It’s also Japanese for pervert. Just chucked it through Google Translate.

A screenshot of my Bluesky timeliness- it's a Christmas miracle.
Ps. I read that recipe in Guardian Feast yesterday and it might not fit the 'reasonably easy' bit of the brief.

We are guests elsewhere at Christmas but for New Year, and just the 2 of us, I’ve ordered Baron Bigod and Stichelton plus a lump of quince paste.

The article appeared to be missing a word beginning with B.

Also celeriac. Roast a whole one and it feeds 4-6. Make soup with a whole one and you’ll be eating it for 100 days.

Same issue with lack of trays. I've found Yorkshire pudding trays are great and then you can slip them out and store in zip locks when they are frozen.

These are very good oven chips, in my greedy opinion

I also went down a lentil route, butternut and red lentil curry.
I know you aren't a squash person though.

If you want to do what the locals do one day, get a bus to Pedragalejo or El Palo and go for lunch at Restaurante El Caleño or Chiringuito El Merlo.
I have a contact who lives in Malaga and this is what she suggested when I visited.

The 65% Guatemalan was extraordinary. It was like the top of a creme brulee.

It's expensive because it is small batch, but so good you really can restrict yourself to a couple of squares and just savour it.

You are having an amber coloured feast.

It seems like a deadly vicious circle. You get screened if you have the gene, but no one knows if you have the gene until its too late.

Finally, a chip shop that cooks the chips to a proper colour. None of that peely wally nonsense.

Love a Mexican bean.
We are having red mullet cooked in a thyme and garlic dressing with mash and green beans. Fish and recipe from Rockfish online seafood market.
Bare Bones Chocolate for nibbling afterwards - it is the best Chocolate I've ever eaten.
There will be wine.