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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

Well, I made my Lazy Mediterranean Chicken Pilaf, and it wasn't nearly as nice as I remembered! Followed it up with raspberries and Greek yoghurt. Have bought some "poachies" so will try to poach myself an egg in it in the morning - I have never mastered the art of poaching an egg other than in one of those silicone cups, which I think are technically coddled, aren't they? Eating out tomorrow night at a book group meeting - lookiing at the pub's menu, I'll probably go for a Greek salad with chicken. We shall see!
 
I'm not confident poaching eggs either and have tried various different ways over the years. The only ones that are acceptable, ie not all watery and ragged, all amount to coddled eggs though. Nothing wrong with coddled eggs - they're just not the same thing.
 
Planning on chilli con carne today for dinner using more of my garden tomatoes and a couple of chillies. I was also planning on having the last of batch of my hm hummus for lunch but wonder if that may be too many beans on one day - although my blood sugar copes with smallish amounts of pulses that may be too much!
Duller rainy day atm but hoping to get out in the garden when it stops raining as I'm out much of the day tomorrow. I've got someone coming next week to get rid of some old, now rotting, decking and need to start clearing that part of the garden ready for the job.
 
Rain today so I'll have to dodge the showers to get my new patio 'opal' plum tree planted up - while plums are never really going to feature heavily on the menu, I would like some just for occasional treats and they'll mostly be given away and frozen. I have quite a little collection of patio fruit trees now, which are ideal for me as there won't be large amounts of fruit and they don't take up a lot of space in the garden.

Porridge for breakfast, tuna salad for lunch and the last of the chicken and mushroom for tea.
 
Annb said:
I'm not confident poaching eggs either and have tried various different ways over the years. The only ones that are acceptable, ie not all watery and ragged, all amount to coddled eggs though. Nothing wrong with coddled eggs - they're just not the same thing.
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It worked! First time ever, I've managed to poach an egg without it going everywhere! I am very pleased. My sister, who used to run a B&B for many years, can poach eggs beautifully, but I never have been able to could! So breakfast was a poached egg on a thin slice of seeded sourdough toast spread with black pepper Boursin cheese! Lunch is about to be a pork pie and salad (both so heavily reduced in Lidl that it would be rude not to!), probably followed by a little ice cream, and supper is going to be at a pub, and, looking at their menu, I think I'll choose a Greek salad served with chicken. We shall see - that part is subject to change!!! They do 3 small plates for £20, but I couldn't possibly eat 3, so may be able to share with someone.
 
Update: I had a lovely evening - it's so rare I am out in the evening on something non-Church-related; great to see friends I don't see very often. I ordered the Greek salad with extra chicken, which was a mistake as the chicken wasn't really worth it and didn't really need it! I ate it, though! Drank lime-and-soda as I didn't fancy alcohol.
 
Toast and marmite for breakfast - very off plan but I got moving in the garden and blood sugars didn't go too crazy. Halloumi salad for lunch and chicken with garden vegetables for tea.

I'm getting some hedge tidying done today, there's always a lot to do! I do it in small sections so as not to disturb wildlife too much, and always make sure there are no nesting birds before doing any major hacking.
 
Blood sugar high for me this morning - 7.3, came down to 7.0 after finger qi gong; I think I might be a little dehydrated after all that feta last night! Breakfast was a poached egg on half a slice of toast with cream cheese and Marmite, and the other half (Lidl's best seeded wholegrain) was cream cheese and gooseberry-elderflower jam which we bought at the farm shop last week. Rather good! I had meant to have overnight oats, and regretted having failed to put them on to soak either last night or early this morning. But am pleased the "Poachies" work. Lunch, I think, will be a flat mushroom topped with grilled halloumi and garlic jam, served on (probably half) an ancient grain roll. Supper probably curried chicken with wholegrain rice, but haven't got that far yet!
 
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