Easter Saturday

Posted on 2012/04/15 12:34:03 (April 2012).

[Saturday 7th April 2012]
Something of a mixed bag.

We'd bought some dried fava beans in France, and the long weekend seemed like a good opportunity to try making my own ful medames. So I had soaked the beans overnight, and set about cooking them this morning. Ate some of this for lunch. The flavour was mostly there, but they weren't quite as soft as when we've had this in restaurants (or indeed from a tin). You're supposed to cook the beans in water for an hour before starting to make the actual strew, and I suspect this wasn't quite vigorous enough.

The rest of the day was mostly uneventful, watched some of this year's quite dramatic boat race, and afterwards had a craving to go to a riverside pub somewhere, so headed to the Mayflower in Rotherhithe. The first time I'd ventured out East to explore the pubs in this area I found myself little stuck in the middle, as I hadn't realised there's no easy way to cross the river around Rotherhithe. So it was quite pleasant this time round to see that Rotherhithe station has reopened as part of the Overground line, making it effortless to pop over the river to Wapping where the Prospect of Whitby et al are to be found. Didn't really feel like going to more than one pub today though, so just crossed the river because it was possible, and then took a circuitous route back home from there.

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