A Day at the Beach Hut by Veronica Henry

Author:Veronica Henry
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781409195825
Publisher: Orion

BIRTHDAY BANQUET RECIPES

My birthday is in early August, which means very often people are on holiday when it comes to celebrating. But it does also mean the weather is usually fabulous, so I gather together what friends and family I can for a beach banquet. As it’s my birthday I don’t want to make a load of work for myself, so the answer is an extravagant seafood feast.

For this I go to the harbour, to a little shack on the quayside with tables and chairs outside. Here you can guzzle a plateau de fruits de mer with a bottle of white wine and watch the boats meander in and out under the stern gaze of Verity, the die-cast bronze Hirst statue that stands on the end of the pier.

Or you can take your own bountiful seafood platter home with you. We choose the finest specimens and our eyes are inevitably bigger than our stomachs. We stop for bottles of bone-dry Riesling or rich buttery burgundy to wash down our catch.

The vibrant reds and oranges and pinks and corals and creams spread out on a bed of ice is magnificent. It’s a ceremonial and celebratory centrepiece, and there is a pleasing ritual to it as well, as claws are cracked open and the sweet flesh pulled from the shells. It’s a delicious and messy evening of indulgence, almost decadent, but as it only happens once a year I feel no guilt, only pleasure.

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