Having a chicken curry take-out with a cold Stella while watching college football.
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The curries in the UK tend to be pretty good.
Enjoy.
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Well I will not make the mistake of corn flakes, dehydrated strawberries (not organic) or unsweetened vanilla almond mylk again. Talk about a trifecta of bland on bland on bland. I thought the strawberries would cut through the cereal and mylk, but they lost what tang they have in the mylk.
At least, I can taste each item again, grateful to have caught that severe zinc deficiency before something much bigger cropped up.
Wouldn't class that combination as a culinary delight.
However, dried fruit (and fresh fruit) can go awfully well with muesli.
Forgot to mention that the carer made her legendary clam broth (which had lots of ginger for my cold), with Chinese cabbage, onion, pepper, among other tasty ingredients, yesterday evening.
LOL Love your trashing of my unfortunate cereal fail. I think if the strawberries were organic, I may have avoided the bland cubed situation.
I agree, I loved muesli. My allergy to oats nixes that though.
LOL Love your trashing of my unfortunate cereal fail. I think if the strawberries were organic, I may have avoided the bland cubed situation.
I agree, I loved muesli. My allergy to oats nixes that though.
Any suitable substitute for oats suggest itself?
In the cheesemonger's, I spotted a large basket of cooking apples; they had come from the orchard of the mother of one of the staff members.
I was given several to take home. Now, I have put them out, and will prepare them, along with some organic plums, and organic pears; organic brown sugar, cloves, cinnamon, grated orange rind, a little nutmeg and ground cardamon. Plus plenty of butter.
They are destined for roasting in the oven, when I bestir myself.
^ Oh that roasted fruit mix sounds so good.
Looks like string beans and baby bok choy with onions for me today (have to use the bok choy), just so annoyed I forgot sliced almonds at the grocery store on Friday. If they are not in plain sight in the vegetable aisle, I completely gloss over them on my lists. More bland, but it is a bland I do not mind. Debating if I should order Asian for their very meaty and delicious jumbo shrimp.
Looks like string beans and baby bok choy with onions for me today (have to use the bok choy), just so annoyed I forgot sliced almonds at the grocery store on Friday. If they are not in plain sight in the vegetable aisle, I completely gloss over them on my lists. More bland, but it is a bland I do not mind. Debating if I should order Asian for their very meaty and delicious jumbo shrimp.
There isn't an Asian dish I dislike.
However, re overlooking sliced almonds, these days, I make a small list on a yellow post-it; my excellent memory will often omit one item on a memorised list, to be remembered in the bus or taxi en route home.
So, nowadays, I make a small list, and take it out somewhere - such as the cheesemonger's, or off-licence, and proceed to tick off what has been done, and note what I still need to do. Very often, in my mental checklist, there is one item I will have forgotten.
About to start on the roasted autumn fruit mix in a few minutes.
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For dinner, Mother had: One fried egg (organic and free range); a small bowl of homemade carrot and parsnip soup; a few waffles (toasted, drizzled with excellent maple syrup bought from the French bakery), a small dish of that lovely autumn fruit dish (roasted apples, plums, pears, cardamon, cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg, grated orange peel/rind, organic brown sugar, Bosnian honey, lots of butter), her antibiotic and her standard cocktail of cardiac and other medication.
She wolfed the lot.
Your humble scribe tucked into two fried eggs (organic, free range), with French bread, and a large dish of the roasted autumn fruit described above.
Very tasty.
She wolfed the lot.
Your humble scribe tucked into two fried eggs (organic, free range), with French bread, and a large dish of the roasted autumn fruit described above.
Very tasty.
Omelette from organic free range eggs is what will be on the menu; the carer was out all day (more cooking apples have been obtained, so I shall attempt a repeat of Sunday's roasted apple dish), which means easy cooking.
Something such as a chorizo and pancetta and cannellini bean pasta sauce is planned (by me) for tomorrow.
Something such as a chorizo and pancetta and cannellini bean pasta sauce is planned (by me) for tomorrow.
Ooh, omelette sounds good.
Dinner:
If an avocado is ripe, it is beans tonight. If not probably chicken. Please be ripe avocado.
Not quite lunch:
And in the unfunny chronicles of my eating through a can of non-organic strawberries, I have some here with two meal replacement bars that do taste like caramel and a nut (not mixed as it says on the package) with chocolate in it. I am generally not a fan of these bars but this company’s peanut butter bar and this caramel one are edible and hold me until dinner time. Not too sweet either.
Dinner:
If an avocado is ripe, it is beans tonight. If not probably chicken. Please be ripe avocado.
Not quite lunch:
And in the unfunny chronicles of my eating through a can of non-organic strawberries, I have some here with two meal replacement bars that do taste like caramel and a nut (not mixed as it says on the package) with chocolate in it. I am generally not a fan of these bars but this company’s peanut butter bar and this caramel one are edible and hold me until dinner time. Not too sweet either.
