Morning everyone - it's Friday so salmon is on my dinner menu as usual with veggies. I also may make some fish pate for lunch - using tinned mackerel or sardines in olive oil blended with some seasoning, lemon juice and some horseradish for a bit of kick. I've got a packet of LC seed crackers in my store cupboard left over from M and S although I can't find them on the shelves of a couple of nearby M and S stores again - Hope they haven't been discontinued!
My mother made - I expect she still does when my sister lets her in the kitchen - fish paste with leftover salmon or trout, cream cheese and a tiny scrap of tomato paste for colouring. Plus seasoning, of course. She always said it was trout paté, and used to get very offended if we called it fishpaste, so of course we always did call it fishpaste, and I notice she does herself these days! One of my aunts used to make sardine ice-cream as a starter for dinner parties, can you imagine? I didn't care for it, but her daughters all liked it.
As for me, I had overnight oats for breakfast, asusual on a weekday at home, today with the dried fruit compote I made yesterday; lunch was another bit of quiche and a mini-ice lolly, only I was still hungry and really fancied some cheese, so had a fig, and then some dark chocolate, but they didn't distract, so I gave in and had some cheese! No wonder my weight is going in the wrong direction! Supper is going to be leeks rolled in ham with a cheese and parsley sauce. First of all, I was putting the leeks in the microwave steamer and totally failed to notice that the bottom part wasn't there. Result: boiling water all over the floor. Then I decided to try the tub of parsley sauce mix I bought in big Tesco in Sussex the other day. You are supposed to use boiling water, and stir vigorously until it thickens. So I stirred and stirred and did it thicken? You guess! Of course, I'd only accidentally used cold water.... but a few moments in a saucepan did the trick.
I expect supper pudding will be natural yoghurt with dried fruit compote, but it might be creme caramel, as we both love Lidl's version, which is cheap and cheerful.
Been out to a wonderful exhibition at a local church, which I enjoyed. May go back.... Then went to Tesco's, and have slept most of the afternoon. Need to make more soap - only one batch, which will be a lavender soap, for the benefit of those of my family and friends who are vegan and don't use goats' milk soap. I colour it with alkanet root, and have been soaking some in sunflower oil to do just that, and must go and make the soap in a few minutes. At least supper is ready, except for mashed potato to go with it, and only needs to go in the oven. If I have the energy, I'll do some green beans as well, so that they can cook in the steamer on top of the potatoes.
