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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

Antje77 said:
I'm completely spoilt. Asdked neighbour Tale to help me pry it from the car without hurting it, laid out the garden hose to soften the ground for digging and went to get the groceries from my car while the ground was soaking.
Got back to the garden just in time to see Tale put the tree in a freshly dug hole!

I think I'm safe, I prefer reading about your garden adventures.
But I must admit that after the storm on monday the first thing I did upon coming home was checking if my tree had survived!

Wish me luck, I'll be going to a heavy metal festival tomorrow with my neighbours.
Three full days of living on beer and festival food and sleeping at the campsite. Not allowed to bring in food so I'll have to be very creative with the available food trucks, or maybe I'll be a pro at dosing for chips at the end of the weekend.

We'll see, I'll likely have fun, and I've been a nervous wreck for a week already in anticipation.
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Enjoy yourself. I'm sure that there will be food that you can eat - even if you have to peel the carbs off some things.

Just had a small fruit salad for breakfast. Going out shortly for my chest XRay.

I've put some dried porcine in to soak and hope to make some mushroom soup with the chestnut mushrooms Neil bought a few days ago, Shouldn't be too taxing, even if I am pretty exhausted by the time I get home.
 
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shelley262 said:
tomatoes roast in olive oil served on LC toast
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Oh I need tomatoes on toast now! I crumble a bit of feta on top as well. I must make and slice some of my lower-ish carb bread again and keep it in the freezer - there's a little bit of room now I've finally finished the runner beans, at least until this year's crop starts coming in :hilarious:
 
Antje77 said:
I'm completely spoilt. Asdked neighbour Tale to help me pry it from the car without hurting it, laid out the garden hose to soften the ground for digging and went to get the groceries from my car while the ground was soaking.
Got back to the garden just in time to see Tale put the tree in a freshly dug hole!

I think I'm safe, I prefer reading about your garden adventures.
But I must admit that after the storm on monday the first thing I did upon coming home was checking if my tree had survived!

Wish me luck, I'll be going to a heavy metal festival tomorrow with my neighbours.
Three full days of living on beer and festival food and sleeping at the campsite. Not allowed to bring in food so I'll have to be very creative with the available food trucks, or maybe I'll be a pro at dosing for chips at the end of the weekend.

We'll see, I'll likely have fun, and I've been a nervous wreck for a week already in anticipation.
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I’ve never encountered a problem with taking food anywhere once I’ve explained a medical issue requiring careful choices and calculated amounts. Venues have always been understanding; maybe I’ve just been fortunate and the heavy metal crowd have their own requirements. Hope you enjoy though.
Not recommended but …. I have a daughter that put her snacks under her sweater and claimed to be pregnant assuming that the venue staff would not ask her to prove she was pregnant!
 
MommaE said:
I’ve never encountered a problem with taking food anywhere once I’ve explained a medical issue requiring careful choices and calculated amounts. Venues have always been understanding; maybe I’ve just been fortunate and the heavy metal crowd have their own requirements. Hope you enjoy though.
Not recommended but …. I have a daughter that put her snacks under her sweater and claimed to be pregnant assuming that the venue staff would not ask her to prove she was pregnant!
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Well, I needed that room to smuggle booze...

First meal was a great success!
A burger and pulled pork from locally raised animals and grilled on a charcoal grill with coleslaw and onions. No problem at all to leave out the bun, and they added extra pulled pork instead!

Tasted much better than it looks!

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Out to a friend's house for breakfast, sausage bacon and eggs, I skipped lunch and had chicken with vegetables for tea.

Very breezy and a little bit chilly today, but dry so I got a bit of work done in the garden in the late afternoon.
 
Just been out in the garden to see what needs harvesting and getting a few ideas about cooking plans today.
Breakfast will be keto granola and then roast tomatoes in olive oil on LC toast ( had some UK tomatoes leftover in fridge before holiday so need using up as a bit squishy.) My own tomatoes are doing well - all setting flowers but will be at least a month for the tomatoes!
Lunch I've got a few pea pods so will pop the raw peas into my Lunch time salad and lots of mixed salad leaves - as all my salad vegetables are doing really well.
my garden surprise is a whole extra crop of rhubarb - it's clearly enjoyed the cool wet weather and gone mad. I've been researching and gather it happens sometimes but I have to be careful to only harvest a bit as it needs to store its nutrients back into the root. So I have rhubarb related plans today. I'm going to slow cook some with ginger and lemon and looking at also using some of the 'stock' to make a drink - did it a few years ago and it's good cold or heated as a tea! May make rhubarb flapjacks again using the lc Panda Pantry flapjack/porridge mix. ( the poached rhubarb makes the flapjack stickier and adds flavour)
Dinner is a steak served with more garden salad! I'd love UK asparagus and will check in local farm shop but would imagine it may have gone out of season.
Hope everyone has a good day. I've got a bit of a medical week ahead so pleasant distraction in garden and kitchen with a few podcasts will help.
 
Loving the garden updates @shelley262 ! I've never tried growing rhubarb but we always had very bountiful patches of it when I was growing up and I miss it. Maybe I can find a little corner for some!

Growing our own food really does take some patience! I'm getting just a few little tomatoes off the sungold on my windowsill every few days, but the rest of the tomatoes will be a few weeks yet. I'm good for spring onions as I got 2 packs of 50 red baron sets for 99p each and am using those, they're delicious - I also have a good supply of lettuce now, but didn't get rocket right this year, my next crop is nowhere near ready. There'll be a courgette ready in a week or so, though!

