What we ate on our holidays

You would think having a food blog would maybe mean you could probably cook. Sometimes though, it can and does go spectacularly wrong. Two weeks in Lanzarote, self-catering, in a limited kitchen, with limited supplies made me conjure up this stunning scrambled egg and fish finger dish. If you look closely, you will see the brown bits in the scrambled egg. I blame the cooker controls for that, they didn't indicate what was low medium and hot. The fish fingers were so godawful mrs tnr refused to eat them.


Still harping on about the limited supply, I did manage to put tohether a respectable salad with the delicious white asparagus the Spanish like so much.




It was Mrs tnr's birthday (Significant Number on the high side) so we dined in the delightful Restaurant Almacen de Sal in Playa Blanca. Started of with Champagne cocktails, followed by me having Shoulder of Lamb, it was enormous, served with a sort of Dauphinois and Mrs tnr having Veal Escalope. Absolutely delicious was the verdict passed on both. This was followed by dramatic Crepe Suzettes for the both of us. Stunning meal in a beautiful restaurant, with excellent service and pleasant piano accompaniment on the Baby Grand.



Our table was the one on the left, below.




Okay so strictly speaking Paella is a Valencian dish rather than a Canarian one. Nevertheless with the abundance of fresh seafood available we simply couldn't resist a late lunch washed down by copious beer and Sangria.


We constantly watch any television show about food at home. So on holiday Who Kitchen Here was simply unmissable, not least for the awkwardly translated title.



This was a barbecue and a half. Incredibly this meat-fest was being slowly cooked over a volcano!