Twelve

I was in my kitchen last night, cooking a yummy sirloin steak with green peppercorn sauce (cook-through write up to follow) and I got reflecting on this crazy project of mine. The steak was the twelfth recipe I have now tackled from Gordon Ramsay’s Great British Pub Food. That’s twelve out of a total of one hundred and nineteen. At this rate, I should finish sometime in early 2012!

Shit, I don’t think I really appreciated just how long this project would be part of my life.That said, I have been really enjoying myself – it’s great having an excuse to get into the kitchen regularly and cook something I wouldn’t normally try. As you know, I have a lot of cookbooks, but this is the first time I’ve really become totally engrossed in one. I feel like I’m starting to know those Great British Pub Food pages like an old friend now.

This bloggers life is due for some serious upheaval over the next few weeks. My job of five years comes to an end on Tuesday, so I am having to give up my nice (but oh so expensive) flat in the heart of London’s west-end and it’s lovely, open plan kitchen (sob, sob). I’ll be moving, for a few weeks, to The Laywer’s flat in Notting Hill and then onto Spain for a year or so ( I am looking at attending grad school in Madrid ). Change of job, change of house, change of country, change of career. To be honest, I’m glad to have my cook-through project to keep me sane. It seems like the only constant in my life right now!

But, as the great man Winston Churchill said,

“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”

So I’m looking forward to exploring some different pubs while I’m in Notting Hill, and my new life afterwards in Madrid is a totally blank canvass. But you can be sure that, wherever I end up, there will always be some Great British Pub Food to cook. Have a great weekend!

Jon

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