weekend cooking

On Saturday morning, I peeled and diced the two swedes from the veg box, and several carrots, and set them to boil with a load of potatoes.

There was some massala left from the other day, so 1/3 of the potatoes were fried until crispy in some groundnut oil, then added to the massala sauce to bulk it out a bit. Then we ate it for lunch, accompanied by a tortilla (I know, I know, but they needed eating).

Half the swede and carrot, and half the remaining spud, went into a bubble and squeak for Saturday supper (I had to boil some cabbage especially!), which we consumed with Toulouse sausages.

Due to the lack of veg box hereabouts recently, we haven't had banana cake or muffins for weeks and weeks, but last weekend the farm shop had brown bananas. I bought some and left them on the side for a few days, and on Saturday afternoon, I turned them into a brace of banana cakes (seemed a shame to turn the oven on for just sausages, you see).

The last 1/3 of the spuds went towards yesterday's brunch: bacon, black pudding, some wizened mushrooms, fried potatoes, fried egg. Lovely jubbly.

Sunday supper was meant to be chickie! pie - that would have included some of the remaining swede/carrot mix, and the last of the chicken from the previous Sunday. However, after 5 hours straight gardening, we couldn't be arsed, so we'll have it tonight. We just stir-fried some asparagus with chilli and ginger and had it with basmati rice, and followed it with a bar of Green and Black almond choccy, as a treat.

Originally posted at Reactive Cooking.

soup fail

I forgot to put the soup in the fridge on Friday (which I normally do, as we don't normally eat it at the weekend). Given the temperature, and remembering that both P and I were quite ill after eating some shoop that had gone over, we have reluctantly poured it into the compost bin.

Thankfully, I had a chicken carcass in the freezer, so I lobbed that in the slow cooker and set it going, so there'll be some stock to make some more in the morning.

:: slaps self upside the head

Originally posted at Reactive Cooking.

weekend cooking

On Saturday morning, I peeled and diced the two swedes from the veg box, and several carrots, and set them to boil with a load of potatoes.

There was some massala left from the other day, so 1/3 of the potatoes were fried until crispy in some groundnut oil, then added to the massala sauce to bulk it out a bit. Then we ate it for lunch, accompanied by a tortilla (I know, I know, but they needed eating).

Half the swede and carrot, and half the remaining spud, went into a bubble and squeak for Saturday supper (I had to boil some cabbage especially!), which we consumed with Toulouse sausages.

Due to the lack of veg box hereabouts recently, we haven't had banana cake or muffins for weeks and weeks, but last weekend the farm shop had brown bananas. I bought some and left them on the side for a few days, and on Saturday afternoon, I turned them into a brace of banana cakes (seemed a shame to turn the oven on for just sausages, you see).

The last 1/3 of the spuds went towards yesterday's brunch: bacon, black pudding, some wizened mushrooms, fried potatoes, fried egg. Lovely jubbly.

Sunday supper was meant to be chickie! pie - that would have included some of the remaining swede/carrot mix, and the last of the chicken from the previous Sunday. However, after 5 hours straight gardening, we couldn't be arsed, so we'll have it tonight. We just stir-fried some asparagus with chilli and ginger and had it with basmati rice, and followed it with a bar of Green and Black almond choccy, as a treat.

contact lens update

I expect everyone is bored to death reading about this (if they're reading it at all), but I want a record for myself, so ...

I went back to SpecSavers on Friday for a checkup - I've had no problems at all with the lenses except for my close vision (which is truly dreadful), so Vicky has adjusted the prescription, and thinks I will at least be able to chop an onion without wearing reading glasses.

I want some extended wear lenses - not for everyday, but at least for when I go camping, or am out late, or some such.  When I first went there, she gave me very strict instructions that if I ever fell asleep in the lenses, they'd have to be thrown out, and that SpecSavers didn't do an extended wear toric that would be suitable for me.

So I explained to her that I understood all that, but could she give me a prescription anyway, so I could buy some elsewhere.  At which point she said that, in fact, the lenses I have from them _are_ extended wear, and that she wouldn't recommend (obviously) that I kept them in for 30 days, 3-4 nights would be a problem.  This all seems a tad bizarre really, but there you go.

So, with trepidation, I slept in them on Saturday night, and they were absolutely fine! I shall build up my tolerance over the next 10 days so I can do 3 nights on the trot, and then I'm set for Spring Camp - huzzah!

p.s. my optician is doing her motorcycle CBT - she's in her mid fifties, and about 5.4", so I think that's terrific!