Cooking from Nigella Lawson's How To Eat. For starters, white bread in the oven, then rubbed with garlic, then quite a bit of olive oil. We had a spread of mashed chickpeas with garlic, salt, pepper, olive oil, sesame paste and cream. The chickpeas had been soaked in water overnight and put in the crockpot on AUTO for a full day. Still, not quite soft enough: they had to cook 2 more hours on HIGH.
The starter went quite well with white wine. Then, as the main course, chicken pieces in the oven. They had been marinated in buttermilk overnight. Although tasty, they were not that spectacular, I should have chosen another recipe with some zing (lemon or so). They were accompanied by diced potatoes and a grand salad with rocket and cos lettuce. As dessert, the Nigella cooked apricots (with cardamoms and sugar), then chilled and filled with creme fraiche and sprinkled with pistachios. Ice cream to go with it.