Cake sounds good I've got one Caldesi book but this isn't it that one - which is it? Or do you have a link? I did have a look but couldn't find it.An hours walk early, followed by some blackberry picking.
Lunch was salad and the inside of half a quiche. Half a fig. Few walnuts.
Afternoon was spent helping put marquees up for village fete tomorrow.
Dinner was roast chicken, cabbage, broccoli and carrot.
Glass white wine.
2 sqs of a lc chocolate, coffee and walnut cake I made yesterday. New (to me) recipe from Caldesi. I made half and didn't add the cream filling or ganache top. It's made with grated apple as the only sweetener so nothing processed. Was light and tasty, maybe didn't need the coffee, one to try again. I reckon the whole thing was less than 50g carbs and I cut it into 14 portions so 3g carb per piece.
But the meat is in there and I promised him spareribs.Good luck with your date - just don't open the fridge!
food sounds amazing. Funny about your grandsons hair. We had opposite problem both our boys had the most amazing blonde curls and I wanted them to keep them as long as possible. My youngest got really bothered about being called a girl and one day I found him hidden behind settee cutting his curls so we had to go to the hairdressers to sort it out. I've still got some of those glorious curls in a memory box.Tuesday 20 August - so much for staying on top of things!
B. TAG and a bit of crustless quiche.
L. Marigold vegetable boullion
D. Didn't much feel like anything, so I had a bacon sandwich on SRSLY bread.
Wednesday 21 August - Boys are here for dinner. I didn't really fancy anything again come dinner time.
B. TAG and a bit of crustless quiche.
L. Marigold vegetable boullion
D. Ham and mustard sandwich on SRSLY bread. Vodka and diet coke.
Thursday 22 August. Managed to get to Aqua today and I'm feeling a bit better afterwards.
B. TAG
L. Marigold vegetable boullion
D. Grilled salmon with salad. I made a sauce from Skinny Food Co sweet chilli and tamari soy. Keto Keto banana bread bar.
Friday 23 August. Half day Friday so a bit of running around sorting out various lunches for the boys.
B. TAG
L. Marigold vegetable boullion
D. 2 GF sausages, fried eggs, and a slice of GF haggis. Raspberries and a dollop of cream.
Saturday 24 August - busy day. Hairdresser arriving early for some desperately needed haircuts. Youngest grandson finally decided to part company with his long hair too! Hallelujah! I've been telling Hubby for ages not to go on at him about his hair. In time, he'd decide it was a nuisance, and he did. He's highly delighted with it now.
B. TAG
L. Nothing. I had Hubby to get to football, then shopping, then back for Hubby.
D. LC pasta carbonara. Vodka and diet coke.
Sunday 25 August. Grandson's first swimming outing with his shorter styled hair. He informs me his head feels a lot lighter!
B. TAG and a slice of SRSLY toast with pate.
L. Nothing
D. Campari and soda. An M&S ceaser chicken skewer with salad. I didn't like it. The only thing that tasted as it should was the dressing. Chicken was far too herby.
Raspberries and cream.
I finally discovered at night what had been lurking to make me feel "off" this week. I have gout threatening to flare up in my left foot this time. Fortunately, it hasn't made it to the whole foot yet, so a good dose of paracetamol let me have a reasonable sleep until 6am.
Tomorrow, I reckon I'll be starting on colchicine and adjusting my other meds to suit.View attachment 69509View attachment 69510
Definitely a good first date test.But the meat is in there and I promised him spareribs.
The cold beer is in there too, with and without alcohol but maybe he wants tea and maybe I can sit him safely in the garden before opening the fridge to get the meat out?
If he's any good we'll most likely just have a laugh over my stinky fridge, not worth my time if he can't handle a bit of durian!
Never heard of durian before. Looked online and it looks interesting. What does it smell like that is so awful?Yesterday a friend gave me a piece of durian so I had a small piece (very tasty!) and put the rest in my fridge. Not low carb at all, but just now I used another piece to prevent a hypo.
