After phoning the usual guys Dave, Liz and now Tony.
Sophie expressed an interest on Friday night so I rang her too to arrange a time of 10 am.
Everyone was prompt but by then the rain was lashing down.
We all had tea and waited a while, but then the storm became one of the biggest ones of the year so far.
So thats it really- no walk no blog, and everyone went their separate ways.
But wait, remember the Halfway house in Kineton?
The roast was pretty good there a couple of weeks ago and now I'm not so hung over, I had to find out, would it taste any better? or was it just a blip and that they just got luck with it?
We should soon find out.
So Tom, Jon, Tony and I went over in my car also taking along my new foraging kit (more of that later),
Jon & Tom are new to this blog and show no interest in walking, but they do like to meet up for the good food sometimes.
Talking of which lets get onto the food. The Halfway House was fairly busy and every table was taken, luckily for us we a found the last one.
We ordered 3 roast beef (or how they like to call it here 'rare roast beef') and one pork for me, plus 4 pints of 'BB'.
Now I like to think that I have a bit of knowledge when it comes to a good Sunday roast as I eat out pretty much every week.
But this one surpassed every roast that i've eaten, I kid you not it was the tastiest and (as Tom pointed out) the most colorful roasts Ever.
I'm afraid that my photo does not really do it justice, but it came with Pork, roast potatoes, cabbage, mashed carrot, red cabbage, roasted parsnips, broccoli, cauliflower cheese, crackling, apple sauce and one of the nicest gravies which sadly let down many a good meal in other establishments.
This meal was truly amazing and I highly recommend it! (As you'll be able to see by are very cleaned up plates.)
It could not possibly get any better. . . . . . . . . but it did!
Now I'm not really into desserts but we were so impressed we had to order some,
and WOW!
Pineapple with a cocoanut ice-cream with some sort of raspberry sauce does not sound too great to me and it was my 3rd choice, but they had ran out of everything else.
It was delicious to the extreme, the temperature was right, the taste was spectacular and it went down a treat, unbelievable was the comment from someone.
After a quick chat with the chef to tell her what we thought and that we would be back very soon.
I took my foraging kit from the car and off we went to find some Hazelnuts or as Tony later found out via his good lady Michele, they are called 'cob nuts'.
I was mainly scrapping around on the roadside trying to find the ones that had not been eaten by the squirrels.
I had found quite a hearty lot but it wasn't till I got back to the car that Tony had found by far the best place and hundreds of them were just lying around,
in-fact we walked straight pass them at the very begin.
And what started as a wash out has now turned into a very fruitful if not nutty day
but as they say every cloud has a silver lining . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . but I think ours was gold today.
Cheers Carl.
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