Haggises are of course always a memorable event and when they come with tablet, it is a bonus. Most people think tablet must have something to do with pharmacies but Scots know better. Tablet is a great favourite in Scotland. It's available just about everywhere. It is basically fudge minus the cocoa. It really does melt in your mouth.
Tablet
So when Anne bought a haggis recently, she bought some tablet to go with it. And she bought both over to my place last night. So we had a haggis dinner. After many years of cooking it, Anne has become an old hand at cooking haggis and I think the haggis I had last night was the best yet.
And Anne went the full hog and cooked tatties and neeps to go with it. She is famous for her neeps. She knows how much I like cabbage so she did some of that too -- cooked in cream! Very yummy. I ate the cabbage first. Health freaks would scream!
We had it with Tyrrells Verdelho, as usual. And we had the tablet with a cup of tea afterwards. So it was a pretty Scottish night. I didn't get into Highland dress for the occasion but I did don a white shirt as a token of "Dressing for dinner".
Anne stayed overnight so this morning I took her to the cafe at the "Cottage Garden" plant nursery in Coorparoo. It is a bit on the trendy side but a pleasant venue anyway, with lots of greenery around, as you would expect. We had their breakfast special, which was huge but very tasty.
The two breakfasts plus coffee cost me just over $50, for anybody who might be weighing up whether or not to go there. The service was very slow, even though we arrived just after 9:30am, which is usually a quiet time at most places. The coffee was good, though.
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