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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

Antje77 said:
That's so cool!
What did you study?
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I studied sustainable entrepreneurship. I had a great time there and I miss the city quite a bit these days. There is one street that was very nice with lots of food stores and one sold slices of salami or serrano ham in a paper cone instead of chips or ice cream, perfect for a low carb treat.Unfortunately it was during the hights of the pandemic 2020/21 and of the whole year I was only there for about 3-4 month the rest was all online.
 
Are there two Leeurwardens? The place we stayed in (just for one night because the hotel was full of spiders - and I hate spiders) didn't look anything like that. Maybe we were just on the outskirts of the town. It seemed rather suburban and countryfied. This was a while back though - 62 years, in fact.
 
Annb said:
Are there two Leeurwardens
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Only one Leeuwarden, and even 62 years ago it was a relatively lively smallish city as far as I know. You must have missed the best parts!
If you ever visit again, just let me know and I'll brew you a cup of coffee on my bridge or we'll go get a cone of serrano ham or cheese together!
 
Monday mornings are easy.
Cwc
Exercise class followed by coffee with friends (tea for me)
L: 3 cold chicken drumsticks. Ff greek with blackberries

Then epic fail. Trip to supermarket for salad bits and spotted a reduction on dark chocolate ginger biscuits. Enough said. I'm embarrassed

Skipped dinner.
Later 1 glass white wine
 
Breakfast was the cod dip with celery sticks to dip into it plus a RyVita dipped in on the sly. It worked very well with "fresh" cod rather than salted. The only way I have found so far to enjoy cod.

2nd meal will be the cabbage and sausage dish made yesterday - it's better on the 2nd day - which I am currently reheating.

The iron infusion took much longer than I expected, so it's just as well the meal is ready. Same again next Tuesday.
 
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Managed to extend a fast from 3pm yesterday to 1pm today, except for cwc at 07:30.
I'm not good at planned/dictated fasting so am better just grabbing opportunity when it arises
Did wake with a headache.
L: 2 chicken drumsticks. Ff greek with milled seeds and blackberries.
Mid afternoon a single piece of cake at oldies club. I'd made it so had to test it was OK (that's my excuse)
Trouble was it didn't all get eaten so got brought home and another 2 pieces fell into my mouth.
D: 2 90% sausages with buttered leeks and a little cheese. Chocolate ice cream.
The sugar monster seems to have awoken in me.

Going away Thursday so change of routine will be good to get me out of bad habits.
 
Smart set of wheels! No tent required, and has windscreen wipers intact.
What happened to the cute little green car that you carried so much in?
 
Hopefully you get a good, prompt response to the iron infusion. They made a very positive difference for a friend of mine.
 
Annb said:
The only way I have found so far to enjoy cod.
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Cod works very well as fish fingers!
Crush pork scratchings, use mayo or egg as glue, add some seasoning, fry.

But I'd like to know how you make your cod dip, it sounds like something I'd like to try.
Pipp said:
Smart set of wheels! No tent required, and has windscreen wipers intact.
What happened to the cute little green car that you carried so much in?
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Aw, my little green car now lives in the great scrapyard in the sky I'm afraid.
But only after living the good life for at least two years past its use by date with its chronic electronical confusion. In the end, she got so confused that it sometimes took me half a day to coax her into starting, letting the engine run outside the supermarket for fear she'd only start for me once today.
Doesn't do if you want a job, there's no public transport where I live.

My new car needs an afternoon with paint in different colours, paintbrushes, neighbours and beer, it's so bland I don't recognise it in a parking lot!

Today was my second and last day of giving this training for new deckhands. The trainees will have another two days, we were with 3 trainers so far (the skipper, the regular deckhand, and I, unfamiliar with the skipper and the ship).
I received so many compliments and thank you's for my apparently outstanding didactical qualities from the trainees, they really loved my approach with it's mix of learning by doing and theory, and impromptu explanations on the whys and hows depending on what happened and what went wrong.

This was the first time I was a trainer on a course like this, and my skipper gave me a lot of freedom to work out the different subjects in a way that suits me, with minimal instructions apart from the things I really had to cover, use my own experience and knowledge to teach them as much as I can. All improvising of course, there was no preparation time.
I'm at my best when improvising, at least on ships, so this worked very well.

But I'm very nicely surprised by the absolute amazing feedback from the group, this is a job very well done!

The wonderful lady who did the catering bought a low carb loaf of bread this morning, completely unasked for. Yesterday I told her I had my own food if needed. We had bacon and eggs for lunch, and she wanted me to be able to join, which is the sweetest thing.

I was back home at 8 pm, completely knackered. So my evening meal so far was a generous portion of nuts and a couple of crisps to nudge up my bg. I expect I'll have some chicory and hummus in bed shortly, and maybe some chocolate, but I might be too tired.
 