Omelette (with organic, free range eggs, bought in the farmers' market last Saturday from the people who had collected the eggs from the hens that were trying to hide them), along with herbs, and cherry tomatoes (also organic).
Very tasty.
Have you tried salted caramel? That is delicious.
That omelette sounds fantastic (not to the hens, but to me). Glad you enjoyed.
Yes, salted caramel is delicious.
Eggs are one of the foods where the difference (in taste, and quality) between the organic (and free range) version, and the sad factory battery hen version is so great that it can hardly be measured.
It is clear even from the appearance; the yolks of the organic eggs are a deep rich almost golden yellow, (rather than the insipid pale yellow you will find in the yolk of the battery hen egg) and the taste is amazing.
This means that you actually don't need to do an awful lot with it; herbs, maybe tomatoes, a little sea salt and freshly ground black pepper will usually do the trick.
The most I do when I scramble eggs is add onions or certain greens. Yes, the organic taste is very different. I notice that taste difference for a lot of vegetables and fruit too.
Alas, the hospital stay almost turned me off to eggs completely because I could bounce them off the plate and they weren’t organic.
No wonder I was eating packaged cereal for breakfast the last week I was there. Darn, now I am craving the broccoli omelette and French fries I would get at a local diner. Maybe I will hit the grocery store tomorrow night instead of Thursday.
The most I do when I scramble eggs is add onions or certain greens. Yes, the organic taste is very different. I notice that taste difference for a lot of vegetables and fruit too.
Alas, the hospital stay almost turned me off to eggs completely because I could bounce them off the plate and they weren’t organic.
Darn, now I am craving the broccoli omelette and French fries I would get at a local diner. Maybe I will hit the grocery store tomorrow night instead of Thursday.
Oh, agreed, completely, that organic fruit and vegetables taste an awful lot better than the versions found in shops which are often tasteless.
Actually, I never buy anything but organic fruit and vegetables, but, whenever I head away for a few weeks or months, standards drop drastically - you do notice the difference, and it really transforms the dish you are cooking.
If the vegetables are organic, you don't need to do an awful lot to them to prepare a tasty meal.
Dinner will be something warming and soothing and a little spicy.
There will be a sauce of Italian spicy sausage (artisan produced), and diced pancetta. Onions and garlic (diced) - and yes, organic - will be sautéed.
The oven, meanwhile, shall play host to roasted cherry tomatoes, and whole (unpeeled) cloves of garlic. A tin of Italian cannellini beans awaits, and will be added in turn.
There will be a sauce of Italian spicy sausage (artisan produced), and diced pancetta. Onions and garlic (diced) - and yes, organic - will be sautéed.
The oven, meanwhile, shall play host to roasted cherry tomatoes, and whole (unpeeled) cloves of garlic. A tin of Italian cannellini beans awaits, and will be added in turn.
The tomatoes (seasoned liberally with sea salt, freshly ground black pepper, and a tiny bit of organic brown sugar), along with whole, fat cloves of unpeeled garlic, drizzled with olive oil, have been admitted to the pre-heated oven.
Now, some onions are slowly sautéing in a mix of butter and olive oil. Diced garlic will be added to them when they have become soft, and caramelised and golden.
Now, some onions are slowly sautéing in a mix of butter and olive oil. Diced garlic will be added to them when they have become soft, and caramelised and golden.
The ripe avocado answered my dinner prayers last night, so tonight will be chicken and green beans & onions and a green juice.
That I shall.
Yours sounded good too.And yay! I think this dinner thread is helping my food memory,
included sliced almonds and organic eggs on my delivery order for this weekend. Will still make a trip to another branch for shrimp and produce they do not deliver.
That I shall.
And yay! I think this dinner thread is helping my food memory,
Mine was good; to my surprise, Mother devoured hers completely. (The carer and I also enjoyed it).
Soothing, rich, nourishing. Having roasted the garlic in the oven (and then squeezed it out from its skin) - we used a fun head between he few diced and sautéed cloves with the onions, and the fun cloves roasting with the tomatoes -it dissolved beautifully (and sweetly) into the sauce, enriching it further.
So, garlic, onions, tomatoes, cannellini beans, pancetta and Italian spicy sausage served with pasta. Very tasty. And a nice autumn dish.
Last night was Lemon Pepper Chicken breasts, with a cherry tomato Caprese style salad and asparagus. Worked out pretty well!
Tonight I am torn. It's National Pasta Day, and I was planning on Spaghetti this week, but I also have some nice, thick Pub Burgers waiting to hit the grill and be served up with some Tater Tots. It'll be one of those. Probably the pasta.
Tonight I am torn. It's National Pasta Day, and I was planning on Spaghetti this week, but I also have some nice, thick Pub Burgers waiting to hit the grill and be served up with some Tater Tots. It'll be one of those. Probably the pasta.
The thing about the pasta is the sauce; what sauce do you plan to serve as pasta itself is usually fairly straightforward?