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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

Just saw the news so just popping in to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY @Antje77 Hope you are having a good one.

Think I had better post what I had this evening Basically it was a fry up. 2 slices Smoked Bacon, 2 eggs and a very thin pork chop. Didn't bother with veg today. Followed this with a slice of strawberry mug cake. Plus tea of course. Not very exciting but it filled the gap.
 
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Antje77 said:
Thank you @shelley262 that's such a kind offer!
Those puffets look very good. :hungry:

Tomorrow (well, almost today) will be my birthday, so today I spent a ridiculous amount of money on food and booze.
It was a lovely spring day so I started with a short swim, first time this year without my neoprene socks and gloves, wearing nothing but my Libre sensor.

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I then picked up new tenant Andries and another friend to go buy food for the party, and we had a very happy afternoon with the three of us. The weather makes such a big difference in everyones mood!

I completely forgot I needed to buy food for today as well but I think I bought enough food for the party to last me a week after that and made myself a very nice meal of 3 chipolata sausages, a handful of kalamata olives, some wakame, a little kimchi and two sweet spicy peppers with cream cheese. :joyful:

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Happy Birthday Antje
 
Breakfast: pea soup with some bits of sausage cut into it.
2nd meal will be chicken korma.

Neil had bought a mango - lovely and ripe (unusual) but he only wanted half of it. I decided to make some pastries with the other half. Unfortunately, I put them in the oven and then fell asleep. One trayful of burnt offerings! What a waste.
 
Annb said:
Breakfast: pea soup with some bits of sausage cut into it.
2nd meal will be chicken korma.

Neil had bought a mango - lovely and ripe (unusual) but he only wanted half of it. I decided to make some pastries with the other half. Unfortunately, I put them in the oven and then fell asleep. One trayful of burnt offerings! What a waste.
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You'll need to get an air fryer oven with shelves which will automatically switch of after your set time.
 
I had a routine hospital appointment again yesterday so counting down to feeling rubbish again in a couple of days :hilarious: It was with very lovely Dr who is just getting into growing vegetables so that was one appointment I didn't mind attending!

Eating was a bit erratic yesterday. Today I had porridge for breakfast and will have a cottage cheese salad for lunch and fish with resistant starch rice, kale and sprouting broccoli from the garden for tea.
 
DougDyl said:
You'll need to get an air fryer oven with shelves which will automatically switch of after your set time.
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No space for anything else in here. I did have an air fryer but didn't find it useful or justifiable in terms of space, so I got rid of it. But I have to say that, as I get older, I do keep falling asleep and miss bleeping alarms. May have to re-evaluate.
 
Thanks all for the lovely birthday wishes!
They seem to have worked, I had an amazing birthday with wonderful friends and neighbours. :joyful:

I don't think I remember exactly what I've eaten, but there were olives, lots of meat from the barbecue, and the friend who baked a cake came in just in time for a hypo!
Some pieces of bread have been had as a treat, one of the guests fell into the pond, neighbour-in-the-garden set up a sound system, smoke machine and laser lights in the garden, party lasted well until after dawn.

I'm about to raid the fridge for breakfast now (midnight), woke up at 4:15 pm and not really hungry yet.
Going to go sailing tomorrow afternoon so I really should try to get into bed before 2 am.
 
Happy International Women's Day.

Breakfast: 2 beef sausages and one fried egg. Tea.
2nd meal will be c***-a-leekie soup (Oh how I resent having to censor the name of a traditional Scottish dish).

Came across a big drawer full of yarn - wool, cotton and some sort of man made fibre, which I will never use. Some of it was my mother's and she died in 1985! Some of it is obviously deconstructed jumper material. Also in another drawer a lot of crochet hooks and knitting needles. I mentioned it to my friend last night, during a Zoom session and she told me she has been asked to teach a youngish child to crochet but can't find her crochet hooks. So she will come to sort through what is in that drawer and take away what she can. I have put some of the pre-used wool into skeins and washed it prior to re-rolling into proper balls using a gadget that I also found some time ago and have been wondering whether to keep it or not. Maybe my friend will take that too, although, these days most yarn is in balls already, not skeins.
 
@Annb ,
That old knitting yarn will likely be much better quality than the modern stuff available to purchase new. The old stuff is likely from local sheep. More modern stuff is generally synthetic fibre imported from places like Turkey.
I confess to being envious of your find. Have memories of sitting with skeins of wool stretched across my aching, outstretched arms as my mother wound the wool into balls.
 
Pipp said:
@Annb ,
That old knitting yarn will likely be much better quality than the modern stuff available to purchase new. The old stuff is likely from local sheep. More modern stuff is generally synthetic fibre imported from places like Turkey.
I confess to being envious of your find. Have memories of sitting with skeins of wool stretched across my aching, outstretched arms as my mother wound the wool into balls.
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Which is how it was discovered I’m allergic to wool! Doing that for my grandmother.

keeping to title of thread, I’ve not eaten yet as had dinner out last night but hubby is about to present a nice big brunch to table which will include but not exclusive to some cracking sausages, bacon & a bit of black pudding from a farm just down the road from me.
 
Porridge for breakfast, cottage cheese salad for lunch and a really lovely thai green curry for tea - with my own home grown lemon corriander! First little harvest and it was so delicious. I also used two little calamansi (calamondin) from my mini indoor tree instead of lemon and the taste is heavenly. Mine are just starting to turn orange but they're traditionally used green instead of lime or lemon, and I much prefer their flavour. I have some supermarket bought comet chillis in the fridge which are happily drying themselves in the breathable packet so they are lasting months! Happy days!

My indoor growing is still going very well but really really slowly - I've taken to glaring angrily at my onion greens on the windowsill because although they grow "fast", it's not fast enough for my needs at the moment!

In the garden, the elephant garlic is looking fabulous and the onions all seem to be doing well, and the sprouting broccoli is doing the sprouting thing. The other garlic I planted seems to have died, but I found one sprouting in the kitchen and I've put that on top of a jar of water to give me some garlic greens.

On the sowing list for starting in the polytunnel are broad beans, peas, carrots, beetroot, calendula and nasturtiums.

@Annb, I have a crochet lap blanket that my great grandmother made and it has a couple of holes in, probably moths, so I need to brush up my crochet skills and mend it!
 
Usual brunch. Teatime a half of a very small pork pie with English mustard. Dinner was cottage pie with sprouts, cauliflower and a carrot, followed by 4 squares of Monte's. My 'flozin will be happy with all the carbs I've had today but my BG might not be.
 
Just sorted through the drawer with knitting needles in - about 20 pairs of steel needles of all sizes plus a pair of wooden ones - no size on them but pretty big. Then sets of 4 needles for sock making - 5 of those of various sizes. Then a range of sizes of crochet hooks and cable needles and those kind of safety pin shaped things for setting aside numbers of stitches. I'm hoping my friend can find a use for all of them, but that might be a forlorn hope.

Came across the front of a jumper that I made but never made the rest. It is basically a sampler of various stitches and types of wool with some wool embroidery on it as well. I remember doing it just after my Mum died in 1985. It helped me to deal with losing her for some reason. I didn't need to continue with the rest of the jumper. It was very colourful and very complicated. Maybe that was why it helped. Perhaps I should frame it like one of those embroidered samplers from the 19th century. Maybe not.
 
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