We wanted to include all our friends, male and female, all at once, so we had a joint Hen and Stag Night, which we called a Hag Night.

We went for beers in the Mitre, then sushi at Teri-Aki (mine had no less than 7 ingredients, it said on the menu!), then beers at the Pickerel, then beers at the Mitre. There was no carnage, just a nice evening and a catch-up with people I haven’t seen for ages. I didn’t get to talk to everyone, though, but it was nice that they all came.

After feasting on Japanese food at a belated FAB last week, C got it into his head that I could buy some sushi at Tesco today, seeing as it’s shopping day today.  I said no, but I did look at a packet in the snacks and sarnies bit, but I put it back down.  I was buying miso soup anyway, and on the same shelf as that, there was a load of sushi-making stuff, like seaweed sheets, mirin, rice wine vinegar, wasabi and ginger, so they all went into the trolley as well!

I created a Japanese feast of my own, without using the miso soup as soup, but as a coating for the tuna I’d already bought - there was a recipe for this on the side of the packet, and I’d already put the tuna in the trolley - very convenient!

I want to get some udon noodles or ramen noodles or something, to go with the miso soup, next week.  In the meantime, I’ll put veg and fishy things in it, I think.

Last week, I bought some Indian-type stuff: some lentil soup mix and some pancakey-things mix.  The former was quite nice, but the latter ended up as a heap on a plate.  It was nice nonetheless.

I like buying these exotic foodstuffs - makes mealtimes more exciting!