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"What have you eaten" Parallel Chat

jpscloud said:
I got this set from amazon and haven't regretted it - it is still hard to pull the metal top up from those cans though - something about the cans they use for fish! I think @septua has the better suggestion if it's just ring pull help you want, it looks like it would lift the lid better.

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That pate sounds really delicious, I will have to try making it.
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I agree that it's the fish ones that are so difficult I don't - yet-have problems with the large tins like tomatoes. I do have issues with bottle and jars at times so your set looks useful too thank you.
 
jpscloud said:
Definitely autumnal today, and although only light rain was forecast last night we got a real deluge, so at least I don't have watering duty to worry about!

I had my annual diabetic review on Monday, my HbA1c is 52 now which is really not bad - I can't take much credit as the medications I take are very effective, but I do try to keep carbs down. I'm advised not to cut carbs too low as there is a risk of DKA. I am finding I'm not as interested in bread or pastry as I used to be - I'll happily have everything crustless and stick to one slice of bread if I want a "sandwich" (filling piled on top as an open sandwich, I mean). I'm sure that's to do with Mounjaro and I'm not upset about it! I'm getting most of my carbs from vegetables, including root vegetables, and limited potatoes. And the odd off-plan treat of course!

Porridge for breakfast, sausage patty with scrambled egg for lunch and chicken with runner beans and a couple of small potatoes for tea.

Flu jab tomorrow!
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Well done on your hba1c that's now at a fairly low level. Good luck with your Flu jab tomorrow.
 
My mother used to make a trout paté with leftover cold trout, cream cheese and a spot of tomato paste for colouring. We infuriated her by calling it "fishpaste", but then she took to calling it that herself. She made a lot of patés of one kind or another, and people said "aren't you clever!", but she said they are very easy. I don't think she still makes them - my sister does most of the cooking - but she probably could if she set her mind to it.

Anyway, good evening from a very wet Albertville. I'm quite glad we've come down from the higher altitudes, as it's supposed to snow up there tomorrow.

I don't know whether my insides didn't like the restaurant we ate at yesterday - my husband, who had very similar food, was and is fine - but they played up all evening and into today. Not helped by my feeling very car-sick as we drove over too many hairpin bends. I had to turn the heating off in the car and get the vents to blow in my face!

Breakfast was a poached egg on toasted baguette, and a bit of butter and jam on the other half. Forgot to have any fruit. Lunch was part of a wholegrain baguette with cheese of various kinds, and some quinoa salad, followed by red fruit Viennetta with a teaspoonful of cream, washed down with pear juice. Supper has just been the tomato sauce from two nights ago, blended up because although it tasted great I didn't like the texture, served on steamed potatoes and topped with grated Emmenthal, followed by fromage blanc with nectarine compote.
 
09:00 am online pilates class.
2 scrambled eggs for breakfast, followed by a hilly dog walk which both hubby and I found exhausting, no idea why .
Lunch was a nut bar before a tour round a National Trust house which isn't usually open so we lucky to get tickets. Followed by tea and cake in the local church! Very hard to refuse.
Then quick trip to lidl followed by harvest from the garden where we are staying...3 courgettes, chard, cavolo Nero, loads of tomatoes, apples galore, a huge cucumber . All the apple windfalls and the cucumber went to the pigs.
Dinner was chicken legs cooked with tomatoes and served with chard and courgettes.
There's only an Aga here and I'm having to remind myself how to use it. Missing my airfryer and microwave.

And do any of you know how to clean cavolo Nero of white fly eggs ready for eating, I gave up and fed it to the pigs but there's loads more I dont want to waste
 
MrsA2 said:
09:00 am online pilates class.
2 scrambled eggs for breakfast, followed by a hilly dog walk which both hubby and I found exhausting, no idea why .
Lunch was a nut bar before a tour round a National Trust house which isn't usually open so we lucky to get tickets. Followed by tea and cake in the local church! Very hard to refuse.
Then quick trip to lidl followed by harvest from the garden where we are staying...3 courgettes, chard, cavolo Nero, loads of tomatoes, apples galore, a huge cucumber . All the apple windfalls and the cucumber went to the pigs.
Dinner was chicken legs cooked with tomatoes and served with chard and courgettes.
There's only an Aga here and I'm having to remind myself how to use it. Missing my airfryer and microwave.