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Cod dip:

Cod fillets - 2 pieces about 3 inches square - poached in milk and cooled before flaking
2 tablespoons of frozen, pre-cooked potato, mashed*
2 cloves garlic, crushed
salt to taste - I used 11/2 tsp sea salt
black pepper to taste - just a few twists from a grinder

*Michel Roux makes a similar recipe , but with soaked salt cod, and uses mashed potato but his wife makes it without the potato

Put the whole lot in a food processor (can be done in a pestle and mortar, but it's hard work and beyond me) and blitz to the texture required. I leave it a bit rough.
Add double cream and lemon juice to soften the mixture to a thick paste. This time I used Greek yoghurt and lemon juice instead of cream, as an experiment.
Add olive oil to bring to the consistency you want for dipping or spreading.

Serve with raw veg as a dip or with crackers or bread as a spread
 
MommaE said:
Hopefully you get a good, prompt response to the iron infusion. They made a very positive difference for a friend of mine.
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Waiting patiently for a response. So far, only a very painful shoulder and arm due to having to hold my arthritic arm stretched out and still for an hour and a half.
 
Did anyone watch the 1% Club last Saturday? There was a Debbie Scott on it and I wondered if it was the same lady who posts on here.
 
Just broke my fast. I was going to have it earlier, but was sorting through stuff and throwing out my old lecture notes from Uni plus essays. I haven't looked at them in ages and I don't suppose anyone else is interested in why pollen analysis is not an exact science, or the way in which the traditional black house met the needs of the people who lived in it.

Then - about 10 am I decided I should eat but just as I got up to put breakfast on, I had a visitor. Only got around to eating at 11.45.

Breakfast was more of the cabbage and sausage stew.

2nd meal will be some salad and a dollop of the cod dippy mixture.
 
Just realised that my cod recipe is very similar to Bakalar, served in eastern Europe and a Spanish dish called Brandade. Great minds, eh?

2nd meal was not as planned. I went to get the salad stuffs out of the fridge in the back porch only to find my way barred by sections of window frame painted with gloss paint, and drying there. So, no salad, no milk for my coffee. Had to revise the plan and have the cod dippy thing on RyVita with a little drink of apple juice.
 
I'm sorry, I've just spent half an hour reading about pollen analysis, turns out to be a fascinating subject I don't know anything about!
I also did a quick google search on 'traditional black house', and now I am interested in the way those houses met the needs of the people living in them.

Not sure I'd like to read lecture notes on them, but both subjects sound very interesting!

Today was a day of recovery from the past two days. Went to bed at 3:30 am, it often happens I don't want to go to bed when I'm too tired, and yesterday was no exception. No problem, after two ten hour very intensive workdays, this was expected. Today was a planned recovery day: I drove to my swimming spot late morning, spent an hour and a half on my phone there and decided I didn't feel like swimming after all so I drove back.
I even cleaned out most of my car, which was a disaster, my tin of ground coffee had spilled everywhere.
Lunch was some leftover zaziki standing in front of the fridge, dinner was a fish fillet a la bordelaise, nothing else.
Good enough on a day dedicated to recovering from the days before!
 
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The subjects are interesting and I even found my old essays were interesting enough to read (and remember what I had forgotten). Considering keeping the essays, but the lecture notes have gone along with a teaching pack I had written to teach students at National Certificate level a wide range of subjects about using computers, Windows 95 and Works as well as MS Word and Excel, PageMaker and some of the basic points about writing in English. The whole lot has gone! Even though I had to drag all the teaching pack out of plastic envelopes. Anyone need about 1000 plastic envelopes for ring binders?
 
Annb said:
The subjects are interesting and I even found my old essays were interesting enough to read (and remember what I had forgotten). Considering keeping the essays
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Keep the essays, or send them to me, I'm pretty sure I'd enjoy reading them!
The computer stuff can be thrown out of course, too outdated to be useful. Curious to the basic points about writing in English too though. I'm afraid I need a course to improve my writing, the English in general are too polite to help me out when I struggle.
 
A using up what's in the fridge day

1st meal 11:15 a 90 second bread (1 egg, milled seeds, baking poweder) topped with cheese. A sq hm brownie.
Errands
BTW any ideas how to get water stain out of a marble fireplace?

Late afternoon several spoonfuls ff greek.

D: frittata with sausage, ham and leeks. Salad.
Cooked 6 hard boiled eggs to take with us. 1 portion frittata too.

1 sq hm lc brownie

That's fridge empty now except for little milk and yoghurt, and a cabbage that may come with us
 

I want to read your essays too. Pollen analysis sounds like something very interesting. My knowledge of what the world was like before civilization is really limited. Who are you by profession?
After all, this is an off-topic chat, so no one will forbid us to talk about pollen analysis.
 
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