Monday, May 02, 2011

Long weekend

Thanks Will and Kate for the four-day weekend, most thoughtful of you :-) This weekend, we visited London Zoo...

...and the Natural History Museum.

We strolled through Hyde Park.

We checked out the Science Museum...

...which Little Planet was delighted to discover had an interactive play area for young children.


We devoured South Indian vegetarian food at Ravi Shankar in Euston. Little Planet particularly loved the samosas, golgoppas, aloo chaat and sag paneer dosa.

Back home, she enjoyed being the little movie director in the garden...

...while we enjoyed planting new shrubs and flowers.


We ate well this weekend, of course, but Mr Planet surpassed himself with this simple Korean concoction of kimchi with bacon on butter lettuce.

7 comments:

hannah said...

how do you manage to make such fabulous food on a regular basis?

Planethalder said...

We cook most nights and always have, even if it means cooking at 8.30pm. Most of the meals take no time at all to cook - the kimchi was fried with bacon (5 mins) and plonked onto lettuce leaves (1 min) :-) The secret for us is to menu plan and shop for the entire week at the weekend and start cooking stews and curries on Sundays for the week. My fulltime working parents did this when I was a child. It works!

Planethalder said...

Oh yes, and make things that have multiple purposes eg roast beef or chicken on Sunday means leftovers to make a quick curry on Monday for two nights. Lots of over-cooking and freezing meals too for rushed nights.

chandni said...

the pictures are gorgeous!

Planethalder said...

Thanks!

hannah said...

Your food continues to impress me,it all looks rather elaborate despite your simple explanation for it. I wish I had the energy to make myself a meal everyday!

Planethalder said...

Mr Planet and I are both very speedy cooks and we do have a lot of energy despite being so busy. Just lucky I guess. Always been like this. Though I can also quite happily order a takeaway fish and chips and watch The Wire all night ;-)