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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.
 
Still some of the baked lentil pasta dish left, so that will be breakfast. It is fine, but would have been better using a different pasta - something like orzo rather than elbows.

2nd meal will be salmon with spinach.
 
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.
 
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