chicken and fennel with pasta

Our local Co-Op had special offers on chicken last week – two packs of diced breast for a fiver, and the same for whole breast.  I picked up two packs of each and stowed them in the freezer, not least because I’m trying to cut down my red meat consumption. There was also a head…

watching my diet

lunch, originally uploaded by ramtops. I need to be doing this now, so I’m trying to eat less carbs and fats.  Cut into small pieces: 1 wholewheat multigrain bagel with a little Phildelphia cheese, 1 hard boiled egg, 1 slice home baked gammon, 3 radishes, 2 gherkins. I find if I cut things small, I…

roasted veg

This is a photograph from another roast veg, but all text makes a dull post 🙂 We used to have this a lot, but somehow got out of the habit.  But it’s a nice healthy meal while I’m battling with health issues, so off we went. Chopped an aubergine, a yellow pepper, half a butternut…

a tail of monkfish

They had monkfish on the fish counter in Makro on Saturday, so we treated ourselves to a tenner’s worth. But what to do with it? I’m currently trying to do a low fat diet, having just been given a preliminary diet of diabetes [scream], so wanted to be careful. So: finely sliced 1.5 onions (as…

weekend shopping

One of the really nice things about living here is the wealth of independent shops within walking distance. We usually shop in Chanterlands (Chants) Avenue, which has two butchers, two greengrocers, small Co-Op and Sainsburys, and so forth. Today, we went over to Newland Ave for a change – it’s a bit further, but it…

weekend cooking

We were due at a Transition Town film meeting on Saturday afternoon, with tea and cake afterwards, so I baked muffins in the morning: I had some brown bananas, and a couple of rather tired clementines, so did a dozen each of clementine and poppyseed, and banana and bran flake. We were greedy, and kept…

chicken and red pepper risotto

We haven’t had a risotto for ages, for some reason.  The carcass of the last chicken we had, about three weeks ago, was stuffed in the freezer; I pulled it out and stuck it in the slow cooker to make stock, and there was a surprising amount of meat on it, which we put in…

a sossidge baguette

For some reason, I’ve hardly used the Remoska since we’ve been here.  This kitchen has less countertop, and less cupboard space than my old one, and the little chap has been pushed into a cupboard, but even so … We had two fat venison sausages left from the weekend, and thought they’d be nice in…