Good morning!
Well, yesterday went well - the December Determination lasted one day at least which is better than it could have been with a larder full of goodies!
The tomato and lentil soup went down well with everyone. I'd expected to have a portion left for today but by the time seconds had been ladled out, there was none left. The lentils make it very substantial too; I was stuffed!
Today's plans:
fresh fruit with natural yogurt
My parents always have a nice selection of fresh fruit on offer and I brought my own yogurt with me as I always do.
SW: free
L: beans on toast
Because . . . no soup left over. :-)
SW: the bread will be my healthy extra B
D: slow cooked lamb*, roasties, parsnips, broad beans; fruit salad
SW: free, amazing as it sounds!
Ss: fruit, maybe a fruit yogurt (one syn), milk (healthy extra A)
*Purists will shudder but we love this and Dad asks for it regularly.
I use two lamb leg steaks for three of us and the ones from their local butcher are large. Sometimes they are in a minty dressing and sometimes not.
I put a some splashes of water and a lamb stock cube in a roasting dish and add the steaks. I cover the dish with foil and place in a low-ish oven (gas 4, 170C) and cook it for at least an hour, usually longer.
The result is melt in the mouth lamb steaks and a stock that makes a great gravy.
Good morning. Your slow cooked lamb steaks sound good! Do you crumble the stock cube into the water? I will have a go. X
ReplyDeleteYes, I do, and giver it a mix, bit it's npot a problem id it doesn't all dissolve - it will as it heats up.
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Sounds delicious! As expected, a very indulgent couple of days BUT visiting daughter went back home a day early as "had a better offer" (as youngsters do!) so can get back to plan a day early, as well! Every cloud!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely. If we could see all disappointments in that way, we'd be all the happier, I think.
DeleteIt sounds like something Kipling should have written in that great poem, 'If', but he didn't (I think he didn't anyway).