What are you eating today?

I have been very bad today, and have eaten a fair amount of gluten as well so hop my tummy survives.

Breakfast was a splodge of leftover dauphinoise potatoes topped with a poached egg.

Lunch was the remains of a shallot tarte tatin that I made for DBH yesterday. Normal pastry.

Dinner was very small, because I knew it was WI and CAKE. So dinner was a teeny portion of millet topped with some sauce from yesterday's lamb in red wine.

Then off to WI where I had three pieces of cake and only stopped because I remembered the pie at lunchtime and fear of the pain stopped me! But oh, those cakes.... They were works of art.

Isn't Readly fantastic for browsing all the food magazines you wouldn't buy but which are so, so good to read?! Love it.

Granjura, the toad in the hole was delicious!

Today, gf cornflakes, baked potato with the last of the prawn cocktail, something with pork chops which I got out of the freezer yesterday.

Changed my mind about the sandwich, and I ate the Craster kipper that I didn't have for breakfast.

Minibags and I had a ciabatta grilled sandwich of mascarpone cheese, Nutella, and sliced banana for dinner today. Dead rich. Dead good. Wouldn't want one every day. Mbags might though!

Thanks will look on Readly- such a great thing this Readly- allows me to access all my favourite uk mags on line.

Just made some leek and potatoe soup in the soup maker- perfect for supper.

Cheers all

although we never have wine when on our own. Nothing with being virtuous- just the way it is. Might have a good single malt later tonight- as we often do on a Sunday.

I made Sunday lunch of roast beef, Yorkshire pudding, cabbage, mashed and roast potatoes and roast carrots. Didn't do any dessert as we had a fresh cream cake from the Co-op to eat. (DH brings them home at the end of the day). For supper I will probably have a roast beef sandwich.

It's the cover recipe out of Good Food magazine, Granjura, which has just come so I bet you'll find it on line. If you can't I'll pm it to you.

Lovely Sunday lunch at a local pub. We had an all day power cut due to some new properties being connected to the grid. I did think it was unfair to do this on a Sunday but it's been a lovely day so nice to have an excuse to go out.

Vegetable lasagne - roasted butternut squash, courgettes, onions, garlic and mushrooms in a tomato sauce, topped with a garlicky cheesy moussaka type sauce. DH is having roast cod with said vegetables. Oh, and a little garlic bread.

how do you make toad in the whole POSH kitty (we love it btw)?

Left-overs from yesterday here- hurrah. As my mum used to say 'je fais la grève des casseroles' (on cooking pan strike).

Breakfast as usual, porridge with half-skimmed milk and water with a few linseeds, with a little cinnamon sugar.

5:2 today as the normal days got a bit mixed up. No breakfast, a cup of tea, a cup of coffee, low cal cup of soup and rice cake and apple for lunch, one egg omlette with lentils and a satsuma for dinner.

how do you make toad in the whole POSH kitty (we love it btw)?

Left-overs from yesterday here- hurrah. As my mum used to say 'je fais la grève des casseroles' (on cooking pan strike).

1 crumpet for breakfast.
Small salad for lunch, maybe with ham.
Pork chops, mushrooms, veg etc.. in my slow cooker right now to eat this evening with two friends. (not eating the friends!)

2 boiled eggs for breakfast
Small bowl of olives, cucumber, tomato, pepper, feta cheese and chopped chicken for lunch.
Lambs shanks casseroled in red wine, onions and garlic with leeks, butternut squash and dauphinoise potatoes for dinner.

GF crumpets with syrup for breakfast
Baked potato with prawn cocktail for lunch
Posh toad in the hole for dinner!

Had eggs benedict on the beach for brekkie and looking forward to barbecued prawns, calimari and barramundi for supper - yum yum

Chicken with ratatouille made with home-grown vegetables, including tomatoes and herbs picked 30 minutes before cooking and new-season garlic, and baby new potatoes. It's just about bearable to cook – and, indeed, eat – this evening.

My mushroom risotto was pretty good though I say it myself. Accompanied it with Pinot Grigio to drown my sorrows after the rugby result.

Pork medallions with sautéed potatoes and braised cabbage washed down with pink champagne. DH cooking

Usual Saturday night fry-up here. Forgot to put tomatos on order, so extra bacon. Shame (not).

I heard that about the daffs. Weird. But I suppose if you're Chinese.....

What are you eating today?

I don't know, and DH just asked me that!

yes, my cousin has just explained that to me, but as I did make the mistake of planting alpine daffs in amongst my herb beds and just stopped DBH pulling them up in time - he thought they were garlic in the green - I can see how it happens!

You are very lucky with your mushrooms granjura. I used to live amongst orchards in kent and was surrounded by mushrooms and wild asparagus. Those were the days... There was even a wild pear in the lane. Hazelnuts, damsons, wild garlic, elderberries, sloes, blackberries, crabapples too. I used to think, if I were a tramp, I would survive quite happily in that village. We did a lot of winemaking at that time.

I live a few miles away from Thetford Forest, and apparently morels are found there. I think the bark chippings I bought for mulch may have come from there, and of course my soil is similar (sandy and slightly acid) as are the weather conditions. I do dry mushrooms, but nowadays it is in my dehydrator rather than hanging along a beam on a long thread, as I used to. DBH used to try to eradicate the fairy ring from our front lawn, I wanted to dry them!

Just arrived home from doing the food shopping. Was about to prepare a tasty dinner for me and Joe... a tin of spam accompanied by some stewed daffodils. But then I saw this on the BBC website, so it looks as though I will have to open a tin of beans instead. Sooooo disappointed, spam and daffs is one of our favourites, but obviously we'll have to give up this particular 'one of our 5-a-day'.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31176748