Sliced smoked grilled duck with stir fried morel rice.
All from within a mile of the house.
Fantastic!

My friend had to cancel so I'm about to eat an entire roast chicken with roast potatoes, peas, gravy...

By the way, Waitrose do some wonderful new fresh fruit compotes - the strawberry and rhubarb one will send me nicely to bed with cream.

That Duck sounds fabulous.I live in Ukraine and am lucky enough to be able to go to my wife's local village and pick my own:P
My trouble here is getting ingredients to make these things extra special.The occasional foray abroad for work helps,but baggage restrictions,and general inconvieniance mean little real relief.
Still prices,even supermarket ones do help.Duck is about 1.80 pounds a kilo,while JK's Chicken weighs in at 1.50 (UKP) per kilo.Garnish with potatoes (15p kilo),Carrots (25p)..well it's cheap,but lack of variety ruins it:(
Rhubarb,only ever found it here once,same as celery,locals are scared of change...oh for a trip to Waitrose:woohoo:
Keep up these food posts please.

Saturday correction; the delicious compote is from M&S, not Waitrose.

But it is delicious. Exactly the right blend so it's neither too strawberry nor too rhubarb, but 50% of each.

Just to make SE more hungry.
I experimented with this one today, and it turned out exactly right, so here it is for you in full.

Smoked Salmon and Wild Rice Khichiri.

Ingredients (for 2)
Dash of olive oil.
1/4 onion finely diced.
2 tablespoons of finely chopped celery.
1/2 teaspoon of Bolsts curry powder.
1 egg.
1 cup full of precooked basmati rice.
1 egg-cup full of precooked wild rice.(make sure both rices are cold before cooking)
1 tablespoon of capers.
4 slices of smoked salmon(mine was from Ireland)
A few grains of saffron to colour the basmati.
Tarragon,, lemon, chives and s+p to garnish and season.

Gently fry the onion and celery, with the small amount of curry powder until soft.(don`t add extra curry powder, if you need more spice use pepper)
Add the egg, and scramble it before putting in both types of rice and frying.
Don`t let it get too brown, or sweat, you need it firm , not squidgy.
Chop the salmon into 2" squares and stir into the dish with the capers, right at the end.
Garnish and serve.

Actually I can make the salmon and Khichiri here:P
salmon is actually very good,and at between 9-14 pounds a kilo fresh isn't exactly going to break the bank:)
Nice recipe,I do like red fish with rice.

Thanks

There's an M & S in Bucharest,just it only sells a few selected clothes,and these are actually more money than at home!
Alas it has no food section,but on the plus side it does have a Carefour(french chain of supermarkets) clone almost next door.
Waitrose and M & S are great for food,but I did find the other supermarkets a tad below their European counterparts for both quality and price.
We never did get the food side of your hols JK,so perhaps worth thinking about for another time?

Thanks for the reply,even if it did make me more than a touch homesick:woohoo: