May 09, 2011

Had grapefruit and coffee for breakfast. Was meant to walk with Lee this morning as he is on a training course all week not too far from ours, about a 40 minute walk, but I had a terrible night sleep so he let me sleep in.
Had a yogurt with some nuts around 11am after I went for a short run.

Lunch was leftover pork in a sandwich with rocket, tomato & a slice of cheese. Just as good in a sandwich, I would almost say better!

Dinner was rissoles and salad, we haven't had rissoles in a while. They were really good, they had beef, mushroom and onion in them. The salad was pretty good, not as good as last night, no idea why it was almost identical. Still, really tasty stuff.

May 08, 2011

Dinner left us so stuffed last night that I even woke up feeling full and uncomfortable. I think we just ate too much yesterday in general, but I will definitely make those walnut crusted chicken fillets again, they were delicious in the slider buns but reckon they will be good in many different ways. I might try the frying method at some point to crisp them up but its good to know they are awesome without having to do that part.

Breakfast was grapefruit and a peanut butter ryvita. Nice and early for a Sunday morning. I always hate the start of a jar of natural peanut butter, so oily and disgusting. It is worth the effort of mixing it up though.

We were out and about soon after breakfast, I had a photography assignment to attend to so we did a lot of walking around parks to find the ideal place. We were still out by lunch time so picked up a grilled chicken pita on the cheap and kept going. Didn't really get the results I wanted but have enough to complete my assignment.

Dinner was lemon pepper pork loin & salad.  It was.... toothsome. I am running out of words and getting sick of delicious, scrumptious, delightful and tasty, so I had to resort to a thesaurus search to help me out on this mighty fine day.
Anyway, the salad was more than brilliant, we were both sad when it was all gone, and the pork was actually pretty good, albeit overcooked. The meat thermometer said to cook it to 170 F, but I took it out at 160 and  even that was a little overcooked. Still, it was tasty, and that salad was out of this world and the highlight of the meal. Rocket, tomato, red cabbage, olives & goats cheese with a mustard & balsamic dressing.

May 07, 2011

Today for breakfast I had a yogurt with some crushed walnuts. It was ok for a few hours but was starving by 11 so had a ryvita with peanut butter.

The plan was to make what was meant to be for dinner last night for lunch today and have a picnic. Well, the weather wasn't as permitting as we expected so we had lunch at Moose Winooskis instead, which was loads of fun as always. We both had a chicken wrap and a pint.

For dinner, well, I am pretty happy with this. I made walnut crusted chicken fillets (baked instead of fried, blitzed some walnuts in The President and threw in some breadcrumbs), made up some spicy guacamole and made burgers with red pepper slider buns and some arugula. That and a side salad of quinoa, chickpeas, zucchini and asparagus. Bloody good.

May 06, 2011

Fairly early night last night. Woke up at ridiculous o'clock thanks to the singing birds outside the window. Still, better than a gun shot or a garbage truck, right?!
Had a yogurt with some walnuts for breakfast and a cup of coffee. Still skipping along this cold so my throat is still scratchy but feeling much better.

Lee bought me a pita for lunch which was delicious as usual.

Dinner was meant to be what was meant to be for dinner last night - walnut crusted chicken breast with salad (quinoa, chickpeas & asparagus). YUMMO. Instead that is for our picnic lunch Saturday.
Instead, shame on us, we had pizza, and it was absolutely freakin amazing. Need to stop falling over face first on junk food. Loads of exercise and good healthy food this weekend.

May 05, 2011

There was no snacking last night which was good, but that doesn't mean that snacks were not wanted! Snacks were not available.

Breakfast this morning was grapefruit and a yogurt with walnuts. I am totally off ryvitas, I think I have done my dash with them for a while. Washed down with a black French vanilla coffee, breakfast was very satisfying.

For lunch today I had some steamed asparagus, fresh champagne tomatoes and a poached eggs with a sprinkle of sunflower seeds. Scrummy.

I got hungry later on though so I had a ham sandwich in the afternoon. Followed by a couple of ginger snaps. Seriously need to stock up on non wheat based snacks.

Dinner was... unexpected. Lee and I went for another long walk after work, although much longer than yesterday. We went to a cycle shop and looked at bikes, and it was really sunny so we went and had a beer in the sun. That turned into a couple of beers, and ended in a pub meal of a burger each. Well, you know what? It was really tasty, and we both had a good time. Now just to make up for it over the next few weeks, hahaha. *sigh* Never mind.

May 04, 2011

Happy May the 4th everyone. Many moons ago Vickie sent me an email with Luke Skywalker and a caption saying 'May the Fourth be With You' which I nearly fell off my wheelie chair in fits of laughter (back in the old Pacific Internet days). You know, the kind of laughter where you almost let out a bit of wee and cant stop the tears? One of those fits.
I used that image every year until now, and for some reason I cant find that email or image, its been seven or eight years and this is the first time I cant find it!  Might have to pull the 'Revenge of the Fifth' card tomorrow to make up for it. Either way, every May 4th I chuckle and remember that fit of giggles and the person who gave them to me. xx

Last night at about 9pm my belly rumbled again. I need to do something to curb this appetite as I shouldn't be eating anything at that time. Lee made me a sanga, using the whole 'sandwiches always taste better when someone else makes them' argument, which I completely agree with. And it was delicious. Sunflower and flaxseed bread with cheese, ham and tomato sauce. YUM YUM!

