Saturday, low-carb day two-hundred and thirty, weekend feed day Weigh-in at start of day wt. 109.4lbs (analogue scales corrected ~106.75bs); 0.4lbs loss
... t.measures - ub. 28.5, w. 25.5, t. 30.25, h. 34.25 inches
Report for the end of week 41 on 4.5 : 2.5 - 0.6lb loss this week (total loss 36.6lbs); no shrinkage or expansion.
Slightly disappointed... but for goodness sake FatDog, the fairies gave you an exceedingly generous 1.4lb loss yesterday! Greedy, greedy, greedy! I confess, I was secretly hoping for more as I wanted to see 108.8lbs on the scales as a harbinger of things to come. Well, if I only indulge one day this weekend, rather than both, and manage a good repair day on Monday, maybe my wish will come true come Tuesday morn...
Happy dog with the arrival of the mortar & pestle. But, eek, it is *very* big. There are no rough bits in the base, so I'm wondering if it's alright - will see once we try mashing something tonight!
Still chewing over what tonight's dinner is. Think broccoli, cauliflower, chickpea and tomato stew with mash might be in order. But I really need to shift some cabbage too. So I'm wondering about cabbage mash - it'll be "wetter" than the starchy veg mashes, but with a good swedge of hard goat's cheese, the odd seed to season it (e.g. caraway, coriander or fennel?) and minimal liquid additions to blend it, it might just work. Oooh, and figs, I was going to add dried figs to the goat's cheese in a root veg mash, so why not this? Probably for very good reasons, and it is *rather* notable that I've never seen it suggested before - but then maybe no one has been mad enough to try it.
Just googled "cabbage mash" and it *does* exist... Ahhhh, but, it's not actually mashed cabbage, the recipes all seem to be for potato mash with shredded cabbage run through it. OTOH, "cabbage puree" gets a few hits too, but mostly for red cabbage. Ach, faint heart never won...
Oooh hoo... Well *I* think that worked, so did the OH who gave it 9.9, and the bestest neighbour (though I'm not *quite* certain of what he thought of it - he said the flavours were amazing). VBF was away on another planet, not a scoobie what she thought. Was exceeding strange though - somehow the mash ended up tasting quite strongly of horseradish, or mustard or somesuch. Not a clue why, as there was nothing of the sort in there: must somehow have been a reaction with the combination of cabbage, onion and caraway. *Most* peculiar (but yummy).
Admittedly, things didn't *quite* work out, as I seem to have "killed" the blender trying to get it to mash the cabbage, so the the mash was not the smoothest ever. The demise of the blender meant that everything else ran late (ahha, what's new?) leaving less time to reduce the tomato juice in the "stew". But it was good; actually, very good. Goes on the repeat list, no question - especially the mash-that-wasn't-quite-mashed.
........ Calories 1888.35 Carbs 68.26 Fat 100.66 Protein 56.14 Fibre 22.63
cabbage mash, a FatDog concoction
sweet pointed cabbage, sainsers, narrow strips, 26c/C3.9/F0.4/P1.8/Fi2.4/100g
......... 275g 71.50 10.73 1.10 4.95 6.60
cabbage, savoy, tesco, narrow strips, 32c/C4.1/F0.4/P1.7/Fi2.4/100g
......... 352g 112.64 14.43 1.41 5.98 8.45
onion, white, co-op, medium sliced, 40c/C7.6/F0.2/P1.3/Fi1.4/100g
......... 17162g 68.40 13.00 0.34 2.22 2.39
olive oil, 824c/C0.0/F91.6/P0.0/Fi0.0/100ml
......... 15ml 123.60 0.00 13.74 0.00 0.00
goat's cheese, hard, Village Green, crumbled, 408c/C0.1/F29.5/P23.0/Fi0/100g
......... 97g 395.76 0.10 28.62 22.31 0.00
figs, dried, co-op, 1/8'd, 240c/C48.6/F1.5/P3.3/Fi9.2/100g
......... 67g 160.80 32.56 1.01 2.21 6.16
double cream, coop, 465c/C1.6/F50.5/P1.5/Fi0/100ml
......... 90ml 418.50 1.44 45.45 1.35 0.00
soya milk, co-op org unsw, 30c/C0.1/F1.9/P3.4/Fi0.6/100ml
......... 180ml 54.00 0.18 3.42 6.12 1.08
butter, 720c/C0.6/F80.0/P0.5/Fi0/100g
......... 18g 129.60 0.11 14.40 0.09 0.00
caraway seed, whole
......... 10ml 0.00
water
......... 60ml 0.00
s&p 0.00
total for cabbage mash 1534.80 72.54 109.48 45.24 24.69
FD's 7/32ths portion of cabbage mash 335.74 15.87 23.95 9.90 5.40Method: 1. gently saute the onion and the cabbage in the olive oil and butter; 2. lob in the caraway seeds after a few minutes and then cook until the cabbage has softened (about five to ten minutes); 3. transfer to your blitz machine, add half the cheese, and all the figs, soya milk, cream and water and blitz until creamy, season to taste. You might want to do the blitzing in two or more batches: I think I've killed my soupmaker by trying to do it in a oner...
