Consolidation CONSO COMPLETED, DIARY CLOSED
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anjuschka
Dukan Ancestor!!
Oh cool! Let us know ho you get on - I'm also thinking of a repeat experiment with reduced cooking time in the pressure cooker. (wrong diary, I know!)
Laura, hope you're having a good 11.11 and not too much rushing around.
Took about 4 1/2 hours and didn't go hard. Was a bit stodgy so whizzed it up with a bit more milk - delicious. All done cooked in a pudding basin in a pan of water. Thanks Anja.
robinhood
Gold Member
Morning!
Managed a lie-in until 8.30 until some twat from EDF phoned trying to get me to install panels on my roof (again for the 1000th time). I told him we rented and the owner wouldn't agree to it (again). I also told him he wasn't the first to call and could he tell his colleagues to leave us alone. I hate cold callers (and it's usually from these people).
We have a party tonight (a couple of hours away) and it carries on until tomorrow afternoon. So, could be a disaster!
Plan is to make galettes for breakfast tomorrow morning. Tonight will probably be buffet with cold meats, fish, salads, so that should be fine. I'll have a tiny bit of cheese/bread and not have the cake (not bothered about it anyway
). Then tomorrow (going on past experiences of ongoing parties with this family) it will be roast beef and lamb (they always do 2 roasts) and gratin dauphinois. So I reckon tomorrow lunchtime will be my celebration meal for the week. That is, unless, there are no cooking facilities but I doubt that (they've hired an ex-school so everyone sleeps there - no problems with driving, etc). The evening once we're home, we'll have an omelette probably (preparation and cooking time - 2 minutes) and get the kids to bed as they have school obviously on the Monday.
So, we'll see how it goes. I'm looking forward to having a night out, it will clear the cobwebs a bit and then tomorrow have a gossipy catch-up with all the friends there, always good!
Hope everyone has a good weekend!
Managed a lie-in until 8.30 until some twat from EDF phoned trying to get me to install panels on my roof (again for the 1000th time). I told him we rented and the owner wouldn't agree to it (again). I also told him he wasn't the first to call and could he tell his colleagues to leave us alone. I hate cold callers (and it's usually from these people).
We have a party tonight (a couple of hours away) and it carries on until tomorrow afternoon. So, could be a disaster!
Plan is to make galettes for breakfast tomorrow morning. Tonight will probably be buffet with cold meats, fish, salads, so that should be fine. I'll have a tiny bit of cheese/bread and not have the cake (not bothered about it anyway
). Then tomorrow (going on past experiences of ongoing parties with this family) it will be roast beef and lamb (they always do 2 roasts) and gratin dauphinois. So I reckon tomorrow lunchtime will be my celebration meal for the week. That is, unless, there are no cooking facilities but I doubt that (they've hired an ex-school so everyone sleeps there - no problems with driving, etc). The evening once we're home, we'll have an omelette probably (preparation and cooking time - 2 minutes) and get the kids to bed as they have school obviously on the Monday.So, we'll see how it goes. I'm looking forward to having a night out, it will clear the cobwebs a bit
and then tomorrow have a gossipy catch-up with all the friends there, always good!Hope everyone has a good weekend!
robinhood
Gold Member
Back from a fab party. Everyone had a great time, kids were able to play out all day today (19°) and we had uninterrupted meals as they had their own wee dining-room.
Food-wise, not too bad (not too good either though).
Last night -
Pre-dinner - 2 glasses of champagne/whole raspberries/cane sugar combo (I don't usually like sweet drinks but this was good). Probably a bit more than Dukan would like so bad
Only had the veggie nibbly stuff - celeriac with prawns, beetroot with apple - good
salmon, prawns, roast pork, pumpkin/squash gratin (didn't eat the topping) - good
Too much cheese (but it was lovely) and a large slice of bread (wholemeal though!) (I didn't have any today to make up for it, so hopefully OK)
Didn't have pudding/cake (youngest decided it was time for bed anyway but I couldn't have eaten anything else) and drank about 2 litres of water - good
Today
Breakfast - galette and lots of tea and coffee - good, then a slice of home-made chocolate chip cake (not so good) and lots of tea and water until lunch
Pre-lunch - glass of champagne
Lunch - prawns and cauli florets (and I resisted the dip that went with it) - good
roast beef, rabbit - good
Small slice of birthday cake - not good, but it was home-made so could have been worse. Lots of water though;
Evening - not hungry. Bowl of fromage blanc and an apple.
So mixed bag, think I'll treat this weekend as my celebration meal and draw a line under it. We'll see how bad it was on Friday but I really don't care (not that you'd think that as I wrote it all down, but that's for reference purposes because I forget really quickly, waffle, waffle) because it was such a tonic and I'm so glad we went.
. Everyone had a great time, kids were able to play out all day today (19°) and we had uninterrupted meals as they had their own wee dining-room.Food-wise, not too bad (not too good either though
). Last night -
Pre-dinner - 2 glasses of champagne/whole raspberries/cane sugar combo (I don't usually like sweet drinks but this was good). Probably a bit more than Dukan would like so bad
Only had the veggie nibbly stuff - celeriac with prawns, beetroot with apple - good
salmon, prawns, roast pork, pumpkin/squash gratin (didn't eat the topping) - good
Too much cheese (but it was lovely) and a large slice of bread (wholemeal though!) (I didn't have any today to make up for it, so hopefully OK)
Didn't have pudding/cake (youngest decided it was time for bed anyway
but I couldn't have eaten anything else) and drank about 2 litres of water - goodToday
Breakfast - galette and lots of tea and coffee - good, then a slice of home-made chocolate chip cake (not so good) and lots of tea and water until lunch
Pre-lunch - glass of champagne
Lunch - prawns and cauli florets (and I resisted the dip that went with it) - good
roast beef, rabbit - good
Small slice of birthday cake - not good, but it was home-made so could have been worse. Lots of water though;
Evening - not hungry. Bowl of fromage blanc and an apple.
So mixed bag, think I'll treat this weekend as my celebration meal and draw a line under it. We'll see how bad it was on Friday but I really don't care (not that you'd think that as I wrote it all down, but that's for reference purposes because I forget really quickly, waffle, waffle) because it was such a tonic and I'm so glad we went.
alottolose
Gold Member
great weekend Laura x
x
robinhood
Gold Member
Morning!
Wet, windy, cold here. Not very nice. Need to go food shopping too.
PV conso + carbs
B - porridge and apple
L - scotch broth (soup mix with home-made beef stock - from the freezer - and veg and pieces of beef in the soup)
S - 2 rice cakes and cheese
D - ham and mushroom omelette
Wet, windy, cold here. Not very nice. Need to go food shopping too
.PV conso + carbs
B - porridge and apple
L - scotch broth (soup mix with home-made beef stock - from the freezer - and veg and pieces of beef in the soup)
S - 2 rice cakes and cheese
D - ham and mushroom omelette
alottolose
Gold Member
I've got 2 tins of scotch broth and a tin of haggis broth waiting in the cupboard for post diet...
