You'll see that leftovers play a big part in our cooking. We don't like waste and figure if we pay for food we're going to use all of it, if at all possible.
Leftover apple sauce from the Sunday roast and blackberries from the crumble and muesli gave Nic her idea for breakfast: a big bowl of yoghurt topped with apple sauce, chopped apple, blackberries and chopped nuts. This gave her free rein to have a treat of bacon muffin for lunch - leftover bacon of course! Meanwhile, because of the lousy weather, Steve settled for a cup of tomato soup and low fat yoghurt for lunch - very little choice in the office cafe.
The evening meal was designed to use up some of the leftover roast pork. A spicy, coconutty bowl of Singapore vermicelli rice noodles was based on a Ken Hom Simple Chinese Cooking recipe, but with added beansprouts to up the veg tally and a few chopped raw king prawns from the freezer. Apparently Singapore noodles isn't a real thing and is never served anywhere in Singapore, but it was warming, comforting and a great foil for the succulent strips of pork and juicy pieces of prawn. So, our house, our rules: Singapore noodles IS a thing.
Steve cleared the drive of snow in a valiant effort to keep the elements at bay, though with more forecast overnight he may get more benefit from the exercise involved than from the clear drive. He also had to pack for a 3 day stint in Edinburgh this week. It's always a slightly gloomy affair, packing to go away with work.
Leftover apple sauce from the Sunday roast and blackberries from the crumble and muesli gave Nic her idea for breakfast: a big bowl of yoghurt topped with apple sauce, chopped apple, blackberries and chopped nuts. This gave her free rein to have a treat of bacon muffin for lunch - leftover bacon of course! Meanwhile, because of the lousy weather, Steve settled for a cup of tomato soup and low fat yoghurt for lunch - very little choice in the office cafe.
The evening meal was designed to use up some of the leftover roast pork. A spicy, coconutty bowl of Singapore vermicelli rice noodles was based on a Ken Hom Simple Chinese Cooking recipe, but with added beansprouts to up the veg tally and a few chopped raw king prawns from the freezer. Apparently Singapore noodles isn't a real thing and is never served anywhere in Singapore, but it was warming, comforting and a great foil for the succulent strips of pork and juicy pieces of prawn. So, our house, our rules: Singapore noodles IS a thing.Steve cleared the drive of snow in a valiant effort to keep the elements at bay, though with more forecast overnight he may get more benefit from the exercise involved than from the clear drive. He also had to pack for a 3 day stint in Edinburgh this week. It's always a slightly gloomy affair, packing to go away with work.
Nic's reading Stephen Baxter's Flood at the moment, as a complete contrast to Bring Up The Bodies. As a reward for doing the ironing she was allowed to read that and to watch GBBO (Steve watched it from behind his fingers in horror at some of the car-crash baking on the screen).
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