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Breakfast |
Lunch |
Dinner |
Extras/ Snacks |
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Saturday |
Omelette with avocado and tomato |
Smoky bacon, veg and tomato soup |
Cauliflower eggs fried rice w/ prawns |
Black coffee Assam tea Marinated olives Anchovies |
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Sunday |
Courgette and pepper frittata |
Roast chicken, carrots, parsnips, shallots and swede |
Supper: Strawberries and macadamia nut butter |
Ginger tea Black coffee |
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Monday |
Omelette with red pepper |
Chicken drumsticks with coleslaw |
Lamb meatballs with ratatouille |
Ginger tea Black coffee Toasted coconut flakes Blueberries |
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Tuesday |
Omelette with yellow pepper |
Mackerel, green bean, orange and beetroot salad |
Lamb curry with roast courgette and sautéed cauliflower leaves |
Ginger tea Black coffee Black tea Coconut flakes |
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Wednesday |
Omelette with mackerel |
Chicken drumsticks with coleslaw |
Chilled seafood Ragu stuffed aubergine with kale and roast peppers |
Black tea Black coffee Earl grey tea |
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Thursday |
Omelette with mixed peppers |
Frittata muffins and smoky bacon, veg and tomato soup |
Black forest ham-wrapped peaches Discovery chicken with cocoa dusted cauliflower and kale |
Black tea Black coffee Almonds |
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Friday |
Omelette with mixed peppers and cherry tomatoes |
Bacon burgers with coleslaw |
Thai green curry Macadamia nut butter on apple |
Black tea Black coffee Almonds |
A little experiment…..
Having been my very own lab-rat for the past 4 days I can confirm that sugar and grains do indeed give me headaches 🙁
Time to get back on the wagon me thinks…….
Easy Summer dinner
[ Super-chuffed with this picture 🙂 ]
Too hot to cook last night, but had nothing prepped in the fridge so went for minimal effort.
Crispy skinned, oregano chicken with a rocket and pecorino salad spritzed with fresh lemon to serve. Lush 🙂
This week’s menu – 25 July 2014
Just when things start getting back to normal, it’s time for a week of Meals for One 🙁
- Pork scaloppini with agro dolce sauce, green beans and cauliflower
- Chicken paillard with rocket and parmesan salad
- Maple chilli pork with zoodles for One
- Discovery Chicken with broccoli for One
- Pina Colada Chicken for One
- Leftovers potluck
This week’s menu – 20 July 2014
Back from hols and business trips, so both in need of a clean up. No junk, no boozing and no passive smoking.
- Pork shoulder chops, coleslaw and aïoli dressed salad
- Fish curry with roast cauliflower
- Pesto chicken with greens
- Braai chicken w/ mixed bean pesto salad and baked sweet potato
‘Nduja Uova in Purgatorio
One of my best finds on our recent food market-crawl of London was a chunk of ‘nduja sausage made by British Artisan Charcuterie makers Cannon & Cannon. 
The salamis we bought at the same time were consumed over a few days of VERY restrained pre-dinner nibbles, but this had a higher calling.
‘Nduja is a spicy, spreadable pork sausage normally from Calabria, Italy rather than Dorset, GB 🙂 It can be eaten as-is but when cooked it melts down and melds with the other ingredients, releasing its spicy oils. In the past I’ve had it on pizza (long time ago) and seen it in pasta recipes or simply spread on bread, but I wanted to be able to enjoy it without suffering with a carb-hangover for days later so a LCHF incarnation was required.
We went through a faze of having Chachouka on a regular basis, and hubby got sick of it, so to re-introduce that kind of supper I bastardised a recipe for Uova in Purgatorio – translates as “Eggs in Purgatory” but I prefer to think “Egg in Mild-Peril” 🙂
To compliment the fennel seed and spicy, red pepper flavour in the sausage I made a rich tomato sauce with fennel. The crumbled sausage was mixed in and the hot ragù topped with eggs.
This week’s menu – 11 July 2014
- Chicken wings with blue cheese dip, pork belly strips + buttermilk coleslaw
- Duck & cherry sauce with green beans
- Eggs in ‘nduja purgatory
- Stirfry for 1 – cabbage, carrots, spring onions, prawns, red pepper, etc.
London Food Marathon – Part 1
One week on and I’ve just about recovered from last weekend. As a surprise for our wedding anniversary, my wonderful husband had planned a trip around London to take in all the foodie spots I’ve been banging on about. See – he does listen! 🙂 Perfect timing as I’d been in a quandary about whether or not to attend a rather expensive food festival last month.
Over 100 photos later, here’s the summary:
Monmouth Coffee Company @ Borough Market – As is now tradition, we queued at Monmouth for their divine pour-over coffee and a free glass of Thames’ finest before heading into Borough Market. This is MY Disneyland 🙂 If we lived in London this place would ruin us. Bought some British charcuterie; a very soft ‘nduja, a red wine and rosemary salami and a goat salami from Cannon & Cannon (not much left now….) and some lovely grapes and apricots from one of the fruit vendors to munch on our treck. Had a nose around Neal’s Yard Dairy shop – delightfully cool in there, with just the lightest whiff of cheese.
Paused at The Old Thameside Inn for an elevenses-half. Not the best pub in London, but certainly has a good spot for taking in the view. 
T-3
Yay! Only 3 days until I go off on hols !!!
To get in the mood I made another Spanish/ Catalan themed dinner, served with a rather nice Pinot Noir:
Suspect my actual holiday-eats will be NOTHING like this 😉
Tuna, pepper and mango salad
Trying to deplete stocks before heading off on hols, so had to work with what was left lying around.
Another victory for scraps 🙂
