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Using up the ham leftovers I have made a very loosely adherent version of fidget pie (Regional food: Shropshire fidget pie | Countryfile.com) No cider, but some white wine instead, and its a pot pie with a puff pastry top rather than a pastry pie with a mashed potato top. Odds and ends of...

Love vegetarian Indian food. Yum. For us its roast chicken (with a lemon and lots of tarragon inside) with its lovely citrusy jus and a salad of ribboned courgette, lots and lots of shredded mint, baby broad beans, perks pois and avocado, dressed with more lemon and some EVOO. There was...

Friday nights are always special, dh is a away during the week. But I rarely know when he will be home, it could be seven pm or it could be after midnight. I have an elderly parent living with us too, so often end up making something dh can have later. I'm boiling a ham in cola and serving it...

I add rice to the mince, to make it lighter, and I choose lamb mince usually. I also tend to use a lot of middle eastern or North African sort of flavours, so some dried fruit,..apricots, prunes perhaps, ras al hangout or perhaps just some cumin and cinnamon. I also love peppers stuffed...

Left over cauliflower cheese from yesterday, but also ribeye steaks and some broccoli. Not too hungry but its a special occasion so we will probably have a cocktail before and a digestif after.

Lunches have been very seafood orientated recently. Today was prawns, yesterday was seafood salad (that was delicious) more humdrum days have been not very nice fish sticks. Not sure why I bought them. Oh, and marinated anchovies, I love these, they pack so much flavour. Other days...

Really tempted by the Indian food! After a change in plans here my husband has requested cauliflower cheese. We usually like to have this with beef, but I have chicken in the fridge. To stop in being too samey and 'pale tasting' I have marinated the chicken in lots of garlic. My fridge is...

Well, it three degrees celcius here today, but it was not enough to thaw the water troughs for our animals after a prolonged cold snap. Turned the water mains on in hope, but no hope. We have enough for a couple more days in the troughs, and its meant to be milder this weekend, so should be...

Sausage and mash sounds delicious, more appropriate for our weather here today than oysters tbh. (It hit 3 celcius today and our central heating isn't working):ermm: My dh loves fresh fruit, raw veg, all sorts of fish.....all the things some people complain about their partners not eating...

My husband is home tonight too. :) I was in the nearest town with a fishmonger earlier and stopped to pick up some oysters. They had two different types, so I got six of each to compare tastes. The smaller half dozen should taste more 'mineral-y'. I have a bottle of a very nice prosecco...

A lot of the initial research centred around total fasting for periods of time, or prolonged very low calorie diets. Research suggests intermittent 'fasting' gives most/all of the benefits with fewer draw backs. I think the semantics of the word fast become very interesting, for example, in...

It's been so long since i have been here I cannot remember the site protocol on links to recipes and articles, I am sure so e one will correct me if this is not allowed, but this is a nice example. I have only so far made the courgettes (zucchini) recipe from this list but the dipping sole is...

Certainly most of the advice now is to eat something ( five hundred calories for a woman...) every day, and that to 'get' the beneficial impacts one should eat normally on other days, Anorexia is not to be trifled with, certainly, nor malnutrition. If its a risk for anyone it's certainly a...

To be fair, intermittent fasting research has been going on for decades. (With benefits supposedly including reduced risk of type two diabetes, types of dementia and longer life expectancy) My comment about its current fashion were tongue in cheek, as so much literature is being produced...

I used to intermittently fast, but when I got I'll it was driven into me how unhealthy this was. Now it's all the rage my doctors have accepted I am safe to do this again. The most popular form is the two days a week or every other day. I find every other day messes with socialising at...

I really love smoked trout. It's delectable. Our weekends are mainly a home mixed muesli type thing....almonds, pistachios and walnuts, a little desecated unsweetened coconut, dried cranberries and/or cherries and quinoa. Usually we have a yogurt too. Somewhat disgustingly to mainly dh...

Sure, I will try and remember to take a snap :). (I have recently changed computers though and have to try and remember my image hosting website password! Your supper sounds delicious. Pork and apple is just unbeatable. Last week I make roast pork with pears instead of apple. And it was...

It's snowing today.

I am making a chestnut/ Stilton/ hazelnut nut loaf. Never made this one before. We'll have it with Savoy cabbage ( it's wrapped in some cabbage so will use the rest of it up).

I wouldn't trust many wild sources here. Our part of England had heavy flooding last year, and the purity of the watercourses has suffered. We rain water harvest from house, farm and surface water, and this is cleaned then run into a resevoir. We have considered using some space round the...

Rain and hail. Last year, weirdly in the south of England, a friend of mine got sunburn at the end of February. This week it's been snow, hail and rain and minus seven to minus 9 Celsius over night. I have given up waiting for spring and started my spring cleaning already, so that when...

Mussels, with sourdough bread for those that want to greedily eat it dunked in the sauce. Personally I prefer to reserve the sauce and use it as a stock to make a leek soups the next day. I am cracking open a jar of plums preserved in brandy to have with some yoghurt afterwards. It's...

We don't harvest it yet, but we live not far from a watercress farm. We are thinking about it for our own use here on our small holding though. We eat lots of watercress.

Tonight we are having watercress soup. These days I crave watercress soup often, but it's perfect for a night when people want to eat at different times.

Lol, it's so nice to see familiar names still here! Um, what's happened....um, we'll, I got quite a lot better from my neurological illness, got it quite well controlled, and started a business again, and bought a smallholding and restoration project house in England with my husband, then...