B/fast - Glass of OJ and a coffee
Lunch -Home made chilli and rice
Dinner - Home made chicken and ham pie with Mash and peas.

Breakfast: Toast, 2 slices and a glass of OJ.

Lunch: Bowl of Fruit & Fibre (I love the stuff)

Dinner: Chicken caserole, mash, roasties, cauli, broc, carrots and yorkshire pudding. Unless she's changed her mind.

Today, brekkie was boiled eggs on one slice of toast. Dinner was fish'n'chips. Not sure what I'll have for supper.

In general, dry boring food.
typical day:
breakfast: Bran with soya milk, a drop of agave syrup
lunch: granary bread sandwich, fruit, diet coke
dinner courgette with stuff (cheese or meat )

Nigel Slaters Appetite, a cookbook I received at xmas, has a recipe for fragrant rice. Needless to say the only ingredients I had in the cupboard weren't in the recipe but it inspired me nonetheless.
1 shallot, half a red pepper, 2 cloves garlic, 6 cardamom pods, Rice with green lentils(pre cooked) remains of a chicken flaked in salt and coriander to taste. Surprisingly good grub and the technique of, 1 cup rice 3 cups water boil for ten then heat off leave covered for ten, worked a treat.

there was also a handful of frozen peas and a veg stock cube

oh and a coupla glasses of wine in me

Had nothing for brekkie, half a pizza for lunch, and a few wine gums just now (Shell have a two for £2 offer on bags of jelly babies, fruit pastilles etc). Dinner may well be a pasta bake - was going to have a light pasta meal last night bt couldn't find the pasta!

Too much crap over christmas.

That's a lot of water. Did you boil it uncovered? Did it need draining?

Ordinarily you'd use 2 cups water if you're cooking by absorption. Any more would leave the rice soggy. However, if you're draining the rice after then it doesn't matter how much water you use. The timing is important though - leave it soaking more than 10 minutes and you'll end up with pudding

I don't know what I've been eating, but it's given me terrible wind.

I've eaten quite well today. Porridge and honey for breakfast, herring fillets in mustard sauce on toast for lunch and veggie lasagne for supper. To balance it out, I've had a bottle of rose and am about to embark on two litres of cider.

Spicy tortilla with a garlic and paprika blue cheese yoghurt dip

Stilton and broccoli pie in a crusty rough-puff cheese casing served with roasted Mediterranean vegetables and a warm mixed bean and chick pea spicy salad

A savoury Stilton cheese cake with a caramelised carrot chutney topping and a drizzle of ginger and chilli sauce

Death by Double Chocolate upside-down creamy cheese cake

Several large glasses of Talisker

(had to finish up the Christmas cheese lol)

Porridge breakfast mmm.

JJ the rice was fine. Leaving it in the pot with the lid on absorbed the extra water and it just needed fluffing with a fork. I was just following the recipe! I must admit to having a quick look when I turned off the heat and it did look wet.

Last night a couple of friends and I got some pizza from SubXpress in the nearby shopping centre.
Very good pizza, vastly cheaper than Dominos or Pizza Hut, very clearly hand made and properly baked. Will definitely be trying them out again.

Just had sirloin steak with last nights left over (homemade) ratatouille on top. Blooming lovely!

Just thought I'd pass this recipe along in case we've not had enough chocolate over Easter....

300g dark chocolate
300g milk chocolate
150g Palmin (solidified coconut oil)|
30g Vanilla sugar
200g unwhipped double cream
about 500g of Leibniz butter cookies (or equivalent)

A loaf tin lined with cling film
A ladle
A big microwave proof bowl

Grab a large microwavable bowl.... break up your chocolate, cut your palmin into cubes and put it in the bowl, sprinkle your vanilla sugar on top and put it in the microwave for 1 min on a low heat. Take it out and stir it, then repeat until its all melted and shiny. Pour in half of the cream and whisk it to buggery, you don't want the chocolate mixture to split, (this is why you need a biiiig bowl) then once thats mixed in, add the other half of the cream, work quickly so the chocolate mix doesn't solidify, and whisk it in.

use a ladle and put a layer of chocolate into your lined loaf tin, (a thin layer, 5mm thick) then add layer of biscuits on top, get as many biscuits on the area as you can. add another thin layer of chocolate, just enough to cover the biscuits and then add another layer of biscuits. Keep doing this until the chocolate mix has gone.
Put it in the fridge for 12 hours and then turn it out onto a plate. Cut it up and enjoy your forthcoming heart attack.