Meat Free Monday

This week's Meat Free Monday consisted of...

Breakfast

Natural Yogurt with Mixed Dried Fruit

Lunch

Tomato, Garlic Herb and Cream Cheese Vegetable Brown Rice Risotto

Dinner
Vegetable Pie

Lingerie Loves

I was Window Shopping on Figleaves as I can't actually buy anything so instead I thought I would share with you some of the styles I liked:

I recently discovered Monsoon is doing Lingerie and I am surprised but I quite like it
























Elle Macpherson

Chantelle


Lepel


Freya

Easter Breakfast

I decided seen as I actually had Easter Bank Holiday Monday off I would whip up some yumminess for Mikey and I

Here's what I made...

Bacon with French Toast (eggy bread) and a bowl of Egg Mayonnaise (because I am obsessed with it at the moment)
The stickiest and tastiest Chocolate Cake ever (It was all gone within 2 hours)

Homemade Crossless Hot Cross Buns

And no Mum that does not mean they are just Teacakes (although you may be right)!

Aprils Goals

Last month I achieved nearly none of the goals I set so I'm going to roll some over to April and add a few more and hopefully I might get them done this time.

Here we go:

Eat Seasonally
I want to try at least 3 of the recipes I didn't get to last month
I also want to try these 3 new ones for April:

• Lemon Ricotta Cheesecake
  
• Oven-baked Risotto Carbonara
• Spanish Chicken with Butter Beans, Chorizo and Tomatoes

The main new foods in season this month are Cockles, Crab, Lettuce and Spinach (so I'm going to try and incorporate those)

Finish decorating my toilet

Finish tidying the whole flat!


I think I'll keep it short and sweet (and then more achievable) this month and we'll see how many I do by the end of the month.

March Just Flew By

Oh my goodness, I can not believe how quickly March came and went, it literally disappeared before my eyes. I haven't even begun to do half the things I wanted to but I have tried not to dwell on that seen as its been a very stressful month.

My goals for March were:

I managed to eat the ones in red!

Eating seasonally: So the foods in season in March, that I would probably eat, consist of:

• Carrots, Cauliflower, Kale, Leeks, Purple Sprouting Broccoli, Rhubarb, Parsnips, Spring Onions and Spring Green Cabbage.
• Bananas, Blood Oranges, Kiwis, Pineapple, Mango and Apricot.
• Rabbit, Turkey and Spring Lamb (not sure about Rabbit to be honest).
• Sole, Eel, Hake, Lobster, Mussels, Salmon, Scallops, Shrimp, Mackerel, Crab and Sardine.
  

I found a few recipes that are seasonal to March that I am hoping to try this month:

• La Potee (French Farmhouse Soup with Bacon, Sausage and Beans)
• Carrot and Coriander Soup
• Mussels with Garlic Stuffing
• Chinese Stir-fried Prawns with Purple Sprouting Broccoli and Cashews
• Chicken Baked with 30 Cloves of Garlic
• Spanish Pork Stew with Potatoes and Chorizo
• Penne with Leeks and Bacon
• Pile-it high Orange and Rhubarb Meringue Pie
• Salmon Coulibiac
• Traditional Lancashire Hotpot

Go on 1 date night - Funds just did not permit this one.

Plant some herbs - I nearly did this but didn't want to kill them.

Finally decorate my toilet room - I made a start on this so I'm crossing it off

I am going to roll some of these over to April!!!

Meat Free Monday Just Not on Monday

Seen as I seem to eat Meat-Free Meals a lot but almost always not on the right day (Monday) I decided to do a brief post showing some of the Vegetarian meals I have has this week:

Vegetable Tikka Masala

Vegetable and Cheesy Potatoe Pie

Vegetable Stir Fry in Sweet Soy and Roasted Red Chilli Sauce

Hina Matsuri

Today is Hina Matsuri, the Japanese "Dolls Festival" or "Girls Festival". Its a day to celebrate girls. Thanks to Etsy's post about it today on their blog I remembered learning about this day at school. Just wanted to honour the day by sharing a few pretty pictures.