Food Glorious Food

[callistra]

Goodness, I have been watching too many cooking shows! Dinner tonight was leek and pea risotto with honey mustard garlic prawns, and the butter from the prawns drizzled around the risotto. Dessert is strawberry pudding - using Jamie Oliver's recipe from some episode of the naked chef that I have seen about four times now, I mixed up 75gs butter, 75 gs castor sugar, and then later add one egg and 75 gs self raising flour, dolloped it on top of chopped strawberries. Realising that Jamie had done his pears with a syruppy thing, I then poured a little plum port between dollops in lieu of a syrup, and popped it in the oven. Served hot with connosieur vanilla icecream.

Pics of main, but not dessert, will be posted to food porn, when I can be bothered.
:-)

However, this is food for the soul as well as for the body, so I don't feel as carbed out as I have been. Yay! Lunch today, I made pad thai. Oh, and the Franks and Beans were....OK. John liked them more than me.

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[numbat.livejournal.com]

My cooking skills continue to atrophy due to work. At my new place of employment the chefs are more than happy to provide me lunch or dinner, or lunch AND dinner if it's a particularly long shift. I'm pretty sure this has resulted in a healthier diet too as the amount of salad and vegetables I'm eating has risen. It might not be as good as home cooking but it certainly is better than not cookign at all because cooking for one is too much liek work.