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ruby_eskimo

Morning all.  Food looks amazing @Coxy11, think you're giving @bubbs a run for her money there.  Haven't had trout or salmon for ages so may have to pick some up on the next food shop.  

Decided that now the weather is slightly better, it's time to get the running shoes back out and started on C25K again as I haven't run since September / October time so needed to ease myself back in gently.  Certainly felt better for it and have found a C210K plan that I'm going to follow and see if I can complete that by the end of the year.

Managed an upper body workout this morning followed by ff yogurt and blueberries.  Lunch is the last of my red pepper and tomato soup with some cheese on toast again and dinner is mushroom risotto.  

Hope you all have a good day, I'm off to make another coffee 🥱

maman

Well done for getting back to the running @ruby_eskimo. It's great to see the days getting longer.😊

Reading about your  toad in the hole @joedenise, got me thinking I could make it with the Yorkshire pudding mixture. 🤔 I've been using SR flour as it's all I have in, so it would be 4 syns plus the 2 for the sausages (3 syns per person). That's another idea for the meal plan. 😊

Is that the kebab where you make a sort of meatloaf @Jellybaby? Enjoy.

Talking turkey 😉, I've made some rissoles that we enjoy from turkey mince. They can be a bit bland but that depends on how much spice you add. I've made them as little bites/balls too just to snack on. They're moreish. I'll post the recipe separately as I don't think the link will work. 

Had SW breakfast (fried eggs, ham  and potatoes) and last of beef stew for lunch. 
Not sure what's happening for dinner today. We'll be eating early so may just need a snack but will be SW friendly. 

maman

Turkey Rissoles

Ingredients

30g couscous

Bunch of spring onions

½ tbsp olive oil

300g turkey mince

25g dill

25g flat-leaf parsley

10g coriander

1 egg

1 tbsp vegetable oil

Method
Place the couscous in a bowl and cover with 50ml boiling water. Stretch clingfilm over the bowl. Leave to hydrate. Thinly slice the spring onions. Soften gently in half a tablespoon of olive oil in a frying pan, then tip into a mixing bowl. Add forked, hydrated couscous, turkey and chopped herbs. Whisk the egg with a fork and add that too. Use the fork to mix thoroughly, patting into a ball. Roughly quarter the mix in the bowl. With wet hands, pinch off small handfuls and form into little patties-!!!!!!-balls, transferring to a shallow oven tin smeared with one tablespoon of olive oil as you go. Chill.

Heat the oven to 200C/gas 6. Roast the rissole for 10 min.

I adapt to SW by substituting Frylight and soften the onions in the microwave and generally use all dried herbs as I rarely have fresh available. 

Coxy11

Hi everyone,

Another good day today. Strawberries, blueberries and 0% Greek yoghurt for breakfast, hi fi bar whilst on a beach walk then had grilled salt and pepper octopus, salad, sauté potatoes, steamed carrots, broccoli and sprouts (maman!).

There was a tiny amount of avocado in the salad and a little olive oil on the potatoes. Will count as today’s syns. 

Great to be getting back to running @ruby_eskimo - I hope to do the same soon. Hope you’re okay @Its_time. 

Can you believe there are 3 groups here in Paphos. Not sure I’m THAT dedicated to actually go 🤣

maman

Yuk! Imagine travelling all the way to Cyprus and eating sprouts with octopus! 🤣

I think I'd go to a group @Coxy11 , if time's convenient, just out of curiosity. You could buy more HiFis. 🤔😁

joedenise

Great day @Coxy11.  I definitely wouldn't even think about going to group when I'm on holiday!  Suspect that some people would that!

Cooking a lamb stew on the BBQ this afternoon - got to save electric where we can and it's cheaper to use charcoal, especially when we already have it! for a few hours than use the oven for a similar length of time!  It smells lovely.  Got the  neck of lamb at the butchers this morning as it was only £1.99/lb - can't remember the last time I saw it at that price.  

Bought stew packs from Tesco when I went shopping this morning as it was cheaper than buying the individual items - stew pack £1 and just a single swede was 80p!  Absolutely no sense in buying the individual items.  Still have a swede, a parsnip and quite a few carrots left so will be making some swede and carrot mash for the freezer.  Will also make a carrot & lentil soup to use the rest of the carrots.  Also got a leek left so that will get turned into a leek and potato soup.  Think we'll be having some soups for lunch one the next couple of weeks!

bubbs

Afternoon all
 Maman
I was thinking about toad in the hole today funnily enough as fed up of the same food 🙄 Maman i am surprised your yorlies rise as supposed to use plain flour 😏

Very cold here today and heavy frost but got 2 loads washing dry

Melon and ham for breakfast
Picky lunch with turkey 🤣
Burgers and salad for tea hexb and 1 hexa 

maman

It's like Christmas, with you eating up the LO turkey @bubbs. 🤣 Sounds cold enough where you are too!

Yes, I know recipes called for plain flour but it still works. 🤔 I noticed @joedenise used some baking powder so that would be the same principle. 

Good idea to use the barbecue @joedenise. I think we're all trying to think of (even more) ways of cutting back where we can. ☹️ It's not just the money, it's good to cut back on energy use. 

joedenise

Actually @maman the baking powder was in the American pancakes this morning not in the batter for the toad in the hole!

For the batter I use 50g plain flour, 2 eggs and then mix with water.

The stew is cooked!  I'll need to thicken the gravy a bit but I'll do that when I reheat it to have for a meal.  I'm hoping to get 6 portions from it even if it means that one meal is just a vegetable casserole!

bubbs

Maman we don't have turkey at Christmas 🤣🤣 he don't like it remember 😂

Lunch and tea, tea 1syn for BBQ sauce, burger looks a bit red but it wasn't, it's cause I cooked it in the oven while cooking dh's fish 😂