Best and Biggest Lunch At B and K Salt Beef Bar, Restaurant and Take away In London, England

the mixed hors d'oevre I had on a previous visit. Photo by Angela Lansbury. copyright

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Salt beef. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

Tripadvisor asks if you ate there with family or friends. Both. Four of us, two couples. We had lunch.

One person, in a wheelchair, had already managed to negotiate the doorway when we arrived.

The toilets are at the back on the ground floor. That's good. I hate going up or down a level.

First choice, set meal or not? I chose the two-course set meal. The food is always too much for us. So a shared starter and a shared dessert is good.

Starter
Start with chicken soup. It comes with a dumpling, or kind of ravioli, pasta around meat. Both, I think, costs a little extra. One soup, two spoons. No problem.

With your main course you might have chips or latkes. Latkes, fried grated potato. don't seem to me to be what they used to be. Not such a huge difference in satisfaction between latkes and chips. I was happy with both.

I made the mistake of going for chicken. Because I like chicken. But you can have chicken anywhere.

I should have had the fish balls. They were wonderful. Moist. Tasty. My friend received four, which she planned to share with her husband. Four ended up just the right amount for four people. Next time, for me, it's fish balls.

I think most men would want the filling salt beef. Piled high.

Afterwards we had takeaways to put in the fridge at home. Three sorts of baked lemon cake on a biscuity base. No, the chocolate looks and sound nice but hides the flavour of cheesecake. I prefer plain.

The lemony lokshen pudding and apple strudel and cheesecake lasted me another two days. Just a tiny piece with coffee. For breakfast, elevenses, lunch, tea, and a late night snack. Lovely.

Filling food. Fab food.

You'll find them on Facebook and TripAdvisor and Deliveroo - but not on Mondays when they are closed.

B & K Salt beef bar and restaurant
353 Uxbridge Road
Hatch End
Pinner
Middlesex
HA5 4JN

Useful Websites
https://deliveroo.co.uk/
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Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. Nosher. (That's Yiddish for snacker, one who eats between meals, like a cow which eats all day.) Please share links to your favourite posts.

How to Revive a dead Orange or Lemon Tree

Problem
We went away and our orange tree died. I hoped it was still alive.

Answer
ASK THE EXPERT
A friend from France (land of farmers and food) and New Zealand (land of sheep farms) told me what to do. Her lemon tree had looked dead earlier this year.

BREAKING AND BENDING BRANCHES
She looked at the 'dead' branches of my orange tree, which was full of dead leaves. When we tried to cut the spiky branches, she said, "some of them snap straight away and are dead. The others bend and resist because they are slightly moist and alive.?

ORANGE OR LEMON AROMA
She also broke off a bit of a living branch and said, "can you smell the orange?"

Yes, but I had thought it was dead orange, the way orange peel smells.

PRUNING REMEDY
She said prune it right back. It needs to get the water to the roots to revive.
Cut above the nodes (teeny lumps on branches).

WATER
Water it well.
Nothing might happen for a month. It needs time to recover.

Keep it moist. In Singapore we are not allowed to have water saucers under pots because stagnant water can breed mosquitoes. Government health inspectors will come around to look for water retention - even plastic bags ying around which collect water - and can charge a large fine. In other countries, cut a hole in the bottom of the pot if it doesn't have one and keep a saucer underneath.

WATER RETENTION
You can buy at garden centres the white balls which act like sponges of chalk, holding water, which the plant roots can retrieve. You will extend the life of a plant you forgot to water or could not water because you were away on holiday or a business trip or at your second home. That gives your plant up to an extra month (depending on size of plant and pot).

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
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