Then onto lunch at Pret, a mozzarella and pesto toastie. It doesn't look too bad from the picture but was actually a total disaster. It contained slices of fresh tomato, which became wet upon toasting, eventually soaking into the "toasted" bread (in fact, toasted top, burnt underside), resulting in serious structural integrity issues which made eating it at my desk an unwelcome challenge. The tomatoes were pretty rank too. Does anyone like hot, soggy, watery tomatoes in their sandwich? Thought not. Pret surely test their products out before unleashing them on their customers. But who do they test them on? It must be either the starving, or their own mothers, as no-one else could have signed this off for public consumption.
For dinner, V (who I must confess seems to be doing most of the evening cooking at the moment, shame on me) cooked chicken with cashew nuts. This was Thai style as opposed to Chinese, being darker, saltier and spicier, thanks to the addition of soy sauce, fish sauce and chilli. It was a bit too salty, perhaps said sauces had been over-reduced. I prefer the lighter tasting Chinese version, with the chicken being fried in a thin batter before being added to the rest of the ingredients. We had it with white rice and pak choi with sesame seeds and crispy garlic. The garlic worked well.
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