Cookery - Alex

Firstly for those of you who are interested me and Patrick are fairly happy after a 5-1 defeat. 5-1 actually flatters the opposition a little I feel, if it weren't for a few individual mistakes I think we could have left the arena with a 3-1 or maybe even 2-1 defeat. Also I basically saved a penalty, which means in my whole time playing 5-a-side football I have been in goal for three penalty kicks and not one has been scored. Impressive stuff.

Now for the main body of today's instalment of witless ramblings. Cookery, the art of taking a bunch of seemingly unrelated ingredients and crafting them into a mouth watering piece of magic. Or something like that anyway. I cannot cook anything that doesn't come with instructions, which is a bit of a shame. My youngest sister, however, is a glorious desert maker; the things she can't do with flour and sugar aren't worth knowing. It's truly astounding. She isn't too shabby at making starters either; she makes an incredibly crusty fishy pot thing. Crusty and fishy, if I was immature I'd make a joke about that but I shall demonstrate my reserve by not even mentioning anyone's private parts. My favourite meal? Well for starters I really like bruschetta, it is scrumptious. For main course I love a nice lean steak, cooked medium rare. To accompany the steak I'd like nice British fat chips, onion rings, mushrooms, roast tomatoes and maybe even some asparagus. Also I'd like a healthy serving of blue cheese sauce on the steak, blue cheese is magical. For desert I'd be stupid if I asked for anything other than warm apple pie with high quality vanilla ice cream. So if any of you readers ever host me for a three course meal now you don't even need to think about what to cook.

Part three of "Cookery" by Alex Pointon (lion tamer extraordinaire), guest bloggers. One of my close friends recently quit college in order to pursue an accountancy apprenticeship, but he doesn't start his apprenticeship until January, leaving him with a lot of spare time on his food filled hands. I suggested to him that he could write a blog for this website, to spruce it up. Something new to keep Alexnpaddy ahead of the competition (I literally have no idea who we're competing with). This made me think, if I could convince enough people who I find funny maybe we could maybe it a regular thing. Once a fortnight you could hear from one of our friends. It's an idea Patrick knows nothing about, but I shall put it to him today! If I remember too, that is.

There you have it, a nice long blog to make up for my shocker on Sunday. Lots of love from Alex.