Not according to Nigella

Opening the boxes was very exciting – after all, I hadn’t seen the contents of them for over 2 months – and everything in these boxes was supposed to be things I couldn’t possibly wait more than a week for. As I put clothes away (generally thinking when I am I ever going to wear THAT), and put books away (mostly thinking oh yes, I was supposed to be reading THAT), I was thinking about my favourite cookery books that I’d unpacked and put in the kitchen, ready to look through later. When later came, and I looked through How to Eat, and How to be a Domestic Goddess, I wondered How I was ever going to do any of those things on a cooker with only two rings (both with one flame setting – Fiery Wok Temperature) and an oven that is a law unto itself. I decided the best solution was 7 Days, so off we went.

They do a Fruit Platter there that is second to none. It is a huge plate of beautifully prepared fruit, decorated with an exotic bird or dragon or some other creature carved from a water melon. Today however, J decided to try something different and ordered a Fruit Salad instead. It arrived 10 minutes later. It was a large bowl, full of juicy chunks of melon, pineapple, bananas, apples, water melon and tomatoes. The bowl was lined with lettuce leaves, and the fruit was smothered generously with mayonnaise. We hoped it might be cream, but unfortunately it wasn’t. And just in case there wasn’t enough mayonnaise already covering the Fruit Salad, it came with an extra dollop in a little side plate. Poor J, these days she’ll try anything, and anything with Fruit in the title surely couldn’t be that bad….but sadly bananas with mayonnaise defeated her.