Croissants

 

Croissants

When I prepared the salmon for supper last night, I added garlic. I should have marinated it properly, but it was too darned hot! 🎝The fillets cooked quickly in the air fryer but were rather tasteless and disappointing. The colourful salad more than compensated for it.

I put the air fryer drawer back while it was still hot, intending to clean it up later. Of course, I forgot. I’m blaming everything on the unseasonable, unreasonable weather at present.

You know how it is when something triggers your memory and you find yourself thinking, ‘That would be nice for a change.’ I may have seen croissants on someone’s blog and the thought lodged in my brain, so I bought some for a treat.

It’s convenient to warm them quickly in the air fryer. This morning, we decided to have one each. We sat quietly eating them. Neither of us said a word, until Barry said, ‘Did you cook the fish in the air fryer last night?’

The croissants had been warmed in the fish-redolent basket that I had neglected to wash. Garlic-flavoured croissants are interesting but not to be recommended, even though we tried to persuade ourselves that they were quintessentially French.

I’m not cooking anything tonight! Supper will be a rainbow salad with blueberries, red and green grapes, cucumber, chicory, lettuce, sliced raw Brussels sprouts, baby corn, tenderstem broccoli, shredded cabbage, grated carrot, celery. yellow pepper, cream cheese, walnuts, and tinned salmon(!)

I shall put all that together while I listen to ‘Rather Be the Devil’ by Ian Rankin. It’s read entertainingly by James Macpherson, though I have had to slow down the reading speed to understand all the different Scottish accents.

I wanted a change from military history, having just finished the excellent ‘Brothers in Arms’ by James Holland. That was read by Al Murray, who is interested in and knowledgeable about Second World War campaigns but is a better comedian than narrator.