Don't need a hob, I agree. Much better with a 7 burner, duel fuel range with 2 ovens, grill and keep warm drawer.
03-02-2020
@PenguinMum I grate cauliflower and freeze it in portions. Don't squash it down too much in the bag. Chuck it into hot frrying pan with whatever oil/ butter and seasoning you fancy. Stir. Ready in about four mins.
@Chook If the hand is that painful, it's unreasonable to ask you to wait three weeks. Try calling again and make it clear that the problem is getting worse and preventing you from sleeping. Hope you get to see a doctor sooner, rather than later.
@shelley262 good to see you back, wishing you a calmer week.
High this morning 6.4
But my now that DP seems to have returned had small breakfast. CWC and nut granola.
One hour later 6.6.
Tried phoning the freezer repair people but just get automated computer voice offering me three choices. Tried all now but none connect to a real person. Comfort eating biscuits.
However, miraculously the freezer and fridge both started working again last night. We did want to get it checked, but might have to leave that. Have never felt more of an alien.
Meanwhile yuk! Big grey maggots have appeared in the house. Just inside the kitchen door, where it gets damp on wet days. (Job for summer, needs dry weather, says MrSlim) Vigorous investigations reveal infestation is outside. Under plant pots etc. But yuk !
Further investigation finds a few under the doormat by the back door, along with a fat green caterpillar.
Feeling really quite depressed by now, wanting to go to bed with a book. However to get to living room and bedrooms have to go outside as MrSlim is currently working in the passageway. Dealing with a fall of degraded lime mortar from under the stone staircase. Heard woodpecker in the nearby trees and got a decent view of a greater spotted. Not close enough to see if male or female though. Usually something like that would cheer me up immensely, but not today.
Lunch avocado, tomato, ham and cheese. Few radish, CWC.
More clearing up in the garden. Moved several loads of twigs and small branches to the burning pile in the orchard. Shoulder is now starting to complain about using the loppers.
Some larger branches piled by the chop saw. At least they are now out of the rain.
We walked round the "garden" checked on the tiny saplings we planted last year. Most have survived. Two are under a fallen tree. Probably crushed. Although cloudy it was warm enough that MrSlim did not need a jacket. The primrose are coming out and orchids popping up too. Along with the ubiquitous nettles. Fortunately not in the same areas.
Dinner.
I put defrosted cake in the oven. This is a uniquely French product , and usually only obviously available for big occasions like Xmas and New year. It's not sweet. So lowish carbs. The version we had tonight was sundried tomato and goats cheese. Very nice too. MrSlim cooked. Omelette with pepper, onion and bacon. Served with the gratin dauphinois potatoes left from yesterday. Ate a few. But three egg omelette as well was too much. Plenty wine though. And later walnuts. MrSlim was wanting popcorn but sadly neither of us could decipher the cooking instructions, which seemed to refer to a non existent table for cooking times. Binned the lot.
Not our best day.
Lemon tea at bedtime.
I like this thread, accidentally posted today's meals in a different thread, but will continue posting here, even though I am not super low carb anymore. Had GP appointment today, he said to just let cut heal and keep dry, no more antibiotics needed at this point, just rest and recovery. lymphedema is playing up, but washing machine fixed, it was the washer, and no more trades people needed in the near future.
Today 03/02/2020
FBG: 4.0
Breakfast: 50g rolled oats, 100g natural fat free yoghurt, 20g peanut butter, 70g fresh blueberries. Four black coffees.
Lunch: 123g pear, 0.5 macadamia and lemon paelo bar. Eaten early at 11.50 AM before catching bus to GP appointment.
5.23PM reading 4.2, after black coffee at four and not eating anything since lunch trip to GP, and having walked home.
Dinner: 2 white corn tortillas, 34g 50% reduced fat cheese, 150g spinach, 88g grilled chicken breast, 10g butter, 113g tomato, 110g cauliflower, mustard and salt. No measurements taken after dinner.
I grew up having a lot of blood noses while sleeping, so blood doesn't bother me. It's a pain to clean up and stains handkerchiefs that's the annoying bit. Although it got me into the unbreakable habit of always having a handkerchief under my bed pillow, and always carrying two handkerchiefs when I leave the house.Glad your cut is ok. You have been very brave . If I see blood , I will just collapse . Bf will collapse too. That would be very funny for an observer
@DCUKMod Thank you so much for your encouraging words. I did try to include some positives from the day.we found the most shocking bodge jobs imaginable to mankind, that weren't picked up on survey. Some were just bonkers! At one stage we were sure the plumbing systems on that boat were held together by seized stock-cocks (which connect the inside to the ouside of the hull, so pretty important really, and, well, what can only be described as bluetac.
all the noise of pumps and squeaking manual pumps brought a school of dolphins, including 2 very small calves, to visit. That really made our day.
Oh the wet feet moment was a bit "special" I can tell you. The pair of us were taking turn manning the manual bilge pump and baling out with buckets, totally starkers! Were we ever glad when we could let the electric pumps do their thing unassisted.@DCUKMod Thank you so much for your encouraging words. I did try to include some positives from the day.
We have likewise found shockingly bad building work/repairs. The stone spiral stairs were held up by a mix of worm-eaten beams and rubble, with fertiliser bags stuffed into the remaining gaps. As you can imagine this required some major repairs. The degraded lime mortar came from an unrestored patch. But it still looked very scary, as there were a few large pieces of rubble being apparently held up by a plastic wiring conduit.
All secured now. Just need a a coat of paint once the mortar is set.
Boat stories always interest me. Your wet feet experience must have been very frightening at the time. We have owned two boats and plan to go back to canals again. But then we also planned to return to India and now i cant see that happening.
Have a good day.
I am going to be doing my Michael Angelo impersonation again. Painting lying on my back. Hopefully this will be the final coat.
I wouldn't be so crass as to ask if you had to kiss the Godfather's ring - no, not I@ianpspurs - my mind immediately said Fredo but, since he was bumped off in the middle of a lake....although Don Alfredo Pollo Bianchi has a bit of a ring to it?
When is lift of?3 x 30 gms some kind of game sausage - part of freezer clearing - around 11.00 am 0.5 gms carb the lot according to label; halloumi fingers, gammon and portaloo mushrooms this evening. Mushrooms cooked in butter, halloumi brushed with MCT. Tea with inulin at 5.40a.m ish, more tea later and some kind of coffee around 2.00 pm. Lots of trips to the recycling centre including wrestling a hot tub into Julie's car and disposing of some fireworks and an air gun. Dug up the commemorative roses ready for their new home. Dirty, wet and as happy as a pig in poo that I can still manage such things. No idea of how food and testing will go for next few days. Who dat naglil?
We move on Friday - Fenland to Breckland. Soil, scenery and people all change at the village of Freckenham quite amazing really. http://www.brecks.org/about/ and https://www.visitsuffolk.com/explore/the-brecks.aspxWhen is lift of?
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