Saturday 31 March 2007
Saturday we are now international
I have just looked to see where people are that look at my blog, Various places in France and one in Canada, over the past couple of days. I have not had any comments yet, so if any of you feel like saying something nice that would be great. Or maybe you have a blog that I would be interested in?
Saturday
Thursday I tried taking an apple with me to eat for breakfast, if I was hungry. I was, but not until I had to defend my apple from two horses, most horses like apples. and two Labradors that are convinced that apples and carrots are really good dog food. So, on the whole maybe not a good idea.
Lunch chicken noodle soup and bread.
Dinner was unexpectedly tasty. Pasta penne, onions, garlic, celery, fresh tomato, a jar of mixed wild mushrooms, smoked bacon, pesto and olives. Quick and mostly store cupboard things.
Yesterdays eats. One slice of wholemeal toast with peanut butter for breakfast.
For lunch one sandwich of pate with cucumber. Tea and a piece of cake.
Dinner time I made Sheppard pie and stretched the meat with the addition of chopped carrots, celery and a few peas as well as the usual onions. As I put the oven on in the interest of economy and generally saving the planet, I made two dishes of this, and also cooked a large dish of roasted vegetables, consisting of things in the pantry, like sweet potato, sweed, pepper, onion, garlic, celery, fennel and carrot all splashed with olive oil and sprinkled with mixed herbs. Ten mins before the end of cooking I added some cherry tomatoes that had had a bit of an accident in the shopping and squashed. There is loads left over, so will be used one way or another over the next couple of days.
As the oven was on I did a bit of cake baking, a no measure chuck things in the mixer sort of fruit cake, that made too much for the tin I had prepared, so some was put into fairy cases for immediate consumption, the main cake can be stored to mature if it lasts that long. I also made a chocolate sponge then left it in the oven too long and burnt it. Some may be useable will let you know if I think of anything to improve it.
Lunch chicken noodle soup and bread.
Dinner was unexpectedly tasty. Pasta penne, onions, garlic, celery, fresh tomato, a jar of mixed wild mushrooms, smoked bacon, pesto and olives. Quick and mostly store cupboard things.
Yesterdays eats. One slice of wholemeal toast with peanut butter for breakfast.
For lunch one sandwich of pate with cucumber. Tea and a piece of cake.
Dinner time I made Sheppard pie and stretched the meat with the addition of chopped carrots, celery and a few peas as well as the usual onions. As I put the oven on in the interest of economy and generally saving the planet, I made two dishes of this, and also cooked a large dish of roasted vegetables, consisting of things in the pantry, like sweet potato, sweed, pepper, onion, garlic, celery, fennel and carrot all splashed with olive oil and sprinkled with mixed herbs. Ten mins before the end of cooking I added some cherry tomatoes that had had a bit of an accident in the shopping and squashed. There is loads left over, so will be used one way or another over the next couple of days.
As the oven was on I did a bit of cake baking, a no measure chuck things in the mixer sort of fruit cake, that made too much for the tin I had prepared, so some was put into fairy cases for immediate consumption, the main cake can be stored to mature if it lasts that long. I also made a chocolate sponge then left it in the oven too long and burnt it. Some may be useable will let you know if I think of anything to improve it.
Tuesday 27 March 2007
Tuesday
Well it has been a few days since I have updated this blog. It must be as a result of my non diet, dieting, I have become too weak to type.
Not really, I have been fairly good in as much as I have stuck to smaller portions than I would usually eat, and I wait until I am really quite hungry.
I cannot remember everything I have eaten since the last blog so I will just list some of the more memorable meals, and confess to all the naughty things, or at least the ones I can remember.
Last Saturday was our wedding anniversary, so in keeping with tradition hubby cooked me dinner. For starters we had nachos, and used the guacamole that I had made a week ago when the avocados were ripe and then froze it. I was not sure if it would work, answer is yes it does and it was very nice. For the next course he cooked a really splendid chilli with rice, all washed down with a lager, just the one for me. The plan for desert was apple and blackberry pie but we were both too full, so saved it for desert over the next two days.
Another memorable or odd dish from the past few days, was because the pears in the fruit dish all decide to ripen at once, so after the usual fruit salads, I thought of doing a well-established dish of pears and stilton with a poppy seed dressing, I made the dressing and sliced the pears only to find I had eaten all the stilton. So it ended up being pears with cream cheese apple and walnut topping and the poppy seed dressing. It was ok but not a candidate for my signature dish.
Hubby and I have had dodgy tummy’s for the past few days, and I was sure that it was not my cooking,or his, or a bug, I think I have found the culprit, cauliflower. I am sure it is very good for one, but maybe not lots of it, and every day since the farm shop was selling them for 3 for a £, big ones! We eat it raw in salads, and we have a salad most days, boiled with other vegetables, curried on Tuesday night and cauliflower cheese for last night’s dinner. Too much, never mind only one more cauliflower to go.
Other naughty things to admit to since last blog: - ate huge amount of chocolate on Saturday. Drank wine ½ a bottle of wine. I am still eating cake, though smaller portions and this will continue for some time as I plan to do a bit of baking, and it all has to be eaten.
Not really, I have been fairly good in as much as I have stuck to smaller portions than I would usually eat, and I wait until I am really quite hungry.
I cannot remember everything I have eaten since the last blog so I will just list some of the more memorable meals, and confess to all the naughty things, or at least the ones I can remember.
Last Saturday was our wedding anniversary, so in keeping with tradition hubby cooked me dinner. For starters we had nachos, and used the guacamole that I had made a week ago when the avocados were ripe and then froze it. I was not sure if it would work, answer is yes it does and it was very nice. For the next course he cooked a really splendid chilli with rice, all washed down with a lager, just the one for me. The plan for desert was apple and blackberry pie but we were both too full, so saved it for desert over the next two days.
Another memorable or odd dish from the past few days, was because the pears in the fruit dish all decide to ripen at once, so after the usual fruit salads, I thought of doing a well-established dish of pears and stilton with a poppy seed dressing, I made the dressing and sliced the pears only to find I had eaten all the stilton. So it ended up being pears with cream cheese apple and walnut topping and the poppy seed dressing. It was ok but not a candidate for my signature dish.
Hubby and I have had dodgy tummy’s for the past few days, and I was sure that it was not my cooking,or his, or a bug, I think I have found the culprit, cauliflower. I am sure it is very good for one, but maybe not lots of it, and every day since the farm shop was selling them for 3 for a £, big ones! We eat it raw in salads, and we have a salad most days, boiled with other vegetables, curried on Tuesday night and cauliflower cheese for last night’s dinner. Too much, never mind only one more cauliflower to go.
Other naughty things to admit to since last blog: - ate huge amount of chocolate on Saturday. Drank wine ½ a bottle of wine. I am still eating cake, though smaller portions and this will continue for some time as I plan to do a bit of baking, and it all has to be eaten.
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