The anas and milos are off to the isle today so the morning is spent wearing him out in the park so he could sleep in the car on the way down. Luckily (for him), he was up at 0600 this morning so by the time they go after lunch he's a bit sleepy.
With an evening of golf lurking ahead I carbo-load with another hit of Salad Barnnaise for lunch (and a couple of glasses of left-over Prosecco) to fuel not only the nine holes, but also this monster update.
Golf and pub aside, I'm just about awake and sober enough to make classic pasta and cherry tomato sauce, although in an effort to cut down on the sheer tsunami of half-opened packets of random varieties of pasta, I decide on using the orecchitte up. To be honest it's not a great replacement, and we've still got quarter of the packet left.
Food of the Milos
Waffles and scrambled egg for breakfast (although not together), followed by a smorgasbord of cherry tomatoes, cheese and grapes as a pre-drive snack. He also has his usual intake of fruit flakes, puffs and babycinos.
sources
salad lyonnaise - Delicious - August 2009, p80
pasta with cherry tomato sauce - Donna Hay - The Instant Cook, p58
Sunday, 26 July 2009
crispy courgette flowers & ratatouille
Four AM this morning somebody decided he was going to get up and despite filling him up with milk and putting back in his cot, that was pretty much it. Lucky I'd bought two new Wiggles and Pepper Pig DVDs yesterday, although combined they only took us up to 0700, just in time for my driving lesson!
When I get back we do the usual saturday thing of going to the market and feeding the ducks, but as the weather is such a scorcher we tack on a picnic at the paddling pool before bed. Having thoroughly knackered ourselves out, the little monkey goes to bed and I knock up a ratatouille for dinner tonight.
The market also inspires our lunch - crisp courgette flowers and a glass of prosecco in the sun as a belated anniversary thingy. According to Bill, they're perfect for terrace dining - or eating in a sun trap city garden on the freshly-mown lawn.
The afternoon is spent in our paddling pool, pouring slightly Stizzy Mortlake Spring water onto the flowers and eating chocolate. With the monkey in bed, I leave ana with a bottle of wine whilst I head out for a quiet evening knitting and brass rubbing on Matt King's birthday/stag night part two.
Food of the Milos
Boiled egg, toast and a waffle for breakfast, babycino a packet of raisins, some cherry tomatoes and some of my sandwich for lunch, ratatouille and pasta for dinner. Oh and a chocolate mini-milk when we went to get lotto tickets. He was Brilliant today.
sources
crisp courgette flowers - Bill Granger - Holiday, p29
ratatouille - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, River Cottage Cookbook, p105
When I get back we do the usual saturday thing of going to the market and feeding the ducks, but as the weather is such a scorcher we tack on a picnic at the paddling pool before bed. Having thoroughly knackered ourselves out, the little monkey goes to bed and I knock up a ratatouille for dinner tonight.
The market also inspires our lunch - crisp courgette flowers and a glass of prosecco in the sun as a belated anniversary thingy. According to Bill, they're perfect for terrace dining - or eating in a sun trap city garden on the freshly-mown lawn.
The afternoon is spent in our paddling pool, pouring slightly Stizzy Mortlake Spring water onto the flowers and eating chocolate. With the monkey in bed, I leave ana with a bottle of wine whilst I head out for a quiet evening knitting and brass rubbing on Matt King's birthday/stag night part two.
Food of the Milos
Boiled egg, toast and a waffle for breakfast, babycino a packet of raisins, some cherry tomatoes and some of my sandwich for lunch, ratatouille and pasta for dinner. Oh and a chocolate mini-milk when we went to get lotto tickets. He was Brilliant today.
sources
crisp courgette flowers - Bill Granger - Holiday, p29
ratatouille - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, River Cottage Cookbook, p105
fushty chups
Due to a three hour 'inspirational' company speech this afternoon, I'm running approximately three hours late today, so I pick up some fushty-chups from Tanya's on my way home. It definitely counts as our weekly fish intake.
I do like their stuff, it's v crispy, the fish is v moist and it comes in such large portions we only ever need a large for one to share between the two of us. To be fair though, I could've done with some more chips tonight...
Food of the Milos
Porridge and banana for brekker, fruit flakes as a mid-morning snack, and cherry tomatoes, avocado, cheese, apple and a waffle with maple syrup for lunch. For dinner he had a jacket potato with cheese, cherry tomatoes - his new crack - avocado, blackberries, raspberries and a peach yoghurt for tea.
I do like their stuff, it's v crispy, the fish is v moist and it comes in such large portions we only ever need a large for one to share between the two of us. To be fair though, I could've done with some more chips tonight...
Food of the Milos
Porridge and banana for brekker, fruit flakes as a mid-morning snack, and cherry tomatoes, avocado, cheese, apple and a waffle with maple syrup for lunch. For dinner he had a jacket potato with cheese, cherry tomatoes - his new crack - avocado, blackberries, raspberries and a peach yoghurt for tea.
salad barnnaise
Another Thursday and another night of The Mentalist and loafing about for me, and another night on the town for the anas, who tonight is out for dinner with kendra-kats. God, teachers eh?
Anyway, before the crispy salad starts going soggy I decide on Salad Lyonnaise for tea but crivens! I don't have a handy small baguette to roast in olive oil and rub garlic on, so I miss that out and fry the bacon with garlic instead. Now this may sound odd but I take some inspiration from Trixie Firecracker and decide if she can change a word and take a third (of the profits/credit), I decide the lack of bread means it's an entirely different recipe, therefore Salad Barnnaise! It's strangely nice, although I *am* a little drunk.
