An eminent Scottish lawyer Dame Elish Angiolini who is the first woman to become Scotland’s Solicitor General and also Lord Advocate was on Desert Island Discs today, the BBC programme where a celebrity is asked to choose what eight pieces of music they would take to a desert island if they were marooned on one. There was a joking reference to a desert island dish, Dame Eilish would take pasta with ceps, green salad and chips… but that might have been a little joke!
I got to wondering what my desert island dishes would be… tricky… would it be ingredients or the finished meal?
Ingredients:
- white peaches
- asparagus
- proper Cheddar cheese, all grainy and smelling of a farmyard
- herring
- crystallised ginger covered with dark chocolate (or the yoghurty coating from Holland and Barrat’s)
- pheasant
- oysters
- sweetbreads
…but if it was actual cooked dishes… I’m not sure i could choose… but here is an off-the-top-of-the head list
- English breakfast
- Sunday roast dinner with my dad’s gravy, or maybe Christmas lunch
- Thai curry made by my husband
- herrings fried in oatmeal with brown bread and proper butter (not margarine or buttery spread)
- Chinese meal as made in Mr Yim’s kitchen at the Wun Wah… and if it had to be just one dish, Cantonese prawns
- a Keralan curry – any! (extra hot too, please!)
- pasta and cheese
- parmigiana di melanzane
I know I will post this and then think… oh but I should have included…
Lois Elsden 