Food was eaten

At present I can only chew on one side of my human face because I lost a filling and have had little luck with dentists. I went on the MyDentist site and searched for one that was accepting patients and made an appointment, for which I had to wait several weeks. When the time came, I turned up ONLY TO BE TOLD that the appointment had been cancelled by textual message, since they are not accepting new patients until DECEMBER. I pointed out that I had had no such text message but this held little sway. Perhaps the should update the website so that people are not misled, perhaps also they should actually send out important text messages WHO CAN SAY.

Anyway the receptionist lady suggested I go along to this drop-in clinic which is dental students and is on a first-come, first-get-filled basis. This seemed like a good idea until I discovered that it only operates during Leeds University term dates, which doesn't start for another few weeks! All this time I must continue to be an asymmetrical eater.

So I looked at private dentists and Bupa have one. But their earliest appointment was also for a couple of weeks hence, and was reet early in the morning, too. Anyway it was my best bet so I made an appointment and it was also been confirmed that I ACTUALLY HAVE AN APPOINTMENT, so that is nice.

Despite my lopsided chewage I decided to treat myself to another couple of Gousto boxes due to the comparitive flushness of cash mentioned last entry. Here are my musings upon them:

Jerk chicken pineapple and lime mayo ciabatta

They like their ciabatta. So do I although I forgot to put it in the oven. The mayo is enhanced with the zest of a lime and the chicken is jerked by adding smoked paprika, cayenne and allspice. This was very nice though I do not care for the fad of piling a burger-style thing very high and then sticking a skewer in it. I would rather have swapped the ciabatta for something else and just had a jerk platter.

Warm goats' cheese, lentil and roast tomato salad

The goats' cheese is coated in panko breadcrumbs and fried, and cherry tomatoes are halved and slow roasted. This was lovely although I don't really like lentils. I might make it again but with giant couscous perhaps.

Freekeh, feta and roast grape salad

Freekeh is like a breakfast cereal pretending to be food. This was nice enough. According to one half of my taste buds, anyhow.

Annabel's hidden veg bolognese

I ordered this too quickly and though it was vegetarian but actually it has meat in, but the veg is "hidden" so that children can be fooled into consuming leek and carrot and celery, etc. You are supposed to blend it but I couldn't be bothered seeing if I have a blender that works so I mashed it with a potato masher. Probably I prefer that anyway, I like to retain to the texture of individual ingredients. And anyway, the jig was up regarding the hiddenness of the veg once I had read the recipe. This made too much, I had it for three consecutive meals so now I am temporarily sick of bolognese that tastes suspiciously of leek and celery.

Speedy Chinese pork and baby gem boats

I had this once before but liked it and ordered it again. At least I thought it was the same, but the previous time it was called "Mu shu" pork. I wonder why they dropped that name. Perhaps they were afraid of being accused of cultural appropriation, idk. Perhaps eating it at all is cultural appropriation. If so I am sorry to offend Chinese people but it is too lovely.