May 2013
April 2013
My mouth's watering reading this - of course it's a fast day too!
I couldn't agree with you more. I love it that we can really ENJOY food again. I was reminded of a woman who attended the same WW meetings with me in the 80s (back then I was only 5 kg overweight), she loved cooking and couldn't get her head around not being able to use butter anymore. For too long the food has turned to ash in our mouths... or whatever it was Captain Barbossa said! : )
I couldn't agree with you more. I love it that we can really ENJOY food again. I was reminded of a woman who attended the same WW meetings with me in the 80s (back then I was only 5 kg overweight), she loved cooking and couldn't get her head around not being able to use butter anymore. For too long the food has turned to ash in our mouths... or whatever it was Captain Barbossa said! : )
Pea shoots and Dandelions
by michele on 08 May 2013, 18:51
So anyway, celebrations called for food. In my house that is! So what to cook that won't tip the already stretched weekend intake over the edge of a cliff, but reflects the seasonal and magical properties of the day?
Oat cake (oats are aphrodisiac apparently) with thin thin slice of feta cheese (sheep> gambolling lamb connection) pea shoots, spring onion and dandelion petals
Roasted spring lamb with asparagus (just in season and the rest I will leave to the imagination) with batons of carrots and fine french beans, a couple of new potatoes and mint (which has just sprung up everywhere)
Deeply dark and very naughty chocolate mousse- ok so that one might have blown the TDEE but I just had a little bit.
Washed down with a rhubarb and raspberry cordial/chilled white
Felt good to be eating normal - no, scratch that, special- stuff with the family and still losing weight. Have been a little bit more careful this week on my feeding days but hey- is good to be able to LIVE life, not be just be waiting til I am at my target weight to do so.