I had my first mini cucumber from my indoor plant with my lunch today, and it really knocked it out of the park for flavour and crispness. I have another plant started in the polytunnel in case this one decides to die on me!

Porridge for breakfast, cottage cheese salad for lunch and I'll be having chicken and vegetables for tea.
 
Thanks for popping on to let us know you're ok @Annb, hope things continue to improve x

I'm making headway in the garden, most things are planted out now and I'm about to boost the salads and dwarf french bean populations with the next succession. I wish I'd got a few more sungold plants off to the same start as my windowsill one but if I'm blessed with another year I'll improve on that! They're very small but the flavour is so good.

Porridge for breakfast, cottage cheese salad for lunch with a few sungold tomatoes, half of my home grown mini cucumber, spring onion and salad leaves from the garden, and pan fried hake with stir fried vegetables for tea.
 
Good to see you @Annb sorry you've been feeling yukky thinking of you and hope things continue to improve.
I didn't post early as I usually do because I had early Drs appointment. I have a hospital scan on Thursday pm so have been keeping busy to distract myself - I have been making Panda golden flour pasta and four lasagnes, one for tea tonight with salad from the garden, and three safely stashed in freezer.
@jpscloud sounds like you are making great progress in garden. Salad leaves are definitely worth effort of sowing for the next crop - way tastier than you can buy and of course organic and cheaper. Such a joy to be able to nip into the garden and harvest what you need.
 
Lovely sunny walk round my garden checking up on my plants. Thought I'd share a couple of progress photos. First is my salad garden on the table outside my kitchen window seen beyond one of my bean pots and second some of my tomatoes which needed tying up again today as growing so well.
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Salad will definitely be my lunch. Plans for dinner today are lamb cutlets served with some of the UK asparagus I managed to buy and sweetheart cabbage. Trying to eat asparagus while I can as season ending.
 
shelley262 said:
Lovely sunny walk round my garden checking up on my plants. Thought I'd share a couple of progress photos. First is my salad garden on the table outside my kitchen window seen beyond one of my bean pots and second some of my tomatoes which needed tying up again today as growing so well.
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Salad will definitely be my lunch. Plans for dinner today are lamb cutlets served with some of the UK asparagus I managed to buy and sweetheart cabbage. Trying to eat asparagus while I can as season ending.
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Wow your tomatoes are strong! Your beans are a bit ahead of mine, I'll try to get some pictures to share today!

Porridge for breakfast, cottage cheese salad for lunch and the other half of the hake with stir fried vegetables for tea.
 
Breakfast: RyVita and cottage cheese. Tea.

2nd meal - there's some smoked haddock in the freezer, so I'll do something with that. No leeks to go with it, unfortunately. Probably just poached haddock with a compote of whatever vegetables I can find.
 
Well my photography skills are woeful, when I looked at them more closely they don't look very good at all! I'll see what I can use in a bit.

It's raining this morning but I'll do a bit in the polytunnel.

Porridge for breakfast, something with salad for lunch and freezer surprise for tea.
 
This morning did my early morning garden check with a brolly in hand! Plants happy with warmth and rain and hopefully it will dry up later for some gardening.
I always have a shot of kefir with fish oil first thing before breakfast and made my own for years but it's lots of effort and too much for us amount wise so have been buying a standard commercial one but don't think it's that active. So bought a sample of a small farm produced goats milk kefir which is so alive with gut friendly bugs it's explosive - had to be opened in a bowl in sink its so lively. Couldn't say it's not active! I've also got some small production ferments arriving by the post this morning. I'm fascinated by fermenting but when doing it myself mainly for one you are stuck with a lot of one variety!
Lunch garden salad leaves with nuts and hm hummus and a hm LC scone with cream and a few berries. Sea Bream for dinner tonight with more local asparagus while I can. I've started to put the asparagus in a lemon and olive before drizzle/marinade for a few mins before I griddle it in the air fryer it's delicious and think will try with beans and tenderstem broccoli once asparagus harvest is over.
 
Breakfast: salad of the last few strawberries, raspberries and grapes (very sour ones) with Greek style yoghurt. Tea.

Didn't find the smoked haddock that Neil bought for me in the freezer. Neil says that's because it wasn't smoked anything but was bream! which also wasn't there. I don't know where he put it. Maybe one of the other freezers but I couldn't be bothered going to search so just made do with some cheese and crackers.

This morning I have taken out some ordinary haddock from the freezer. It isn't going to be much good because it is commercially frozen stuff so I'll have to have a think about how to use it for my 2nd meal today. Maybe cut it into small pieces and fry like whitebait to have with mixed vegetables.
 
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I'm going to have chicken and vegetables for tea, there's some chicken in the freezer to use up. It's dull but warm in the garden now, I've done a bit of arranging my tabletop containers and need to tie in the squash now which are growing really fast.

I'm most proud of my broad beans so far this year, last year they got rust and just died off. This year they look amazing and so far they've escaped black aphids.

I have a nice picture but I can't post it because the file size is too large and I haven't worked out how to change that! I'm assuming the other pictures I have are also too big so will try to post them when I have resized them.
 
I used to be very tech savvy back in the day but I just don't really do much any more, so it's taking a bit of experimentation. Hope this comes out ok!

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