Yes Chef!

RAOK No. 2, Send your compliments to the chef.

Now, I am a poor student on a budget of £10 a day. In order to send my compliments to the chef, I have to ‘dine out’.  Dining out does not normally come into my weekly budget, nonetheless, this week I had no choice other than to splash out.

I left the Peckham Palace this morning without my trusty blue Power Rangers lunch box. No jam sandwiches today my friend. I felt rather anxious and guilty leaving it behind, even so, I bravely closed the front door, turned my iPod on and cycled off to University with Tracy Chapman whispering sweet lullabies into my ears.

Lunch time soon came around and I felt at a loose end not being able to whip out my blue lunch box and indulge in my jam sandwiches.  I courageously carried on and I went to the SU bar to fulfil my hunger.

Now then, the SU bar’s menu is not that extensive but, what they do do, is top notch nosh. I decided to treat myself to pasta pomodoro. For those who don’t know what pomodoro is, it is a quintessential Italian tomato sauce that is typically served over cooked pasta.

I asked the wonderful girl who served me who the chef was. With a humble smile she said she had cooked the pasta and heated up the pomodoro sauce herself! Well then, that in my mind makes her the chef! Heyho, ‘Ahhh may I send my compliments to the chef then! This is fantastic!’ The lovely girl (whose name I failed to get), accepted my compliments graciously and even posed for a photograph with me.  Microwave cooking even deserves a compliment...textbook!

For those wanting a cheap lunch, I can highly recommend pasta pomodoro with half a pint of Guinness for  £4.50 – crackin’. I am,of course, not condoning daytime drinking but a wee tipple now and then is no bad thing. 

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