A jolly nice lunch it was too...

Sunday we went to lunch with Penjamin's uncle David and his partner, Dan, and a jolly nice time we had there. Dan is a world famed cookery writer specialising in baking, so expectations were high and exceeded.

The conversation ran over a whole era of family history (or gossip as David put it), but more importantly our imaginary readers will want to know what we ate.

We had a Turkish lentil soup to start that David made , followed by a huge array of mezze, including (and forgive me if I miss anything) falafel, cauliflower fritters, fantastic flat breads, roasted peppers, aubergine (baba ganoush?), rice and chickpeas and some fantastic dips. One of the dips was a garlic and mashed potato combination that was like some garlic magic mayonnaise, which I am going to have to get the recipe for.

For dessert we took a Tunisian almond and orange cake, the recipe for which I have put on Dan's website, which we had with David's rum and raisin ice cream.

There was so much food we were given a takeaway which we failed to finish on Sunday night, with the soup being polished off for lunch on Tuesday.

A great time and we hope to return the compliment soon in the new year.