Friday, October 1, 2010
desparation
in desperation to lose some weight i have started the Tony Ferguson diet. I've never been on a diet before, so this probably wont work out (check out my positivity!). I thought it would be easy but now that im not allowed carbs, I'm having trouble thinking of anything else but eating carbs. Never before did i realize how special pasta was, or crackers. or basically anything but apples and shakes. And by the way I'm only on day two!
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Lazy Sunday
This morning I woke with a hangover from mixing my new favorite drink vodka, apple juice and dry, with a revolting concoction of red cask wine and various juices and fizzy drinks. A lovely evening was had but why do I always end up making these awful drinks, a hangover from my trip to Spain I guess. Anyhow my hangover wasn't nearly as bad as Jeanne's who I heard vomiting and moaning before we took her home. When we returned I felt immensely better after my favorite hangover cure, a watermelon and pineapple frost fruit, amazing stuff. Pete made a delicious breakfast of gooey toad in the hole eggs, crispy bacon, pesto mushrooms and avocado. After that I got in the spa with the big double edition Grazia and my sombrero and soaked up the sun for a few hours. It's always about 2pm on a weekend that I start dreaming of dinner. This week, due to my overspending, we had to buy minimally at the supermarket. But it was fine, I still managed to make a pretty nice, and almost fancy menu for the week.
Last night, following a tantrum about my boredom and poorness we invited Jeanne and Angelo for drinks and dinner. I made my version of San Choy Bow. And I must say, my version is much better than most you find in Chinese restaurants. What a claim I know, but I love it, seriously. I find the best thing about San Choy Bow is the clash of textures, with crunch and crispy meeting soft and delicate, so in my recipe I play on that as much as I can. Jeanne is a vego so I made a vego version for her and added the pork mince later.
Firstly I fry onion, garlic and ginger in a little peanut oil, then add a heap of mushrooms chopped roughly. I cook this on a medium heat until the mushrooms are soft and then add a can each of bamboo shoots, water chestnuts and bean sprouts. Sprinkle on about one teaspoon of Chinese 5 spice then a generous dollops of oyster sauce, soy sauce, kapis manis and sesame seeds. I set a bit aside for Jeanne and in a separate fry pan browned more onion, ginger, garlic and pork mince. When the meat was done I added more oyster sauce and the other ingredients. I often find it very difficult and frustrating to make the cups of lettuce come off without splitting them but last night, with Pete's help, they came apart just fine. It was the best dinner I've eaten for ages.
So how could I top it? I couldn't. I decided instead to make a traditional Sunday dinner.
Most people make a roast on Sundays but in my mothers household it was soup. My favourite soups are rich and salty, full of veges. I had a chorizo in the fridge and so I made this soup to sooth my hangover and my still lingering cold.
Fry one onion in lots of good olive oil, when it's all golden and transparent add two cloves of garlic and a small red chili sans seeds (leave them if you must but my hangover wouldn't allow it today) Then I dice the chorizo and fry until it becomes firm and the redness from the sausage infiltrates the onion. Then I add diced carrot, zucchini and celery. When they have had their turn I add a can of tomatoes, a can of lentils and four cups of stock. For spice I chose paprika, rosemary and oregano and then in my mothers words 'boiled the shit out of it' reducing it by half. To serve I add some fresh parsley, soft buttered bread and a good DVD. Oh Sunday... I love you....
Last night, following a tantrum about my boredom and poorness we invited Jeanne and Angelo for drinks and dinner. I made my version of San Choy Bow. And I must say, my version is much better than most you find in Chinese restaurants. What a claim I know, but I love it, seriously. I find the best thing about San Choy Bow is the clash of textures, with crunch and crispy meeting soft and delicate, so in my recipe I play on that as much as I can. Jeanne is a vego so I made a vego version for her and added the pork mince later.
Firstly I fry onion, garlic and ginger in a little peanut oil, then add a heap of mushrooms chopped roughly. I cook this on a medium heat until the mushrooms are soft and then add a can each of bamboo shoots, water chestnuts and bean sprouts. Sprinkle on about one teaspoon of Chinese 5 spice then a generous dollops of oyster sauce, soy sauce, kapis manis and sesame seeds. I set a bit aside for Jeanne and in a separate fry pan browned more onion, ginger, garlic and pork mince. When the meat was done I added more oyster sauce and the other ingredients. I often find it very difficult and frustrating to make the cups of lettuce come off without splitting them but last night, with Pete's help, they came apart just fine. It was the best dinner I've eaten for ages.
So how could I top it? I couldn't. I decided instead to make a traditional Sunday dinner.
Most people make a roast on Sundays but in my mothers household it was soup. My favourite soups are rich and salty, full of veges. I had a chorizo in the fridge and so I made this soup to sooth my hangover and my still lingering cold.
Fry one onion in lots of good olive oil, when it's all golden and transparent add two cloves of garlic and a small red chili sans seeds (leave them if you must but my hangover wouldn't allow it today) Then I dice the chorizo and fry until it becomes firm and the redness from the sausage infiltrates the onion. Then I add diced carrot, zucchini and celery. When they have had their turn I add a can of tomatoes, a can of lentils and four cups of stock. For spice I chose paprika, rosemary and oregano and then in my mothers words 'boiled the shit out of it' reducing it by half. To serve I add some fresh parsley, soft buttered bread and a good DVD. Oh Sunday... I love you....
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Todays emotion in visual form
I know its pretty obvious but im all gooey in love and all i want to do is kiss kiss kiss....
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Uno
The beginning...
I feel inspired by all the amazing blogs i'm reading lately but intimidated by them too. I think as a 'writer' its been long enough without any writing getting done. Perhaps this will force an hour out of me a day. That's the plan.
I want this to be all about the shit i love: music, fashion, relationships and my travels which begin in 3 months time. I want people to read it. Though... will they? And how will i know? And do i care? Schmeh. I dunno.
I feel inspired by all the amazing blogs i'm reading lately but intimidated by them too. I think as a 'writer' its been long enough without any writing getting done. Perhaps this will force an hour out of me a day. That's the plan.
I want this to be all about the shit i love: music, fashion, relationships and my travels which begin in 3 months time. I want people to read it. Though... will they? And how will i know? And do i care? Schmeh. I dunno.
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