A Weekend of Doors and Dining

I went on a bit about doors a few posts ago.. It's a bit of an obsession. And this weekend I've sorted out two more doors in addition to the one in the kitchen. Turns out there is an unofficial door recycling 'scheme' along our road. In the space of two months, we have noticed 2 people leaving perfectly good doors in the street in front of their houses. Knowing that nothing stays on the pavement for long through our own experience of leaving old radiators, boilers and even light fittings outside for all of 5 minutes, we took these goodly folk up on their offer and took these two doors home... We figure that some of ours are a bit damaged after the experience of being panelled in for 40 years, so if we need spares...

And, nice coincidence, my father in law, R, left me his circular saw while he goes on holiday for a while. Absolutely terrifying, but brilliant for quickly getting a door from another house to the right size...

Needless to say, we have new bedroom door that fits, has no gaping holes in it, and fits in with the rest of the decor. Thank you, kind mysterious Brockley neighbour with the spare door... And R for the loan of a mean circular saw...

While all that's going on, roast lamb with mustard stuffing is cooking away in the oven. This is a Donna Hay recipe from 'Off the shelf'. Our friends at Drings (see previous post) 'tunnel-boned' a leg of lamb for us. I stuffed it with a mix of a cup of breadcrumbs, 2 tbsp of honey, 2 tbsp of mint and 2 tbsp of wholegrain mustard, trussed it all up with string, and it's now cooking on a rack above a baking tray with potatoes sprinkled with olive oil, salt and rosemary...

We'll see what that's like. An extremely respectful nod and thank you to my brother in law and his girlfriend all the way over in Southwark who last night had us round for an absolutely brilliant dinner of Boeuf Bourguignon with potatoes & onion, then ice cream with fig syrup and then cheese. Fabulous.

Just finishing this post in a spare second while some software downloads on my computer - the roast lamb from Donna Hay was ace. Could have done with cooking it a wee bit less time, but it was really good. Definitely roasting something on a rack above the potatoes is the way to go. Loads of flavour.

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