Adapted from this Sophie Grigson recipe. Kale bruschetta

Free on Extra Easy if you count bread as a HEb.

Serves four, or two very hungry people

• 1 onion, sliced
• 2 sprigs fresh rosemary, chopped
• 1 fresh red chilli, deseeded and thinly sliced
• 4 garlic cloves, sliced
• 250g curly kale
• 4 slices good bread
• 1 clove garlic (for bruschetta)
• soft, fresh ( Read more... )

Last night I finally got the garklet to eat courgettes without having to use any persausion or bribery. Last week I'd even tried offering him pasta with zucchini sauce (courgettes cooked and them blitzed and mixed with cheese) but the lad refused it, proving himself above his mother's linguistic tricks. Not eating courgettes would not in itself be ( Read more... )

While on a fortnight's holiday I managed to put on a whooping 6lbs. Not ideal, especially as I'd finally got down to below my lowest post-pregnancy weight and a stone below my pre-pregnancy weight. so I'm trying to make sure those extra six pounds don't hang around for too long.

So, as I'm now in receipt of syn-free sausages (thanks to richks for ( Read more... )

http://www.channel4.com/food/recipes/popular-dishes/pasta/pasta-with-asparagus-mint-pesto-and-poached-egg-recipe_p_1.htmlRead more... )

I am made of win so far today.

I found my lost (for 2months+) office key at Alex's nursery this morning. And before work I made choc pots for tonight's dinner party & it's only just gone 9am.

I'm looking forward to an adult evening out today. Alex is going to a friend's for tea and bed straight from nursery and we're going out to a dinner pary ( Read more... )

so back from trip around the country (well Upminster and Nottingham) so Alex could see his grandparents and aunts, and a moderately successful Christmas Eve two-course dinner (pear, cheese and walnut salad followed by salmon steamed with leeks and carrots in a buttery stock) but now the whole house smells of burnt food as I have managed to burn dry ( Read more... )

Had a really pleasant day.

Alex didn't sleep-in but he was a happy early waker. After his morning feed,Nick took him downstairs and I next saw him carrying a present and card which he presented to me, followed by Nick with a cup of tea :)

Unlike the forecast, it was a beautiful day so we went out towards the forest. We first stopped off at ( Read more... )

I am Woman.

I am Pregnant Woman.

And hear me Roar.

I want my husband home. Now.

Not because I want to see my husband but because I want preferably an Abul's Chicken Kebab with extra pickled chillis however, as we live in Southampton not Manchester, I'll settle for a chicken kebab from the Charcoal Grill in Portswood.

Stamps her massive size ( Read more... )

Tea 'healthier' drink than water [BBC News]
- as if further evidence was really needed for the benefits of a nice cuppa.

By the by, I think this deserves to be recorded for posterity.

Today, despite the fact that I was one of the four people left in the room with four chocolate eclairs, I did not snaffle one. I would also like to add, that I didn't take any of the sweet pastries on offer. Instead I hoovered up all the carrot and celery sticks thus demonstrating a ( Read more... )