What are you eating?

Had some delicious supersweet pineapples delivered yesterday as part of my weekly veg order, and so Ive just made a big fruit plate for lunch.

Pineapple, banana, cherries, red grapes, mango and strawberries. (The straws and the cherries were mine )

To be washed down with a mango and banana yoghurt smoothie.

Good eating!

 

Hi Melinda,
For the very first time I have grown strawberries in the greenhouse and the yield is fabulous.
When I first moved here 15 years ago I grew them from seed and have taken new runners every year since.
John

 

Hi Melinda......I too am a fruitaholic,at the moment it's cherries,Peaches.Strawberries,Mellons,Apples, Grapes and just anything fruity I can lay my hands on.................................

 

Sliced banana and pineapple in a plain yoghurt.

MASSIVE grilled chicken and salad baguette- like a cartoon character would eat.
Mayo and hot sauce as my condiments of choice.

 

2 banana smoothie with strawberries, pineapple and grapes.

*sits back and waits for the sugar rush*

 

Ive been inspired by Woo to make a flavoured vodka this weekend- maybe a mixed red berry!

METHOD


* The cheapest Sainsbury's vodka which is then filtered 5 times through a Britta water filter- it becomes super smooth. This takes a while. (Coffee filter paper in a funnel works well but gets messy).

You can do the following in the bottle or in a separate container with a lid.
It can depending on what flavouring you are adding.

* Slice a punnet of washed berries in half - feed into the empty bottle/ container.

* Pour in the filtered vodka.

* Put the lid on tightly and place in a dark cupboard for a fortnight, shaking the bottle every few days.

* Taste after 2 weeks and see if the flavour has developed enough for your taste.

* Strain the vodka - I use muslin in a sieve.

CHILL and good times will ensue!



Variations:

You can add a home made sugar syrup to thicken and sweeten your vodka.
2 parts sugar: 1 part water- heat until it thickens (about 5 mins)


My favourite flavour combinations:

Strawberry shortcake (you add crushed almonds, vanilla pod and strawberries.)

Lemon and ginger- Lemon peel and crystallised ginger in syrup.

Double Lemon- Lemon peel from 5 big lemons, big handful of lemon balm + 300ml sweet sugar syrup.

Sweetie flavours-- any highly flavoured chewy sweets are great for summer drinking. E.g. fruitella, marsbars, Haribo sours, Skittles, starburst, jelly babies (you can separate out the colours or mix them all together.



Melt the sweets in a saucepan with a little water, stir until it all melts- but not boiled.
Pour the gummy mixture into the bottle and pour over your filtered vodka.

 

I added peaches to my smoothie this afternoon. Delicious!

Last night I had pak choi, parsley, coriander and Chinese lettuce (all home grown) in a super hot prawn Thai curry. The chillis were ours too.

 

Melinda your sweetie vodkas look just wonderful. Brighten up any booze cabinet. :luv:

 

What are you serving up today?

It was just an illustrative photo Rhyleysgranny! My vodka photos arent so er... orderly! Me posing for photos while pretending to lick spilled vodka off the sideboard isnt something Id want anyone's granny to see :D

Have friends coming over this afternoon- so we're dashing about picking up charcoal, hickory chips and soft drinks. And also cola cubes and pear drops to make vodka later.

On the BBQ today: - thin sliced steak and chicken marinaded in lemon garlic, coriander chilli, and parsley. Plus my favourite broadbean and chickpea falafel burgers. (broanbeans, parsley, garlic, coriander and chilli home grown). Plus salads.

Im trying to find refreshing non-alcoholic drinks- will fruit purees +lemonade/ sparkling water be enough?

 

It's dull and showery here today so no barbecue. I've had steak marinading in soy sauce olive oil and garlic for over a week so we'll have it inside with chips. Sod the figure :D

 

Vegetarian sushi and a can of beer:D.

 

Ooh sushi, lovely. Do you make it yourself?


I had two training sessions yesterday - one in the gym and a 5km run and so Im all achey and desperate for carbs.

Pak choi, noodles and oyster sauce for lunch today.

 

Chicken satay and wholemeal noodles.

Noodles:
Stirfied with Chinese lettuce, coriander, pak choi, onions , ginger and chilli (plus soy, 5 spice and shaoxing rice wine).

Satay sauce:
2 big scoops peanut butter, tsp of unrefined brown sugar, 2 tbsp soy sauce, 150ml of creamed coconut
Plus chilli and lime juice.

complex carbs, high fibre.

 

What are you eating?

Why? Is it so smelly you're getting wafts of it over the net? :hehe:

 

Ok- Im intrigued ClaraLou! What are you eating?!

Are you having onion and garlic soup? A Gorgonzola salad? Im struggling to think of more particularly stinky food! Stilton! :D Stilton on a warm crusty loaf.


Ive only had fruit today - a banana, an apple (it was all soft and fuzzy -bleugh- so I chucked it) and a handful of almonds.