"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

[jpscloud]

I'm feeling lazy today but I did get the new outside tap winterised because it's forecast to drop to -3 tonight. It'll probably be fine but I don't want to risk it!

I had the usual small breakfast and then some of the minced beef stew. Some of my sprouting broccoli thinks it's spring, so I had a few sprigs of that and some of the small leaves with the stew, it was lovely.

I'm not sure about tea, I might have something very light like cottage cheese and salad.

 

[Annb]

Well - it did make me sleep. Woke up too late and still too sore to bother grating cheese so just sliced some cabbage fairly coarsely, added some chopped spring onion and some bacon. It was fine and filled a gap.

 

[jpscloud]

For tea I had cottage cheese with beetroot and chopped onion and a few poppy seed crackers. It was very nice.

My sungold tomato and new ace pepper have sprouted! Just waiting for the havana gold and hungarian hot wax chillies to germinate now, but they can take longer and I may not have had the heating mat hot enough for them so I've bumped that up a bit. When they're all up I will set up the lighting area for them to grow into mature plants. I think I'll use the little box room for that so I need to get it sorted now - I have already mostly decluttered it so I just need to rearrange and organise it properly.

My celery and celery leaf seeds have also sprouted, and all the salad leaves are still doing great so far.

 

[Annb]

Breakfast was the last of the cabbage and bacon from yesterday.

Making no promises about a 2nd meal - depends on whether my painkillers knock me out again. The cauliflower is still there. The only problem is grating the cheese.

 

[jpscloud]

The only problem is grating the cheese.

I confess to buying grated cheese and keeping it in the freezer for this kind of eventuality

Up a bit late again today, but hoping to have a productive day. Usual breakfast, no plans yet for lunch, I'll see how I feel later but I think I'll have the minced beef stew for tea.

 

[Annb]

I grated the cheese (ouchy!) and got the cauliflower out of the veg drawer. Discovered that I had been sharing it with a caterpillar (green with a dark stripe on its back - cabbage white? No, I think they are just green.) There was enough left for a meal for me though so put it on to steam briefly. It will go into the oven next and bake for a bit before I put some cheese sauce on it. Discovered, as well, that I don't have the carton of cream that I thought I had so will make the sauce with the remains of a carton of double cream and the remains of a carton of Greek yoghurt. Need to be flexible with my memory.

EDIT: Just checked online and the caterpillar probably is a cabbage white but that leaves me wondering what the plain green ones are.

 

[Antje77]

I was planning on reheating the tomato soup from earlier this week, and frying some pork belly strips tenant/neighbour Andries bought on the side. With his permission of course, and for the both of us.
He's been here for 5 weeks now and we're starting to find our way sharing a house now he's much more stable. We both tend to keep to ourselves but like to spend some time together, either a coffee, a meal or a beer, without much planning.

He beat me to it though, and is currently frying pork belly strips. All fine with me, but it'll likely be a carnivore meal because I doubt I'll feel like heating soup after eating a generous portion of pork belly.
I'll try to remember to have soup for lunch tomorrow, it's a tasty tomato soup and it would be a waste to not eat it.

Will have some extra chicory with hummus to make up for the missed veggies before bed.

 

[Annb]

Fell asleep after I put the cauliflower cheese back into the oven. Woke up to a smell of burning and charred cauliflower cheese. It went in the bin and I went without dinner. Doesn't matter - I wasn't feeling hungry anyway.

 

[jpscloud]

wondering what the plain green ones are.

There are a surprising number of little green caterpillars! Even among the same species there can be a bit of variety in the colour and markings, but on brassicas it's quite likely to be the cabbage moth if it's not a cabbage white. They all did very well last year, I was driven to distraction trying to be wildlife friendly but save my brassicas at the same time!

 

[Antje77]

There are a surprising number of little green caterpillars! Even among the same species there can be a bit of variety in the colour and markings, but on brassicas it's quite likely to be the cabbage moth if it's not a cabbage white. They all did very well last year, I was driven to distraction trying to be wildlife friendly but save my brassicas at the same time!

Neighbour-in-the-gardens brother works as an entomologist at a university in Poland, and he studies just one type of beetle. Every year my neighbour visits him and comes back with tales about beetles, it's absolutely fascinating!

He beat me to it though, and is currently frying pork belly strips. All fine with me, but it'll likely be a carnivore meal because I doubt I'll feel like heating soup after eating a generous portion of pork belly.
I'll try to remember to have soup for lunch tomorrow, it's a tasty tomato soup and it would be a waste to not eat it.

I got served pork belly strips first, followed by tomato soup!
The leftover pork belly (I got 4 strips, ate 2) will be much better after a couple of minutes on high heat in a frying pan or air fryer but I'm absolutely not going to complain when someone spontaneously makes me a meal, no matter their cooking skills.