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Breakfast: a small bowl of chicken and veg soup - made from the leftovers yesterday. Tea.

2nd meal will be beef ragout maybe with some rice or chickpea rice/pasta.

Desperately tired and sore today after being out and about yesterday and only 2 hours sleep last night plus another 21/2 hours in the chair.
 
Very pleased today with my first rhubarb crop from a crown I planted over a year ago. Only took a few stalks as know it needs time to really settle. When we moved in here 12 years ago we were given a very productive crown which gave us amazing crops into two years ago when it became very unhappy. So planted the new crown in a different place! Used my rhubarb in a rhubarb, lemon and ginger panda flour traybake. I also had dehydrated some lemon slices which I ground into a powder - it's a very economical way to add an intense zingy lemon flavour.
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Even better therapy than gardening being creative with your own produce and eating it!
@Annb hope you've managed to rest and recover. I know I could not function on a few hours sleep - I need 7+ hours to cope. Sending hugs.
 
shelley262 said:
Very pleased today with my first rhubarb crop from a crown I planted over a year ago. Only took a few stalks as know it needs time to really settle. When we moved in here 12 years ago we were given a very productive crown which gave us amazing crops into two years ago when it became very unhappy. So planted the new crown in a different place! Used my rhubarb in a rhubarb, lemon and ginger panda flour traybake. I also had dehydrated some lemon slices which I ground into a powder - it's a very economical way to add an intense zingy lemon flavour.
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Even better therapy than gardening being creative with your own produce and eating it!
@Annb hope you've managed to rest and recover. I know I could not function on a few hours sleep - I need 7+ hours to cope. Sending hugs.
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That traybake looks lovely. My rhubarb has been in for 2 years and has declined from 3 healthy plants to 2 little scrawny stems - about 5 inches tall. They are in pots out at the front of the house. I can only grow things in pots because I can't get into the garden any more. Obviously I can't grow rhubarb at all.
 
shelley262 said:
Used my rhubarb in a rhubarb, lemon and ginger panda flour traybake.
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Oh that looks delicious! I agree it's so wonderful eating food you've grown yourself, especially if you create something like that. Rhubarb is one thing I haven't tried to grow yet, I might have a go one day. I've got a lot of seeds coming up indoors now, so it's that time of year where I'll be trying to dodge the late frosts when they're ready to plant out. Garden fleece at the ready!

Annb said:
Desperately tired and sore today after being out and about yesterday and only 2 hours sleep last night plus another 21/2 hours in the chair.
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Gentle hugs from me too, and hopes for much better sleep for you tonight.

I had porridge for breakfast, and a sausage bap for lunch but I only ate half of the bap, then cottage cheese salad and two hard boiled eggs with mayonnaise for tea. Chocolate happened after tea!
 
Annb said:
That traybake looks lovely. My rhubarb has been in for 2 years and has declined from 3 healthy plants to 2 little scrawny stems - about 5 inches tall. They are in pots out at the front of the house. I can only grow things in pots because I can't get into the garden any more. Obviously I can't grow rhubarb at all.
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It's not you who can't grow rhubarb it's The soil. The friend who gave me the first plant when we moved in said that they thrive better in soil that has lots of nutrients and our garden hadn't had anything grown in for years so they did well. I also gather they like horse manure - but not tried that !
 
jpscloud said:
Oh that looks delicious! I agree it's so wonderful eating food you've grown yourself, especially if you create something like that. Rhubarb is one thing I haven't tried to grow yet, I might have a go one day. I've got a lot of seeds coming up indoors now, so it's that time of year where I'll be trying to dodge the late frosts when they're ready to plant out. Garden fleece at the ready!


Gentle hugs from me too, and hopes for much better sleep for you tonight.

I had porridge for breakfast, and a sausage bap for lunch but I only ate half of the bap, then cottage cheese salad and two hard boiled eggs with mayonnaise for tea. Chocolate happened after tea!
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I used some bubble wrap around my peas a few nights ago and they survived thankfully. But peas are quite hardy so hoping they will be okay now - crossing fingers. Good luck with your plants as you start to transition them. My beans, tomatoes and cosmos, which are all very tender, will be indoors for as long as I can keep them from getting too leggy! Hoping to move them out mid May.
 
Breakfast: a tin of tomato soup. I know - bad, bad, bad. But I was cold and stiff and just wanted to get heated up.

Another short night (not unusual for me, of course) - bed at 12.45 and up again by 2.20. My new quilt just wasn't warm enough so must augment it with a fleecey throw tonight. Might sleep a bit longer, or at least warmer.

2nd meal will be some of the beef ragout that I made yesterday, and then didn't bother to eat (too much going on at the right time and by the time I could eat, it was just too late).

Today I must gather some energy and do some baking - experimental recipes with oats for a friend who will only eat oats (and not much else to go with it).
 
Annb said:
Breakfast: a tin of tomato soup. I know - bad, bad, bad. But I was cold and stiff and just wanted to get heated up.

Another short night (not unusual for me, of course) - bed at 12.45 and up again by 2.20. My new quilt just wasn't warm enough so must augment it with a fleecey throw tonight. Might sleep a bit longer, or at least warmer.

2nd meal will be some of the beef ragout that I made yesterday, and then didn't bother to eat (too much going on at the right time and by the time I could eat, it was just too late).

Today I must gather some energy and do some baking - experimental recipes with oats for a friend who will only eat oats (and not much else to go with it).
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It’s funny how a tin of tomato soup sometimes hits the spot. Generally I’d say I don’t like it but once a year when I’m feeling cold and miserable from my vaccinations it’s all I really want to eat. That’s it, once a year, but it works for me.
 
Porridge for breakfast, cottage cheese salad and 2 hard boiled eggs for lunch and I've had an early tea of chicken with a few triple cooked chips and vegetables.

Feeling lazy and unmotivated today, but apparently there's some nice weather on the way so I'm sure I'll perk up soon.
 
MommaE said:
It’s funny how a tin of tomato soup sometimes hits the spot. Generally I’d say I don’t like it but once a year when I’m feeling cold and miserable from my vaccinations it’s all I really want to eat. That’s it, once a year, but it works for me.
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When I had covid the first two times I wasn't very ill, but I absolutely craved creamy tomato soup, it was almost all I had for at least ten days. :hilarious:
I wasn't very ill apart from only liking tomato soup so I made my own very simple soup, I wasn't looking for strong flavours or meat and was completely puzzled by my rather boring tomato soup tasting so good for days on end.

Can of tinned tomatoes, spoonful of tomato purée, herby stock cube, water, cream.
I added some herbs or a chopped onion when I started to feel better but the basic version was the best food I could think of while being bored by not feeling completely well but not really ill either.

I wish tomato soup would taste this good when not ill, cheap, quick, filling, low carb!
And rather boring when not having covid.
 
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