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January 31, 2010

Day 8: Last Day of a Cold, Cold Month

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I’m feeling slightly perkier today. I think I feel that the end is in sight of this cold harsh winter. January is a month that forces you to look at where you have got to.. a natural planning month.. what is the year going to bring, what do you want 2010 to be. But February is a month of getting ready for Spring, which is just around the corner. More light, more growth. Perhaps we should all work to a financial calendar instead and see Spring as the start of the Year. It would make more sense. Instead we start a year when nature is essentially closed down.

Scrambled Egg, bacon and Toast

Breakfast today was yummy. Crisp bacon, creamy eggs and nutty bread toasted to perfections. This is what Sunday’s were made for.

I had to finish a presentation before we went out for our shopping. Frome today and Sainsbury. We haven’t been for a few weeks. However it made sense today as we needs to go to some of the other stores in the area. Bird food and a coax cable for a neighbour.

Quorn Hotdogs and Onions

Lunch was super quick after we unpacked the groceries. Quorn Hot-dogs served in a Torpedo Roll, with mustard, ketchup and onions. For afters, a Suchard Tassimo Hot Chocolate and some Green and Blacks Butterscotch Chocolate. Just the thing for an afternoon off.

Green and Blacks Chocolate

Washing and icing of a chocolate cake await.

My daughter popped in on here return from Cardiff, where she has spent the weekend with some friends… it seems to have been a bit of a Gavin and Stacey Pilgrimage. They went to Barry Island… bless.

Chicken en Croute and Roast Brussels

Dinner was a Chicken en Croute with mashed potato and roast brussels with balsamic vinegar. I love the green stuff. While others in my family tolerate them, I just can’t get enough.. hot, cold, doesn’t matter.

Mocha Cake

This was followed by Chocolate Cake… actually it was a Mocha cake because I put a fresh espresso coffee in the mix. This is completely yummy, and I think is the main reason that my daughter called today. 🙂

 

January 27, 2010

Day 5: Sleepy Old Girl

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I woke up 2:30am. Then I couldn’t got back to sleep again. I was hungry and wide awake. As a result today has been a foggy landscape with Mrs Muddlehead. Breakfast was a repeat of my car meal. …Fruit bread and a skinny latte at work. Calories=492

Fruit Bread

Lunch was an un-pictured sandwich and fruit. Staying at the hotel this evening I tried to choose something healthy off the menu. I stay at this hotel a lot, and its not their fault, but I am bored of their menu. I’ve had what I fancy several times, and now it is all just boring. I tried something new for a change, which was supposed to be Chicken topped with Italian Ham and Parmesan. I ended up with this decided Anglo Saxon version. Never Mind.

Hotel Dinner: Chicken Primo

I’m trying to work out what to do about my difficulties in travelling and blogging. Two options: Buy an iphone and use it to blog. But not sure I want the £30 contract with it…. Or, buy a more discrete camera to take the photos, but only upload them once and a while… Currently mulling.

 

January 17, 2010

Beautiful Day

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The sun was out, the temperature was up to 6 degrees and we could pretend for a while that spring is around the corner. Its not… but no harm in wishful thinking. But it did energise me into doing 13 minutes on the elliptical trainer.

Breakfast was a Cumberland sausage, scrambled eggs, multi-grain toast and a grilled tomato.

Sausage, Egg, Toast

Sunday is shopping day, which was a much more pleasant journey than last weeks icy adventure.Waitrose again. Returning to unpack and then soup and bread for lunch.

Soup and Bread

Dinner was a ‘Try Something New’ with Roasted Duck Leg Confit. These are frozen, and covered in duck fat. I separated the legs from the fat, and stored the fat in the freezer for future roast potatoes. I roasted the duck for 35 minutes until it was very crispy, and served with broccoli, roast potatoes and yorkshire pudding. I didn’t eat the skin,but the meat was incredibly tasty.

Roast Duck, Vegetables and Puds

This was followed by a piece of New York cheese cake and sugar free apricot jam.

Cheesecake

See you tomorrow!

