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Winter Food

Tis the season to feast on soups and stews, drink tea and eat cake. Anything warm and comforting is welcome in my life at the moment. This is a variety of things I’ve eaten over the past week.

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Sometimes these kinds of food aren’t the most attractive to photograph. On the left is salad, bread, ratatouille, mashed sweet potato, and creme fraiche. On the right is tomato & butterbean soup with Israeli couscous mixed in, and bread with pate.

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Meatballs and chorizo in a tomato, pepper, onion and garlic sauce, served with Israeli couscous. Lemon drizzle cake and a cup of tea.

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Gingerbread coffee and a Kindle – perfect cold weather companions. Muffin, scrambled eggs, tomatoes, apple.

I have a confession to make: I make scrambled eggs in the microwave. I always have done. It takes barely any time at all and it’s so easy. My boyfriend thinks this is some kind of egg sacrilege and won’t allow me to make them for him, ever. He can’t poach eggs, though, and I can so I win. How do you make yours?

Tea or coffee?

Have you started eating wintery comfort food yet?

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What I Cooked Tuesday

No pictures from Wednesday as I’m in Sheffield visiting my sister to celebrate her 23rd birthday. 

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Instead, here are some things that I ,made on Tuesday. First off I decided to make these summer rolls that I saw on Girl Looks Like A Pony. Despite the fact that I didn’t manage to roll them as much as squidge them up into a dodgy looking parcel, they tasted pretty damn good.

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After that, my mum and I made lasagne. Lots of lasagne.

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  • Have you made anything new lately?

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Chicken sandwiches & salad with honey mustard dressing – Bagel with cream cheese and tomato – Spaghetti with ham, celery and leek sauce & salad – A Tracker bar eaten while watching The Big Bang Theory, I’m so cool – Bread, laughing cow cheese, burger mustard and cucumber (possibly my favourite snack at the moment) – Tea (which I added milk to because I believe black tea is morally wrong)

On Tuesday I made a marinade for salmon which was AMAZING, and I feel like I need to share it with the world. I mixed soy sauce, oyster sauce, fish sauce, sweet chilli sauce, white wine vinegar and vegetable oil, then added minced garlic, red chilli and ginger. I can’t tell you what quantities because I made it up as I went along and just added things until it tasted sticky, sweet and salty. I guess the main component was soy sauce, and there was quite a lot of sweet chilli, with just a bit of everything else to add flavour. I served the salmon with courgette, aubergine and udon noodles. AMAZE.

Lots of carbs, lots of vegetables: just the way I like it. This is just bits and pieces of what I ate over the week, btw.

  • Do you like The Big Bang Theory?
  • How do you take your tea?
  • Any amazing marinade recipes you’d like to share?

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What I’ve been eating (+ a recipe)

 

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I’ve been eating a lot of un-photogenic food this past week, hence the lack of interesting photos. The most exciting things I have eaten are a cheese scone with Wensleydale cheese (best combination ever), grilled courgette and aubergine (possibly my favourite vegetables in the world), butter bean & tomato soup with avocado & tomato on a bagel (exactly what I needed at the time, possibly a new go-to meal) and spinach & ricotta pasta baked with feta & mozzarella (eaten at an Italian restaurant, absolutely freaking delicious). On Sunday night, despite the fact that it was ridiculously cold, I decided to make frozen watermelon daiquiris. As you do. They were delicious and I could have easily drank many more if I had more watermelon. Just blend rum, ice, deseeded watermelon and sugar – mmm. Now for a recipe.

Spiced Carrot and Lentil Soup

You will need a few large carrots, about a bowful of lentils, stock, onion, garlic, and whatever spices you fancy. I usually like to use some combination of chilli powder, curry powder, garam masala, cumin and turmeric. (I first made this soup while living at uni, where I did not own any weighing scales, hence why I don’t use measurements. The recipe I based it off is here, for those of you who have your lives in better order than I do. I don’t personally put milk in it because I don’t think it needs it. Use your own judgement on that one.)

Part of the beauty of this soup is just how easy it is to make. Fry some onion and garlic, grate the carrots, then add the carrots, lentils and stock into the pan. Boil until the lentils have gone a bit mushy, stirring occasionally. Leave it to cool down for a minute (important: you don’t want to splash hot soup on your face!) and then blend it, preferably with a stick blender. I usually serve it with some coriander leaves sprinkled on top, and I think it would be great with creme fraiche drizzled over it.

I haven’t made this soup in a while but I have found myself daydreaming about it as the weather gets colder, so there may be pictures of it next week!

  • What’s your favourite vegetable?
  • Do you like to follow recipes closely or do you prefer to guess (like me)?
  • Let me know if you make the soup & if you like it!

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What I Ate Wednesday

I’ve been eating a lot. I just haven’t been taking a lot of pictures. I’ve been on a health kick lately and I find that this makes me eat more than I would otherwise. I try to cram so much fruit and veg into my face that I keep eating past the point of being full. Does anyone else do this? Do I just have issues? I probably just have issues. That’s ok. I haven’t made myself sick from eating too many tomatoes and bananas.

Yet.

