Posh Nosh (TV Series)
'Leftovers' (2003)
Arabella Weir: Minty Marchmont
Quotes
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[first lines]
Minty Marchmont : Hello. Welcome to Posh Nosh.
Simon Marchmont : Hello.
Minty Marchmont : Sunday evenings are very special to us. Come Sunday evenings we get to relax and just cook a simple dinner, and tonight we've got a rather special friend coming to dinner.
Simon Marchmont : Supper. Not dinner; supper. Sunday evening's a time for supper.
Minty Marchmont : Supper.
Simon Marchmont : Supper is dinner with its shirt undone.
Minty Marchmont : And we...
Simon Marchmont : Supper is relaxed, it's languid,
Minty Marchmont : Yes.
Simon Marchmont : it's louche. Dinner is a middle manager from Leicester sucking up to Japanese clients. Supper is an Italian language student sunning himself on a lovely June evening in Hyde Park, stretched out on one of those picnic rugs.
Minty Marchmont : Yes, all right.
Simon Marchmont : Supper is leftovers.
Minty Marchmont : And today we're going to show you how to *make* leftovers.
Simon Marchmont : We're going to do leftover roast chicken with parsnip and watercress salad leftovers, with leftover wine and leftover bread.
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Minty Marchmont : When your chicken is noblesse oblige, embarrass a leg and some décolletage and disenfranchise,
[tosses them aside]
Minty Marchmont : and twirl some flakes into the pan sweat.
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[last lines]
Minty Marchmont : Join us next week on Posh Nosh, when I surprise a turnip somosa.
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[post credits]
Minty Marchmont : [voiceover] From the Posh Nosh range: Organic Apple Confit with stems, pips, stalks and bark.