Feasting with friends

Yesterday, I was fortunate to be invited to a dinner at the M. residence where we were served South African Castle Lager, mussels wrapped in bacon, crumbed mussels in their shells, fresh oysters drizzled with celeb chef Tetsuya's oil (such a delicate flavour), a potent French beer with a gnome on the label, delicious roast duck and vegetables, a couple of decent Hunter Valley reds, strawberries and jelly and cream in little biscuit baskets*, liqueur chocolates, praline chocs and Otard cognac. You have permission to drool.


*Pardon my ignorance of the correct term.


Now digesting: "Doctor Who - The Many Hands" (2008) by Dale Smith.