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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

LivingLightly said:
Antje77:

Cashews.

Free tip: Decant your cashews into a bowl so eating more is at least a conscious decision.
Don't eat them directly from the bag while watching youtube videos or most of your expensive pack of cashews will be gone before catching yourself if you're anything like me.

Still, they tasted amazing!
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Thanks for the tip @Antje77. With a snack as moreish as cashews, especially the roasted ones, we need all the help we can get!

Unrelated: In English, we would normally say: tip your cashews into a bowl ... or transfer your cashews to a bowl ...
The verb decant means to pour and you'll mostly encounter it in the context of wine or port where the intention is to pour the liquid into a carafe or decanter leaving the sediment behind in the bottle.
 
Antje77 said:
But what if I poured them from the bag into the bowl? Wouldn't that be decanting them?
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It really needs to be a liquid because of the sediment left in the bottom of some liquids. But if you want to decant your cashews, do so by all means. It can be construed as a light-hearted use of the word. Using the language for your own enjoyment rather than being bound by the rules. It happens quite often in literature and in modern usage.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/decant

Decant Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster​

The meaning of DECANT is to draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers.
 
Breakfast: some cold chicken removed from the tagine. I used chicken thighs (my preferred cut) so later I will strip the meat from the remaining thighs and reheat the whole dish for my 2nd meal.

Have to do some batch cooking and baking today. Next week is going to be busy so today is going to be the only day to get stuff done. The baking is only experimental things for Alistair & Co to try out for me so, if I don't get it done, it's not the end of the world. The cooking, however, has to get done or I'll be on bread and cheese for the rest of the week.
 
Annb said:
It really needs to be a liquid because of the sediment left in the bottom of some liquids. But if you want to decant your cashews, do so by all means. It can be construed as a light-hearted use of the word. Using the language for your own enjoyment rather than being bound by the rules.
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I already knew that decanting was used for liquids usually but now I know why as well. :)
So, yes, I did use a slightly wrong word for enjoyment, and as always I love the free language lessons you and @LivingLightly offer!

Today the plan was to go for a morning swim (it's starting to get noticably colder now), followed by going to the supermarket.
But Imanaged to land an almost full mug of coffee in my lap in the car. So after swimming I put my towel on the soaked car seat and drove home only half (top half) clothed, and snuck into my house bare-bummed after checking if no-one was around. :hilarious:

I'll get my groceries later today!
 
Antje77 said:
But Imanaged to land an almost full mug of coffee in my lap in the car. So after swimming I put my towel on the soaked car seat and drove home only half (top half) clothed, and snuck into my house bare-bummed after checking if no-one was around. :hilarious:
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Not so funny anymore. A little of the coffee went into the dashboard, and now suddenly my car horn is shouting in front of my house.
I've disconnected the battery to shut it up, let's hope it'll be silent when I connect it again...
 
An hours walk early, followed by some blackberry picking.
Lunch was salad and the inside of half a quiche. Half a fig. Few walnuts.
Afternoon was spent helping put marquees up for village fete tomorrow.
Dinner was roast chicken, cabbage, broccoli and carrot.
Glass white wine.
2 sqs of a lc chocolate, coffee and walnut cake I made yesterday. New (to me) recipe from Caldesi. I made half and didn't add the cream filling or ganache top. It's made with grated apple as the only sweetener so nothing processed. Was light and tasty, maybe didn't need the coffee, one to try again. I reckon the whole thing was less than 50g carbs and I cut it into 14 portions so 3g carb per piece.
 
Didn't get the baking done - ran out of steam, but I did get 2 vegetable dishes done so that's 2 for the freezer (yet to be subdivided into portions). There's still the tagine to finish off and put away as well - I didn't bother having any more food, just cups of coffee. I'll strip the meat off of the chicken bones tomorrow and freeze what I don't use of it. That will have to be after I get back from my diabetic eye test. Have to make an appointment while I am at the optician's for a proper eye test and for some proper dark/anti-glare glasses.
 
Antje77 said:
Not so funny anymore. A little of the coffee went into the dashboard, and now suddenly my car horn is shouting in front of my house.
I've disconnected the battery to shut it up, let's hope it'll be silent when I connect it again...
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At least your clothes were not in the firing line! @Antje77. Coffee stains on one's lower half can look as though you ran out of loo paper. So embarassing!
 
LivingLightly said:
At least your clothes were not in the firing line! @Antje77. Coffee stains on one's lower half can look as though you ran out of loo paper. So embarassing!
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But they were, which is why I drove home in my bare butt instead of going for groceries! :hilarious:

I hitched a ride with a neighbour to get my groceries, I could hardly go into the town with my horn blaring non stop.
Let's hope the problem has solved itself when I reconnect the battery tomorrow. I have some kind of very odd blind date and I promised him spareribs on the barbecue so I'll have to get spareribs.
(Don't ask, it's a date but not a date because he's married, I really have no idea what I'm doing but swimming and spareribs should be fine with anyone. See, I really need to get a job, strange stuff happens when I'm bored...)
 
Antje77 said:
But they were, which is why I drove home in my bare butt instead of going for groceries! :hilarious:

I hitched a ride with a neighbour to get my groceries, I could hardly go into the town with my horn blaring non stop.
Let's hope the problem has solved itself when I reconnect the battery tomorrow.
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Righto, @Antje77. I get the picture.

