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slemslempikeIt has been an excellent weekend for food. On Friday I went to my friend's house where he made us venison and black pudding. SO NICE. My contribution was sugar snap peas, broccoli and new potatoes from the pre-prepared selection at Waitrose. I actually hadn't had any fresh vegetables for a while, it was lovely.
On Saturday I made THE BEST THING EVER. Gammon and pear casserole. IT WAS INCREDIBLE. I was very smug about it anyway, because I bought the meat from the farmers' market and the vegetables from the city farm (which was grea: small but lovely, and with VERY BIG PIGS - I am considering sponsoring one in my sister's name). I also got to use my lovely blue and turquoise cast iron casserole pot for the first time. It tastes so very good. I cannot recommend it highly enough and I'm really looking forward to having the leftovers for lunches.
Sunday was roast chicken. This did not come from the market, but was a free-range chicken from the Co-op as I am trying to buy more ethically-produced meat. Turns out this is EXPENSIVE. And doesn't taste any different, which isn't at all the point, but still. The Co-op had pre-prepared roasting potatoes in the reduced section so I had those, and they were brilliant. I have been eating them cold from the fridge today and moaning outloud with their tastiness. I made stock from the bones, with a huge amount of vegetable off-cuts that I'd been saving in the freezer. I had been thinking that I could find out if anyone else in the flats composts and would like my leavings, but this way I don't have to talk to anyone else. (I ran into the woman who lives in the flat below me yesterday. We said awkward helloes and then I followed her to the bins.)
Today I made sweet potato wraps, which had better freeze as well as The Kitchin claims, because I now have ten wraps which will be defrosted for work lunches. They were quite nice for supper just now, but because I'd prepared the ingredients at various stages they were an odd mix of lukewarm and cold. I suspect they might be nicer entirely at one temperature, specifically a hot temperature, with melted cheese. I also ended up making the tortillas for it from scratch, less for a desire to show off than a desire not to leave the house at all.
Now I have to do the washing up from it all. I saw an article about very small dishwashers and now I yearn for one.
Also in the food department is that I have to start watching what I eat - not dieting, but paying attention to it, which I hate doing. I am too fat for quite a few of my clothes, and I can neither afford nor be bothered to buy new ones, so I am trying to stem the growth in the first instance and perhaps reducing it in the second, though I am less sure about that.
There are a lot of posters up at work for Scottish Slimmers and there have been several approving articles on the intranet about weight-losing colleagues, which I find very annoying. If I lose weight people might be unsolicitedly supportive and complimentary at me, and then I'd have to punch them in the face, which is probably not conducive to a productive working environment. Actually, that's not entirely fair, as I have two colleagues/friends who are on weight-loss programmes, and who have never ever commented about anyone else's appearance or eating habits, and who don't talk about their own weight in disparaging terms in front of other people. I suspect it's more that I worry that if I lose weight, especially through some sort of deliberate effort I will start buying into the association of weight-loss with higher morality, and getting into depriving myself unnecessarily of things I like purely because I can.
The rest of the weekend has been watching TV, mostly "starring" Micheal DeLuise, but that's another post.
On Saturday I made THE BEST THING EVER. Gammon and pear casserole. IT WAS INCREDIBLE. I was very smug about it anyway, because I bought the meat from the farmers' market and the vegetables from the city farm (which was grea: small but lovely, and with VERY BIG PIGS - I am considering sponsoring one in my sister's name). I also got to use my lovely blue and turquoise cast iron casserole pot for the first time. It tastes so very good. I cannot recommend it highly enough and I'm really looking forward to having the leftovers for lunches.
Sunday was roast chicken. This did not come from the market, but was a free-range chicken from the Co-op as I am trying to buy more ethically-produced meat. Turns out this is EXPENSIVE. And doesn't taste any different, which isn't at all the point, but still. The Co-op had pre-prepared roasting potatoes in the reduced section so I had those, and they were brilliant. I have been eating them cold from the fridge today and moaning outloud with their tastiness. I made stock from the bones, with a huge amount of vegetable off-cuts that I'd been saving in the freezer. I had been thinking that I could find out if anyone else in the flats composts and would like my leavings, but this way I don't have to talk to anyone else. (I ran into the woman who lives in the flat below me yesterday. We said awkward helloes and then I followed her to the bins.)
Today I made sweet potato wraps, which had better freeze as well as The Kitchin claims, because I now have ten wraps which will be defrosted for work lunches. They were quite nice for supper just now, but because I'd prepared the ingredients at various stages they were an odd mix of lukewarm and cold. I suspect they might be nicer entirely at one temperature, specifically a hot temperature, with melted cheese. I also ended up making the tortillas for it from scratch, less for a desire to show off than a desire not to leave the house at all.
Now I have to do the washing up from it all. I saw an article about very small dishwashers and now I yearn for one.
Also in the food department is that I have to start watching what I eat - not dieting, but paying attention to it, which I hate doing. I am too fat for quite a few of my clothes, and I can neither afford nor be bothered to buy new ones, so I am trying to stem the growth in the first instance and perhaps reducing it in the second, though I am less sure about that.
There are a lot of posters up at work for Scottish Slimmers and there have been several approving articles on the intranet about weight-losing colleagues, which I find very annoying. If I lose weight people might be unsolicitedly supportive and complimentary at me, and then I'd have to punch them in the face, which is probably not conducive to a productive working environment. Actually, that's not entirely fair, as I have two colleagues/friends who are on weight-loss programmes, and who have never ever commented about anyone else's appearance or eating habits, and who don't talk about their own weight in disparaging terms in front of other people. I suspect it's more that I worry that if I lose weight, especially through some sort of deliberate effort I will start buying into the association of weight-loss with higher morality, and getting into depriving myself unnecessarily of things I like purely because I can.
The rest of the weekend has been watching TV, mostly "starring" Micheal DeLuise, but that's another post.
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Date: 2012-04-10 02:46 am (UTC)Have I mentioned that you are wonderful?
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Date: 2012-04-10 03:24 am (UTC)I'm doing calorie-counting at the moment, for various reasons, partly keeping
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Date: 2012-04-11 10:07 am (UTC)I have had quite a lot of people being complimentary about my weight loss this weekend. It has been really difficult to handle. And yes, having to buy loads of new clothes is expensive and time-consuming and annoying when you've got perfectly good clothes already. It is bloody complicated.