The nineteenth day of July in the nineteenth year of the millennium beginning in 2000, a special day – our nineteenth wedding anniversary.
The final stage for this excellent starter, flambe with Pernod or Ricard
We don’t usually celebrate our civil wedding as it doesn’t mean much to either Petronela or me (memorable mainly for the unusual happenings associated with it); we celebrate the anniversaries of our church wedding three months later, on 29th October.
Christmas dinner
It was not ‘all the 19s’ which made us make an exception this year but the fact that our 2018 Christmas dinner has been sitting in the freezer since December. Both of us were struck by ‘the bug’ rampant at the time and could handle neither cooking nor eating. We did intend to make it our Easter feast but unexpected guests put paid to that.
Prawns flambéed
The highlight of the feast was what we think is the best starter ever: giant prawns flamed in Pernod (or Ricard). The recipe comes from a much-missed blog – My French Heaven. The prawns had sat for a while in oil with chopped garlic ready for flambé when we were struck down so the whole thing was bunged in the freezer. It didn’t suffer for its 6 month plus freeze.
Nor did the venison steaks for Petronela and wild duck breasts for me – washed down with an excellent Romanian Murfatlar Feteasca Neagra wine: 3 Hectare.
July 31, 2019 at 8:54 pm
Congratulations 💘
I love numerical anniversaries my 18th birthday was 11.11.11
August 1, 2019 at 9:41 am
Thank you for the congratulations. The 19 years has gone so quickly.
I didn’t realise you were a Scorpio. I don’t know whether you have any belief in astrology but if so do you think you are a typical scorpio? In one aspect at least your career path seems to indicate that — the ones who set up a solid goal or foundation, then start building. In that respect you share it with my star sign: taurus.
I must here comment on something you said a while ago; that it’s a pity that Scottish Opera has not brought its ‘pop up opera’ south; I sure Petronela would have been captivated by that and 30 mins is about her attention span 😃 Apart from the ‘grand opera’, the Gilbert & Sullivan would surely have appealed; I remember being enchanted by it when I was a child, when every local ‘society’ then did a performance once a year. Now it’s difficult to find them.
August 6, 2019 at 8:53 pm
Yes, I love astrology thanks to my Mum. I’ve not had a chart reading though, my Dad bought one for Mum and it was really interesting.
The pop-up opera went down really well with a wide variety of audience members the cut version with story narration was really well done and it was fun singing with harp and flute.
Gilbert & Sullivan is great fun isn’t it.
Best wishes
Charlotte
July 21, 2019 at 4:23 pm
Happy Anniversary! What an accomplishment…19 years on the 19th in the 19th year. I’m not into all that numerology theory but I’m sure there’s something to repeating numbers in the observance of one event. I always intended to look into numerology but so far am only curious enough to notice the recurrence of numbers. I may be more apt to notice recurring numbers because my grandfather was born the 11th child on the 11th day of the 11th year – January 11, 1911. Always thought that made him a really special person….but, I do wonder about all those 11’s. Hope you enjoyed your much deserved but belated Christmas/Anniversary dinner. Looks and sound delicious!