Lunchtime update: Today I’m starting the 3-day food diary that Gloji recommends. Also been outdoors (in the rain) for over an hour – this included some time at the market buying veg, and a can of beans that suspiciously announces itself just as ‘white beans’. I intend to make something happen in the kitchen with these in a minute.
Early evening update: So it turns out that if I eat just when I’m hungry, I get to find out what it feels like to be hungry. Good grief! How do people who go on fasts manage this? I feel very annoyed, with someone, probably… no idea who, perhaps with anyone who thinks fasting is a good idea.
I made kale chips earlier, from a Gloji recipe. PJ just came home, carrying a bag of giant Wotsits, and announced that I had made the kitchen smell like a fart. I guess it’s the sort of thing you have to leave the room then come back into the room to notice.
Now eating while typing (look I can multitask!) – I made chicken pasta salad, with a home-made pesto that tastes amazing, which is handy because, on its own, it looks like I imagine nuclear waste looks. We divided it into 3 so PJ can take some to work for lunch tomorrow*. I don’t yet know what I’m having for lunch tomorrow but it will have to be more substantial than today’s lunch (and occur earlier) so that I don’t go out on a crime spree.
* (I offered – because I’m off work this week – and I have some veg from the market I want to make into things)
… and then I had mandarins and a pot of jelly. I did take a photo, you can see it if you really, really want to, but I think it’s visually boring.
2 replies on “Day 9”
Please can I have the pesto recipe some time?
You can have it now. It’s not so much a recipe as a guess-ipee!
I wash a load of basil leaves then throw them in the container for the hand-held blender along with sliced garlic, flaked almonds (I dislike pine nuts), nutritional yeast, and some extra virgin olive oil. Blend it all up. Sorry not to have any measurements, it’s just ‘some’ for all of the above, whatever appears to work.