But what type of luck is it to get such an unusual and hard to get fruit the day before you have a date?
Open the fridge door and a wall of stink comes out, not quite the impression I want to give my date!
We took Neil to a barber when he was about 3 years old - before that Tom had cut his hair for him. It was during the time when punk hairstyles were popular and, although we had just asked for a straightforward haircut, he got off the chair looking as though he had been shorn using a knife and fork! He hated the experience and told us he would never do that again and he never did. His next haircut was when he was 16 when his cousin, who was a hairdresser cut his lovely shiny, dark brown curls. After that, he never went back to a barber, but cuts his own hair, when he feel the urge. At the moment, aged 57, he has a short pony-tail - a bit thinner and a bit greyer now. I still have the hair that was cut off when he was 16, still soft, shiny and wavy.food sounds amazing. Funny about your grandsons hair. We had opposite problem both our boys had the most amazing blonde curls and I wanted them to keep them as long as possible. My youngest got really bothered about being called a girl and one day I found him hidden behind settee cutting his curls so we had to go to the hairdressers to sort it out. I've still got some of those glorious curls in a memory box.
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That looks really good.This might be better
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How intriguing! @Antje77. What in the world is durian?Yesterday a friend gave me a piece of durian so I had a small piece (very tasty!) and put the rest in my fridge. Not low carb at all, but just now I used another piece to prevent a hypo.
But what type of luck is it to get such an unusual and hard to get fruit the day before you have a date?
Open the fridge door and a wall of stink comes out, not quite the impression I want to give my date!
Exactly right @Antje77. If your friend transported the durian to you, the pong cannot be empty-a-shop strength.But the meat is in there and I promised him spareribs.
The cold beer is in there too, with and without alcohol but maybe he wants tea and maybe I can sit him safely in the garden before opening the fridge to get the meat out?
If he's any good we'll most likely just have a laugh over my stinky fridge, not worth my time if he can't handle a bit of durian!
I hope you identified the uninvited tennants on the bathroom ceiling @Antje77 before you evicted them!It's already a good date and he hasn't even arrived yet!
I finally put a cover over my self made couch, looks a lot better without the old mattress look.
I got rid of the worst cobwebs on the bathroom ceiling, some 3 years overdue.
Made the bed.
Did the laundry.
Sweeped the floor.
Put dirty dishes in the dishwasher and wiped the countertop.
So even if the date turns out to be a disaster I still win!
The pong is definitely empty-a-shop strength! (Are you testing my grasp of English idiom again? That was a very hard sentence to understand until I broke it down to 'oh, empty-a-shop strength actually makes sense', which left me with doing a double check by googling 'pong smell'.If your friend transported the durian to you, the pong cannot be empty-a-shop strength.
I knew that, and something seemed off when I wrote it. But my date was arriving as I wrote so no time to go over it again before posting.Btw, you swept the floor. (It's a pesky irregular verb).
I'm not sure how to describe the smell, it's somehow both attractive and revolting, and it's strong enough to be forbidden on public transport in countries where it'regularly eaten.Never heard of durian before. Looked online and it looks interesting. What does it smell like that is so awful?
Good luck with the date.
The pong is definitely empty-a-shop strength! (Are you testing my grasp of English idiom again? That was a very hard sentence to understand until I broke it down to 'oh, empty-a-shop strength actually makes sense', which left me with doing a double check by googling 'pong smell'.)
I see, so it's empty-a-train-carriage strength @Antje77; that's a powerful odour!I'm not sure how to describe the smell, it's somehow both attractive and revolting, and it's strong enough to be forbidden on public transport in countries where it'regularly eaten.
We once took a very stinky stilton cheese on a train journey. We'd been staying with my parents in law who had bid for and won a whole stilton at a farmers auction. it was a brilliant price but very very aged - and exceptionally sweaty socks smelly!I see, so it's empty-a-train-carriage strength @Antje77; that's a powerful odour!
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