Hectic Host: Go On Make Ma’s Day: Mothering Sunday Dade Simple

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My sister claims her earliest memory is being yanked by me from her bed to help carry a tray of Weetabix in water and undiluted orange squash into my sleeping parents sometime before dawn on Mothers Day. Whether it is this rude awakening or the look of abject horror on my mother’s face that sticks in my sister’s mind is unclear, either way the event left several family members emotionally scarred. To avoid a similarly distressing start to your one day of the year, I suggest Dulwich mums leave this month’s Hectic Host prominently placed to encourage dads to do a spot of pre-emptive planning.

Follow these easy, stress free steps to a delicious Sunday lunch that dad and the kids can prepare in no time and, more importantly, with very little clearing up afterwards.

Dads should get up early on Saturday and head to Moxons, the new fishmongers on Lordship Lane. Stock up on Madagascan prawns and fillets of organic salmon. On Sunday morning the whole family, apart from mum, can help make Posh Prawn Cocktail. Repeatedly layer rocket, prawns and homemade Marie Rose sauce into over sized red wine glasses and top off with a wedge of lime. To make the Marie Rose sauce simply mix organic mayonnaise from SMBS Foods with Stoke’s Spicy Tomato Ketchup from The East Dulwich Deli in equal quantities.

For the main course place the salmon fillets on sheets of foil smeared with a little olive oil, spoon over Spank’s Ginger & Chilli Dipping Sauce from the Cheese Block, seal the foil into a parcel and bake in a preheated oven, 200 degrees, for 20 minutes. Serve with a stir fry of peas, sugar snaps, mange tout and baby sweet corn.

For pudding, halve pears and remove the core and seeds. Arrange in a circular formation in a round oven proof dish, £15 from Roullier White, with a gap left in the centre. Into this gap spoon a couple of large tablespoons of your favourite jam. Apricot or peach are delicious. Dab each pear part with a little butter and then crumble some macaroons over the whole dish. Place in the preheated oven for 15 minutes.

Further entertainment for the kids, and respite for mum, can be found on East Dulwich Road, where Puffin Crafts provides all the materials necessary for children and adults alike to make handmade cards. Next door All Fired Up is a café where children can paint ceramics and have them fired afterwards; a unique Mother’s Day offering.

Mums of a certain generation will enjoy bopping round the kitchen, whilst dad does the washing up, to Nouvelle Vague’s new album; A Band Apart. This mix of Bossa Nova style covers of 80’s new wave hits is £12.95 from Roullier White.

Moxons Fishmonger; 149 Lordship Lane
East Dulwich Deli; 15 Lordship Lane
Cheese Block; 69 Lordship Lane
Puffin Crafts; 36 East Dulwich Road
All Fired Up; 34 East Dulwich Road
Roullier White, 125 Lordship Lane

Hect Host appears monthly in the issues of SE Magazines.

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