If the horn is still playing up tomorrow, I'd switch on the ceiling light; ISTR that worked a treat previously!
 
Antje77 said:
But they were, which is why I drove home in my bare butt instead of going for groceries! :hilarious:

I hitched a ride with a neighbour to get my groceries, I could hardly go into the town with my horn blaring non stop.
Let's hope the problem has solved itself when I reconnect the battery tomorrow. I have some kind of very odd blind date and I promised him spareribs on the barbecue so I'll have to get spareribs.
(Don't ask, it's a date but not a date because he's married, I really have no idea what I'm doing but swimming and spareribs should be fine with anyone. See, I really need to get a job, strange stuff happens when I'm bored...)
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Quiet weekend here but luckily @Antje77 is having enough adventures for all of us :) Hope the car has dried out ok today.
MrsA2 said:
An hours walk early, followed by some blackberry picking.
Lunch was salad and the inside of half a quiche. Half a fig. Few walnuts.
Afternoon was spent helping put marquees up for village fete tomorrow.
Dinner was roast chicken, cabbage, broccoli and carrot.
Glass white wine.
2 sqs of a lc chocolate, coffee and walnut cake I made yesterday. New (to me) recipe from Caldesi. I made half and didn't add the cream filling or ganache top. It's made with grated apple as the only sweetener so nothing processed. Was light and tasty, maybe didn't need the coffee, one to try again. I reckon the whole thing was less than 50g carbs and I cut it into 14 portions so 3g carb per piece.
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The cake sounds good @MrsA2 love coffee and walnut. Really like the Caldesi recipes, think I might treat myself to one of their books, even though I swore was not going to buy any more cookbooks. I do like a book rather than finding recipes on the internet.
 
LivingLightly said:
If the horn is still playing up tomorrow, I'd switch on the ceiling light; ISTR that worked a treat previously!
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Oh, the car still needs the ceiling light to be on to work, that problem never went away!
But thankfully the horn has gone quiet again so I bought spareribs and a hairbrush, had my morning swim and washed and brushed my hair while I was at it. :)
 
Tuesday 20 August - so much for staying on top of things!

B. TAG and a bit of crustless quiche.

L. Marigold vegetable boullion

D. Didn't much feel like anything, so I had a bacon sandwich on SRSLY bread.

Wednesday 21 August - Boys are here for dinner. I didn't really fancy anything again come dinner time.

B. TAG and a bit of crustless quiche.

L. Marigold vegetable boullion

D. Ham and mustard sandwich on SRSLY bread. Vodka and diet coke.

Thursday 22 August. Managed to get to Aqua today and I'm feeling a bit better afterwards.

B. TAG

L. Marigold vegetable boullion

D. Grilled salmon with salad. I made a sauce from Skinny Food Co sweet chilli and tamari soy. Keto Keto banana bread bar.

Friday 23 August. Half day Friday so a bit of running around sorting out various lunches for the boys.

B. TAG

L. Marigold vegetable boullion

D. 2 GF sausages, fried eggs, and a slice of GF haggis. Raspberries and a dollop of cream.

Saturday 24 August - busy day. Hairdresser arriving early for some desperately needed haircuts. Youngest grandson finally decided to part company with his long hair too! Hallelujah! I've been telling Hubby for ages not to go on at him about his hair. In time, he'd decide it was a nuisance, and he did. He's highly delighted with it now.

B. TAG

L. Nothing. I had Hubby to get to football, then shopping, then back for Hubby.

D. LC pasta carbonara. Vodka and diet coke.

Sunday 25 August. Grandson's first swimming outing with his shorter styled hair. He informs me his head feels a lot lighter!

B. TAG and a slice of SRSLY toast with pate.

L. Nothing

D. Campari and soda. An M&S ceaser chicken skewer with salad. I didn't like it. The only thing that tasted as it should was the dressing. Chicken was far too herby.
Raspberries and cream.

I finally discovered at night what had been lurking to make me feel "off" this week. I have gout threatening to flare up in my left foot this time. Fortunately, it hasn't made it to the whole foot yet, so a good dose of paracetamol let me have a reasonable sleep until 6am.

Tomorrow, I reckon I'll be starting on colchicine and adjusting my other meds to suit.20240822_185811.jpgView attachment 69510
 
Yesterday a friend gave me a piece of durian so I had a small piece (very tasty!) and put the rest in my fridge. Not low carb at all, but just now I used another piece to prevent a hypo. :joyful:

But what type of luck is it to get such an unusual and hard to get fruit the day before you have a date?
Open the fridge door and a wall of stink comes out, not quite the impression I want to give my date! :hilarious:
 
Antje77 said:
Yesterday a friend gave me a piece of durian so I had a small piece (very tasty!) and put the rest in my fridge. Not low carb at all, but just now I used another piece to prevent a hypo. :joyful:

But what type of luck is it to get such an unusual and hard to get fruit the day before you have a date?
Open the fridge door and a wall of stink comes out, not quite the impression I want to give my date! :hilarious:
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Good luck with your date - just don't open the fridge!
 
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