And do any of you know how to clean cavolo Nero of white fly eggs ready for eating, I gave up and fed it to the pigs but there's loads more I dont want to waste
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For aphids on my salad leaves I submerge them in a bowl then run water to gently overflow it in the sink while washing the leaves, the aphids float to the top and over the edge of the bowl with the water. Then I run each leaf under the tap before putting it in the salad spinner. There aren't many but I'm always surprised that apparently clean leaves have a number of them!

I haven't tried tackling whitefly on leaves though. I'm lucky that they haven't yet infested anything I want to eat, but that's probably just a matter of time now that I grow more brassicas. I hear that soaking the leaves in bicarbonate of soda for a while works, but as I said it's not something I've tested myself.
 
Sorry, can't help with the gardening problems. I seem to remember my parents had blackfly on the broad beans, but I have no idea what, if anything, they did about it! I've never had a garden, other than the communal gardens of our London flat.

Anyway, good evening from Albertville on what has been an extremely wet day! And although my trekking poles were a huge help when we went out to explore a mediaeval village, my smartwatch likes them no more than it likes supermarket trolleys, and an accurate step count was not recorded. Oh well!

Breakfast was a boiled egg with wholemeal toast soldiers (the small slices that French sliced loaves come in) and paté, and a bit of toasted leftover baguette with butter, cream cheese and jam. Orange juice and coffee as per.

It was cold, so I made a "clean-the-fridge" soup for lunch. Added some lentils to thicken it and wished I'd brought my stick blender along. Had to blend it in two or three goes in my cup blender. Anyway, we had that with a fresh baguette and butter, and a bit of cheese, and then a small helping of delicious French coffee ice-cream with a bit of cream.

When we came in from our rather wet walk, I had a handful of nuts and raisins with my tea, and two squares of dark hazelnut chocolate. I slightly wished I hadn't, afterwards, as I then wasn't really hungry for supper.

I had no idea what to have for supper, so my kind husband volunteered to make an omelette - red pepper and cheese - which we had with the end of the baguette and butter, followed by "Faisselle" (strained fromage blanc) with raspberry or red fruit (not sure which) coulis, which is one of the desserts they sell here and I love. Not too sweet, as the equivalent would be in England.
 
shelley262 said:
It was dark and wet on my early morning garden check today - the seasons are definitely changing.
I'm planning on roasting a portion of my frozen tomatoes this morning for breakfast, hm mackerel pate with one of my hm rolls for lunch and then cod and vegetables for dinner. To make the pate I just blended a tin of mackerel in olive oil with cottage cheese, lemon juice and a spoon of horseradish sauce with seasoning and it's delicious - good news is I have enough for a few days. The hardest bit was opening the mackerel tin - I find the fish in oil tins very hard as the olive oil comes out as you start opening the tin and make it impossible to hold ! I must look for something to help open ring pull tins! Anyone have any ideas?
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A teaspoon, handle end first.
 
Very dark and wet this morning. After the flu jab yeserday my arm is a little sore and I have mild chills and a general bleaugh feeling - nothing too awful. I'm very grateful for the protection and as the weather is so dreary I'm happy to stay inside and coddle myself a bit!

I had a few tomatoes off the polytunnel plants yesterday, I think that might be the last of them now the weather has turned much colder. It looks like the runner beans and french climbing beans will keep going until the first frost, I've had a great late season harvest from them and put lots away in my two freezers.

Cheese and a couple of crackers for breakfast, possibly the same for lunch - my appetite often goes a bit odd when I'm under the weather. I'm planning chicken with runner beans and a couple of small potatoes for tea.
 
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Yesterday I marinated the pork steaks in lemon juice, garlic and a bit of olive oil plus chives, sage and rosemary all day I then cooked them in air fryer and served with veggies and mushrooms in a cream sauce - will definitely do again as very tasty and easy to cook. It's Friday today though so it's salmon and vegetables for main meal.
Missing you @Annb - not seen you for a few days and hoping you are feeling ok.
 
Good evening from Aix-les-Bains. Today has been an up-and-down sort of day; I did go for a most enjoyable walk, though, along the lake and back through a wooded park beside a stream.

