22 Foxhole East

greenbee

I'm with @kerri_gt on the talk and chat. And it also helps distract you when it gets tough. 

f0xh0les

Well I looked at my alarm clock at 6am (I do not have it programmed to go  off cos I tell my head what time to wake up and I just do) and thought 'do I really want to do this?'  I did not have any music, my headphones do not work as an fm radio antenna for my phone, my dog's in the wash, yada yada yada, So lay there feeling annoyed at me for 15 minutes, and then got up, strapped on the lycra, was out the house at 6.30, I was aiming for a 5 minute outward, 5 minute back run, but it was all quite painless. It was nearly enjoyable! Not a soul around, I scared the sh1te out of a pair of squirrels up to no good, was cheered on by a blackbird, startled a few very fat pigeons, ended up doing 7 minutes out and 8 minutes back, so a 15 minute run which according to g00gley maps is a smidge over 2km.  I was tempted to do more, but I know I am going to feel it in my knees and I want to be able to do it again tomorrow morning. No coughing, no ill effects, until after I had a bath and suddenly g0ot a really tight wheezy chest - one blast on the blue inhaler, and it is fine still tiny bit wheezy but nothing to write home about..   I have my eye set on the main ring road as the end to my run by this time next week, which will be a 3km round trip. 

I am fitter than I thought I was, as last time I tried this it was absolute torture. I was stopping all over the place.   So this morning (after the run) I was 12.4 and I am aiming for 12.0 as fast as possible.  DH spent 2 hours on his bike last night and was 12.0 this morning, which he is putting down to dehydration (alien abduction / Venus entering his Mars House etc).  I told him he would be 12 by Monday but would he listen to me?  Nooooo.  

Food yesterday was gorgeous - I made an Irish stew for tea, and lobbed half a sweetheart cabbage in there just for the hell of it, but accidentally made soda farls which were adored by all  and are ridiculously quick and easy to make in a frying pan.  Easy for kids to make and lovely comfort food. If you are planning an Irish themed meal. Also the best thing to toast in the morning for breakfast and are heavenly with marmalade.  I forget my kids did not grow up with this stuff. I need to teach them these recipes.

Right, coffee and politics and thinking about doing stuff.

kerri_gt

Well done on getting out for a run,  and great that it wasn't as tough as you expected.  You are always so busy around the house doing things that I'm not surprised you're fitter than you think. 
It's blowing a gale here atm, not cold but very blustery.  I am in my lycra getting ready to head out and see my friend for our weekend run (we will be taking that running at a talking pace very seriously as usual lol)

I've never made soda farls, how do you do them? I do love a good stew or casserole. I think its some genetics from some Ukrainian/Russian heritage somewhere back along the line 😁

f0xh0les

2 cups s/r flour. 1 tsp baking soda, 1 cup buttermilk (or sour milk or  milk soured with vinegar)  salt. make it into a dough ( it is roughly twice as much flour as liquid) make it into a round shape, put it in a frying pan and squash it down, cut into 4 pieces (farl = fourth) about 6 minutes on each side. Job done. Brilliant toasted, or you can pull each 1/4 apart into 2 pieces, and put the two middle sides on the frying pan and it toasts it immediately.  It is a thing of beauty. Really tasty for practically no effort whatsover.  Fresh bread in 15 minutes from thinking of it. 

Baileys_Babe

Thanks for sharing @foxholes is that a dry frying? Or does it need some oil/fat to fry in?

in_need_of_direction

Soda farls are a regular for our NI household.  We tend to use them to make cheese on toast sodas.  Truly amazing but still not as good as potato bread though English husband prefers the soda

f0xh0les

Baileys_Babe said:

 @foxholes is that a dry frying? Or does it need some oil/fat to fry in?

Just dry with a scattering of flour.  Medium heat.

Baileys_Babe

Thanks, @foxholes I  will give them a try. 

thriftyish

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crazy_cat_lady

My goodness I want soda farls now but they are definitely not allowed on my diet. Carbs make me very large indeed.
Well done on the running - I didn't get out for my walk yesterday but I reckon the cleaning and decorating made up for that.