Tuesday, 26 February 2008

poorly food

I felt disgusting after work yesteday. I reckon I actually feel worse than I did last week but really should be getting better now. Last night I had some real inspiration and used some filo pastry with frozen blackberries and eating apples to make this sort of strudel thing. It wasnt quite a studel like you would buy but it tasted great. I had some for breakfast today too with yogurt. Very good way to eat strudel. Shame I didnt take any photos cos it would have been a good one to put on the blog.
The main course was also easy. Especially if you dont want to eat ready meals and you are really feeling ill:Long sweet red peppers stuffed, jacket potatoes and a herby, olivey italian sauce which doubled as veggie course.
First put some scubbed potatoes in the oven for jackets, I did it at about 180degC.
Using a sage and onion stuffing mix ( yes a cheat here but I did feel bad) with about 100g of walnuts added. I sort of bashed them around so they broke but didnt actually grind or chop. Then slit the peppers longwise, take out seeds and stuff with stuffing mix. Coat outside with oil and roast / bake. Then chop onion and fry in oil, whilst frying chop a green pepper ( normal capsican type), courgette and a couple of fresh tomatoes. When onions looking clear, add some tomatoe puree, red wine ( I save ends of bottles for cooking) and lots of black olives ( pitted but not chopped). Now add the veggies to onion and wine mix. Add any fresh herbs you may have. I used basil, dill and parsley cos thats what i had but you could use anything. Simmer on low for about 10 mins whilst doing whatever else ( I fed the dogs here) and then serve it all. Very easy even when too ill to be bothered to drink wine. So I must have felt bad!!!!!!!
This was easy cos we had all this stuff in the cupboards and most of it needs using up but I suppose if I had needed to go out and buy ingredients it would have cost quite a bit. Tho the olives were in a large jar I bought in a pound shop, the nuts are from what we bought just after Xmas when sainsbury reduced its Xmas stock ( they keep till December 2008 too!) and the tomatoe puree was opened from when we made pizza a few days ago. We always have some sort of peppers in the fridge and usually have some sort of fresh herbs ever since I discovered fresh parsely has more vitamin C than oranges.

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