For the past two days I’ve come back from taking the kids to school and had to go lie down for a few hours. This is pretty silly. I generally roll into bed about 9:30 – 10:00 p.m. and wake at 5:20 a.m. so I get at least 7 hours a night. Having to go … More Soooo tired.

So ok… for anyone who isn’t with it, ‘Jagnjeci But’ is just a way of cooking marinated lamb. There are a few recipes out there but the one I like is as follows… as is obvious from the list this is an old version from the UK: 🙂 Basic Ingredients: 6lb leg of lamb, few … More Jagnjeci but… yeah!

So last night I managed to stave off the worst of the hunger pains with large quantities of veg soup. I had at least three large bowls along with a plate of broccoli and some roast chicken (the protein part of the diet). Of course this meant several visits to the loo during the night … More Back on the soup again.

The old man seems to be moving more in favour of applying for a retirement Visa, but is taking two steps forward and one back. The rules would seem to imply that if they pass the medicals, they might not need to actually pass over the moolah for up to a year… maybe eighteen months … More One step forward.

Got the beetroot boiled. It’s sitting in the pot cooling while I try to decide what sort of pickle to use. I might just use up the remains of the onion vinegar… my basic mix for pickled beetroot is just vinegar, sugar chillies, peppercorns… and some star anise… so the onion mix might be a … More Beetroot cooked.

My youngest has been going to Tae-Kwon-Do for the past two and a half years. Always on the same two afternoons… Tues and Fri. Three times this year already she’s forgotten her outfit and has been warned if she forgets it again she’ll lose the opportunity to move up a grade at the end of … More What is it with kids?

Maybe not a disaster but I *have* had a bit of a setback. I succumbed to the lure some of some of my cooking and had two bowls of a delicious casserole with a dollop of parmesan mashed potatoes on the side… a large dollop! Today I was *really* struggling with the hypoglycaemia and ended … More Diet disaster?

Both oldies had fillings this morning… but no dramas for a change. However… roll on Friday when the old man has the remainder of his extractions… *then* we’ll hear it again! But at least it’ll be over… for now… unless he has more fillings 🙂

When it comes to selecting cookbooks, I tend to avoid celebrity chefs. I find they tend towards the artistic ‘clever’ kind of cooking instead of the ‘stick to your ribs’, everyday foods the rest of us eat. However, after some prevarication, I did buy the 1989 revision of Delia Smiths’s classic ‘Complete Cookery Course’… posibly … More The naked chef revisited.

My reaction to different types of music quite often surprises me. An example is the ‘country and western’ stuff put together by the late John Denver. For reasons I still don;t understand it really gets to me. My favourite quip is that his music makes me homesick for places I’ve never been… yet it’s actually … More Music hath charms…