Cornish goats cheese, poached pear and walnut salad with a balsamic glaze

Enough of "one hour of exercise a day". That's the Old Normal. The New Normal is a light lunch at the pub, followed by coffee at home and a snooze. Ready for the footy in the evening.

The eponymous salad followed by three scoops of ice cream - strawberry, vanilla and salted caramel - and accompanied by two bottles of Heineken Zero (without a glass). Pure bliss.

By the way (not the abbreviation BTW, which should be used for text messaging rather than grown-up and serious writing), for those of you of a pedantic mind, my reasons for excluding an apostrophe in the name of the salad are twofold: (1) that's what the menu at the Britannia Inn says (2) I don't know whether the cheese comes from one Cornish goat or more than  one.

Two things arise from this menu. One is that I did not know there were goats in Cornwall; the other is the rise and rise of Salted Caramel. Who invented it? And when? I certainly don't recall being aware of salted caramel in my childhood, or even until fairly recently. I learn the answer from the wonderful world of the internet: "salted caramel was first created by a chocolatier called Henri Le Roux more than three decades ago." My sophisticated readers (i.e. all of you) probably knew that. No-one has ever called me sophisticated; I'd bite their head off.

Salted caramel is apparently highly addictive. Is it really? If that were the case, I'd have had three scoops all of that variety. It seems to me that it's the stuff that are flavoured with salted caramel that are addictive, like chocolate (got some in my fridge). And yoghurt (got some of that in my fridge too - maybe I am addicted to it). One tablespoon of salted caramel sauce contains 23 calories and 6 grams of carbohydrates, of which 5.5 is sugar. I suppose my ice cream scoop contains perhaps half of that in sauce, so not so bad. As opposed to my salted caramel chocolate which weights in at 532 calories and 41g carbs per 100g (one bar is 125g so a couple of squares are perhaps 1/4 of that). So I think I can have a bit now...hang on, I'll be back...

OK I'm back. On to Cornish goats.

Polmarkyn Dairy has its own goat herd. Their website doesn't say what breed of goat they are; maybe there is either goat or...goat, no sub species (I do know that species isn't the same as breed; don't quibble). They sell milk, cheese, yoghurt and...soap! I'm intrigued by the soap so I started to order some for myself, family and friends. £3.50 per bar, which seems reasonable. But they wanted to charge me £9.99 for Fedex. Fedex? Can't you just put them in the post? OK I guess they really only want to sell to wholesale. So no pressies for you guys. This time.

I found another supplier selling "Cornish Grey Goats Cheese ash coated" (see? still no apostrophe). I don't know which Cornish volcano they have exposed the cheese to but their picture looks remarkably like what I ate at lunch. I'd like to share a photo but their site disables right click on images. Instead, for all you picture lovers, here are some pictures of Cornish goats:

Serious Goat, Family of Goats, Hairy Goat and Welly Goat.