A dinner party tonight that I have been prepping for. I am adapting Delia and Grigson recipes and am going to pretend that its actually dishes from a little bistro I know in Normandy 🙄

Onion soup
Whiting with cider and gruyere
Pork fillets in calvados and cream
Pears poached in port

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

All the mise en place done, cheese out of the fridge, Now for the rugby.

Pink Floyd on the radiogram and bell bottom jeans?

Needs more Calvados!

why the need to lie about the recipes? are you lacking self esteem?

nice food tho'

Was in the Sauna at my gym today and there were 2 women in there, one with a son called, what else but Orlando, dicussing the merits of their cleaners… Different world, different concerns.

and do not start talking about any subject with 'IST' in it. 😉

Remember to key an eye on your guests. You wouldn't want them sneaking off for a shag in the stairs

Sounds bluddy lovely TJ…I'm on my way. 8)

Was in the Sauna at my gym today

posh git 😉

Nice timing with your post there FC

Will sir be swapping car keys later on…?

Holy sh!t…only read the OP!!!

That'll learn me… 8)

PMSL

Are you?

You may well have let the cat out of the bag.
Sounds delicious.

Hope it tastes as good.
Now I've seen the menu I can sort out the wine.

Did you go to a grammar school TJ?

Plenty other middle class credentials missing in the OP.

Comprehensive school in Glasgow – but I do have a lovely middle claaaaaarse accent despite the kickings.

Only one car between all the guests but I do have a BMW keyring if that would be any good?

Sade on the stereo? Or Norah Jones?

In no way can you ever call yourself middle class.

TJ, I take it you are serving the onion soup with gruyere melted onto a crusty bageutte slice stategically placed so that the melted cheese is starting to run into the soup? If not can be so bold as to heartily recommend it?

That looks like the start to so many films I've watched…

What, pardon, your cooking yourself, how working class can one get. Personally I have a chap from Zanzibar who will masticate ones food prior to it be placed in ones mouth from (of course) a silver spoon. Peasant.

Have you got a Buena Vista Social Club CD?

LOL@ roper

Buena Vista Social club – good call

Remember when serving the port:

One doesn't say "Cock", one says "Co"…

Sade – Smoooooooooooooooth….

go on. go on go on go on go on.

ive got a mate whos proper trying to be someat else….he come into a lot of cash recently and is slowly morphing into a country laird…shooting/dubarry boots/stags head in his dundee flat/range rover vogue…this is a guy who used to be a laff! he still snowboards but i can see that kit clashing with all the tweed…

very interesting though watching him lose his grip… 🙄

I once rented a room for a couple of weeks from a very posh lady. She said that her neighbours were irredeemably middle class! I don't think she liked them much.

Did you catch the whiting yourself TJ?

Sorted.

Caught it in Asda waitrose

TJ to be really middle class you need to start telling everyone how wonderful Dave and all the Tories are 😉

I'm off to a Murder Mystery dinner party dressed as a hunt leader (red jacket, white britches, boots, top hat).

I think we may be slightly middle class too 🙂

isn't everyone though?

A dinner party tonight

Thanks for the invite… 👿

How middle class can one get?

"Onion soup"

French peasant food.

"Onion soups have been popular at least as far back as Roman times. They were, throughout history, seen as food for the poor people, as onions were plentiful and easy to grow".

Although I won't deny that the Anglo-Saxons find it frightfully poash, to live like French peasants.

Ok gf has arrived. We're off to tj's for a knee trembler in the stairwell.

Your turn next TBC. We only have 6 plates.

Ernie – its all peasant food except the pears maybe

you can tell if you're working class or miggle class like this:
if you wash your hands before you take a p1ss, you're working class.

Ernie – its all peasant food except the pears maybe

Ah, maybe you should have substituted the pears poached in port, with a pear clafoutis – if you had wished to maintain the French peasant theme.

BTW, my insight into the gastronomical preferences of French peasants, is from a Gallic perspective – not an Observer reader one.

……before anyone dismisses me for having irreconcilable bourgeois tendencies.

LOL@bassspine