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Annb
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
Annb
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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.
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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!
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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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 !
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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.
Annb
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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).
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.
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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.
Feeling lazy and unmotivated today, but apparently there's some nice weather on the way so I'm sure I'll perk up soon.
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.
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.
Annb
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I don't know why I had tinned tomato soup in the larder but there were, I think, 4 tins on a high shelf. I had one a few months ago when I was feeling poorly, needing something warming and had no energy. Its success may be due to a childhood memory: my father wasn't any kind of cook but on the odd occasion when Mum wasn't there, he would share a can of tomato soup with me - making up the volume with some milk - and some buttered white bread. Very comforting. So I grabbed one of the other cans to make me feel better again yesterday, and it worked (no buttered white bread to go with it, but that didn't matter). Normally, I thinĸ my taste buds would find it a bit carroty tasting.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.
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.
I cooked some chickpea "rice" to add to the ragout yesterday and have some left over for another dish another time. Also quite a lot of the ragout left.
Breakfast today: a banana muffin. A bit high on the carbs but I dosed for it and it seems OK. Coffee.
2nd meal will be "kedgeree" made with the chickpea rice, smoked mackerel, onions, peas and hard boiled eggs.
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My soup craving when I'm ill is the cream of asparagus cup soup in a packet. Not at all healthy but I only have it when I'm too ill for anything else, and for some weird reason it's so comforting. I never fancy it when I'm not really ill!
Porridge for breakfast, then I'll have salad with chicken liver pate and cottage cheese for lunch, and I might have beef bolognese with vegetables for tea.
Porridge for breakfast, then I'll have salad with chicken liver pate and cottage cheese for lunch, and I might have beef bolognese with vegetables for tea.
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Unfortunately my childhood memory of tomato soup is having it and then having a violent tummy upset. I've never been able to go near it since! Even the smell puts me off!
That's white wine for me, but I was a bit older.
Very embarrassing at 17 or so. Don't try to learn to drink in one day, and especially don't do it in the city center of Amsterdam where half your school is going out and sees you puking in the middle of the Leidseplein...
No white wine for me, thank you.
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It was gin for me, at a party when I was 15! I couldn't touch it for years but I like it again now, although I only ever have a tiny taste of alcohol - I don't enjoy any type of alcohol after the first few sips. That's a good thing considering my health issues!That's white wine for me, but I was a bit older.
Very embarrassing at 17 or so. Don't try to learn to drink in one day, and especially don't do it in the city center of Amsterdam where half your school is going out and sees you puking in the middle of the Leidseplein...
No white wine for me, thank you.
Annb
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Breakfast: the last of the banana muffins. Coffee. BG was a bit on the low side when I had breakfast but I took some insulin because of the carb content. Must have got it about right. BG spiked for a short time at 8.1 but very soon dropped back to the 5's, which is where it is now.
2nd meal will be rice and peas. Chick pea rice, green peas and onion. Stir fried.
2nd meal will be rice and peas. Chick pea rice, green peas and onion. Stir fried.
Annb
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I have never like alcohol in any form. At 16 my father bought for me a popular drink then - "Cherry Bee" - a weak kind of cherry brandy, I suppose. Didn't like it. Could never stand the smell of alcohol on someone's breath. I have, occasionally had whiskey - horrible and once had some home-made "wine" made by an elderly aunt - tasted like I imagine paint remover would taste like but didn't want to cause offense so had it and was rewarded by having to accept another. By that time everyone thought I should be under the table but, although one one glass they were all very light headed, it had no effect whatsoever on me.
Another time, under quite a lot of stress, I decided to see if whiskey would make me feel better. After drinking about half a bottle, I decided that it was just a waste of time and money and gave up on it. No effect whatsoever. Oddly, just one glass of wine made my mother "tiddly", my father ill and both Neil and Alistair very ill. Tom was the only one who could tolerate alcohol (it was his bottle of whiskey I wasted). I can be very happy without it and both my sons are much happier without it.
We're just an odd family. Useful to go with a group on a night out though - someone has to drive people home.
I love my non drinking friends, they are always invited to go out.
