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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

Well, it was utterly delicious, and I enjoyed every bite. But we have had three minutes' rain today - it was the three minutes it took me to walk home from Lidl! That's the second time - it seems that the only times it has rained in my part of London during the past two months is when I've been out in it!
 
It's almost 6 pm and I've been struggling to get onto my feet since I got home. As a result, I haven't made any food so I'll just get out some more of the risotto and heat that. Neil bought a chicken in town so I did manage to get that into a big pot and poached the whole bird. So there's chicken to be made into dishes over the next while.
 
Chicken is delicious. I haven't made a poached chicken for ages; I tend to buy thighs rather than a whole bird - last time I cooked one, it was down at my mother's, and was rather too large for the three of us, and we began to get rather tired of it. "Starting to cluck", said my mother!

Tonight we had the end of the vegetable stew we'd had on Tuesday served cold with burrata, which was delicious, and followed by peach and passionfruit yoghurt from Lidl.

ETA to add that we drank home-made Hugo spritz in honour of my grandson's excellent GCSE results!
 
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jpscloud said:
@Antje77 may be busy so I hope she won't mind me responding to this - I grew up on a little farm so it's something I am familiar with. If you collect all the eggs and leave an empty nest, the chicken will most likely abandon it, so you leave a couple of dummy eggs to encourage the chicken to keep laying there.

I'm up so late today, it rained again overnight and was quite dark this morning and I just slept in! That usually only happens if I'm not very well but I feel fine so far.

Porridge for breakfast, cottage cheese salad for lunch and chicken with stir fried garden vegetables for tea.

@shelley262 I also did not get round to sowing lettuce! I wanted to get the last of the small swede and sprout plants that have been sitting in little pots into the big containers, at this time of year it's a bit of a punt and the swedes/sprouts will be very small, but still very welcome in the winter. I hate to waste plants and have a hard time thinning out seedlings!

The sun has come out for now but it's going to be a rainy day so I'll see how much I can dodge the showers.

Edit: Forgot to say I also have a little tomato glut going on - first time ever in my own growing experience! It's all cherry tomatoes at the moment so I've just frozen them whole and will maybe make a sauce.
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Interesting about the eggs, thank you.
 
I do now have a slight cold, must have picked something up in costa while waiting for my car service. That explains why I've been getting up so late!

Dry again until later this evening here, and a cool day so maybe a chance to get some of the more physically demanding work done - not that I do it very quickly or without sitting down a lot, but at least I can tackle more than when it's too warm for me.

Porridge for breakfast, cottage cheese salad for lunch, and I'm not sure about tea yet but it will feature garden vegetables!
 
Breakfast was overnight oats, this time with flaxseeds and walnuts, and topped with the end of the apricot compote and kefir. Didn't bother with a banana or extra sugar today. Delicious, but my insides weren't too sure about it!

Lunch was 2 mini pork pies, half an avocado, an olive, and a corn cobette. And a strawberry-blueberry ice lolly from Lidl. And I had a chocolate-covered gooseberry with my mid-afternoon tea, also from Lidl.

I have not the faintest idea what we are going to have for supper! I probably ought to make some kind of summer vegetable stew, but not sure I fancy it. Fish would be nice, but I'd probably have to go out to Lidl again, and I'm not sure I can be bothered. I walked down to a (rather disappointing) exhibition of photographs, so have got my exercise in for the day, and have already been to Lidl. Mind you, they did have some rather nice-looking ready-meals..... Pudding will be kefir with figs (which are on special offer in Lidl at the moment) and a little honey. I do hope my insides won't make me regret this....
 
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