salad, salad, salad

We’re not huge fans of salad, or at least of the lettuce-ish variety; however, recently I’ve been making us a raw vegetable based luncheon a few days a week, on the basis that I eat too many carbs, and we could both do with more fresh veg. Mostly, it is some combination of cucumber, spring…

smoked salmon, spinach and goat's cheese omelette

We’re going to be away for a couple of days, so I’m Using Stuff Up. Aldi had some smoked salmon at half price last week, so I bought a pack. About 2/3rds went into a pasta dish, and the rest was still in the fridge. As was about half a bag of baby spinach. I…

mushroom, spinach and mozzarella wraps

About half a punnet of chestnut  mushrooms and some spinach needed eating up, so I deliberately made last night’s cabbage dish with only half a mozzarella ball, and saved the rest for today’s lunch. Finely chopped the mushrooms and set them to cook down slowly in some olive oil. Put the wraps on individual plates,…

a quick lunch of leeks and pasta

We’re having a bit of a funny day today, food wise. A friend asked if we could hold a birthday party here for him tonight, and said he would order takeaway pizza. *Takeaway pizza*. I ask you. So I said we’d cook, and indeed I have – a vat of Madhur Jaffrey’s lemony chicken with…

left over Kofta lamb

There was a pack of lamb Kofta in the fridge, leftover from the festive season (we’ve pretty much worked through it all now, thankfully). Today’s lunch is home made lentil/tomato/veg soup, and a wrap done thus: Place raw spinach leaves on wrap Add 4 pieces of cooked Kofta Dollop with a spoonful of mayo Fold…

broad beans with feta and pasta

broad beans, originally uploaded by ramtops. I shelled these last night, because I knew I wanted to cook them for lunch – I have taken up Morris Dancing (yes, really!), and practice is on Tuesdays, so I prefer to have my main meal at lunchtiime then. So: chopped an onion, and put it in some…

lunch 2 Sept 2010

We usually have crackers or bread for lunch, with cheese/cold meat/whatever, with the addition of soup in the colder weather. But occasionally, it’s nice to have something different. As I said, last night’s red cabbage turned out to be lentils when we got the lid off – why do gremlins get into my freezer and…

watching my diet

lunch, originally uploaded by ramtops. I need to be doing this now, so I’m trying to eat less carbs and fats.  Cut into small pieces: 1 wholewheat multigrain bagel with a little Phildelphia cheese, 1 hard boiled egg, 1 slice home baked gammon, 3 radishes, 2 gherkins. I find if I cut things small, I…

chickpeas and tuna for lunch

Into a bowl went: 1 can chickpeas 1 can tuna in sunflower oil 1 chopped sweet red pepper 3 chopped spring onions 6 or so chopped radishes some cress lime juice, mayonnaise, tamari Mixed it all up, decanted into two bowls, ate with a wheat tortilla – made  a lovely change.

an elderly tin of butter beans

We had planned to go out for lunch today, but of course the delivery of Shelves! to sort out the shed once the big freezer is Freecycled today has not yet turned up, so we didn’t dare leave the house.  And there wasn’t much in for lunch. So I rummaged in the tin cupboard and…