Marinated duck breasts in honey, tarragon and black pepper with sea salt lightly cooked in olive oil with roast potatoes in goose fat and a crisp green salad of iceberg lettuce and avocado; low alcohol cider to drink.

Nice and tasty.
Goose fat,really goes well with those roast potatoes.

My food post has been delayed due to the fact that it was my wedding anniversary and we ate our way through it, with varied results.

We discovered the very last unused wedding pressie, which was

Mart wrote:
My food post has been delayed due to the fact that it was my wedding anniversary...
Has it really been a year!

Congrats and all but I'm stunned my life is slipping away so fast

JK2006 wrote:
low alcohol cider to drink.

I've been fortunate enough to taste some of the low alcohol (<3%) French Ciders but have never seen a half-decent English equivalent. Any suggestions?

Well, Waitrose do a superb Low Alcohol cider - 1% I think - which I adore but Mart tried it and didn't like it at all.

Low alcohol cider simply doesn`t work for me, mainly because they don`t do a dry version, they are always too sweet.
Also, I fail to understand why an English L.A. cider is four times the price of a French intoxicating farm cider.
My low alcohol tip of the month is Sainsburys German LA lager,(0.05%) which is astonishingly bitter and very satisfying.
The Waitrose cider comes in at 1%, so technically one could get tipsy, although doubtful.


Instead of the apple cider, I recommend hunting down the low alcohol pear cider. I forget the name, but they do a full strength version and a 0.0% version and the flavour is pretty close.

I have remembered the brand name.
It`s Kopperberg, although Mrs Mart points out that it`s no good if you don`t like pears.