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Last night was the social outcasts dinner party in our place. We were joined by the Stunner, YWML, The Mad One, Newly Single, Skinny Malink, Victor, the Blonde, the FA, The Teacher and The Queen of Baking. The antipasti were served outside in the garden with some beautifully chilled Gavi.The men hung around the patio doors so they could view Ireland v Macedonia on the small tv in the kitchen and the Teacher and Victor chose their seats for dinner according to the view of same.The Lemon Chicken was served with a marvellous array of exotic salads, thanks to everyones contributions. The Mad One had brought baked Rooster potatoes and offered Victor one ( potato that is !)of a particular shape and width. Skinny Malink came out with some lovely wee jokes but the Mad One suggested that they were far too clean in nature and proceeded to read out a selection of totally filthy and politically incorrect yarns from her phone. I can only advise you that none of us will ever look at a midwife in the...

The FA joined me on Saturday when GASP had chosen GAA over an evening in with woty....imagine ! Mond you he had just spent a week with me on holidays so deserved a break. The cupboard was well and truly bare, having not got around to the post hols shop so I was under pressure to produce a meal for someone who is a gourmet foodie. Thank God for GASP, as I strolled out to the garden to find large dew covered lettuces, vibrant green spinach and some scallions. I had managed to pick up a cooked chicken that lunchtime so I raided the bottom drawers of the fridge and the larder cupboard and managed to bring together the best salad I have ever made. I washed the lettuce and spinach and tore them roughly into the huge Nicholas Mosse bowl we got as a wedding present. I added the chopped scallions, some halved cherry tomatoes, the last 3 inches of cucumber and some sunflower seeds. I found a jar of artichoke hearts in oil, which I had bought some time ago in Aldi, drained them and added them on ...