-Fish pie- with massive prawns and white fish that melts in folds, with spinach and cream and shit loads of mustard. Accompanied with tender stem broccoli and baked beans.
-Bovril- one of life’s most underrated substances. Meaty, salty, shiny, the beef lover’s marmite taking your breakfast one step further to being a roast dinner if you just imagine hard enough.
-Tomatoes- in my eyes, the greatest vegetable (yes, I know it’s really a fruit.) Tomatoes know the score and they know you know it too. They make everything better, raw or cooked, and their constant presence in my life is a greatly comforting factor.
-Salt beef bagel from Brick Lane with a slightly warm gherkin and mustard that whistles through your nose as the smooth, chewy bread sticks to the roof of your mouth.
-LOBSTER!- is it the taste that makes it so wonderful? Or is it the image, the pinky redness of a giant crustacean, the operation of its demise or that you are in charge with hammer and clamp? In fact all seafood is just great. Creatures. Eating weird creatures that look kind of like dinosaurs with mayo and chips.
-Roast chicken – it just happens doesn’t it? Inexplicably and all of a sudden you just know how to make a roast dinner. Again I put it down to the mothers and lazy Sundays of youth with nothing to do but pretend to read the Sunday papers and dance around your mum in the kitchen while she balances trays of hot oil and dices carrots and peels parsnips all at the same time.
-Mushrooms- up there with the tomato, just in front of red onion and level pecking with the glorious artichoke. Mushrooms are essentially the steak of the vegetable world and should be revered in the same way.
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