To ask for comfort ! (Light hearted)

[gimmethedietcoke]

I have eaten a risotto and I feel so full

Please tell me this feeling won't last forever 

Please tell me you over eat too sometimes 

I've had five toasties for dinner and can't move.

Oooh what was in the toasties? (If you can bear to think about it..) 

I had to stop making risotto because it's one of a small number of things that I would eat beyond reason.

It always made me feel like I was a surrogate for a pregnant whale. Yes, it passes - but the period where you have to lie on your side, propping the stomach with a few cushion supports is deeply unpleasant.

Two slices of Edam and some diced onion

Five toasties? Goals.

Arrun - I actually am pregnant 

I love a toastie

How can I still be thinking about toasties when I am so full ??? :@/

I ate an entire packet of warburtons crumpets the other day because they were on their use by date.

There were 9

I’m a pig

I ate 30 cocktail sausages in one sitting last weekend, shameful especially as I could have easily had another 30

If given the chance I could eat almost an entire roasting tin of my mother's stovies...(I wish). I would hold my sore tummy and eat them as if compelled, even if the lovely crispy bubbly bits cut my mouth.

I am starting to feel a little less full now

What is a 'stovie'?

There are regional variations but my mother's was based on the juices and dripping of lamb (gigot qui pleure). You halved potatoes lengthwise and overlapped them like tiles (they weren't thin slices or small potatoes) and you half covered them in a stock and baked them in the oven, tucking thick slices of onion in between the potatoes. (You dipped all of the potato in the stock but only half of it was submerged once you'd arranged them.)

The dripping/fat from your weeping lamb dropped on them from the shelf above (or you brushed it on the bits of potato out of the stock) and it crisp/roasted/blistered that bit of the potato and the exposed onion.

The mix of textures and the taste were just fabulous.

When we were getting married our venue was new and didn't know how to go about menu tasting. They had an evening where couples came, you had some paper to take notes... and they served a mini portion of everything on the menu!

Several soups all served in tiny espresso cups, starters on teacup saucers etc. But so many things to try, by the time the mains were over everyone was full. Then we were treated to a firework display before all the desserts.

It was good in that what we wanted turned out meh and other things were amazing so we changed our minds and wouldn't have thought of going for them otherwise. But oh gosh, DH and I couldn't sleep for clutching our stomachs.

The venue do menu tastings the usual way now!