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Leftovers for lunch
We had a guest last night and had a roast chicken. I picked all the rest of the meat off this morning and the carcass is simmering as we speak. I did some roast cauliflower and carrots to go with the chicken. The veg were drizzled with oil and sprinkled with tandoori...
Sardine and Tomato Fish Cakes, and Tuna Fish Cakes
We made fish cakes! One version using a tin of sardines in tomato sauce, and another using a tin of tuna canned in oil.
Do you want to do Meat Free May but don’t know where to start?
Apparently, it is Meat Free May this month. Friends of the Earth started this campaign to raise awareness of what a diet that is heavy in meat and fish can do to the planet. We are being advised to eat less meat and fish for all sorts of reasons – health, environmental, planetary etc
In the garden
Not much to report going on here. Just all the usual stuff.Actually got out in the garden this afternoon. It flipping needs it. It’s got to the stage now where I go out to do some tidying up, get overwhelmed by the sheer hugeness of the task, don’t know where to start, fiddle about for a bit, or walk round looking at everything, and give up and go back in!
A number of books
Went to U3A book group yesterday. I sort of enjoyed the book we read, but it was a bit of a ghost story and I’m not too keen on those. I did, however, buy a new science fantasy book in Waterstones when we were in Newcastle and am enjoying it hugely. It’s a new author...
Tomato flavoured sparkling water rolls
Made the carrot soup for Mike’s lunch today (I’m back on the diet and had something different), and some tomato flavoured rolls to go with it using the sparkling water loaf recipe from a few days ago. This time I used the same ingredients as for the stripped back loaf...
Back to reality
We’re back from our break today and back to the real world.
Away for a few days
Away for a few days, at Rushton Hall in Northampton, then further north to Newcastle
Lentil flour and the simplest bread I’ve ever made
I started off with lentil flour and ended up with a superb, no knead, no yeast loaf made with fizzy water, via beer bread
Dead Good Old Tarts
How to make something delicious for lunch or dinner using breadcrumbs and not a lot else
A kitchen experiment, Pea-Crumb Fritters, 6p
Simple little fritters using a tin of mushy peas. Flavour them up with curry spice, horseradish or mint sauce
A lovely day in the sun
It was a beautiful sunny day this morning, so Mike and I went off to the coast for a walk. We parked up at the swimming pool end of the Eastbourne front and walked all the way to the other end. If you don’t know Eastbourne, that’s a flipping long way, several miles!...