balsamic steak

Sunday dawns bright and early, and another busy day looms. We go shopping, my dad stops in for a cup of tea and a natter and we get a first look at Kiki's redecorated flat - but you're not interested in all that.

After the exotic intake of crisp courgette flowers and delicate salads at lunchtimes over the past weekends, today we've got museli. Grrrrreat.

In the evening we fare much better with a balsamic and thyme steak from the One Month Eating Plan booklet given away for fat bifters in 2007 by Delicious. Because it's mash potato and red wine gravy heavy we tend to have it in the winter but today it's adapted for summer living with a spinach and tomato salad, and Bill's baked new potatoes on a bed of salt. Al fresco in a freshly sorted garden, with some elderflower and pomegranate cordial and pineapple, strawberry and mint salad after, what could be better? Booze, obviously.

Food of the Milos
Scrambled eggs for brekker, large quantities of puffs, orange juice, and raisins when were shopping, a smorgasbord of cheese, cherry tomatoes and avocado for lunch and fish balls and HVS which go down a storm - albeit with the expedient of just referring to them as 'meatballs' in an exaggerated Italian accent.

sources
balsamic and thyme steak - Delicious, One Month Healthy Eating Plan Booklet, February 2007 p19
baked new potatoes on a bed of salt - Bill Granger, Holiday, p158
pineapple and mint - I think it's a Jamie Oliver, but I remember Kendra giving it to us when she was still at teaching college and living in a damp flat in Wandsworth. That probably hasn't helped, although I added strawberries which probably *has* helped.