Thursday, 17 February 2011
Dahl with cheese and crackers
Did I mention before that I cycle to work? Well I do. It's less than a ten minute ride but cycling is quicker than walking and I enjoy it. I carry a back pack so that I can transport the necessary items to and from work and carry home any shopping I do during the day. As I have taken to buying all our fruit and veg from the local market stall this means that I quite often have a heavy rucksack full of veg to carry home or handlebars with plastic bags of veg balanced on them. The other week I had a meeting across town and carried the rather substantial files with me on my bike in a bag for life on the handlebars. The journey was so wobbly that I decided to buy myself a pannier rack. Luckily Mr VST had a spare pannier bag that I could use. As we have been away he has only this evening managed to find the time to fit it to my bike for me and I have been avoiding stocking up on heavy items until it had been fitted. The only meal I could think of that required the minimum of veg was dahl so that's what I made. Carrying home the onion that I needed for the recipe made no difference to the wobbliness of my journey!
Veggie Valentine's Meal
I'm back!
I hinted that I was going away snowboarding and had every intention of posting a blog before I went away but didn't get the time. There will be posts to fill in the gaps but I thought I'd start with last night's Valentine's Day meal. Yes I realise it was two days late but I was up country for the day itself so we celebrated last night instead.
We went to our local vegetarian restaurant, Herbies. While we were there we realised that we have been living here for nearly five years but only been to the restaurant twice including last night's visit. The last time we went was Valentine's Day 2009!
The food was absolutely delicious. To start we shared a generous portion of granary garlic bread. Tasty, thick slices of bread, generously topped with garlic butter and melted cheese. They were an excellent start to the meal unfortunately I don't have any photos.
For our mains Mr VST had a Winter vegetable crumble with baked potato wedges. The crumble was a thick savory crumble with oats and seeds. The vegetables included celariac (which I never quite know what to do with) as well as some of the more usual ones.
I hinted that I was going away snowboarding and had every intention of posting a blog before I went away but didn't get the time. There will be posts to fill in the gaps but I thought I'd start with last night's Valentine's Day meal. Yes I realise it was two days late but I was up country for the day itself so we celebrated last night instead.
We went to our local vegetarian restaurant, Herbies. While we were there we realised that we have been living here for nearly five years but only been to the restaurant twice including last night's visit. The last time we went was Valentine's Day 2009!
The food was absolutely delicious. To start we shared a generous portion of granary garlic bread. Tasty, thick slices of bread, generously topped with garlic butter and melted cheese. They were an excellent start to the meal unfortunately I don't have any photos.
For our mains Mr VST had a Winter vegetable crumble with baked potato wedges. The crumble was a thick savory crumble with oats and seeds. The vegetables included celariac (which I never quite know what to do with) as well as some of the more usual ones.
I went for the Greek filo pie which was a crispy filo basket with roasted peppers, tomatoes, aubergine and olives with feta cheese and a lovely tomato sauce.
It was amazing! I went for a salad to accompany this and a bowl of red cabbage coleslaw, potato salad and green salad came out. I couldn't manage it all and so the waitress kindly packed it up for me to take home.
Valentine's gifts consisted of large amounts of chocolate so we didn't really need desert although I think I might have to go and try the maple and pecan tart soon....
Friday, 4 February 2011
Jacket Potato with Bean, Cheese and a side of Pizza?
That's what happens when you're trying to use up the food in the fridge before you go away!
Bangers, Mash and Onion Gravy
I'm using up all the stuff in the fridge so an onion for the onion gravy, some potatoes for the mash, carrots and broccoli on the side and our freezer is never short of Linda McCartney sausages - perfect for this yesterday....
Wednesday, 2 February 2011
Cottage Pie with Sweet Potato Mash
I'm going to weigh myself tomorrow in the hope that I have shifted the last of the layer I put on over Christmas. My clothes are certainly back to fitting better anyway but I would quite like the scales to confirm it. This is all before I go away next week on a snowboarding holiday which is fully catered and as I understand it we will be fed breakfast, tea and cakes on our return from the slopes and then a three course meal with wine each evening. I'm not sure if the snowboarding will cancel out the calories consumed but I'm not really that bothered either!
Anyway back to today. Cottage pie made with Quorn mince and half normal potato and half sweet potato mash has to be one of the more filling low calorie dishes that I make at about 235 calories a portion and when I am counting that makes it a winner!
Anyway back to today. Cottage pie made with Quorn mince and half normal potato and half sweet potato mash has to be one of the more filling low calorie dishes that I make at about 235 calories a portion and when I am counting that makes it a winner!
Tuesday, 1 February 2011
Hearty Root Vegetable Stew and Dumplings
The temperature dropped off again over the weekend and yesterday was freezing. I woke up to a frosty wonderland. What better than a lovely warming stew and light fluffy dumplings to satisfy the belly and the soul!?
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