Dinnertime @ Brackenbury

Food, glorious food!



I can't remember how it all started but we almost always eat dinner together, so much so it feels strange when we don't. And dinnertime is an exciting time - the daily gossips, the funny (and not-so-funny) jokes, the silly questions, the stupid answers, the rude remarks, the teasing comments - dinnertime is playtime!


Of course, dinnertime is also about food. Here's what I think each of us is best at making:


Alida: Crepes. According to her, crepes "must have holes in them". She's a real sweetie.
Matt: Gingerbread. He never makes enough for all of us. (Matt's good at making roast beef too but I've never tasted it. It must be real good cos' Matt, Georgia & Alida devoured the huge slab of roast beef before the rest of us got to the kitchen. Shucks!)
Alena: Beef goulash. Her dumplings are just as wonderful although she said it didn't look right (but since the rest of us didn't know how czech dumplings should look, it didn't matter).
Eva: Roast chicken. She does it in style - how can anyone look so cool and calm when she has to cook for 7 hungry souls?!!!
Olaf: Spaghetti bolognaise. He pretends he can't cook and then he dishes out perfectly made spaghetti bolognaise and cheesecake. Cheeky.
Jean-Pierre: Sri Lankan curry. A master of spices, he brings your chilli-tolerance to ever-higher levels.
Georgia: Salmon pasta. The only time she cooks properly is when she cooks for us. Other times, she survives on cereal and shortbread fingers.
Lynn: Bread pudding. For some strange reason, everyone seems to like it. I must however say that I prefer cleaning (extremely therapeutic) to cooking.

Lynn. 20 November 2005.