Breakfast was - oh help, can't remember! Yes I can; it was coddled eggs with a bit of fresh baguette and Boursin, and another bit of baguette (the other half of my helping) with butter and honey. Lunch was soup again, and the rest of the baguette (shared between us, obvs) with butter and cheese. This was a mistake, as my system really doesn't like so much fat, and I felt rather sick all afternoon. Supper, as I wanted something astringent, was a vegan couscous - just the vegetables and grains, and it was delicious. Followed by fromage blanc with apricot compote.

Right, now I am going to curl up on my bed with my phone and watch videos! My data renews tomorrow, but we have (rather weak) WiFi here, so I shall make the most of it.
 
Family birthday lunch today for youngest son. I'm hosting and doing the food. Planning a buffet - having roasted a ham and a chicken ready yesterday - and will be doing salads to go with it as well as a range of cheeses. The pudding will be berries with cream or yoghurt and I've bought an M and S Colin the Caterpillar cake for the Birthday chap - his favourite and any leftovers can go off home to Wales with them so no temptation left here!
 
Good evening from St-Etienne-du-Bois. We have left the Savoie now, and are drifting slowly home, but still, for today, within sight of the mountains. The weather is most peculiar - wet one day, lovely the next. Actually, this morning was nice after a wet start, but we have been heavily rained on during our drive this afternoon!

Breakfast was scrambled egg on toast, followed by a slice with cream cheese and jam, followed by 3/4 of a pear - the pears are just ripe, but I shouldn't have had the second slice of toast if I was going to have one! Lunch was the usual Saturday bacon and tomato, this time on a delightfully fresh "traditional" baguette, which was still warm from the oven when I bought it. Followed by the end of the red fruit Viennetta. Supper has just been Saturday sausage (a "diot de Savoie", which was delicious) with mashed potato, baked beans, carrot and courgette, followed by fresh pineapple, which isn't quite as ripe as I should have liked, but still very good.
 
Missed a few days, sorry! I too hope @Annb is OK.

Being on holiday with a dog means keeping up the exercise to allow a few carbs. Today was a 75 minute walk (level for once!) Followed by tomato and pepper soup and a large cheese scone in a cafe, then 75 minute walk back.
Dinner was cheese and lc crackers and 2sqs 85%

Yesterday was hm lc veg soup for lunch. Added chicken it to make a stew for dinner

Next query for the Gardeners...how to preserve glut of tomatoes without sugar? There's over 50 plants here and we've been told to help ourselves!
 
MrsA2 said:
Missed a few days, sorry! I too hope @Annb is OK.

Being on holiday with a dog means keeping up the exercise to allow a few carbs. Today was a 75 minute walk (level for once!) Followed by tomato and pepper soup and a large cheese scone in a cafe, then 75 minute walk back.
Dinner was cheese and lc crackers and 2sqs 85%

Yesterday was hm lc veg soup for lunch. Added chicken it to make a stew for dinner

Next query for the Gardeners...how to preserve glut of tomatoes without sugar? There's over 50 plants here and we've been told to help ourselves!
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I just wash them and freeze them whole, then defrost and use in sauces or stews as needed - I'm not a bottling/canning or chutney girl, and I have yet to explore dehydration so those are options I know of but can't advise on. Frozen whole tomatoes are great though, I have only frozen small ones as that's what I had extra of, but I guess larger ones would be ok too.

Fifty plants is a lot though, so you are probably going to need some advice on dehydrating/bottling from someone more knowledgeable than me!
 
MrsA2 said:
Missed a few days, sorry! I too hope @Annb is OK.

Being on holiday with a dog means keeping up the exercise to allow a few carbs. Today was a 75 minute walk (level for once!) Followed by tomato and pepper soup and a large cheese scone in a cafe, then 75 minute walk back.
Dinner was cheese and lc crackers and 2sqs 85%

Yesterday was hm lc veg soup for lunch. Added chicken it to make a stew for dinner

Next query for the Gardeners...how to preserve glut of tomatoes without sugar? There's over 50 plants here and we've been told to help ourselves!
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I was watching a u-tube video of the older mountain people in Ukraine last night and they were bottling their summer/autumn crops. I'm always amazed how they preserve their crops and the very old way they still live their lives. It's worth watching some of the videos to learn if you cant/don't need the veg till later.
 
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