Here's to a slow Saturday. x

16^th 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!