Perk Up
Me and Claire have just got back from a fantastic meal at perk up in Ripon. If anyone local reads this or wants a far fetched meal then I suggest a trip down for supper. For an amush-bush Hugh made us a Fish and chips in miniature with his own made tartar sauce (An amuse-Bouche is a small creative “bite” served when guests are first seated). For starters I had grilled sardines on grilled ciabatta which were very tasty indeed, for mains I had pork loin on sage mash with a honey and pepper glaze, Claire didnt have a starter but for mains she had grilled chicken breast with tarragon mash and a tarragon cream sauce. Both dishes were superb. Then for dessert I had one of Hugh’s almost famous lemon posset (a favorite of mine whilst I was working there) with poached peach and Claire had dark and white chocolate brownies with hazelnut-freddo (a frozen cream with hazelnuts in, kind of like an iced parfait) and hot butter-scotch sauce. All in all it came to a very, very reasonable £47.30 including 4 classes of the house white. So a very satisfying night was had, I could get used to this dining out stuff, makes a change from cooking it.
So I have 3 days off and and tommorow I am going to go collect my keys for my house in Hull, can’t wait 