Salad and Cheeses

Thursday September 13

After a long day spent trotting between the Queen's Gallery (she owns more Italian paintings than the Italians) and a fascinating tour of the Household Cavalry Museum by our friend John, the director, not to mention a heavy pub lunch at the Albert somewhere in between, we only wanted something light for dinner. That turned out to be a salad of butter lettuce, rocket, courgettes, and tomatoes. We were also experimenting with local cheeses, so we laid out brown bread with Wensleydale, Cheshire, Double Gloucester, Cheddar, and of course (via Chunnel) Roquefort and Brie. Most of us preferred Double Gloucester, and found the Cheshire indistinguishable from the Wensleydale. Barbara had to inscribe their names on the side of each cheese in order to tell them apart from one another, and then we had to be extra careful not to slice off their names as we snacked.