ghoti_mhic_uait

On saturday, as I believe I mentioned, we had takeaway, so for breakfast today, I had takeaway omelette. No peas, mushrooms instead, and a little leftover chicken broth.

It's a great way to use up leftover egg fried rice (which we struggle to eat a whole portion of, but Colin likes it so we get it sometimes anyway), my goto for leftover rice is special fried, which is difficult to do when it's already fried! Only for me and baby, though, and for baby I'd leave out the soy sauce, as noone else likes omelettes (or at least, not with bits in).

I also discovered I was doing the whole challenge wrong in the first place! Not only was it meant to be seven new meals, there was a whole complicated choose 2 from list a and 1 from list b type system going on. So, I didn't do that, I only noticed at the end of my week! Ah well, it was fun.

This week is Farmhouse breakfast week. Well, it started yesterday, but I forgot. So you can look forward to another week of delicious blog posts.

I made noodle salad, and as I was making it, Judith came and asked me for an egg, so I poached eggs and had them on top. I wanted to remember as it was so well received (and tasty).

Fry mushroom, courgette and onion in ghee, prepare noodles (thin rice noodles in this case). Add the veg and frying ghee to the noodles, and stir. Add chopped salad ('oriental leaf' bag mix in this case), stir. A splash of date vinegar and mirin, stirred again, served with poached eggs on top (for J & me, Colin had grated cheese)

I think I did it that way round, rather than dressing first then leaves.

The other thing I made recently which everyone loved was honey&mustard chicken (as I tweeted the recipe):

Brown chunks of chicken, make roux flour/butter/mustard, add milk slowly, add thyme, spinach, honey, splash wine. Cook until thickened. #yum

(Spinach was an lump of frozen spinach. That's quite handy, frozen spinach comes in lumps about the size of two icecubes, and you can just throw one or two in to whatever for extra flavour/colour/vitamins. Great in curries/pasta sauces)