"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

RosemaryJackson said:

I have to make some tuna melt muffins in the next 2 days. My son and dil are coming over from USA for 2 weeks and he loves them. I can't wait to see them. They are coming for Christmas too. Last year we had the first Christmas together for years and it was amazing. Hasn't the year sped by?

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The muffins sound good Rosemary, have just refound the recipe on here so definitely on my to do list
BIL dog arrived today for a week, she is a big and bouncy Golden doodle, so that will keep us busy with lots of walks, just hope it brightens up.
I am hosting Christmas lunch this year,first time for 6 years which I do admit, I prefer. Although, I may eat my words! Ten for lunch, 2 vegans, 1 gluten free, 1 gluten and maize free and a partridge in a pear tree (1 low carb )

Antje77 said:

Now choose smart and play a song only using a C and Dm chord, and you actually have a fair chance of hitting the right keys if you play slow enough!
Two foot pedals next to eachother to add some bass, and a single finger of the right hand to add some high notes as well and you'll have music, if minimalistic.

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Let's see if adding a link to the video works.
On my phone you can't hear the low bass notes from the foot pedals but on my computer you can, if not nearly as loud as it should be.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1500450657268722

1/2 bag (100 grams) ketchup flavored chips (crisps?).
1.49 bag does 2 days. Leaves room for something better on a different day.

Real trouble sleeping last night so longer lie in this morning.
Skipped breakfast
Lunch at a friends: 2 sausages and a few broccoli and peppers from a traybake. 2 tiny new potatoes. Tried filling up on salad. Pud was rapsberries with tiny spoonful Vienetta icecream. A couple of biscotti with coffee after.

Was really hungry driving home!!!

D: 75g cold chicken while making a 3 eggs cheese omelette. A glass white wine

Glad you made it back safely @Antje77
Yes, travelling is great but so is coming home

MrsA2 said:

Glad you made it back safely @Antje77
Yes, travelling is great but so is coming home

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The best part about travelling was meeting friends.
The best part of coming home was meeting friends as well.

Much as I enjoy spending time on my own, it's only enjoyable because I know there are friends.
I'm a very lucky person.

Made the cauliflower/coconut rice and the spiced coconut beef to go with it. Still half of it left plus quite a lot of spicy sauce - must have put in too much of the coconut milk. Never mind - it's in a jar in the fridge and will probably be quite good with some sausages. Unfortunately, when I checked the sausages in the big fridge, I saw that they were past their use-by date, by 4 days. They were only bought 5 days ago so they should have been labelled as short dated. Doubtful about using them but will check tomorrow and see what they are like - by then they will be 5 days past their date. Not a good thing with sausages. Actually, I will bin them, tonight.

Antje77 said:

Holiday in your country was absolutely amazing, but being back feels quite good as well!

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Decent coffee for one thing @Antje77

cdpm said:

1/2 bag (100 grams) ketchup flavored chips (crisps?).
1.49 bag does 2 days. Leaves room for something better on a different day.

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Yes, known as crisps here apparently @cdpm.

sueh21 said:

The muffins sound good Rosemary, have just refound the recipe on here so definitely on my to do list
BIL dog arrived today for a week, she is a big and bouncy Golden doodle, so that will keep us busy with lots of walks, just hope it brightens up.
I am hosting Christmas lunch this year,first time for 6 years which I do admit, I prefer. Although, I may eat my words! Ten for lunch, 2 vegans, 1 gluten free, 1 gluten and maize free and a partridge in a pear tree (1 low carb )

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Ooh! I feel your angst! We're normally 7, 1 vegetarian, 1 no nuts,1 lc and that's difficult enough.
It's the vegan diet I find most difficult because of the no dairy, no eggs
Your gluten frees would be OK with low carb/keto as long as they don't want cake.
For the "normals" I just buy loads of cake, croissants, bagels and the like and let them fill up on that while I concentrate on the "specials"

MrsA2 said:

