16th
March 2013
My
favourite kind of pain is in my stomach when my friends make me laugh too hard.
Yesterday
was a long day and it didn’t involve watching what I ate at all, the day
started with paperwork, then a trip to the doctors with my mom, she has vertigo
so that’s something else to add to her list of symptoms, not nice getting old
is it! I then drove over to
Burton-on-Trent for lunch with my pals at their college where the students that
are training get to serve you and cook for you, a bargain 3 course meal for £9
each which looked and tasted pretty good.
The experience was a real giggle, I’m sure the teenage girl who took our
coat did not realise her mouth could be turned in an upward fashion, and she
was not cracking a smile no matter how hard I smiled at her, it was a savage
reminder of how dreadful those years can be.
Our waiter however was a little darling, he couldn’t pick a bread roll
up between a large serving spoon and fork but who needs them to be able to, I’ve
eaten in some fabulous restaurants and don’t ever recall any of them using
those unsightly things to dish out the bread!
He was a little sweetheart and when he escorted us to the toilets (think
that’s a safety thing!) I asked him if he enjoyed what he was doing, he said
yes a lot and he one day planned to open his own restaurant – ooo I do love
ambition.
So
after, a goats cheese tart, chicken fricassee and picking at the rhubarb
bakewell tart (it was nice I just don’t do pudding really), oh and a glass of
wine, my diet had well and truly gone out of the window! I spent the afternoon browsing a good book
shop which I haven’t done for so long, I just wished it had been a much bigger
book shop and that the assistant would have left me alone I still haven’t found
a good book to read! I finally did a bit of shopping before settling myself
down to read my existing book for an hour whilst I waited for my boss, we had
an evening meeting so I didn’t get home till 8.30pm. So that was my Friday, which means today I
shall be spending it with my mom as I hardly saw anything of her yesterday, I
may even be able to tempt her out to the Asda coffee shop, we shall see or
maybe Sainsbury’s coffee shop! Rock and
Roll us two!
I’ll be
eating sensibly again from today; although the meal yesterday wasn’t very large
it was that posh stuff where they don’t serve huge portions thankfully. I fancy fish finger wraps today, maybe with
home made potato fries, mmm yeah, mom will like that too I’m sure.
And I
will need to include this recipe some time soon as having that meal yesterday
reminded me of it;
Chicken
Fricassee Serves
2, 9pp each or 1pp each on F&H
100g brown rice (10pp)
Low fat
cooking spray
2 x 125g skinless boneless chicken breasts (6pp)
300ml
chicken stock (use 1½ chicken oxo cubes) (1pp)
110g carrots, peeled and cut into thick chunks.
150g button mushrooms, sliced
1
garlic clove, crushed
75g low
fat soft cheese (2pp)
Bring a
pan of water to the boil and cook the rice according to the packet
instructions. Drain well and leave to
cool. Meanwhile, lightly coat a deep,
lidded, non-stick frying pan with low fat cooking spray and heat until
hot. Add the chicken and cook for 3-4
minutes until browned all over. Add the
stock and carrots. Bring to the boil,
cover and simmer for 10-15 minutes until tender. Meanwhile, lightly coat another small
non-stick frying pan with low fat cooking spray. Add the mushrooms and cook, stirring, for 5
minutes until the juices have been released and evaporated. Add the garlic and rice and cook for a
further minute, until hot. Divide
between two plates. Remove the chicken
and carrots with a slotted spoon, reserving the stock. Place the chicken and carrots on top of the
rice. Keep warm. Return the pan with the stock to the
hob. Boil quickly for 1 minute. Remove from the heat. Stir in the soft cheese. Pour the sauce over the chicken.
On that
note I’m going to go and have a chilled, slow start to my day, I’ve rushed much
too much this week for anything else.
Have a BeYouTiful positive day. Eat, Be & Live
Gorgeous and enjoy the now, because the longer you wait for the future – the shorter
it will be!
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