Optimal Sunday

Posted on 2007/04/25 08:54:10 (April 2007).

[Sunday 22nd April]
Sundays to me are a delicate balance between trying to have a nice rest, but also not feeling like you've just wasted the day off work by doing absolutely nothing at all. Today I think we got the balance just about right.

We had a very nice brunch towards the end of the morning - Spanish omelet with a sort of Catalan style tomato sauce (basically just chopped fresh tomatoes and olive oil), which was quite delicious.

Following that we thought we should head out and see something of the London Marathon, as in all the time we'd lived in or near London neither of us had ever watched it "live". Whilst to begin with it was an interesting novelty, once we'd seen enough it did then become something of a frustration when we actually wanted to get anywhere. Even on foot it was hard work to get around the city, partly because of all the crowds, and partly because if you needed to cross the actual marathon route you had to wait for ages at one of a few designated crossing points. Central London really needs more footbridges and underpasses.

Anyway, eventually we did manage to get away from the crowds, and headed over to Soho as we both wanted to buy some Japanese ingredients. We bought a fair old basket full at the Rice Wine shop (which doesn't just sell rice wine) and then got the tube back home - which was relatively uncrowded pleasingly.

The festival of Japanese food that ensued then occupied a large part of the evening. We made temaki sushi (the kind where you put out all the components and then roll it up yourself as you eat - a bit like fajitas) with all sorts of my favourite side dishes - fresh tofu with ginger and soy sauce, edamame, pickled plums, kimchi and so on. Oh and we even had a couple of cans of Sapporo to accompany it. Marvellous.

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