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.
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.
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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.
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.
Nutty as a Fruitcake 