In Canada a few years ago, we stayed in a B&B that provided us with one of the best breakfasts we'd ever had. We ate some amazing food that holiday, but one of the most enjoyable things was being introduced to new dishes. Breakfast Bircher Muesli in the B&B was one of these and has since become one of Nic's favourites. It's so simple. Soak porridge oats in apple juice overnight, refrigerate and the next morning add plain yoghurt, fruit and chopped nuts, then mix and eat. Before and after shown below with blueberries, chopped apple and mixed nuts:
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Nic's lunch was made up of leftovers: yesterday's Mexican piled onto a slice of toasted sourdough - not bad, as it happens!
Steve started the day badly by skipping breakfast due to being up and out of hotel to catch train into Edinburgh city centre for meeting at customer site starting at 08:30. This turned out to be a rather long and boring affair sustained only by a cup of coffee.
Once, thankfully, the meeting had finished Steve headed back to the office making it back in time to just grab another cuppa before having to sit through an hour long web conference. Nic was on the call too but had the luxury of being at home. Needless to say the meeting ran to 13:30 which meant that he hit the canteen late again but thankfully they still had not packed away the omelette bar. So, omelette and salad for lunch with a can of Pepsi Max as they had no OJ or smoothies left.
By the time lunch was over Steve only had about 1.5 hours to go before he would need to head off for the (as ever, uneventful) train journey. Between train and home Steve dropped into the supermarket to pick up some naturally smoked haddock, Bramley apples and blackberries for dinner - all pre-arranged with Nic via text messages on the train. Nic had done all the prep for kedgeree followed by apple & blackberry crumble with Doddington's vanilla icecream. Ages since we have had this and it was a welcome change after the week of food in the hotel. Doddington's is great locally-made icecream, consistently creamy and with powerful flavours that are true to the original ingredients, no synthetic taste at all. Their ginger icecream with a good squeeze of lemon over the top is just beautiful
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Nic's lunch was made up of leftovers: yesterday's Mexican piled onto a slice of toasted sourdough - not bad, as it happens!
Steve started the day badly by skipping breakfast due to being up and out of hotel to catch train into Edinburgh city centre for meeting at customer site starting at 08:30. This turned out to be a rather long and boring affair sustained only by a cup of coffee.
Once, thankfully, the meeting had finished Steve headed back to the office making it back in time to just grab another cuppa before having to sit through an hour long web conference. Nic was on the call too but had the luxury of being at home. Needless to say the meeting ran to 13:30 which meant that he hit the canteen late again but thankfully they still had not packed away the omelette bar. So, omelette and salad for lunch with a can of Pepsi Max as they had no OJ or smoothies left.
By the time lunch was over Steve only had about 1.5 hours to go before he would need to head off for the (as ever, uneventful) train journey. Between train and home Steve dropped into the supermarket to pick up some naturally smoked haddock, Bramley apples and blackberries for dinner - all pre-arranged with Nic via text messages on the train. Nic had done all the prep for kedgeree followed by apple & blackberry crumble with Doddington's vanilla icecream. Ages since we have had this and it was a welcome change after the week of food in the hotel. Doddington's is great locally-made icecream, consistently creamy and with powerful flavours that are true to the original ingredients, no synthetic taste at all. Their ginger icecream with a good squeeze of lemon over the top is just beautiful
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