21st October 2012
Take time every day to do something silly. Philipa Walker
Do you do that? Take time out each day to do something silly? My mom has a real childlike curious nature,
she’s inquisitive about things, she always has been, always got great pleasure
out of the smallest of things. When a
fire engine or ambulance passes with his lights going, she say’s ‘let’s follow
it’, on occasion I have indulged her and turned the car round and done just
that – it absolutely makes her day!
Yesterday we went to pick up a prescription from the chemist, as we sat
in the car waiting the 15 minutes for it to be ready she said, “I wonder what
that building is?”, it hadn’t got any windows downstairs, just wall then
windows up, so she spent a good five minutes pondering this. When we drove off I drove round and we went
and found out, she was chuffed. 5
minutes (if that) out of my day to do something silly, that had no real benefit
to me other than to satisfy my moms curiousity!
Oh just in case you were wondering she was right, it was garages with
flats above ;-)
Had successful couple of
hours in the kitchen yesterday, made lasagne from the Complete Kitchen, I’ve
used the white sauce recipe from there before, now I’ve use the bolognaise
sauce recipe and the lasagne one too – brilliant book. Then I made a cottage pie, haven’t made one
for years and kept it simple, I have to admit I worship the power of the oxo
cube! I was making it for me and my
mate, so her kids hadn’t tried it before and they’re typical kids, so I had
this idea (taken from the lasagne recipe) to put carrots in there without them
knowing, it also saves dicing too, good for mom also as she’s not a fan of
chewing these days. So this is the
recipe;
Cottage Pie (Serves 6 at 11pp
each)
570g packet of beef – 34pp
1kg potatoes 20pp (peeled
& chopped)
2-4 Carrots, peeled, chopped
roughly
2 large Onions, peeled,
chopped roughly
Beef oxos to your taste
100g grated Mature Cheddar Cheese
11pp
Put carrots and onions in
food processor and blend (if you haven’t got blender you’ll need to dice small
as possible), spray large frying pan with oil, then add mixture from blender,
cover and fry for 10 minutes (check to ensure it doesn’t stick, add a bit of
water if necessary).
Put potatoes on to boil to
make mash to top mince later.
Remove mixture from frying
pan and then fry beef (no oil necessary as there’s fat in the mince), once
brown, add back carrot mixture and stir through. Dissolve oxos in a mug of water and add to
mince. Flavour to your own personal
choice.
When cooked (about 10-15m),
put mince in ovenproof dish, top with mash then sprinkle grated cheese on top
and cook in oven till cheese is melted and browned and serve.
Simples but scrumptious!
I’m really looking forward to
today, I have NO plans at all, I love a do what you want day, I plan to start
it as always with a dog walk, then go with my mood – bliss!
Whatever you’re doing today,
stay on track – you’ll be glad you did on weigh day.
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