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Well, my performance review yesterday was actually fine. My manager seemed generally very pleased with my work, and had no complaints. So that's one thing off my mind.
Snow's gone now, though there's still some up in the hills. It is horribly cold though. Yesterday it rained all day, and the rain was so cold that I couldn't understand why it wasn't snow.
It's my morning off (I work from 2pm to 9.15pm on Tuesdays.) I haven't been making very productive use of it. Had a lie-in and a bath, and now I'm just about to have breakfast. Plans of exercise and supererogatory house cleaning are fast evaporating! But it's nice to take it easy.
Re breakfast: I have finally hit on something nutritious that I actually enjoy: egg fried rice with nuts and herbs. Now, I know some people say it is very dangerous to re-heat rice (there's some particularly nasty kind of food-poisoning you can get from it, apparently - I forget which one.) However, I had been happily re-heating rice for 30 years or so before I heard about that, so I have decided to carry on. I keep the cooked rice in the fridge, and heat it through well when I make the dish.
Anyway, what I do is heat some extra-virgin olive oil in a frying pan, add the rice with some black pepper and mixed herbs and a bit of tamari (which, unlike normal soy sauce, is gluten-free). I also add nuts - eg cashews or walnut pieces. Or possibly sunflower seeds. I let that fry a bit and then crack in two eggs. I stir them into the rice and then let it all cook, stirring occasionally. If you stir a lot, it comes out more like scrambled eggs with rice in; if you don't stir much it's more like a sort of rice omelette.
I usually follow this with some fruit and whole-milk yoghurt. Either fresh fruit (like blueberries) or fruit tinned in juice.
This keeps me going very well until lunch time. It could be improved by adding some vegetables to the egg-fried rice, but somehow I never seem to do that. Partly because of time constraints and partly because I just don't feel like eating vegetables first thing.
Snow's gone now, though there's still some up in the hills. It is horribly cold though. Yesterday it rained all day, and the rain was so cold that I couldn't understand why it wasn't snow.
It's my morning off (I work from 2pm to 9.15pm on Tuesdays.) I haven't been making very productive use of it. Had a lie-in and a bath, and now I'm just about to have breakfast. Plans of exercise and supererogatory house cleaning are fast evaporating! But it's nice to take it easy.
Re breakfast: I have finally hit on something nutritious that I actually enjoy: egg fried rice with nuts and herbs. Now, I know some people say it is very dangerous to re-heat rice (there's some particularly nasty kind of food-poisoning you can get from it, apparently - I forget which one.) However, I had been happily re-heating rice for 30 years or so before I heard about that, so I have decided to carry on. I keep the cooked rice in the fridge, and heat it through well when I make the dish.
Anyway, what I do is heat some extra-virgin olive oil in a frying pan, add the rice with some black pepper and mixed herbs and a bit of tamari (which, unlike normal soy sauce, is gluten-free). I also add nuts - eg cashews or walnut pieces. Or possibly sunflower seeds. I let that fry a bit and then crack in two eggs. I stir them into the rice and then let it all cook, stirring occasionally. If you stir a lot, it comes out more like scrambled eggs with rice in; if you don't stir much it's more like a sort of rice omelette.
I usually follow this with some fruit and whole-milk yoghurt. Either fresh fruit (like blueberries) or fruit tinned in juice.
This keeps me going very well until lunch time. It could be improved by adding some vegetables to the egg-fried rice, but somehow I never seem to do that. Partly because of time constraints and partly because I just don't feel like eating vegetables first thing.