Friday, for breakfast the same as yesterday, first breakfast and second breakfast. For anyone who wonders about this first and second breakfast thing, read Lord of the rings, Hobbits like to eat, and I remember a reference to second breakfast.
Lunch was chicken soup with seedy bread.
Dinner time I put the oven on so in an attempt to fill it, I baked potatoes, roasted fennel and cherry tomatoes, and two small fillets of salmon.
I also cooked a batch of small fruit cakes, I wanted to see if my method for cake mix worked using goose egg as well as it does using chicken egg. Plus tray of frozen sausages rolls, that had been hanging about in the freezer for too long.
Hubby and I shared a bottle of wine.
Saturday 17 March 2007
Thursday
Thursday breakfast back to apple as flying out of door, and second breakfast of toast as the bread was in danger of getting stale, and I hate and refuse to waste anything.
Lunch was avocado, bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich. Eating avocado on a Thursday lunch time sounds decadent and expensive, but it was not so bad as the avocado had been purchased on our food hunting trip to Lidl, I purchased two as they were very cheap. They were unripe then were suddenly perfect ripeness on Thursday so had to be used then. One was used in the sandwiches, the other I have made guacamole divided into two small pots and frozen, no idea if it will be good when defrosted as haven’t tried this yet. Watch this space.
At dinner time I am fed up with cooking, so announce dinner will be help yourself to cheese and anything else you can find in the fridge. Hubby happy with this sets to and makes a pretty good salad and slices bits of various cheese to go with it. So it ended up being quite a substantial dinner anyway.
Lunch was avocado, bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich. Eating avocado on a Thursday lunch time sounds decadent and expensive, but it was not so bad as the avocado had been purchased on our food hunting trip to Lidl, I purchased two as they were very cheap. They were unripe then were suddenly perfect ripeness on Thursday so had to be used then. One was used in the sandwiches, the other I have made guacamole divided into two small pots and frozen, no idea if it will be good when defrosted as haven’t tried this yet. Watch this space.
At dinner time I am fed up with cooking, so announce dinner will be help yourself to cheese and anything else you can find in the fridge. Hubby happy with this sets to and makes a pretty good salad and slices bits of various cheese to go with it. So it ended up being quite a substantial dinner anyway.
Thursday 15 March 2007
Wednesday
Back to banana and orange juice for breakfast, have to eat the bananas up before they get too ripe, strange how different ripe and unripe bananas can taste. Is there anything really palatable that can be done with a really ripe banana?
Second breakfast was shredded wheat again.
Lunch was salad and fish sticks with salad cream and soya and linseed bread.
Son and heir came to dinner, I needed inspiration so went to the book shelf and did a sort of lucky dip, as the first book off the shelf was an Indian cook book, that was it decided, curry. I don’t necessarily use a recipe for cooking anything. I just use cook books for ideas. I don’t always have the ingredients anyway, so often have to think of a substitute. Amazingly good dinners have been created this way, but are unlikely to be recreated. Eating dinner in this house can be quite an adventure, not for the faint hearted, but as yet, my cooking has not ended in any poisonings.
Any way back to this curry dinner, left over breast of lamb, with celery, onion, pepper and cauliflower, in a curry sauce from Lidl, very cheap and quite as good as any other readymade curry sauce. The rice was a bit more effort than plain old rice, but worth it, basmati rice with lentils, celery, onion, garlic, vegetable juice, garam masala, cumin and turmeric.
Second breakfast was shredded wheat again.
Lunch was salad and fish sticks with salad cream and soya and linseed bread.
Son and heir came to dinner, I needed inspiration so went to the book shelf and did a sort of lucky dip, as the first book off the shelf was an Indian cook book, that was it decided, curry. I don’t necessarily use a recipe for cooking anything. I just use cook books for ideas. I don’t always have the ingredients anyway, so often have to think of a substitute. Amazingly good dinners have been created this way, but are unlikely to be recreated. Eating dinner in this house can be quite an adventure, not for the faint hearted, but as yet, my cooking has not ended in any poisonings.
Any way back to this curry dinner, left over breast of lamb, with celery, onion, pepper and cauliflower, in a curry sauce from Lidl, very cheap and quite as good as any other readymade curry sauce. The rice was a bit more effort than plain old rice, but worth it, basmati rice with lentils, celery, onion, garlic, vegetable juice, garam masala, cumin and turmeric.
Monday
Saturday breakfast Hubby made it, one of his favourites, bagels with smoked salmon trimmings and cream cheese, served with a big mug of coffee and a glass of grapefruit juice.
Lunch we are finishing up leftovers again, using up the roasted vegetables from the other night. Warmed up in a can of tomato soup it becomes a really substantial lunch served with a chunk of bread.
Just before going to put horses to bed, we had a cup of tea with one of the fruit cakes from my baking frenzy the other night.
Dinner time we were both a bit fed up and could not think what we wanted to eat for dinner, so did a raid on the supermarket looking for bargains and inspiration. No real bargains available just one French stick, and a few bits of cheese, so with that as a start, the dinner was, French stick and anything we could find in the fridge. It often seems to be the best meals as there is always some salad, and I don’t have to cook. Ice cream cone for pud.
