february 2010 |
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Monday 1.2 |
Veal escalopes, mushrooms, green beans, rice Raspberries, shortbread, creme fraiche |
Tuesday 2.2 |
Steak, red wine sauce, spinach, mashed potatoes Raspberries, pear, shortbread/amaretti, creme fraiche |
Wednesday 3.2 |
Suma Pea soup Beef in Guinness, red cabbage, mash |
Thursday 4.2 |
Mushroom soup linguine with chicken livers and paprika, salad |
Friday 5.2 |
cauli in sri lanka curry, green beans, rice fried bananas and rum |
Saturday 6.2 |
Lunch: probably spag Dinner: Guineau fowl with couscous pinekernels dried tomatoes; roast potatoes WR custard and raspberry tarts |
Sunday 7.2 |
Lunch: probably spag again Dinner: Borscht Fish, puy lentils, fried potatoes |
Monday 8.2 |
Asparagus soup (Baxters) GF legs, chicory, fried potatoes |
Tuesday 9.2 |
Asparagus soup (Baxters) lambs kidneys, spinach, mashed potatoes |
Wednesday 10.2 |
Borscht Sausages, peas, onion gravy, mash this was the day my appetite became almost normal |
Thursday 11.2 |
Salad of watercress, stewed peppers, peppadew, artichokes, pinekernels; ciabatta Rhubarb, cream, biscuits |
Friday 12.2 |
Zucchine agrodolce (anchovies, currants, pine kernels) Spag bol, salad (a nice one from the Co-op) |
Saturday 13.2 |
Lunch: spag with student special (tuna and tomatoes) Dinner: rack of lamb, black olive crust, flageolets, salad, bread WR exotic fruit salad with coconut, chilli, rum |
Sunday 14.2 |
Lunch: spag with artichokes and hazlenuts Dinner: marinated anchovies on toast Imam bayeldi, felafel, hummus, pitta |
Monday 15.2 |
fennel, tomato, olive, potato bake; courgettes; tomatoes garlic basil 8oz potato, sliced thinly, 1 bulb fennel, 1/4 onion all sliced thinly. 4 overndried tomatoes some black olive dash of Pernod. Layer half the potatoes then the fennel onions etc in a sensible way. Also squirt of tomato puree, some water. Top with rest of potatoes. Some olive oil on top. Bake in oven, maybe it was 1.5 hrs? I was doing cakes also. Sometimes had the lid on sometimes not. Give it a squash down when things start to cook so the top potatoes are ok. Chocolate and prune cake 1 egg. 4 floz oil. 3oz sugar, 3.5 oz SRflour, 1 heaped tbs cocoa, zest 1/2 orange, 4oz prunes chopped. Beat up egg sugar oil, fols in flour and cocoa, then zset and prunes. 7in round tin, gas 4 for 35-40 mins, sort of works but maybe I had it too high up in the oven cos more cooked on outside. |
Tuesday 16.2 |
Salad (radicchio, spinach, rocket), venison steaks in pepper and balsamic (cut into strips), new potatoes (avocado oil) pancakes made with water not milk. they'll do |
Wednesday 17.6 |
Pork burger, lime juice; kidney beans and tomatoes and chilli; rice |
Thursday 18.2 |
Mackerel fishcakes, spinach with lemon, mayo with garlic and lemon zest 1 potato, something over 8oz mashed, 1tbs egg, some cooked onion, a little mustard, 1 mackerel fillet. Make 4 cakes, dust in flour then fry. Chocolate and prune cake, cream |
Friday 19.2 |
Lunch: chicken, mushrooms, cashews, oyster sauce, noodles at last I am recovering from nearly 6 weeks of illness, which seems to have been due to a virus. Dinner: Marinated anchovies with lettuce Paella, more lettuce |
Saturday 20.2 |
Lunch: cauli and pasta cheese Duck breasts with olives and Cointreau, green beans, rosti |
Sunday 21.2 |
Breakfast: mackerel kedgeree Lunch: couscous with squash, courgette, chickpeas Dinner: Ate out |
Monday 22.2 |
Gratin of celeriac and mushrooms, new potatoes, lettuce Blackberry and apple, toasted oats, cream |
Tuesday 23.2 |
Oriental coleslaw and rice noodle salad, fried cashews Usual cabbage and carrot but also pickled ginger, peppadew, wasabi mayo, rice wine, 1/2 bundle rice noodles boiled then rinsed and cooled. This was nice Chilli Chicken thighs, PSB in sesame oil, rice Marinade was 1 tbs each dark sugar, tomato puree; 1" ginger, 2 clove garlic 1 small potent chilli ; 1/2 tbs each soy, rice wine, vinegar). 3 big thighs, slashed skin, marinated. Then roasted in over for 1 hour (did this yesterday with the gratin). Then reheated in saucepan and grilled at end to crisp the skin. 2 thighs were enough. I have at last made it back to work but only part time this week and I have needed that extra time at home to catch up on eating. I have been having 2 lunches a day. I lost about 9-10lbs of weight over the course of the illnesses, mostly muscle, and I need to eat the right sort of stuff and that's not cream cakes. |
Wednesday 24.2 |
Lentil and squash soup, caramelised onions and chilli From Nigel Slater kitchen diary book, but we didn't stint on the chilli Chicory and stilton gratin, new potatoes 3 heads, halved and caramelised. Then under grill with stilton. |
Thursday 25.2 |
5-spice pork, white cabbage, new potatoes chestnut cake |
Friday 26.2 |
Ate out |
Saturday 27.2 |
Lunch: thai rice noodles with january king cabbage and the remains of the pork Dinner: M+S provencal fish soup, croutons, rouille, parmesan Steak with porcini, mushrooms, truffoil, gnocchi |
Sunday 28.2 |
Lunch: spag with bacon and artichokes Dinner: Ful mesdames Lamb cutlets, aubergine puree, new potatoes |
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