Cucumber and Smoked Salmon Napoleons

Saturday 12 May
After a heavyish lunch, we wanted a light supper before a weird but not displeasing "adaptation" of Massenet's Werther. So we made these cute, nouveller-than-thou cucumber and lox napoleons. Remember a couple of years ago when everything in every restaurant was stacked and called a napoleon? Us neither. The benriner makes short work of long cucumber slices (and fingers, if you're not careful). The mortar was a little goat cheese whipped up with cream and dill. We topped them with pickled ginger and scattered them with chive blossoms for the ultimate die-yuppie-scum touch. It was cool as a . . .

Then Graeter's after the opera. Strawberry chip is in season. Ahhhhhhh!