Speaking of tomatoes, I am in love with them at the moment. I cannot think of anything better than eating a bowl of sliced tomatoes sprinkled with salt, a little sugar and a whole lot of black pepper. I’m also warming to cooked tomatoes, which I once passed off as too slimy. I also ate two helpings of plum crumble, despite being more than a little creeped out by stewed fruit.

I’m coming on in leaps and bounds, people.

(I’d be lying if I said that eating more custard than crumble didn’t help to quell my fears.)

I didn’t eat all of this on Wednesday, by the way – it’s just an assortment of things I’ve eaten over the past few weeks.

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Peanut butter, Nutella, rasberry jam & banana sandwich. My family looked on in abject horror as I assembled and ate this monstrosity.

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Tomato sandwich, rice cake with extra light Philadelphia & cucumber. Word to the wise: extra light Philadelphia is not good, don’t do it to yourselves.

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Chocolate fudge cake & custard, eaten in bed while checking Twitter.

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Wensleydale cheese & tomato sandwich (I eat a lot of bread) with salad.

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Butter bean & tomato soup.

I went out for a film and food date with a friend tonight and tried tuna steak for the first time. It was delicious, I will definitely be eating it again.

  • Are you a bread addict like myself, or is bread the enemy?
  • What’s the best thing you’ve eaten this week?
  • How do you feel about stewed fruit?


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What I Ate in Italy

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Mushroom pizza – Espresso gelato – Kiwi gelato – Lasagne – Some form of pastry filled with marmalade custard – Napoli pizza (cheese, tomato, anchovies) – Insalata Vesuvio – Lemon gelato cake – Pesto pasta and bruschetta – Salad with chicken, black olives, roasted peppers and almonds – Spaghetti carbonara – Tiramisu – Fettucine with prawns, courgettes, tomatoes and garlic – Picnic! – Ravioli with ham and cream – More tiramisu – A 2 euro bottle of bellini while sat by the Grand Canal – Melon granita – A huge, super cheap bottle of Peroni

Now I’m pretty sure I’ll be eating lettuce leaves for the next 10 days to lose the fun chub I have gained.

  • What are your holiday eating habits like?
  • What’s your favourite cuisine? (As in, Italian/Indian and so on)


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What I Ate Wednesday #3

(I had to give up with the rounded corners toward the end because my photo editing software went wild.)

Stir-fry : Pink lemonade mixed with soda water : Mixed nuts : Iced latte from Costa : Apple and satsuma : Forgot to cancel after getting a free Graze box so another one arrived and it was actually kind of amazing : Some green tea shit that tasted horrible, I had one that was black tea and peach and something else which was lovely : Mint milkshake and salami & mozzarella panini from Cafe Nero

This is my advice to all the rioters… Keep calm and put the kettle on. This reminded me of the Operation Cup of Tea hashtag that’s going round Twitter. The news of more rioting last night is utterly depressing and disgusting, especially the news from Birmingham. My heart goes out to all affected. Even though I’m in England, because I’m in such a rural area it all feels very surreal. I wish there was something I could do instead of writing inappropriate things on social networking sites about it.

Finally, the adorable ring I pinched off my sister and wore today. It hurts my finger but it makes me smile.


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What I Ate Wednesday #2

I’ve decided that I like this game and I’m going to play properly. Even though I’m not a food/healthy eating/healthy living blogger, I guess I’m still allowed. I like to eat all variety of things, I like to take (admittedly not very good) photos of what I eat, and I like to share it with people who may or may not care.

Huge salad consisting of iceberg lettuce, bag salad, black and green olives, gherkins, red green and yellow peppers, cucumber, tomatoes, wasabi peas, prawns, and Tesco light choices honey & mustard dressing

Oyster delight from the ice-cream van

I asked for diet Coke and got diet Pepsi, so not cool

Pizza with a variety of meats and cheeses plus olives and peppers on my half

Another day, another beer in the sunshine

Red velvet cupcakes, Hummingbird Bakery recipe. I don't think they were as good as they could have been, due to not following the recipe properly, not being very good at baking and not having a mixer or a sieve. Still tasty though.

Banana, warm peanut butter, chocolate sprinkles. Food of the gods.

Steak ciabatta with onions and creme fraiche & mustard sauce.

Apple, peanut butter, laptop.

Salmon, salad, new potatoes, bread.

This is what I’ve eaten since last Wednesday, btw, not just today. By the looks of it I’ve been eating like a bit of a pig. I regret nothing.

I also saw this seagull outside Morrisons, but I didn’t eat it. I did feel the need to take a photo of it, though, which attracted a lot of strange looks.

  • What’s the best thing you’ve eaten recently?
  • Any stories about seeing animals in places you wouldn’t expect?


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What I Ate Wednesday

#jumpingonthebandwagon

#andimnotevenashamed

Who doesn’t like to a) eat, b) take pictures of their food and c) post these pictures on the internet?

Wensleydale cheese sandwich with all the salad in the world  -  Satsuma, apple, blueberries, peanut butter  -  Coffee  -  Strawberries with Nutella  -  Sausage and bean casserole  -  Chai masala tea  -  Olive foccacia with mozarella, basil, tomato and tomato chutey  -  Tesco sushi

Oh and btw this isn’t everything I ate today! It’s a variety of things I have eaten since about Friday up until today.

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