{"id":22396,"date":"2026-05-10T21:58:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T20:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22396"},"modified":"2026-05-10T22:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T21:16:08","slug":"dinner-with-the-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22396","title":{"rendered":"Dinner with the Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22397\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/royalsIMG_20260510_180637.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/royalsIMG_20260510_180637.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/royalsIMG_20260510_180637-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/>The first Jersey Royals of the season have arrived in the shops and immediately there is an argument about whether they should be cooked starting with cold water or boiling water. The packets were no help; they gave opposite instructions. But anyway they were delicious, served with salmon and creamy cheesy leeks and followed by A1&#8217;s scrumptious pineapple upside-down cake.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22398 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cakePXL_20260510_172613942..jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cakePXL_20260510_172613942..jpg 300w, https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cakePXL_20260510_172613942.-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\nSadly Gez and Bob were absent from our gathering so we only scored 7.5 on the GSQ.<br \/>\nA1 is reading <em>The Mask of Dimitrios<\/em> by Eric Ambler. A2 is rereading (though I don&#8217;t remember reading it the first time, twenty years ago) <em>The Harmony Silk Factory<\/em> by Tash Aw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first Jersey Royals of the season have arrived in the shops and immediately there is an argument about whether they should be cooked starting with cold water or boiling water. The packets were no help; they gave opposite instructions. But anyway they were delicious, served with salmon and creamy cheesy leeks and followed by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/?p=22396\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dinner with the Royals&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[19,20,22,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22396"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22402,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22396\/revisions\/22402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vermilionsands.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}