Bank panic and austerity recipes
If you follow me on twitter you would have found my #fucked tweet. Basically the bank had frozen my account and dropped my planned overdraft. I so upset, and completely terrified that after months and months of being so careful I had royally fucked things up. I thought of my new 1tb external hard drive, new jeans and cd player and felt a bit shit about it all. It's been partially sorted out now and it seems like the bank is guilty of two massive fuck-ups and I might even get some money back on Monday if I'm fierce enough.
I feel lot better following yesterday. It's good to not feel so at the mercies of bigger forces like that and I feel a bit stronger after being able to approach the problem and make steps towards sorting it. It's awfully grown up of me, too. I managed to use my grown up contacts to get my friend a paid internship as an editorial assistant in this CSR PR company (they're super nice, honestly), and to repay me he's paying to go to the Doctor Who experience thing in Olympia - it'll probably be ridiculous but I'm looking forward to it!
And oh, so much to do! I've kinda accepted that I just won't get everything done. The most important thing is to know what needs doing when. Tomorrow I get to go onto the Olympic site! Very exciting, and I get to leave work early, muahaha.
In my panic on Monday I did my weekly shop at Aldi. I love Aldi. I adore Aldi. Aldi kicks Asda in the nuts. I've gone from £30 per visit to £12 and I'm getting in more fruit/veg as well. I made an austerity recipe to pay for my lunches and it was super quick and nice to eat:
Austerity sausage and bean stew
1 can butter beans
1 can borlotti beans (or pinto :P)
5 frankfurters (the ones in plastic wrap - they have a great smokey taste)
Half a courgette
Tomato puree
Cumin seeds
Dried chilli seeds (fresh chilli would also be fab)
Dried herbs of your choice (I like basil/thyme)
Garlic
Soy sauce
RECIPE:
The way to do this is to do as much of steps 2 and 3 at the same time, which isn't hard, you just two hobs.
1) Chop up frankfurters into slices and courgettes into small bite size pieces, drain the beans
2) Place beans in the pots of your choice and cover with water just below the level of the beans. Put onto a medium heat. Add a good squodge of tomato puree, handful of cumin seeds, dried herbs, a spoonful of garlic and as much chilli as you dare
3) Get the frying pan nice and hot and fry off the sausages and courgettes together with soy sauce, cumin seeds and garlic until browned/golden
4) Stop cooking the beans when they start to bubble (cook for 4/5 minutes) and added the browned sausage/courgette mix to the beans. STIR.
And done! Honestly, I made up the recipe yesterday and cooked it in under 20 minutes. Its soo quick and it the dish is like a very think stew with good protein, tasty veg and slow burning carbohydrates. Nom.
I feel lot better following yesterday. It's good to not feel so at the mercies of bigger forces like that and I feel a bit stronger after being able to approach the problem and make steps towards sorting it. It's awfully grown up of me, too. I managed to use my grown up contacts to get my friend a paid internship as an editorial assistant in this CSR PR company (they're super nice, honestly), and to repay me he's paying to go to the Doctor Who experience thing in Olympia - it'll probably be ridiculous but I'm looking forward to it!
And oh, so much to do! I've kinda accepted that I just won't get everything done. The most important thing is to know what needs doing when. Tomorrow I get to go onto the Olympic site! Very exciting, and I get to leave work early, muahaha.
In my panic on Monday I did my weekly shop at Aldi. I love Aldi. I adore Aldi. Aldi kicks Asda in the nuts. I've gone from £30 per visit to £12 and I'm getting in more fruit/veg as well. I made an austerity recipe to pay for my lunches and it was super quick and nice to eat:
Austerity sausage and bean stew
1 can butter beans
1 can borlotti beans (or pinto :P)
5 frankfurters (the ones in plastic wrap - they have a great smokey taste)
Half a courgette
Tomato puree
Cumin seeds
Dried chilli seeds (fresh chilli would also be fab)
Dried herbs of your choice (I like basil/thyme)
Garlic
Soy sauce
RECIPE:
The way to do this is to do as much of steps 2 and 3 at the same time, which isn't hard, you just two hobs.
1) Chop up frankfurters into slices and courgettes into small bite size pieces, drain the beans
2) Place beans in the pots of your choice and cover with water just below the level of the beans. Put onto a medium heat. Add a good squodge of tomato puree, handful of cumin seeds, dried herbs, a spoonful of garlic and as much chilli as you dare
3) Get the frying pan nice and hot and fry off the sausages and courgettes together with soy sauce, cumin seeds and garlic until browned/golden
4) Stop cooking the beans when they start to bubble (cook for 4/5 minutes) and added the browned sausage/courgette mix to the beans. STIR.
And done! Honestly, I made up the recipe yesterday and cooked it in under 20 minutes. Its soo quick and it the dish is like a very think stew with good protein, tasty veg and slow burning carbohydrates. Nom.