River cottage new series

[louise stella]

I don't know how easy it is to clean wooden platters, but they're entirely traditional. A square meal was originally one which filled a square wooden platter to the corners.

.......A Square MEal was indeed a wooden plate used on board ships - and they had a wooden rim around the edge about 1cm high called a fiddle - if the food touched or was over this - you were said to be "on the fiddle" - ie: taking more than you should and you could be punished!  We have one at work!

[louise stella]

I thought the food looked nice except that watery sauce  the food was swimming in- uugh I thought it would make the food soggy

......That is actually a very tasty soup - very common in Japanese cooking!  You always get a course served like that!  It is lovely!

[pumpkinlover]

I thought the food looked nice except that watery sauce  the food was swimming in- uugh I thought it would make the food soggy

......That is actually a very tasty soup - very common in Japanese cooking!  You always get a course served like that!  It is lovely!

thanks for that Louise Stella- I can be a bit parochial at times, love me thick gravy!