Anyway, back to food.... I cooked some terrible stuff in the week not worth a mention (quick, easy and not very nutritious kind of stuff) but I did manage to do a healthy dish one night - Piri Piri chicken kebabs with basmati, salad and tzatziki. It's one of my summertime favourites and it was like summer last week - crazy temperatures for March!
I got a lovely bag of salad from my organic veg box but it contained dandelions of all things. I have spent several weekends digging them out and feeding them to my tortoise so wasn't impressed to find them in my salad :-/ Apart from that, it was all good. I put the rice into egg cups before turning them out, just because I like to faff and pretend I'm a better cook than I am :)
Mr W was away on Friday night so I cooked myself a veggie bolognese using peppers, courgettes, onions, garlic, mushrooms, chopped tomatoes (fresh and tinned), passata, Martini Rosso (try it in cooking, would never suggest drinking it though), balsamic vinegar, seasoning and chilli flakes. Not really a bolognese but of a fashion.... Colin wasn't too happy about the lack of meat! We usually get an Indian take-away on Friday's and he will even eat curry, but I took Mr W out for dinner on Thursday to the local Spanish restaurant so thought I'd try to make up for it with a lower calorie meal (if you discount the cheese and double helping of spaghetti :).
Check out this courgette, have you ever seen a round one?! I got them from Waitrose, mainly for the novelty value:
Mr W was supposed to be away last night too but he finished work a lot quicker so came home. I hadn't bought steak like I normally do (I was going to have lamb chops for one) so he had to get some from Tesco on the way. They were nowhere near as good as my butchers (very pink, not dark like I'm used to) but beggars can't be choosers. It was pretty tasty in the end. I used the left over 'bolognese' to stuff romano peppers and butternut squash (added cheese to the latter and grilled it) and did some mini roasted potatoes in olive oil and Maldon.
Have you ever had Old Cotswold Leghorn eggs? They are blue shelled and in a blue box - you can get them in Morrison's sometimes and always in Waitrose. They are well worth spending the extra on (about £2 for 6) - the yolks are orange and they taste amazing. I had scambled eggs on granary for brunch, sprinkled with a little parsley (love parsley with eggs)...
Due to not buying steak, and Mr W due home on Sunday after two nights away (hmmm), I bought a huge rib of beef from the butchers for today. It is our favourite but we only tend to get it occasionally as it is a treat really - too fatty (and tasty) to have all the time. There was a time way back when we had it every other week but that was far too decadent so I stopped getting it so often.
I conveniently had a cauliflower and some Gruyere in (not so much for the waistline) so I had to make my absolute favourite roast beef accompaniment - Chez Watson heart attack cauliflower cheese, mmmmm. I roasted potatoes for two hours in all that lovely beef fat and did some Yorkshires (sadly not my own, just Aunt Bessie's but the ones in foil, not the ready done ones). I also cooked some organic carrots, purple sprouting broccoli and peas, plus some honey roasted parsnips which I left in quite big pieces and they were delicious. The gravy was made from the cauliflower and potato water with a beef stock pot, beef juices and some thickener.
It was a lovely end to a lovely chilled weekend which was much needed after a mental week at work. We spent the day gardening and I scraped all the weeds out of the paving on the drive (ever wish you hadn't started something...) which was extremely boring but needed doing. Hopefully we can get the front garden finished in the next couple of weeks, can't wait to get gravel down and not need to do anything with it. Got enough to do with the back garden and a whole house to refurbish!
Hope you all had a good one and will try to be back before weekend, it's just a bit difficult at the moment... x
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