interestingly, I have not eaten much of that said cooking. Less than anyone might imagine. A subtle combinaion of meals out, take-aways and me cooking.
Maybe that is set to change.
It IS custard, John.
How do you know it looks good, Liz - you didn't see it?
Posted by: AndyC | January 31, 2006 at 10:39 PM
Mum can we cook a nice sunday dinner on sunday - that would be most enjoyable indeed! I'll help - matt can watch TV and then wash up ha ha ha!
Andy - and so you should cook - do you think of 'us woman types' as slaves - if so - we need to have a serious chat before things get any more serious!
;->
Posted by: ruth Marshall | February 01, 2006 at 12:41 PM
I was speaking generically.
Posted by: Liz Marshall | February 01, 2006 at 10:15 PM