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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

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.
 
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 said:
The only problem is grating the cheese.
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I confess to buying grated cheese and keeping it in the freezer for this kind of eventuality :oops:

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.
 
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.
 
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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. :hilarious:
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 said:
wondering what the plain green ones are.
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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!
 
jpscloud said:
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!
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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!
Antje77 said:
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. :hilarious:
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.
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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.
 
Ham and crackers for breakfast.

Nauseous thereafter and feeling as though whatever was wrong is coming back. Feeling cold but temp is almost normal. Left shoulder and hand being troublesome again, right arm joining in. Have taken a 2nd dose of painkillers and am hoping to sleep in my chair.

Will I eat later? Not sure. Trying to keep up the fluids though.
 
Antje77 said:
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!
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Anyone who manages to become expert on insects has my undying admiration! I have lots of identification and lifecycle books on butterflies, moths and other insects, and now the entire internet at my disposal, but still struggle to identify a little green caterpillar! To be fair, caterpillars are tricky because they go through instars, different growth stages, which usually means colour and markings changes too so even experts might need to raise them to maturity before a proper ID.

I had the usual breakfast and am now eating my egg salad lunch - it's a smorgasbord of plant flavours with iceberg lettuce, cucumber, beetroot, celery leaves from a supermarket bunch that I am growing in water until mine are ready, home grown pea shoots, onion greens from the garden (last year's spring onions, the bulbs are no good now but the greens are delicious) and windowsill cress. What I love about windowsill cress is that I don't have to wash it and fiddle about drying all the tiny stalks!

My rocket and microgreens will be ready very soon, too. Rocket grows really fast!

@Annb, I hope you'll be feeling better soon x
 
I had a very indulgent (and very bad for me) bacon roll for breakfast. It was a frozen, toasted roll, and it has kept BG in the 8's, which it was before eating.

2nd meal - I have some braised leeks ready to use (out of the freezer) so will have those, maybe with a pork sausage. I was going to make Cullen Skink but forgot to get the fish out of the freezer.
 
I had the usual small carby breakfast - which I am changing up to quiche soon when I get around to making some, then the last of the minced beef stew for lunch and I'm having chicken with broad beans and a small portion of resistant starch rice for tea.

Not much progress today but I changed my bed and cleaned a bit downstairs. I changed my duvets to coverless ones (known as comforters in the US I believe) and haven't regretted it for a moment. They go in the washing machine and dry in a day, and no fighting with duvet covers any more!
 
jpscloud said:
I had the usual small carby breakfast - which I am changing up to quiche soon when I get around to making some, then the last of the minced beef stew for lunch and I'm having chicken with broad beans and a small portion of resistant starch rice for tea.

Not much progress today but I changed my bed and cleaned a bit downstairs. I changed my duvets to coverless ones (known as comforters in the US I believe) and haven't regretted it for a moment. They go in the washing machine and dry in a day, and no fighting with duvet covers any more!
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What a good idea. I'd never heard of coverless duvets but after reading your post, I got online and found quite a nice looking one on Amazon. It should arrive on Thursday. I'll give that a go and then get more, if it works out.

What a useful thread this is - support, food tips, friendship, pets and now household advice.
 
Annb said:
What a good idea. I'd never heard of coverless duvets but after reading your post, I got online and found quite a nice looking one on Amazon. It should arrive on Thursday. I'll give that a go and then get more, if it works out.

What a useful thread this is - support, food tips, friendship, pets and now household advice.
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I remember a discussion on the best way to put the cover on the duvet from many years ago on this thread. There even was a video with a very cool trick to do it without the fight and getting stuck in the duvet cover.

I'm very happy you went right ahead and ordered one. If you like it, it'll save you from a very uncomfortable chore or having to ask family members!

Not useful for me, I've been gifted a wonderful down duvet a year ago so I hope to have to do the duvet cover fight for many more years. Even the old hack in the video doesn't help me, my duvet is larger than my bed, and my bed is a 'bedstee', a bed built into a closet.

Todays meal was cauliflower cheese and an experiment making 'rillons de Tour' according to this recipe: https://cooking-ez.com/viandes/recipe-rillons-tours.php.
I found it in my Copy Me That account, surely I picked the link up on here at some point and forgot about it.
Very good, but not worth the expensive ingredients (bottle of wine, whole pack of lard), I can make tasty pork belly cheaper and quicker in many other ways.
Still, I liked the experiment and there's enough left for two more days or a shared meal with Andries. :joyful:
 
I keep ending up not eating my evening meal, even if I don't burn it. Just not really hungry. I had one sausage and a few forkfuls of leeks last night and threw the rest away.

Breakfast this morning was one sausage wrapped in a low carb pancake and some tea.

If I actually eat it, 2nd meal will be defrosted mushroom risotto. That seems to work as resistant starch.

Must make some more soups - I'm more likely to eat those rather than anything more solid.
 
I had the usual small breakfast and have just got back from blood testing, checking on lipids and things after going back on statins - I gave in a few months ago and started them again. I haven't had any noticeable bad side effects. Just debating what to have for lunch, I think it will be resistant starch beef and rice leftovers. Not sure about tea, either - chicken will probably be on the menu one way or another!
 
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