Gosh this week is a bit frantic. I'm wrapping up last minute jobs at work, wrapping up presents in the evenings and managing to get virtual catch-ups with friends and family in the spare moments. Last night I woke at 3.30am with a jump: I'd been dreaming I'd forgotten about my op until 2 hours after the time it was scheduled. Not happy that my waking anxiety should invade my sleep!
Anyway, onto my week in seven flavours. Only a little more abstemious than I thought it might be, what with the New Regime and all.
Cashew nuts! All part of the new food regime. Having been strictly an only-peanuts girl, I found them weird at first but now I even like them more than the former. Roasted and salted, of course. Whaddaya think I am, some kind of penitent?
Smoked salmon. I don't buy a lot of it before you go thinking I'm posh or summat. But this time of year is my own personal "salmon season" (me and everyone else in Britain) and I'm thoroughly enjoying the unbeatable taste of smoked salmon folded into gently scrambled free range eggs, the yolks so orange they look like little suns on my plate.
Coffee. Real coffee. Working from home means I get to make myself a cafetiere of the stuff every morning, so I'm not missing out on the coffee shop right next to my workplace. It's not quite the same, but it's close enough.
Coriander. Or cilantro if you're American. I love this herb but you have to go carefully with it unless you want a mouthful of something that tastes like antiseptic. This week, I've had it in soup, courgette fritters and in a giant cous-cous (the only cous-cous worth the water used in preparing it) salad.
Damson gin. Self explanatory surely?
Damson Jelly. I've been adding spoonfuls of this to gravies for the past couple of weeks and it adds a blast of sour fruity goodness to cut through the fat and heavy saltiness of gravy. Amazing. Try it now if you haven't already.
Rice cakes. Don't. I know. I've actually written the words "rice cakes" on my blog. I'm so ashamed. But not bloated, so there. When the need for a crunchy food that isn't toast (see previous post) or a nut (see above) overwhelms, I "butter" one up and add some humous or goats cheese. No, it is not at all as good as a piece of toast with cheese or jam on it. How could it be? This breaking of old (bad) habits is tough on the tastebuds sometimes, folks.
Rice cakes are shocking aren't they. But I'm all in favour of roasted salted cashews. And coffee too, although it is a fairly new thing for me, having gone without it for years. It's a slippery slope, I can tell you. I absolutely love coriander too, the nicest of all the herbs. I struggle to grow it though.
ReplyDeleteI've never been able to grow coriander. The best I can hope for is to keep the plants from the supermarket alive for more than a week!
DeleteI don't mind rice cakes actually and i love coriander, but haven't had much since the pandemic as my partner goes shopping and never picks its up, i should put it on the shopping list ps like the person above, i've never been able to grow it either. Roasted cashews are luxury.
ReplyDeleteI've come round to rice cakes recently, especially the ones with added seeds. But I never thought I'd say that!
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