http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWWpZ_SpCGM

Thanks - good video.

Anyone else struck by how similar the bullfighting bulls look to the aurochs in ancient cave paintings?

A weekend with no kids again! Today I bought a couple of horse burgers (they had plain and with garlic and parsley) - the other day I got some minced bull meat and made burgers for the kids, which went down well. I also got half a kilo of fresh sardines for breakfast tomorrow and a real treat - pig cheeks from Iberian pigs. I'm going to make a stew with plenty of onions, garlic, carrots and turnips.

I've been swimming more often recently - and feel better for it. I'm starting karate next month once the kids are back at school.

This morning - I'm happy to report - a perfect number 4 on the BSS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Stool_Scale

I prefer 2, maybe 3 if I'm feeling lazy.

Yesterday I made a lovely lamb stew with some cheap fatty cuts - the fat is delicious! Today I have some pork from the iberico pig - it was expensive (almost 3 times the price or normal pork) but look at the pic - again the fat looks great!

I suspect that I'm eating too much fruit - maybe I need to up the fat intake - and the exercise! I live at the bottom of a castle on a rock - I used to run up to the top but stopped when I developed a bad back, yesterday I walked up.

Today I bought a single big rib from of the bull fighting beef - grilled it was a bit tough - I'll stew it next time. Tonight we're having rabbit in chocolate - I haven't started it yet but it will be first fry up some panceta (fresh bacon???) with garlic and rosemary then remove them and fry the rabbit in the fat, add the chocolate (I've got a bar of 85% and some 100% powder), some water, cook for while then put in the pork, garlic and rosemary at the end.

Today we had pork chops and fried eggs for lunch and a buffet dinner of mixed leaf salad with plenty of olive oil, avocados, serrano ham and "tinned fish of your choice" my daughter and her mate had tuna in water and my son and I had smoked cod liver in cod liver oil - my son has taken to this diet - even if I offer them bread he says no. He'll have sweet puddings though.....

I also made a lovely carrot and ginger juice with added coconut oil - delicious!!!

We got a dog today as well (as a pet I hasten to add) six months old and is going to be big - he was abandoned on a motorway. The vet gave me some free premium dog food - he seems pretty hungry. The horse meat from last night was pretty tough - none of us enjoyed it so I gave the dog some mixed up with a bit of the cod liver oil.

Six weeks in and my energy level has suddenly shot up! I've been doing quite a lot of light physical work all weekend and I was out until 2am on Friday night and 4am on Saturday - both mornings I was up at 7am and out with the dog and full of energy all day.

 

Yesterday we had pork ribs for lunch followed by a few grapes (the dog had a rib and more pig liver) - in the evening we had a couple of guests and we had langostinos (largish prawns), green salad, mackerel fried in palm oil with oregano and melon. One of the guests hadn't seen me for a few weeks and commented that I'd lost weight (not that I was especially overweight before).

The dog had the four fish heads, tails and entrails. As he was chewing up the heads an eye rolled out and glinted in the light - like a perfect glass ball. My son picked it up fascinated and examined it carefully - he then washed it under the tap and I asked if was going to keep it. No, he said "I'm going to eat it" - he declared it to be chewy but basically tasteless. He's really taking to the diet and wants to try brain and other offal meats. He went to stay with his mother a few days ago and had lots of pasta - which resulted in painful bloating (I got the blame!).