Food of the Milos
Weetabix and banana for brekker, philadelphia sandwiches, apple, yoghurt and raisins for lunch, and pizza and kiwi fruit for dinner.
sources
salad lyonnaise - Delicious, August 2009, p80
pizza - Annabel Karmel - Top 100 Finger Foods, p28
Anyway, before the crispy salad starts going soggy I decide on Salad Lyonnaise for tea but crivens! I don't have a handy small baguette to roast in olive oil and rub garlic on, so I miss that out and fry the bacon with garlic instead. Now this may sound odd but I take some inspiration from Trixie Firecracker and decide if she can change a word and take a third (of the profits/credit), I decide the lack of bread means it's an entirely different recipe, therefore Salad Barnnaise! It's strangely nice, although I *am* a little drunk.
Food of the Milos
Weetabix and banana for brekker, philadelphia sandwiches, apple, yoghurt and raisins for lunch, and pizza and kiwi fruit for dinner.
sources
salad lyonnaise - Delicious, August 2009, p80
pizza - Annabel Karmel - Top 100 Finger Foods, p28
sweet leek & ricotta lasagne
Addled with a cold and racked with snot, the last thing I want to do is go to a screening tonight, but it'd be impolitic not to attend so I half-heartedly trip off to London's trendy Leicester Square to watch Inglourious Basterds. I'm glad I did (although given I've signed an embargo I'll like to point out I make no judgement on the film whatsoever), and I have a really enjoyable drink with Kate Mew & HBH Hawkes from the Blueyonder crew afterwards. We spend a lot of time moaning about MSN.
Curiously I think I may have drunk my way through the cold and even better, when I get home the anas have defrosted one of the lasagnes in the freezer. She is the best thing ever, and in a teeny-tiny way it makes up for missing the first episode of Midsomer Murders.
Food of the Milos
The new-improved ana audit continues: two bananas, weetabix and two satsumas for breakfast, he surprisingly ate some of last nights vegetable tagine and cous cous for lunch, had a biscuit at Kate's, and had some defrosted shepherd's pie and a golden kiwi fruit for dinner. This really is very detailed isn't it?
sources
sweet leek, tomato and ricotta lasagne - Delicious, September 2005, p31
tomato sauce - Delicious, September 2005, p32
Curiously I think I may have drunk my way through the cold and even better, when I get home the anas have defrosted one of the lasagnes in the freezer. She is the best thing ever, and in a teeny-tiny way it makes up for missing the first episode of Midsomer Murders.
Food of the Milos
The new-improved ana audit continues: two bananas, weetabix and two satsumas for breakfast, he surprisingly ate some of last nights vegetable tagine and cous cous for lunch, had a biscuit at Kate's, and had some defrosted shepherd's pie and a golden kiwi fruit for dinner. This really is very detailed isn't it?
sources
sweet leek, tomato and ricotta lasagne - Delicious, September 2005, p31
tomato sauce - Delicious, September 2005, p32
sweet potato & chickpea tagine
The original plan was to use sunday's leftover roast chicken to bake a classic chicken and sweet leek pie, but unfortunately we ate all the chicken so it's plan b tonight - a vegetable tagine. As it turns out, a warming, ginger-infused stew is just what I need with a cold brewing, and the fact I got absolutely soaked cycling home in a storm this evening. The lightening was quite impressive though...
Food of the Milos
The ana's very sensibly have started noting down what monkey nuts is eating so this part of the blog should get easier (although what else is she going to do with her time?). Anyway, today little lord miloroy has a banana for breakfast, which he's suddenly got addicted to for some reason, marmite sarnie, an apple, houmous, crips and a yoghurt for lunch and some de-frosted tomato pasta for dinner. No wonder he's so blydi heavy.
sources
sweet potato & chickpea tagine - Bill Granger, Holiday, p176
Food of the Milos
The ana's very sensibly have started noting down what monkey nuts is eating so this part of the blog should get easier (although what else is she going to do with her time?). Anyway, today little lord miloroy has a banana for breakfast, which he's suddenly got addicted to for some reason, marmite sarnie, an apple, houmous, crips and a yoghurt for lunch and some de-frosted tomato pasta for dinner. No wonder he's so blydi heavy.
sources
sweet potato & chickpea tagine - Bill Granger, Holiday, p176
steak with cherry tomatoes & cannelini beans
The ana's are ill today, although this is apparently entirely un-related to yesterday's sunday roast. Consequently I take the day off for some Daddy Day-Care whilst she wastes away in bed. Inevitably this involves going to the pond to see the ducks in the morning (babyccino on the way), endless hours of wiggles and meg and mog on TV, and the afternoon in the park. Daddys clearly are the coolest!
Anyway, I'm knackered by the time we get him down and can only face cooking something quick. As it transpires I'm also in the middle of a big 'not throwing food away' kick, so decide to use the steak as soon as possible for this chunky bistro-type affair. The anas perk up enough to eat a large amount of it, drink some wine and complain about the fact I want to watch The Supersizers. Back to work tomorrow - boo!
Food of the Milos
Can't quite remember to be honest, I think he had some of the potato and leek soup we made the other day for lunch, and we may well have defrosted something but lord knows what. Sorry.
sources
steak with cherry tomatoes & cannellini beans - Bill Granger, Every Day, p66
Anyway, I'm knackered by the time we get him down and can only face cooking something quick. As it transpires I'm also in the middle of a big 'not throwing food away' kick, so decide to use the steak as soon as possible for this chunky bistro-type affair. The anas perk up enough to eat a large amount of it, drink some wine and complain about the fact I want to watch The Supersizers. Back to work tomorrow - boo!
Food of the Milos
Can't quite remember to be honest, I think he had some of the potato and leek soup we made the other day for lunch, and we may well have defrosted something but lord knows what. Sorry.
sources
steak with cherry tomatoes & cannellini beans - Bill Granger, Every Day, p66
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