We had Toad in the Hole last night. During the week Julia had mentioned it and as we both like it we decided to make it. I managed to get her to do the hard work. For some reason we haven’t had it for years. We had it with some Aberdeen Angus beef sausages, broccoli and sweetcorn and rounded it off with treacle tart left over from the night before. A real festival of nursery food.
This is the first one in a cavalcade of new recipes we are planning to try. It is easy to get stuck in a rut and find you are eating the same old things week in, week out. We had Very Convenient Stir-fry and Noodles last week. The recipe is one bag of ready cut stir-fry vegetables, a pack of noodles and a pack of oriental-style sauce. We had sweet and sour sauce last week and will be having the same thing this week, but with plum sauce. It’s on special offer from TESCO and it’s quick and easy to make. We had it most weeks in lockdown and it was always a good night as it is tasty, healthy and easy. Those are three things I love in food. Two others are “cheap” and “fried”.
Toasted Teacakes
Tonight we had salad. Greenery, tomatoes, spring onions, red and green peppers, cucumber, pears, Stilton cheese and pine nuts. The pine nuts are really for a recipe that Tootlepedal suggested for Brussels. I’m still getting round to that, but it seemed silly to leave them there in the cupboard when I was struggling for ingredients. We haven’t got round to bringing all the kitchen ingredients, so had no olives and no dressing but it wasn’t too bad. Sometimes you have to suffer for your waistline.
This afternoon we finally got round to hanging pictures. It’s looking a bit more like a home now. We still have enough pictures to have things on the wall in Nottingham too. To be honest, we really do have to make more of an effort with this move. Living in two houses is trickier than I thought, and it’s not just books that we have too many of. Pans and paintings are also trying to take over.
To close the list of the day’s events, I have had an email and can now record my first acceptance of the year. That’s the advantage of sending out plenty of submissions – a rejection is soon balanced by an acceptance and the world seems a better place again.
Tea and mini-scones Brookfields Garden Centre
Was the treacle tart home made? I like treacle tart but I haven’t eaten one for years and years.
My sister came to tea and brought it as a gift. I think it was M&S. I haven’t made one wince we were on the farm – I feel too guilty.
I will have to check next time that I am in M&S.
It was very good.
Congratulations on the acceptance and getting pictures up on the walls!
Thank you. Even Julia is happy with me at the moment. 🙂
Very well done on the culinary and literary fronts
Thank you Derrick.
Yay for your first acceptance! We, too, tend to eat the same thing week after week. Like you, we want to branch out and from time to time we do.
Change is easy – just pick up a cook book and buy some new ingredients. But keeping that change going, now that’s a different matter. 🙂
We are soon back to our old recipes, because they are the ones that are in my DNA. I am still cooking versions of recipes my mother used 60 years ago.