One doesn't *have* to go for creamy - ours was miniature chunky and was very good. Transfer to a grill-proof dish and distribute the remains of the cheese over the top, then grill until golden brown and bubbling
broccoli, cauliflower, chickpea & tomato stew, another FatDog bottom-of-the-fridge concoction
broccoli, bite-sized florets, sainsers, 29c/C1.1/F0.8/P3.1/Fi2.3/100g
......... 300g 87.00 3.30 2.40 9.30 6.90
broccoli & cauliflower, co-op, floretted, 35c/C2.4/F0.9/P4.0/Fi2.2/100g
......... 230g 80.50 5.52 2.07 9.20 5.06
onion, red, co-op, medium fine diced, 35c/C7.6/F0.2/P1.3/Fi1.4/100g
......... 72g 25.20 5.47 0.14 0.94 1.01
tomatoes, tinned, chopped, KTC, 19c/C3.0/F0.1/P1.1/Fi0.7/100g
......... 800g 152.00 24.00 0.80 8.80 5.60
chickpeas, KTC, 115c/C16.1/F2.9/P7.2/Fi4.1/100g
......... 240g 276.00 38.64 6.96 17.28 9.84
garlic, fine chopped, 149c/C33.06/F0.5/P6.36/Fi2.1/100g
......... 9g 13.41 2.98 0.05 0.57 0.19
chilli, green, fine sliced, 40c/C9.5/F0.2/P2.0/Fi1.5/100g
......... 19g 7.60 1.81 0.04 0.38 0.29
olive oil, 824c/C0.0/F91.6/P0.0/Fi0.0/100ml
......... 15ml 123.60 0.00 13.74 0.00 0.00
fennel seed, fresh ground
......... 10ml 0.00
s&p 0.00
total for broccoli, cauliflower, chickpea & tomato stew 765.31 81.71 26.20 46.46 28.88
FD's 7/32ths portion of broccoli, cauliflower, chickpea & tomato stew 167.41 17.87 5.73 10.16 6.32Method: 1. heat the oil in a large non-stick pan and gently saute the onion for a couple of minutes; 2. bung in the garlic and chilli and do likewise; 3. next again the broccoli and cauliflower; 4. add the tomatoes and cook gently for at least ten minutes (but mind the broccoli doesn't overdo); 5. add the fennel and the chickpeas and heat through; 6. season to taste and serve with cabbage mash
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Sunday, low-carb day two-hundred and thirty-one, weekend feed day Weigh-in at start of day wt. 109.6lbs (analogue scales corrected ~106.85bs); 0.2lbs gain
... t.measures - ub. 28.5, w. 25.5, t. 30.25, h. 34.25 inches
Bother. That's all. Bother.
Right. Bargain acquisitions mean I now have a glut of celery, plus a cabbage, organic carrots, three swedes(!), and a green pepper from the other day. I'm wondering about / fancying a nice Mediterranean themed stew.
Except that the OH collected my "Valentines present" from Waitrose, and I've spent the entire afternoon playing with it. We've been discussing the virtues of tablet computers over the last couple of months, and I've been bewailing the fact that I couldn't conceivably afford / justify buying the Asus Transformer tablet (a really neat hybrid), but was oh so desiring one. Sigh. And, out of the blue, the OH offers to get me one! "That's an exceptionally generous present", says I, "you're an exceptional woman" says he. FatDog was quite blown away, and then some... He's not been so romantic for a decade; I've even had to buy my own flowers for the last few years
So it's salad, quorn ham and cream cheese for the FatDog's dinner (bit too close to repair day fare - will have to compensate with doing a delectable recipe tomorrow), and a portion of one of the FatDog's frozen delights for the OH - probably the HFW cabbage parcels (I can't have these as I've *still* not worked-up the recipe).
Meantimes,
SQL Server Express is installing on our Transformer as I type - that's database software which, I'm hoping, will enable me to transform my clunky spreadsheet into a beautiful application that handles my logs and recipes, and thus transform my life! Exciting times ahead.
So much for me doing my job applications today; well, I suppose it is Sunday, and as long as I get them in tomorrow (deadlines are more than a week away) there's nothing lost.
My techie rating, however, has now crashed through the floor: a) SQL server said it needed 1.8GB - jolly dee, thinks the FatDog, that leaves plenty over - what it meant was 1.8GB for the install file, it takes about 7GB (plus the install file) once it has installed... oops; b) I've not a scoobie where to start with it (haven't used it before) and am having to trawl for documentation and youtube 'idiot guides' as to the specifics.
But, oooooh, oooh, ooh, happy, happy, FatDog. 'Tis such fun, and such a *very* lovely little machine. Maybe this is the motivator that I needed? My fleas are ticking to set up a test database and to get my data out of my moribund spreadsheet; though my clunky spreadsheet looks positively beautiful on the new screen, with so much more of it being visible - 'tis positively swoon-worthy. Wish the shift / ctrl / fn keys were in the same place though - I'm getting some jolly strange stuff going on now, on *both* machines! My only frustration so far is that I've not sussed how to do a single finger scroll on Transformer yet. Yay, got it! Didn't take long (it's in the instructions - how helpful). One just slides two fingers up or down *anywhere* on the touchpad. Likesee.
Think I need another square of chocolate to celebrate... I've not "really" had a proper meal, so might head for an OLS with cream cheese and orange spread combo before I go to bed so that I don't feel deprived (or hungry) going into repair tomorrow!
And now I've the initial faffing on the Transformer out the way, I need to transfer my data to something that it can access! The tablet bit only does micro SD cards, so I'll need to acquire one of those, meantimes the keyboard bit takes full size USB connectors, so I could dig out a redundant USB memory stick, if I can remember where they're hiding... Oh, except there's this exciting thing called Asus WebStorage, which, it seems, I have free for my first year. Hmmm... Okay. Plots ahoy / ahead.
Enough already! I'll be up 'til dawn if I keep going - so bed *now*. Tomorrow is another day / play.
........ Calories 1616.40 Carbs 45.93 Fat 93.49 Protein 47.62 Fibre 21.08