Woke up this morning with the commencement of a cold, damn it. I ate a yogurt with some walnuts for breakfast and had a coffee. I know, its a tiny breakfast, but so is half a grapefruit and with my scratchy throat I couldn't face the grapefruit.

Lunch today was more salad which was good. Better than yesterday.

Lee and I went for a long walk when he got home from work, its such a beautiful day we wanted to do something, and ended up getting an icecream for the return walk home. Was delicious.

Dinner tonight was meant to be cabbage rolls, and we were both really keen for them. But for reasons I should have foreseen, they were a disaster and didn't get finished. The mix was good, cabbage leaves cooked, everything was ready but I couldn't roll the bastards, I was naive and thought I could use red cabbage. They were too thick and I couldn't tuck in the sides, there was chicken mince mix everywhere.
Lesson learned, next time I will use Swiss chard instead, but the incident today put me in a really shit mood. There was nothing else to prepare without taking hours, no back up meat defrosted, so I made mini pizzas instead. I am so annoyed I could explode but kitchen failures happen, and I had one tonight.

May 03, 2011

I had a thai soup last night quite late as my stomach began to rumble. It was a chilli lime grass clear broth soup and it was delicious, even if it was a little unnecessary.

Breakfast today was the usual half a grapefruit and a coffee. Skipped the ryvita, wasn't really hungry.

Lunch was a big bowl of salad, and then a ham sandwich. Here's the salad. It was delicious but seriously didn't touch the sides, so had another bowl:

Dinner was poached salmon & salad. Pretty much the same salad as lunch just without olives and goats cheese, but this time I added a poached egg and some steamed asparagus, with some walnuts thrown on top:

After dinner we snacked on some left over ginger snaps from Lee's cheesecake making from yesterday (which apparently was a huge success, was devoured in no time and people are demanding he write them up the recipe!) and thats it for today.

Busy week even though I chucked in my temp job. Loads of study, food prep/planning, cleaning and exercise to do. In other news I applied for a volunteer job with the Food Bank coordinating a recipe book they are making for people to cook healthily on a budget, including food from emergency food hampers. I heard from them today and have an interview next week, so hopefully something will come of that, would be a great opportunity and something I really want to do.

Good night everyone xxx

May 02, 2011

Bright and early breakfast in the doom and gloom of what feels like London weather, we had 1/4 grapefruit each (there was only a half left) and some strawberries. Washed down with a black French vanilla coffee, delightful.

Busy day today, managed to see the tax man, have a driving lesson with Lee, do the grocery shopping, buy ingredients and a cake carrier for Lee to make and take a cheese cake in to work tomorrow, and have time for a quick pint.

I had a chicken wrap for lunch with lettuce, tomato & red cabbage. Was pretty tasty, and really filling.

Tonight we had left over lasagna, and it was still win. Also, Lee is 'required' to take a self made cheesecake in to work for tomorrow, so we have spent the last little while doing that. He has never made any kind of cake let alone a baked cheesecake so we took the opportunity to see how we would go me 'not helping' and him following instructions. I am dead proud, so I asked for him to write a blog entry for me, which you can find here: Husbandman makes cheesecake.....

It looks pretty good! Smells insane, kind of glad wont be going to town on that bad boy, I might go for a run instead.... *cries*.

May 01, 2011 - continued....

So my fantastic husbandman has been running all over town for me today while at work, scanning docs for me to send to send to my new employer and then bought me some lunch! Grilled chicken pita with olives, lettuce, tomato, onion and feta cheese. Delicious.

I had no energy or feeling for cabbage rolls, so instead I made a lazy lasagna with the left overs in the fridge and the cupboard. Celery, onion, beef, pancetta and zucchini. It was pretty much thrown together but it worked out really well. Had some wholegrain ciabatta so toasted that up too. Too full to move now.

Grocery shopping tomorrow, busy day/week ahead.

May 01, 2011

So last nights challenge left me feeling a bit disappointed. Not because of the food, I am happy with it, but just that it wasn't really a challenge. So again I open it up to you folks to suggest something for me to make.
Mez has suggested an awesome dessert that I will have a crack at in the next couple of weeks, and I still have my favourite Scando's pork knuckle in beer recipe, so might do that one next week. Anyone else got anything? Even if you have seen it on a challenge before and voted but did not win, what would you like to see?

For breakfast this morning I had half a grapefruit and some strawberries. Delicious. And a coffee in bed, although solo as Husbandman is off doing his last 12 hour shift for a month or so.

Not quite sure what the plans for lunch today (probably a sad lonely salad), but I can tell you we are having red cabbage rolls for dinner tonight, yum!
Big day again today, need to finish the menu planning, will make a few new things, and a couple of new favourites, all in line with healthier options. Have a butt load of study to do also, and have a busy week ahead.

Will update with lunch and dinner later, yall.

xxx