The high points and the lows of a 'foodie' weekend

I just don't seem to get a chance to write anything for my blog over the weekend - but that's probably to be expected when you're a Mum.

We had a very 'foodie' weekend which is always good. On Friday night I went to Pizza Express with friends, but for the first time in all the years I have been going there, we had an unpleasant waiter! Now I know PE pride themselves on customer service (I even remember a case study on this very subject when I was doing my Masters degree in Marketing) so maybe he was just having a bad day but our waiter was impatient, pushy, curt and even my three year-old twins say please and thank you more than he did! At the end of the meal one of my friends mentioned his behaviour to the manager who handled it exactly how she should - being apologetic and offering us a bottle of wine to take home as compensation which we poitely declined but I hope she had a serious word with him. Everything else about the evening was very pleasant.

Saturday night we really pushed the boat out at home and cooked Scallops with Sweetcorn Salsa followed by Lobster Thermidor and Fondant Potatoes. It was a joint effort in the kitchen with Hubby doing the scallops and lobster and me the salsa and potatoes - I think I got off lightly! It was all delicious but having let the little ones see the live lobsters before they went to bed it took some explaining (or should I say lying) to say what happened to them when they woke up on Sunday morning and rushed downstairs to see their new pets!

On Sunday we had a traditional roast chicken dinner followed by Lemon Meringue Pie - the first time I've ever made this from scratch (i.e. without a packet mix for the lemon filling). I used Delia's recipe although I doubled the meringue quantity (this was to use up two egg whites left over from the thermidor sauce the night before which called for two egg yolks.) Not wishing to sound big-headed but I have to say it was the most delicious dessert I think I've ever made and I'll definitely be making it again.

So you see it certainly was a full-on foodie weekend - I dread to think how many pounds I put on in just a couple of days - let alone how many pounds we spent!