Had an oddly almost vegan day today. Lunch was a lentil/cauliflower curry (delicious)..and then I used the left over lentils to make a lentil pate. Coupled with a smoothie for breakfast it was almost completely free of anything meat or dairy based. Had I made a few ingredient tweaks..it would have been ( Read more... )

And it approaches...

Spent this evening cooking. My special cranberry sauce (invented today, but now my new recipie!) and starting the Christmas ham. No vegetable based deserts though, today. Tomorrow I need to defrost my turducken :O

Also resisted spending an obscene amount of money on travel. Go me.

Pumpkin and apple soup, roasted pumpkin, pumpkin pie, baked pumpkin...amazing all the things one can do with one vegetable. Literally, one, not just as in one species of vegetable.

I've got a delicious leg of garlic and rosemary lamb in the oven, and the smell is everywhere in the house. It's making me so hungry! I want it NOW!!!!

I'm yet again feeling oddly motivated. I'm being (slightly, actually it's more a nod to being) healthy. I made some home-made guacamole earlier, and I'm about to go off a baton some carrots to eat with it while watching some DVD goodness (as opposed to fried chippy-ness). Of course, all the fruit and vegetable healthiness is more than a little ( Read more... )

Wow, where do I start. Christmas day was o.k., passed pretty much incident free. Same applies to the next day..until work...............OMG ( Read more... )