Who wants to be a millionaire?

Making a list of my favourite meals that I’ve cooked this year is a hard task, mainly because they are eaten without thought and I don’t take photos of them. Making a blog about them is easy as it’s only these ones I’ve bothered to photo!

Before I get to the good stuff, I need to mention the worst meal of the year... and the award goes to:

Grilled swordfish
What! Grilled Swordfish? I hear you say, but yes it was terrible. There was so much potential and it was all ruined by inept cooking and no forward thinking… and it was inspired by a General Dynamics Mediterranean Cod which is never a good start. I don’t really want to talk about it too much so all I’ll say is that the potato wedges came from the freezer :(. Critics gave it 4/10, which I thought was generous.

There weren’t many bad meals, so quickly on to the top 3 meals of the year.

3. Sogliola in tre modi (Roasted sole three ways)
Although not technically this year, this was my first photographed meal, and it deserves to go on this list as it was awesome and it was for valentines. Cheers Jamie! Critics gave it “9 if not 10 out of 10”. While I’m being truthful… I didn’t actually cook this 3 ways. I only cooked it one way, the awesome way. Sometimes I regret this dish as it sealed the deal with Helen, but I should have expected this at the time!

2. Bacon and poached egg on a muffin in a pea puree
I don’t know where the inspiration for this dish came from, I thought I had seen something in a cookbook that Helen had, but since then I cannot find it so maybe I dreamt it. Seriously though, the minty peas were amazing with the bacon. Critics gave it 8/10. Since this dish I have started sugaring the bacon to make candy bacon (thank you epic meal time!) and this has made this even more spectacular!

1. Cider sausages on a black pudding mash
If I owned a restaurant or had to go on a cooking competition show on TV (sadly Cardiff has already been on come dine with me) then this would be my signature dish! Although I think I would have to give some money to Savanna dry as they deserve some credit for the cider I used. The only thing that I could have done more for this dish would have been to make the sausages myself, but they probably wouldn’t have been as good as the ones from Tesco with the bits of apple in them, which helped with the apple theme of the dish, and I could have possibly made it look a bit more appetising! 9/10 from the critics but a 10/10 user rating.

Anyway, while I was writing this, some dappy women (whoes name was actually Dot) just won £77,500 on the call in game on who wants to be a millionaire

I don't wanna die!

3 months of a strange Arsenal year and we're 5th. Almost suicidal at the start of the season and now our one man show is keeping us in contention for Europe next year, which is the only thing we have to sing about this year! He’s also the only reason I’ve enjoyed a week at the top of my fantasy football table, although after today I’m fairly sure I will be relegated to the depths of mid-table mediocrity. Next year I’m going to make a team of ex-Arsenal players and see how it gets on against my proper team! The main thing is that on Match of the Day when they were introducing Alan Hansen and Lee Dixon, Alan won the most league titles competition.

Anyway since Halloween the main thing we’ve been playing is house of the dead, with agent G of the AMS.