Lunch we are finishing up leftovers again, using up the roasted vegetables from the other night. Warmed up in a can of tomato soup it becomes a really substantial lunch served with a chunk of bread.
Just before going to put horses to bed, we had a cup of tea with one of the fruit cakes from my baking frenzy the other night.
Dinner time we were both a bit fed up and could not think what we wanted to eat for dinner, so did a raid on the supermarket looking for bargains and inspiration. No real bargains available just one French stick, and a few bits of cheese, so with that as a start, the dinner was, French stick and anything we could find in the fridge. It often seems to be the best meals as there is always some salad, and I don’t have to cook. Ice cream cone for pud.
Tuesday 13 March 2007
Monday
Monday morning and I feel fed up because no one is reading my Blog.
I understand that the only way for the search engines to push my blog to the top of the list is for the key words to appear frequently. I tried that the other day when discussing the merits of the banana. Obviously no one has any interest in the humble banana, but surely someone must be wondering what to eat for dinner? Or are all the people who do techie things like blogging, just go down to the take away, or eat frozen ready meals and drink coffee or coke.
On the plus side of writing this blog, it is making me think before I eat, as I will have to admit to anything bad and unhealthy on line in front of the millions of people who are not reading this.
So for breakfast number 1 a banana, no juice just water. Then later breakfast number 2 porridge, it is made from oats, if you feed horses lots of oats they get loads of energy, so I am hoping they will do the same for me. and they are really cheap.
Lunch was salad and fish sticks; I used not to like fish sticks, but since discovering they are great dipped in salad cream, also something I was not very fond of, but it turns out to be a good combination. Did not forget the carbohydrate this time, had soya and linseed bread.Dinner, yes dinner, dinner, dinner. Please someone look for the word dinner and read me. Any way for Monday evening’s dinner we had more salad cold roasted vegetables and cold stuffed breast of lamb that had been cooked the day before with the Sheppard’s pie. I try to put the oven on no more than twice a week and when I do I always fill it. At least I am doing a bit for global warming.
I understand that the only way for the search engines to push my blog to the top of the list is for the key words to appear frequently. I tried that the other day when discussing the merits of the banana. Obviously no one has any interest in the humble banana, but surely someone must be wondering what to eat for dinner? Or are all the people who do techie things like blogging, just go down to the take away, or eat frozen ready meals and drink coffee or coke.
On the plus side of writing this blog, it is making me think before I eat, as I will have to admit to anything bad and unhealthy on line in front of the millions of people who are not reading this.
So for breakfast number 1 a banana, no juice just water. Then later breakfast number 2 porridge, it is made from oats, if you feed horses lots of oats they get loads of energy, so I am hoping they will do the same for me. and they are really cheap.
Lunch was salad and fish sticks; I used not to like fish sticks, but since discovering they are great dipped in salad cream, also something I was not very fond of, but it turns out to be a good combination. Did not forget the carbohydrate this time, had soya and linseed bread.Dinner, yes dinner, dinner, dinner. Please someone look for the word dinner and read me. Any way for Monday evening’s dinner we had more salad cold roasted vegetables and cold stuffed breast of lamb that had been cooked the day before with the Sheppard’s pie. I try to put the oven on no more than twice a week and when I do I always fill it. At least I am doing a bit for global warming.
Monday 12 March 2007
Sunday
Came home from feeding the poines and walking the dog to be met by the smell of coffee and croisants, naughty, but nice.
Very untraditional Sunday lunch of toasted cheese with red onions and worcester sauce.
Dinner was also not the usual roast. Instead I cooked shepherds pie with broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, swede and roasted sweet potato, carrots, parsnips and celery.
Washed down with a bottle of wine that son and heir bought with him.
Very untraditional Sunday lunch of toasted cheese with red onions and worcester sauce.
Dinner was also not the usual roast. Instead I cooked shepherds pie with broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, swede and roasted sweet potato, carrots, parsnips and celery.
Washed down with a bottle of wine that son and heir bought with him.
Saturday
Juice to start with, BLT with hubby and his brother after doing the poines and walking the dog.
A ride round the block, with hubby walking the dogs, then off to Thanet to refill the larder. Half a pastie for lunch on the move.
The brother-in-law treated us and his boys to dinner in a local restaurant. It was a pleasure to see the boys again, we only get together when their dad visits.
The meal was OK, and greatly appreciated. Hubby and I had lamb steak in a rosemary and red wine sauce with fresh vegetables. Then back home for cheese and biccies.
A ride round the block, with hubby walking the dogs, then off to Thanet to refill the larder. Half a pastie for lunch on the move.
The brother-in-law treated us and his boys to dinner in a local restaurant. It was a pleasure to see the boys again, we only get together when their dad visits.
The meal was OK, and greatly appreciated. Hubby and I had lamb steak in a rosemary and red wine sauce with fresh vegetables. Then back home for cheese and biccies.
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