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A lemony lunch
ОглавлениеThis year the weather has been a hoot: it’s only just turned May and it’s as though spring has taken a sabbatical and the man behind the weather has fast-tracked us straight into summer. I dreamt up a suitable lunch for this climate – food full of zest and zing, lemons and light – so, brimming with anticipation, I woke up this morning, went downstairs, opened the front door and … it was cold. Freezing cold, in fact. Nevertheless, hopeless optimist that I am, I cooked what I had planned and, wonderfully, by the time that we had reached pudding, the sun had come out. Afterwards, as the Arsenal game kicked off, we all hung out of the front door and watched everyone troop past in the warmth. We even spotted a minor celebrity amongst the red-topped fray – and he smiled.
I really enjoyed making this lunch, for one rather contemptible reason: it made me feel like the person I, regrettably, am not. That is a tidy, clean-up-as-you-go kind of person; an organised, calm, collected type of cook. For once, I felt this way because this lunch was so pleasurably easy to put together. So if you are naturally a messy little pig like me, make the following for a spritz of zen-like kitchen calm.
The tart needs to be made first to allow time for it to chill: you could even make it the day before.
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