9 June - slow-cooked lamb and frogspawn

Today was soup again for lunch; this time a creamy cauliflower soup, perfect for a slightly damp, chilly day.

Sadly, the cold and rain drove us indoors for dinner this evening, but a hearty dish of slow-cooked lamb with swede and potatoes warmed us up after a busy afternoon snapping outdoors. A huge glass dish of lumpy white stuff arrived for pudding that none of us felt quite sure about. Venturing the first taste, my instinctive description was that it felt a bit like frogspawn, which didn't really inspire the rest of the group to try it! It was actually a chilled creamy pudding, a bit like rice pudding, but made with barley instead and although we were all a bit uncertain about the texture on first taste, it grew on us and with a fruit sauce made from cherries and strawberries, we all ended up with a good bowlful.