 

January 16, 2010

A Day to Try Somethings New

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Today has turned out to be a ‘Try Something New’ day. Breakfast started with a new Rude Health porridge – Top Banana – which had fairtrade dried banana, whole hazelnuts and maple flakes. I like this make of porridge as they don’t add salt or sugar to their products, and yet taste very good. I served mine with some more sliced fresh banana, a teaspoon of maple syrup and a teaspoon of peanut butter for extra protein. The frothy loveliness in the mug is a cafe machiato with cinnamon syrup courtesy of my Tassimo.

Top Banana Porridge

Today was a day to catch up on chore and some shopping on the Internet. I buy a lot this way as a ‘shopping trip’ usually involves a 50 mile round trip with no guarantee that we would get the exact item we want. So I prefer to browse online, pick exactly what I want, and then just wait for the Postie.

Lunch was the next new product – Merchant Gourmet Giant Couscous I’d picked this up a couple of weeks ago as it looked similar to a product I had on a holiday in South West France and was wholemeal. I cooked mine with a cup of broccoli florets, and then once it was drained, I added some chopped spring onions, yellow pepper and avocado. I stirred in some houmous, and topped it with some Wife of Bath cheese and chili sauce.

Giant Couscous salad with cheesetur

The last ‘Try Something New’ was Dinner. I got a new cook book ‘EatingWell Serves Two’ and tried the Pork Chops with Mustard-Maple Sauce. The recipe is also available on their web site here.

Mustard Maple Pork and salads

It turned out very well, but I cooked the pork for longer than it said in the recipe. We don’t like our pork pink. I also made a carrot salad and a bean sprout salad but served that in a separate bowl. We had a slice of a fresh loaf of mixed grain bread and a small jacket potato… lovely.

 

January 15, 2010

Long, Long Week

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Its great to get to the end of the week… its been a long one. My brain had definitely decided it wanted to work a four day working week, not a five day one. The thaw has arrived, but we are still seeing unusual birds such as this Fieldfair in the garden scoping out the apples impaled on the willow tree. We can see the green in the garden again, and life is almost back to normal.

Breakfast, as planned, was scrambled eggs on a slice of mixed grain toast. This bread has been fantastic; soft and chewy when first made and excellent for toast over the last couple of days.

Scrambled Egg on Toast

I am looking forward to more daylight and am starting to plan what I am going to do in the garden and allotment this year. Work and injury, and then rain dominated and finally crushed my enthusiasm last year, so this year I have decided to take a much more pragmatic approach. I will not grow seedlings this year. I will buy plantlets from the market and Internet. I will try a few rows of seeds but not worry if it doesn’t work out. I will grow lots of peas! And I will not grow too much lettuce! I need to put the joy back into my garden.

Lunch was a quick dish of pasta shapes, tomato passata with a bit of chili, and a sprinkling of cheese. This lunch is not on my plan, but I needed something warm and comforting.

Tomato and Chili Pasta with Cheese

Friday’s work was focused on preparing reports for the businesses reviews next week. I know they have to be done, but the automatic reporting tool we have is tedious and frustrating to use. I hum a happy little tune to myself as I watch the screen freeze again…. lovely.

Afternoon snack for a cafe machiato with cinnamon syrup and two toffee apple biscuits. Boy, did I need that caffeine… I may have an addiction.

Coffee and biscuits

The news from Haiti gets worse and worse. Without infrastructure and only one runway at the airport, the relief agencies have a mammoth task.

Dinner was fish tacos and spicy wedges. The corn tortilla was warmed, with a spicy tomato and chili relish, a salad of crispy chinese leaves shredded, watercress, sweet peppers, tomatoes and avocado. Topped with a crispy Basa Fillet and more relish on the side.

Fish Tacos and Wedges

We watched Transformer this evening… I think I’m about twenty years too old to enjoy it. They had tried really hard, and spent lots of money, but I couldn’t decide if it was supposed to be a comedy, a children’s film or scary. Oh well.

After all that adrenaline 🙂 I had a celery and cheese snack to calm down again.

Celery and Cheese

 

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