OneGuyFromBarlick

Oh dear...you seem to be suffering a bad case of late onset purity...I suggest treatment of one small apple and some thin slices of mature cheese...to be taken daily until symptoms settle.
It's no fun being pure - us wicked folk will tell you that.

Chicken and Veg Soup, with a crusty roll.
And if I feel wicked later I may partake of a little Licorice...

Maz, that is the road to perdition! The regime is working, I am losing weight and feeling much better. Salad butty on thin slices of bread for dinner and a mackerel salad butty on thin slices for tea. I resisted fruit and snacks again..... Nothing nicer than a slack waistband.....

Salad butty for dinner and a hot chip salad on a plate for tea. Why are my eggs so hard to peel?

Stanley wrote:Salad butty for dinner and a hot chip salad on a plate for tea. Why are my eggs so hard to peel?

They must be very fresh.

I suppose they are. I get them at Chowdrey's in the Town Square. Cheapest in the town and always good.

Looking forward to tea tonight; the show at the Rainhall Centre has a taster session with Amaali beforehand. Probably worth the ticket price for the food alone. More information HERE.

At son's tonight for dinner. ( Mother's Day here in Oz this Sunday but he is working all weekend so Friday Night Dinner)
Sitting here in his lounge room, glass of Red in hand, awaiting the amazing things he is cooking on his BBQ. The smell is...mmmm...fantastic! Roast Chicken, Roast Pumpkin, Carrot etc.

Hungry!

Hope you enjoyed it Maz, was the cook being rained on or was under a carport?? He must have been freezing out there.

It was really yummy. We did get rained on...luckily the BBQ is hooded and the food was fine.

I've offered to help with the dishes but I am not allowed ( apparently).

Sitting here now feeling pleasantly full. Had to tip my wine down the sink as I just don't fancy it...but I don't think anyone noticed...so I got away with it without offending. I think the problem is that the heater is on, and I overheat quite easily, and felt I could drift off to sleep if I had another sip. My fault entirely because I wore extra thick socks tonight, thinking we would be sitting outside in the cold. ( yes Cazza...as you know I was out shopping for warm socks on Tuesday).

I feel sorry for you lot shivering in sub 20C temperatures....
Kath gave me the end of a piece of tongue that was cluttering her cold meats shelf up so I had two small tongue salad butties for dinner and meat pie, chips and peas for tea. By the way Maz, I had a sliced apple with cheese for a treat the night before....

Being wicked is much more fun isn't it?

Am thinking that Ham and Cheese Toasties will do nicely for dinner...
Missed lunch entirely but didn't notice until 4 pm, so will enjoy that Toastie even more.

Just popped back in to tell you all I have solved my egg problem. It was nattering me because I have never had any problem peeling eggs cleanly before. Where I was going wrong was that for some reason I had abandoned my old method and was trying to peel them from cold. I tried my old way this morning and the problem has gone away. Take the eggs out of the boiling water and run cold water over them so you can handle them, crack them all over and then peel under running water allowing it to get in between the skin and the egg. Bingo, back to normal! Only a small thing but so nice to crack it!

Lamb curry tonight - just the thing for this miserable weather.

Two small Haslett salad butties for dinner and to get rid of an old crust I made a small cheese on toast as well. At teatime I wasn't very hungry so just had one small Boiled ham salad butty.

Have thrown a Rogan Josh Curry together and placed it in a low oven where it can take its time.
We've had another busy day, ( not at all enhanced by hubby treading mud right across an entire room of carpet before noticing he was leaving a trail...then discovering it led all the way back to the front door!).
Husbands! Anyone want one because mine is 'going begging' today?

Had he been doing something useful in the garden?

No...he had been on a friend's building site. He spends a lot of time on building sites and has special boot covers in his car.
He bought the boot covers in UK whilst we were on holidays, as they aren't sold here. Brain not plugged in today, obviously. ( cream carpet too!) grrrrrrrr...forty foot trail of mud...and it is Mother's Day here in Oz!

Piece of brisket in slow cooker to be served with new potatoes, asparagus, cauliflower, carrots, yorkshire puddings & gravy.

Fred is as well looked after as Black Jack!
Meat pie, peas and chips for dinner. Two small salad butties for tea, last slice of the ham, the chips that were left over, mashed boiled egg and salad.

On Friday I cleaned up Kath's cooked meat shelf by buying a very small end of a piece of cooked breast of lamb. Sliced carefully it made to lamb salad butties yesterday, one at dinner the other at tea. Waste not want not!

I am just about to finish my coffee, drag my backside off this couch ( my first sit down for today I may add!) and get stuck into making a Lasagne. There will be enough for two nights, so tomorrow I can sit a little longer!

The Kids bought me my dinner, a fried, battered fish. For tea I had a plain salad butty. The regime is working, I am losing weight with no penalties.... Worrying in a way because I get close to a vegetarian diet!

Well just to cheer you up Stanley, I am picking up a hare from the butcher today. Someone used it on Masterchef last week and I thought, I've never cooked a hare myself (shot and ate one, but another cooked it) so I'll have a go. 8 quid for a whole hare, but I will get a lot of meals out of one.

Richard Broughton

Hope you enjoy it, a long time since I had hare!
Grilled some bacon yesterday until it was very crisp and had Bacon salad butties X 2 for dinner and tea.

Cooked the rest of the bacon strips and had bacon salad butties X two yesterday.