The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

silvasava

Softstuff - thanks for the mushroom recipe - will try that as I love mushrooms!

Knit_Witch

Hmm how about spicy mushrooms on toast?

Spicy Mushrooms on Toast with Asian Salad
1 tsp sesame oil

1 tsp sunflower oil

1 onion, finely diced

1 tsp grated fresh ginger

1 garlic clove, finely chopped

1 fresh chilli, deseeded and finely chopped

275g button mushrooms, quartered

150 ml vegetable stock

2 tbs ketjap manis (Indonesian sweet soy sauce)

salt and freshly ground black pepper

2 slices granary bread

For the Salad

Juice of 1 lime

1 tsp sugar

1 tsp fish sauce (nam pla)

8 cherry tomatoes, halved

2 spring onions, sliced

1 tbs chopped fresh coriander

1 tbs chopped fresh mint

Method

Heat the oil over a moderate heat, add the onion, ginger, garlic and chilli and cook until the onion is soft. Increase the heat, add the mushrooms and cook for 5 minutes. Add the stock and the ketjap manis and cook for a further 5 minutes. Season to taste.

Meanwhile make the salad. Mix together the lime juice, sweetener and fish sauce, then toss with the rest of the salad ingredients. Toast the bread.

With a slotted spoon, lift the mushrooms and place them on the toast. Boil the juices in the pan until no more than 4 tbs remain. Pour these juices over the mushrooms and serve with the salad and a slice of lime.

Serves 2 - taken from The Essential Diabetes Cookbook by Antony Worrall Thompson

Softstuff

I'm so glad it's nice Nursemaggie.

I'm looking forward to trying that Knitwitch, thanks.

Silvasava, the problem with those mushrooms is trying to get hubby not to finish them in one sitting!

mardatha

I'm looking for something - well I can't force meself to say "interesting" with regard to a vegetable, but let's say something "different" - to do with cauli & broccoli. I like them smothered in a gallon of sauce but that's not LC or Paleo is it...:o

ivyleaf

knitwitch That cookbook was one of the ones I bought when OH was diagnosed some years ago, but I gave it to the hospice shop in the end because there were hardly any recipes in it I could imagine us making/eating! There seemed to be a lot of "chef-y" ingredients. But having said that, the spicy mushrooms sound tasty and you obviously made them and liked them

We're going away to see family for a couple of days, but feeling very ambivalent about it as neither of us feels particularly well atm! My stomach is sore again after a couple of weeks of being much better, but it'll be sore whether I'm at home or not IYSWIM, and same goes for OH's bad back, so may as well go.

juliettet

Mardatha, stir fry the broccoli with cashew nuts and soy sauce. Easy peasy.

Knit_Witch

ivyleaf wrote: »

knitwitch That cookbook was one of the ones I bought when OH was diagnosed some years ago, but I gave it to the hospice shop in the end because there were hardly any recipes in it I could imagine us making/eating! There seemed to be a lot of "chef-y" ingredients. But having said that, the spicy mushrooms sound tasty and you obviously made them and liked them

We're going away to see family for a couple of days, but feeling very ambivalent about it as neither of us feels particularly well atm! My stomach is sore again after a couple of weeks of being much better, but it'll be sore whether I'm at home or not IYSWIM, and same goes for OH's bad back, so may as well go.

We got it from the library and there were two recipes we fancied trying! :eek:

mardatha

Soy sauce is nice, will try that one ty. Ivy sorry about your tummy - did they ever say what it was?

monnagran

Seven jars of Clementine Marmalade in formation on the kitchen work top. They look very pretty with their Christmas hats on and festive labels. I've had a whole day on my own in the kitchen and have enjoyed it so much. DS2 and DIL are at work and Pickle has spent the day with her best friend whose mummy is truly yummy and a saint to boot. I'm hoping that the marmalade will be as good as it looks. I have an uneasy relationship with the setting point so chances are that the recipients will either be eating it with a knife and fork or drinking it with a straw. Still, it looks good, I can't do everything.

Tomorrow is the day for making peanut butter cookies, choc chip biscuits, shortbread and brownies. Tomorrow I have a four year old assistant. Tomorrow will be considerably less organised and peaceful than today.

This business of thriftily baking and making all your Christmas presents is all very well but it had escaped my notice that it all has to be done at the last minute. Not great planning but next year, with a bit of luck and a following wind, I will be in my own house and my own kitchen. Bliss.

Hope you are all coping with the weather up there in t'north. It's just dark and gloomy down here and I love it. I know it's perverse but I really do love these dark days.
I was probably a mole in some previous existence.

Slow down Hester. You put me to shame. Will you get anytime over the holiday to just be? I do hope so, you need a rest before the madness of next term begins.

x

Hard_Up_Hester

I have a day off tomorrow, no child care duties, so I can go to the hearing unit & get new batteries for my hearing aids.
I was at the sorting office at 7 this morning to pick up a parcel, DD was home by 3:30 so I came home & had a shower, now it's back to the crochet and Miss Marple on TV, bliss.