"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

[DougDyl]

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Spareribs (didn't eat them all so extra large portion tomorrow, hopefully spareribs taste ok when reheated in a microwave), tomato and onion with olive oil, balsamic vinegar, salt and pepper, and oyster mushrooms with a drop od fish sauce (really brings out the flavour in all mushrooms) and a little chilli peppers in oil.

And I only realised I forgot to dose for my meal when I noticed my bg going up.

What a busy girl you've been. Hope you enjoy.

 

[Annb]

Third and last day of my 'weekend' today so I really had to do some meal prepping for a 7 day stint on the bridge, starting tomorrow. I didn't feel like cooking at all but hey ho.

So far I have made a small meatloaf to be eaten on monday and tuesday, which will go into the freezer after cooling. Or maybe fridge, I don't expect it will go off before tuesday night. Lots of onion and grated cheese in the meatloaf, and cream to make it a bit wetter.

Currently there are stuffed bell peppers in the oven, half a red one and half a yellow one, to be eaten on sunday. I used the meatloaf mixture to stuff the peppers, before I added the cream because the peppers will add moisture when cooking.

I made a lazy tomato soup with small meatballs (yes, same mixture again ) to be eaten on wednesday and thursday, will freeze and add cream after thawing.

I made a tomato and onion salad to be eaten today and tomorrow, and when the bell peppers are done I'll put a pack of spareribs in the oven, half for today, half for tomorrow, and I'll fry some oyster mushrooms to go with them.

The only cooking needing to be done during the work week will be putting two cobs of corn in the oven on sunday evening to be eaten monday and tuesday with my meatloaf.
So the only day on the bridge I haven't planned for will be friday, but after six days of real food I can eat crackers and cheese or such.

Cooking on work days isn't going to happen: I leave home at 7:45 am, go for a quick swim on my way to work and start the bridge at 9 am. On the bridge until 8 pm (with two hours break) so not home before 9:30 at the earliest.
At least I'll have a little more time in the evenings from 1 September on, the bridges close at 7 pm, giving me an extra hour at home.

That's a marathon effort, Antje. Good on you. I hope you enjoy the proceeds of all that work.

 

[Antje77]

That's a marathon effort, Antje. Good on you. I hope you enjoy the proceeds of all that work.

It is!
And I was amazed by the amount of money on my bank account over the past two weeks (I get paid by the week, but only if I remember to fill out my hours, so more often than not I'm a week late and get two weeks of pay at a time), but I still don't fancy this much work too often.
It's ok to help a colleague out once in a while though, they're good to me as well.

 

[jpscloud]

I didn't go mad at lunch yesterday but I did overeat a bit later at night. I'm planning another tidy up day in the garden today, it's cooler, cloudy and dry again. I'm thinking of salad for breakfast with an egg, some ham and cottage cheese and spring onions and baby leaves from the garden.

Dinner might be chicken with fried courgettes and peppers from my mini polytunnel, cauliflower and a couple of small potatoes. Depends on how tired I get in the garden, I might just cheat and have something I don't need to prepare!

 

[Annb]

I did eat a bit more yesterday afternoon. I had a couple of tablespoons of the biryani inspired chicken dish with a little salad. There were about 6 small chunks of chicken with onion, sweet potato, cauliflower and coconut. I had intended to put the shredded cauliflower leaves in with it, but when it came to it I couldn't find them.

Breakfast today was avocado salad with 3 Jacob's Butter Puff crackers. 3 because that's what fell out of the packet when I opened it and I couldn't get the 3rd one to fit back in neatly. Cup of tea because I've run out of coffee.

2nd meal will be pork sausagemeat balls with kind of French style peas, to use up the cauli leaves, which I have now found, and some not very pleasant Romaine lettuce. Better cooked rather than trying to eat it raw.

I thought that Romaine lettuce were what we used to call Cos lettuce, but these were nothing like the crisp Cos we used to get, except in the length of the leaves. Those leaves are soft and bitter and fairly dry in the mouth. Not good. Never mind, I'll cook them with the peas and they'll be fine. Shan't buy any more of them though.

 

[Antje77]

Seven days on the bridge, day one:

Same as yesterday on a smaller plate. Turns out spareribs reheat very well in the microwave (I did short burst, turning them every time), and my tomato and onion salad tasted even better on the second day.

Lucky there weren't any boats wanting to pass the bridge, not a good idea to push buttons or touch the VHF while eating marinated spareribs.

 

[Annb]

Last evening's meal was a bit of a mish-mash. It started out with 3 left-over sausages which I made into sausage meat balls; continued with a sliced onion, shredded caulflower leaves, frozen peas and chicken stock. Then the shredded, almost whole Romaine lettuce; then some buckwheat noodles. Finally added the (by then) fried meatballs. Surprisingly good and enough for 2 meals so I reheated the 2nd half for breakfast, managing to boil it dry, but not burned (I was stuck in my chair, unable to move for a while).

2nd meal today will be another mish-mash of a packet of beef and vegetables I found in one of the freezers (a bit on the dry side) with added defrosted broccoli and those shredded Brussels sprouts with some more of the chicken stock.

I also found some mackerel and tomato pate in the freezer so will have to use that. Maybe for once I'll have a starter with my meal.

 

[jpscloud]

I had a good day in the garden yesterday and predictably didn't feel like doing much in the way of preparation for tea, so I had buttered ryvita with cottage cheese and chopped onion.

I felt like having that again today so my brunch was ryvita with cottage cheese, and from the garden some sweet peppers, spring onion, very very tiny raw baby beets and babyleaf lettuce (leftover seedlings from my winter lettuce sowings).

I tested a tiny carrot from the July sowing, and it was the most carrotty, most delicious little carrot ever - pure joy. I've never grown my own carrots before so I didn't realise how little flavour supermarket ones have. I've got a succession of them growing and will get some more in and try to have overwintered ones to harvest through to spring. I believe you can leave them in the ground (pots in my case, under shelter) and they should be fine. We'll have to see what kind of winter we have!

The spring onion was a bit too mild so I will try different varieties for those. I've got some elephant garlic and onion sets coming in a few weeks, so will need to buy even more compost... it has not been a cheap gardening year but next year I will hopefully have more of my own compost, I've sourced some free manure and have a couple of wormeries on the go - my garden is full of fast growing trees and shrubs so there's no shortage of woody stuff either.

I do plan to have the chicken with fried courgettes and probably some small potatoes for tea today.