General observations and blog news.
A Very Speedi Christmas
Cooking Christmas Dinner for one on the Ninja Speedi.
General
Simply Cook – A Meal Kit That Lets You Do The Shopping
The problem of Recipe Boxes is having fresh ingredients for 3-5 meals for 2 or more people turn up all on the same day. Simply Cook avoids this by not supplying the fresh ingredients. What they supply is the spices, stocks and flavourings needed and the recipe cards. You go shopping for the rest.
Making Lunch
Although not on any particular diet, I am keeping an eye on my calorie intake. Central to this is lunch. While my evening meals are generally pretty varied, for lunch I tend to find a formula and flog it to death until I start getting bored with it.
Breakfast like a king; lunch like a prince; dine like a pauper.
Well, perhaps not quite that extreme, but I have been considering reversing my habitual lunch and tea-time meals. This really comes about in modern life as convenience for work and the daily routine. This is not an issue for me any more.
Must try harder…
At Christmas I posted that I’d been neglecting this blog, and aimed to do better. But I have only posted one other thing since then!
Christmas!
Once again, I have been sadly neglecting this blog, even though I have plenty to post about. Will try to catch up in the New Year.
Foodi Slow Cooked Stew
I’ve been having great fun with the Foodi as an air fryer and pressure cooker, but this is my first experiment with the Foodi as a slow cooker. Beef and mixed veg in a beef and red wine stock.
Tomato!
Just had my first ripe tomato from this year’s plants.
Yum.
ProQ Steel Food Smoking Cabinet
Seven years ago, I bought a ProQ Cold Smoking Kit, which consisted of a ProQ Cold Smoke Generator – a square metal mesh maze, which you load with wood dust and slowly burns from the outside to the centre – and a smoking chamber.
That smoking chamber, surprisingly, was made of cardboard. The new one is galvanised steel.
New WordPress Theme
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