A Fishfinger Sandwich
One of my favourite things to eat from when I was small, the only difference is that I made it with organic bread instead of the plastic bread that was all you could get then. It’s still just toast and fishfingers though. None of that posh-fishfinger-sandwich business for me. There is no place for rocket in a fishfinger sandwich.
Stephen had fishfingers too but he insisted on having his with vegetables. Rong.
Sausages and Mashed Potatoes… and Lentils and Cabbage
Lincolnshire sausages with lots of sage. Mashed potatoes that turned out pleasingly well as it was made from emergency-bought potatoes. Onion gravy made with onions that caught ever so slightly and went just the right colour of brown to match their rich flavour. And the pièce de résistance: Puy lentils cooked with onions, lardons, garlic and loads of red wine which tasted brilliant despite their greyish-purple tinge.
Pasta with Bacon and Spinach
Today I had two missions: 1) eat pasta 2) eat spinach. With a clever tactical manoevre, I achieved them both in one easy meal. Farfalle with bacon (lardons really), onion, garlic, pine nuts and spinach.
Afternoon Tea
And peanut butter cookies. The cookies weren’t great though, I over-cooked them. Next time I’ll know better.
This is Fred…
…isn’t he handsome?
I Heart eBay
Look at my new forks, aren’t they pretty?
Conchigelloni (Cannelloni made with Conchiglioni)
This was an experiment – a cannelloni mixture put into pasta shells instead of into tubes. It worked brilliantly. Which was mostly down to Kerri’s excellent cannelloni mixture. We ended up covering the filled shells with bechamel sauce rather than the originally intended tomato sauce. It worked rather well.
Green and Black’s
I do not have the vocabulary to describe how brilliant this is.
Breakfast
Corn Flakes and tea – we normally have PG Tips at work but today we have some new organic tea bags, I haven’t tasted it yet :skeptical:
Apples and Pears
We receive a weekly vegetable box and have done for about six weeks, sometimes it’s been good, sometimes not so good. When we originally decided to sign up for one, we did so because we thought it would help us to eat more fruit and vegetables and also give us the opportunity to eat more interesting and seasonal produce. Another reason is our local supermarket is not particularly great when it comes to fresh produce, there’s plenty of ready-meals and the freezer section is huge but sadly, that’s at the expense of the fresh fruit and vegetable aisle. We also thought it would help us be more creative with our cooking.
The first couple of weeks went well and we used everything up, albeit some of it became soup but, from what I’ve heard, soup is your best friend when you receive a vegetable box, so that’s ok. Then we found we were receiving too many potatoes and onions, that’s ok too though because you can temporarily eliminate them from your box – this however leads to other problems, namely they don’t tell you what you’re going to get instead of the potatoes and onions and you find yourself faced with four different types of leafy, green vegetables…we were definitely creative that week 🙂
So, this week we’ve had some rather strange looking apples and pears delivered. Stephen said they looked woody. I thought they looked too brown. They’re still in the fruit bowl. I’m trying to be “creative” and look for interesting things to do with them. I’ll let you know how I get on.
