Thursday, 5 August 2010

What about breakfast & tea?

Since I retired from work a few years ago we have got into a routine with our meals; breakfast when we get up [usually between 8.00 and 9.00], dinner [or as my Granddaughter corrects me - “Actually it’s lunch, Grancher”] between 12.00 and 1.00 and an afternoon tea around six-ish in the evening. We prefer to have our main meal at lunchtime these days and don’t like eating too late in the evening. There’s the dilemma. Our teas in the past were a mixture of cheese sandwiches, cheese on toast, cheese and ham sandwiches [notice a theme?]… need I go on. Whereas the recipe books will sort our mid-day meal, I need some ideas for tea time. We have over the last few days had sardines, banana sandwiches and beans on toast tonight. Any help would be appreciated.
And then there’s breakfast, normally this consists of cereal and there are some healthy options out there, but why as the cereal gets healthier does the taste more and more resemble cardboard? I prefer the sweet cereals that are less healthy so I’m probably going to have to “sex-up” the cereal with fruit or nuts to take away the cardboard taste.
I didn’t cook for lunch today as we had the leftover meatloaf from yesterday served with salad and new potatoes accompanied by a Thai dipping sauce[recipe below]. The meatloaf was excellent cold indeed Sylvia commented that it tasted better than yesterday, the dipping sauce certainly perked up the meal but it was VERY HOT!!! In future I would probably reduce the amount of chillies in it but the overall flavour was good, with the initial sweetness being overtaken by the sharpness of the vinegar and lime before being overwhelmed by the hotness of chilli.
Meal with chilli sauce.

Thai Hot Dipping Sauce.
ingredients
     Ingredients

  • 2 tablespoons caster sugar.

  • Juice of 1 Lime.

  • 6 tablespoons of water.

  • 2 tablespoons white wine vinegar.

  • 3 Red bird’s eye chillies – thinly sliced [seeds & all]

Simply mix all the ingredients in a saucepan, bring to the boil and cook for around 2 minutes. [Adjust the amount of chilli according to taste, I’d probably start with 1 next time and build up].
The finished sauce

2 comments:

  1. You need to do more Ken than writing this blog and I need to do more than read and comment on it!!!! We eat in the evening when Ian gets home. When we have a light tea we end up with crumpets or macaroni cheese. I use 'Nigella Express' a lot and love her New Orleans slaw with maple chicken. We have a whole 'Nigella' cupboard to accomodate the different ingredients. Must go now to work out next week's menu for my Sainsbury shop tomorrow morning. Oh yes I also use the Sainsbury magazine for ideas. I tear out the recipes and file them away!

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  2. Try

    http://www.myrecipes.com/recipes/low-cholesterol/breakfasts/

    for a start.

    I have ideas (egg white omlettes with veggies, soy milk smoothies etc) but it all depends on whether you like sweet or savory for breakfast :)

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