El would approve

Hello flist! Tonight I had a pleasant surprise: some really wonderful food! And then we all piled into a motel room and watched Ratatouille and sighed over food some more. And now I am all fired up about the prospect of COOKING when I go back home for a week -- I'm going to dig out my Charmaine Solomon and my Marie Clare Comfort Food book (the Marie Clare recipes aren't dazzling but the cookbooks are basically FOOD PHOTOGRAPHY PORN) and cook up a storm.

If you have any cold-weather recipes that you swear by, or even have just seen on a food blog somewhere and would like an Antipodean who's living in the correct season to try out, leave them here.

Fooooooood. Mm. Tonight I sleep the sleep of someone who has eaten lemon brulee tart with pina colada sauce, and who doesn't have to be awake before 9am tomorrow, because it is the

WEEKEND

WWEEEEEEEEKEEEEEND

It is possibly I have gone slightly delirious with the shock of finding a seriously good restaurant in this tiny town.