Sunday 1st August

morning - made a variety of vegie pancake: tomato, zucchini mush beaten into two eggs and cooked in a frypan until the bottom is set then finished off under the grill until the top is set and browned (this would be good filled with something then rolled up), drank coffee, black

midmorning - fresh pineapple and green tea

lunchtime - made a marinade of one lemon (juiced), a good handful of fresh oregano and a big garlic clove whizzed up and poured over lamb chops. Cooked on barbeque to strains of waltzing matilda lol

afternoon - a few fresh cherries

evening - baked chicken soup. Chicken stock and chicken drumsticks with onion, celery, parsnip and carrot cut in to big pieces and all cooked up into soup then laid out in a baking dish to reduce and brown up. It's done when evaporated and very brown. Unbloodybelievably good. Followed by a couple of spoons of pawpaw.

Having a twinings blackcurrant tea - tastes like a hot ribena

I feel really really good

Thank you el cogollero    It helps that I grow european and asian herbsin my garden

Monday 2nd August work day

Much less food today - and I forgot my nuts and fruit bwah

morning - black coffees and leftover piece of steak I found in the fridge

lunchtime - leftover lamb chops (lemon & oregano) and tomato & baby spinach bruschetta style

afternoon - macadamia and pecans

evening - 2 leather jacket (fish) baked in foil with lemongrass, garlic and ginger with fried cauliflower - fish were a present and herbs came from the garden

Wednesday 4th August

Very meh day - except for chasing research for one of the threads here

morning - coffee

lunchtime - beef cooked with onion, a carrot, cummin and cinnamon (cinnamon with meat gives it richness and warmth) and a bit of beef stock
mug of citrus green tea

evening - just oil and garlic rubbed chicken and onion baked with a little water in the pan for moistness

My way is to cook the chicken on high for the first half-hour then turn the oven down to moderate or a bit under for up to another hour an a half depending on how big or how much.

You are absolutely right! I used to have to go outside and hit them with a brick and I didn't ever do it for long or a real lot

Um - I eat nuts cos I like them. Not because I'm hungry.

Thursday 5th August

An extremely stressful day 

morning - coffee

midmorning - frypan frittata with lots of herbs, some spinach and onion stems from the garden, and green tea

late lunch - last few bits of the cummin & cinnamon beef (I'd made a salad but didn't eat much of it)

midafternoon - a few cherries and a coffee with cream (!) I really needed it, the comfort and the time to sit and drink it, psychologically at least

evening - I had some fat & jelly stored from when I'd cooked meat in tomato so I used the fat from that to cook up some pink steak and just had steamed cauli, brussels sprouts and broccoli (I love plain steamed vegies)

Friday 6th August

Mostly a really hard day

morning - sardines (canned) & peppermint tea during the morning
tea is for the stomach as sardines come under the heading of gifts that keep on giving

lunch - I was given a chicken and asked to make soy chicken again, stuffed with precooked onion and cooked with parsnip, carrot and celery pieces, with a small salad of assorted greens

blackcurrant tea

early evening - nuts & strawberries

Catch up post 1

Sunday 8th August

morning - eggs with herbs, capsicum, onion, mushrooms and zucchini & coffee

lunchtime - baked a meatloaf: I had leftover baked carrot, parsnip, onion & celery so I mushed that into some beef mince with garlic, thyme and a little mustard and baked into a meatloaf. Ate with salad

evening - nuts and cherries

Tuesday 10th August

morning - meatloaf and a soft fried egg

lunch - sardines and salad

mid afternoon - half grapefruit

evening - baked chicken wings & baked butternut pumpkin

later - strawberries