Restaurant review: YAK YETI YAK (Bath)

Lying underground near the famous Second Bridge nightclub in Bath is Yak Yeti Yak, a charming Nepalese restaurant offering some very authentic and delicious dishes.

As far as quantities go, the main meals had a decent amount; whilst perhaps less than the more generous portions you’d find on offer in a typical Chinese or Indian restaurant, the quality was much higher, with some wonderful herbs and spices that I’d never experienced before, but complemented the main meal wonderfully. 

Emsy tries her hand at cooking a full English breakfast.

I had some help from Theo (read: he cooked pretty much everything other than the hash browns, tomatos, sausages and baked beans, which I was in charge of. And I ruined the sausages).

The cooking process:

 

 

The sausages were a rather embarrassing phail. Basically, I put them in the grill thinking they were cooking as the grill was warm, but that was just heat from the oven cooking the hash browns. So by the time I worked it out, the sausages were late, and looking distinctly unappetising. Anyway, here they are:

 

 

And the finished product:

Contents: 3 slices of bacon, garlicy mushrooms, fried egg, three fried tomatos, baked beans, three hash browns.

 

And it was absolutely delicious! We'll see what mistakes I make in the kitchen next weekend...

 

 

 

Film review: THE ACCIDENTAL HUSBAND (Griffin Dunne, 2008)

Uma Thurman plays Emma Lloyd, a popular radio agony aunt who specializes in advice pertaining to the matters of the heart. She is engaged to caring but stuffy publisher Richard (played by the quintessential stiff upper lip performer, Colin Firth), but one day, after giving advice to a woman that has her ditching her fireman fiancée, finds herself on the receiving end of some computer hacking retribution as his younger brother makes them engaged. 

Emma, utterly baffled by the whole situation, sets about finding the fireman (Patrick, played by relatively unknown actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan), only to find that, surprise surprise, the course of true love never ran smooth.

 

 

Cooking: carnitas pork burritos.

The veggies:

The pork (slow cooked in the oven for about 4 hours):

The other ingredients:

The finished product:

A trip to Nando's for my cousin's birthday.

I had -

 

My brother had-

 

My cousin had (although we all helped!)-

 

 

And we all dug into this rather fabulous cake-

 

 

A pledge for healthier eating.

I had two more pizzas this week--

 

Unfortunately, due to the lack of variety in my diet, I got ill on Shrove Tuesday, which was the worst possible timing as it meant I was poorly and missed out on Pancakes Tuesday --

 

 

That, and the ensuing indigestion I suffered, was more than lesson enough, and from here on forward, I pledge to have a much healthier diet, to avoid this ever happening again! Which means I will have to cut back on the pizzas, which is a shame, but hopefully in doing so I'll discover new types of food that are just as tasty!

Big pizza week...

A not a single trip to Pizza Express, surprisingly. ;)

 

Tuesday - Sainsbury's pizza

 

 

Wednesday - Sainsbury's pizza

 

The Sainsbury's pizzas were 10 inches, so exactly the same size as the Domino's pizzas in the photo below. They were 2 for £6, which I think is an absolute bargain because they taste every bit as good as Domino's pizzas, and with more nutritional content! So yeah, get on it!

 

 

Saturday - Domino's