{"id":559,"date":"2002-05-30T13:39:00","date_gmt":"2002-05-30T12:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2002\/05\/30\/dinner-life-and-long-lunchbreaks\/"},"modified":"2002-05-30T13:39:00","modified_gmt":"2002-05-30T12:39:00","slug":"dinner-life-and-long-lunchbreaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2002\/05\/30\/dinner-life-and-long-lunchbreaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Dinner, life and long lunchbreaks."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so, I have nothing to say about long lunchbreaks other than I&#8217;ve not had one recently, but it made a good title. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>My first dinner party at my house (actually, ever) went well other than I made twice the amount of sauce I needed and 4 times the pasta.. next time I will know better.<\/p>\n<p>The pasta sauce, made of 1Kg lean pork mince, two bottles of passata(I dunno what it&#8217;s called.. italian liquified tomatoes) with basil, lots of oragano, salami, mushrooms and salt to taste was a success despite it being a recipe I made up on the fly. The warmed focaccia bread as a side dish worked well too.<\/p>\n<p>Pudding, sorry, desert course was made up of a Vienetta which my guests kindly brought with them and the Carte-D&#8217;Or strawberry ice-cream I&#8217;d bought for the occasion. This was followed by tea\/coffee in the lounge.<\/p>\n<p>I was amazed that I managed to squeeze 4 people around a table in my kitchen.. though the term squeezed is very descriptive.<\/p>\n<p>I couldn&#8217;t be bothered to wash up after the guests left at 10:30pm, so I left it for yesterday. There was a lot of it.. it took nearly an hour to do, including cleaning the hob where all the tomato had splashed all over the place.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll I&#8217;ve got to do now is work out how to store the rest of the pasta sauce which is filling up my fridge in its saucepan. I have a freezer but no containers to currently put the stuff in so as to store it in the freezer. Oh well. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, I&#8217;ve the final push of getting the house back the way it was ready for my parents to arrive tomorrow for the Jubilee holiday weekend. (Not that I&#8217;m doing any Jubilee celebrating.)<\/p>\n<p>Talking of which, I saw on the BBC teletext news pages this morning that a poll said that they had found that 75% of people are going to be celebrating the golden Jubilee.. how come then, no-one I know is taking a blind bit on notice of the whole event and any that are are actively avoiding it? It seems the 1006 people polled are a very unrepresentative sample.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so, I have nothing to say about long lunchbreaks other than I&#8217;ve not had one recently, but it made a good title. \ud83d\ude09 My first dinner party at my house (actually, ever) went well other than I made twice &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/2002\/05\/30\/dinner-life-and-long-lunchbreaks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Kvvs-91","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lingula.org.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}