Ooh! I feel your angst! We're normally 7, 1 vegetarian, 1 no nuts,1 lc and that's difficult enough.
It's the vegan diet I find most difficult because of the no dairy, no eggs
Your gluten frees would be OK with low carb/keto as long as they don't want cake.
For the "normals" I just buy loads of cake, croissants, bagels and the like and let them fill up on that while I concentrate on the "specials"

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Yes vegans the trickiest definitely, nut roast is easy though and luckily everyone coming,loves veg. I am very gradually weaning my husband the GF on to low carb. He has given up crisps and orange squash after reading labels, it’s very much baby steps though
Talking of labels, if you haven’t seen it,the Freshwell project have launched a barcode scanner app which categorises products into their traffic light system and flags up ultra processed items.

RyVita and ham "sandwiches" for breakfast. Rushing a bit because I had to go out to have my flu and covid jabs. A bit more uncomfortable than usual with the actual injections, for some reason - maybe I'm getting a bit soft in my old age, or maybe the nurse isn't as good at giving injections that previous times.

Came home to find a friend trying to take up our parking space. She was inviting me out for a meal (teatime, for the sake of her grandchildren) and says she'll come and get me. Churlish to refuse, so there will, hopefully, be something I can have for my 2nd meal. If not, it will be bacon and egg when I come home.

Just a little salad from what was on offer and was still hungry when I came home. I had made a stuffed aubergine before I went out and baked it so I had it cold rather than bother making bacon and egg. Loads of the stuffing left over so I might do something with that tomorrow.

sueh21 said:

Yes vegans the trickiest definitely, nut roast is easy though

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What do you use to bind a nut roast, of not egg?

Another skipped breakfast . Even avoided buying anything to eat when in town doing errands.
L: 2 slices livlife bread toasted with tinned mackerel in olive oil. Yoghurt with 7 raspberries, teaspoon chia seeds and 3 teaspoons double cream.
Later afternoon, an lc hot chocolate
D: frittata of bacon and courgette with 3 cherry tomatoes and 6 oven chips.

Have new airfryer. Bigger than last but doesn't seem as powerful. Liked the Ninja we used while away, but this one was 1/3 the price. Early days yet though

I arrived back home after my holidays on monday evening, and I'm slowly landing. Monday and tuesday I went to bed way too late, I was too tired and my head was still too full to go to bed.
Today I cooked a simple meal (in main thread), and I got about half of my camping stuff from my car, the rest will follow tomorrow.

In Dutch we have a saying where 'the soul travels by horse', and the horse seems to be catching up with me now. Do you have a saying like that in English?

Some thank you messages will have to be sent to various people who have given me a very warm welcome and went out of their way to make my holiday a wonderful one, but I needed to wait for my horse-riding soul to catch up with my car first!

I did go for a very short cold swim yesterday and today because no excuses or I'll start to find excuses most days, and I want to keep it up in case this is the cause of being quite happy again.
But my, is it cold!
Most likely not much colder than the swims I had in England, but swimming in the same old spot all by yourself without the thrill of adventure does make a difference. Not wearing anything makes a difference as well. I used my swimming suit in your country because I was told naked is a definite no in the UK if there is even the remotest chance of someone seeing you. Flimsy as it is, a bathing suit does make a difference.
I suppose my neoprene socks will have to be used in the very near future, after 2 minutes the cold is biting my feet now. Gloves will follow soon after.

It's been a balmy 21° here today @Antje77 . You went home too soon !

MrsA2 said:

What do you use to bind a nut roast, if not egg?

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Chia or flax egg @MrsA2 This helps the nut roast stick together more easily. If you've never made a flax or chia egg before, simply mix together 1 tbsp of chia seeds or ground flax seeds with 2.5 tbsp of water and let sit to gel for 5 minutes.

MrsA2 said:

What do you use to bind a nut roast, of not egg?

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I made this one at Easter,held together well and very tasty https://realfood.tesco.com/recipes/vegan-nut-roast.html not LC obvs but I did try a tiny bit.

Antje77 said:

'the soul travels by horse',

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What a lovely saying. We don't have the equivalent in English, but I am a thief of other languages' sayings as some of them are so appropriate, so I'll add this one to the list as well.