Yes that certainly helps. I've found having regular set mealtimes helpful, previously I never knew when I'd eat especially if it got silly busy as often happened in the mornings and I'd end up grabbing crap food on the go. Now I have healthy breakfast with a lot of fruit, no more than a sandwich for lunch and the evening meal usually was fish, lean meat like turkey or chicken in small portions and the puddings are all small portions as well. I'm aiming to lose another half stone to get back to the weight I was in the 80s, I've even started using an exercise contraption my missus uses. Anyway, tonight it's Liver & Bacon with mash, peas and carrots followed by rhubarb yoghurt...
Pork and apple sausages, potatoes and beans - swigged down with beer, San Miguel and Hogoblin Gold tonight!
Cooked a couple more pizzas tonight. The wife loves a anchovies & olives with a garlic base. l tried a new Soppressa Hungarian salami with smoked ham underneath and a garlic tomato base.
Turkish take-away tonight, but more importantly I've just got back from the pub!. Just a select few, but disappointingly no draft beer. Obvious really, they've stopped brewing, so there's going to have to be a lead-in period before draft will be back, but I'd had my heart set on some draft Guinness. Lockdown seems to have to have amplified the racism, though (one for the politics thread).
Rose is not a drink of a cultured gentleman like yourself. Seems like a fish night all round, except for Strolls and his kebab.
Tis summer Stan the perfect quafffing wine for these long days......plus the price was right at a €10 a bottle....
Today, l pursued a liquid diet to complement my golfing efforts at River Oaks here in Sydney. The pubs are open here in Oz and thankfully, the bottle shops have been a staple of my shoppings expeditions before, during and now after co-vid19, purely for medicinal purposes, of course. After playing Army golf all morning, l took the good lady to the shops this afternoon and as l walked past the bottle shop, l endeavoured to distance myself from the entrance but succumbed to the bright lights and the array of colourful bottles on display. Of course, with today being International Gin Day, l felt pressured to purchase a bottle of fine London Dry Gin but did so just in case Mrs Squat, on the off chance, decided to sample a small glass. Naturally, the bottle was purchased with much excitement as a Xmas toy and unfortunately, Mrs Squat declined the multiple attempts by myself, to have her join me in toasting anything l could think of this evening. l’m now at the stage of pouring oneself into bed. Goodnight.
A pleasure to be home for the weekend, back to my own kitchen. After a bit of pestering from jnr, I've knocked up my legendary (his words) guacamole and a piri-piri sauce which are currently being used to dip a bucketful of tortilla chips into - delish. Cajun spiced pork, charlotte potatoes and salad for tea, followed by cracking open my new home brew - a golden ale that's been on the go for just over five weeks and is now shouting out to be drunk!
Singapore Fried Rice and Beef Chow Mein. I have fancied Chinese food since start of the year, and I have resisted.....until now.
Went out for dinner with friends Started with some pre dinner drinks at 3 in brewtown It's an old tyre factory that now has five brewerys situated amongst a host of other businesses Lots of craft beers One of them has a massive selection of Whiskey and gins You would like it diddles Had the saffron gin Had the braised steak It was ok Drank too much gentleman jack when we got home
Had pork & apple sausages last night, not as spicy as my usual Lincolnshires but very nice flavour along with carrot & swede mash and beans. Strawberries, banana and ice cream rounded it off nicely...
Simple pasta last night. Just about to start preparing slow cooked beef brisket with parsnips, carrots and shallots cooked in with it, a pile of creamy mash on the side and something green to be decided for colour. The Cotes du Rhône we had last week was so nice another bottle will be consumed this evening.
Barbecue today, and the chef had a white Côtes du Rhône (new one on me) to help the flipping along. The food was average, but the wine was excellent, fruity but refreshing too. Very moreish.
That forced me into research mode, which is a credit given that I’ve had most of a bottle of red Cotes du Rhône. Apparently there is a white Grenache grape, and they bung other grapes like Viognier, which I rather like, in with it. I will seek some out. My wife keeps referring to the bottle we are drinking as ‘nice and light’. Mysterious to me as it’s 13.5%, perhaps not a syrupy as some other wines of the same strength, but pretty dense.
I must be some sort of barbarian living up here, I never drink wine (might have the odd glass with Christmas dinner, and that's it) so all the talk of fancy grapes goes right over my head! Ale (most types) and lager yes, and port for a treat. Salt and pepper rubbed chicken breasts for tea, along with some nice veg. The "legendary" guacamole which I made a large batch of yesterday, enough to last the family for the week whilst I am away, has been scoffed overnight, and I've been cajoled into making a another tub full for them!
