Tapas

Posted on 2007/09/21 22:49:26 (September 2007).

[Wednesday 19th September]
Was back working at our London office again today, and generally speaking it was a pretty uneventful day.

In the evening I decided I quite fancied something tapas-ish for dinner, so I popped into Sainsbury's on the way back for a few bits and pieces. I also wanted to buy a bottle of wine to go with dinner. I've become quite determined to find wines which are marked as being definitely vegetarian, and have noticed at Sainbury's that (A) only their own brand wines have any kind of labelling for this sort of thing at all and (B) they seem to have a range of cheaper wines spanning most of the major wine producing regions of the world, in addition to a more expensive range of organic wines, and it is only the latter that are ever marked as vegetarian. I somehow struggle to believe that every single one of the cheaper range of wines are non-vegetarian, and yet wine is a grey area - as they're not required to put on an ingredients list, you can't easily check for yourself. So I kind of feel as though I'm being conned into buying the more expensive ones simply by labelling. Marks and Spencers, I hasten to add, seem to be much more consistent in their labelling, and therefore much better in this respect.

Anyway, I ended up buying a bottle of Argentinian (organic) wine, which was quite passable, and for dinner we had a good mix, involving halloumi (OK not traditionally part of tapas, but Chie fancied it), a Spanish omelette, some chilli peppers in breadcrumbs, mushrooms in red wine and so on. It was all quite nice.

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