I was going to have quinoa with dressed crab and roasted vegetables.
But when I got home Mum was making one of the Simon Rimmer's Tomato Biryanis I bought her. She offered me half and I just flopped down on the sofa and said, Yes Please.

I did have roasted orange pepper, cherry tomatoes, garlic and red onion with it though.

Finished off with a mini clementine.
All washed down with fizzy water.

Look at me with my rainbow menu.

Tomorrow we're having risotto with oven poached salmon, mixed green salad and crusty bread. I'm cooking and may just have salmon and salad.

I am trying to rapid thaw chicken because I have mango chipotle marinade. I will probably satisfy myself with thawing enough to pull off the styrofoam container. Yes, I'm bad, I froze chicken in the original packaging.

What's wrong with freezing things in the original packaging? I do it all the time. Always have and we're all still alive.

Chicken in the original packaging... which is chicken skin covered with feathers.

The mango chipotle chicken, sans plastic and styrofoam, turned out really yummy.

It is accompanied by carrots and toasted sesame ginger quinoa.

However, because of the protracted amount of time necessitated by the defrosting and other assorted mucking about I didn't get to eat it for dinner. It's ready to take for work this week, though. Dinner was spaghetti and meatballs.

The rainbow menu sounds wonderful! Any chance you're going to start a catering business? I'd be your first customer (we'd work out the shipping kinks somehow). Everything you've described sounds divine.

Dinner tonight ... starting a modified juice fast a bit early this time. Salad; juice; more juice. Water water water. Repeat (already rinsed).

Yesterday I made a big stock pot full of winter broth. Minced beef, potatoes, tinned plum tomatoes, bit of carrot, onions, leeks, peas, mushrooms, fresh sage and parsley. Dash of worcestershire sauce too.

Today I will be dipping in to that on and off served with rough cut crusty bread and butter. I've already had a small amount, reheated to near dry and served with a baked stuffed mushroom (bought not made :p). It was awesome.

Rfn, I'm tucking into another bowl of winter broth, with crusty bread to dip in.

Sounds delicious, especially with the crusty bread. Absolutely necessary. Yum!

Tonight I had crab claws, garlic mayo (full fat but a controlled portion) and a salad of watercress, spinach and rocket, yellow pepper and spring onion.

Should probably not eaten all the crab claws. It did say "Great for sharing!" on the box. But I bought it because it was reduced and I'd be wary of eating seafood after the Best Before date in a way that doesn't worry me with other food. Yeah, my excuse for pigging out :)

Ortho I'm afraid I'm a poor savoury cook. Salads I can do, but only to my own specific requirements. If you're a fan of tomato or cucumber you will find them sadly lacking...

Tonight I had roasted Apache potatoes (lightly tossed in olive oil and rosemary), baked carrots with Orange Honey and Dijon Mustard, Teriyaki Chicken slices and sugar snap peas. The most conventional meal I've had since mid December.

I put half the potatoes aside for tomorrow (oh, baked with a little red onion) because although I only had three, I cut them into quarters. I'll have the rest of the chicken then too.

Again, nice colours on the plate.

Apache potatoes:

Ooooh. That sounds mega tasty.

I was cooking up something interesting involving sausages, but then I sliced my finger open whilst chopping onions and gave up on the something interesting. Just threw the sausages onto some bread and that was that :P

Did you know you can buy single, cooked sausages?
I've seen them in our big Tesco.
Although chances are you don't have a Tesco Extra near you.

It appealed to me because I do fancy the occasional sausage (as well as cock) but they are so messy to cook...

Yeah. There's a big 24hr tesco near me but it's a drive/busride away. I've had their ready cooked cumberland sausage ring. Oh bloody hell. Verrrry tasty.

Y'see. I fall foul of the fallacy that it's grim up North every time.

When's your birthday btw?
Is this your 40th?
Feb 19th or 23rd come to mind...