Monday

I must start by singing praises to my new addition to Handy Andy.  It’s an ‘air fry’ ring, easily available, and it doesn’t half make scrummy chips from a potato and a very little bit of oil.  It’s nice to be able to eat chips with a reasonably clear conscience!

You see, I peeled too much potato for my soup on Saturday so had to use the rest up somehow.  It wasn’t deliberate, I assure you, but it might well be from now on!  if you have a halogen oven, it might be worth thinking about getting one – cheaper than buying an air fryer.

Isn’t the weather ‘interesting’ at the moment.  Deceptively warm days (warm in the sun anyway) but with a real nip to the air in the shade and early morning frosts.  We even had a bit of sleet and then hail on Saturday.  It’s more wintry than winter was and, I suppose, fairly typically March, in like a lion and out like a lamb.

Yesterday I had some fun making pasta.  I had intended to make it on Saturday but I had the left over spuds so didn’t need to.  I had some with the rest of the stir fry (much better with the added garlic and ginger) and some in the soup and I shall have the rest tonight with yet another recipe I found in Good Food – smoky bacon and tomato spaghetti.  It’s in an article entitled ‘feed 4 for £30 and I thought ‘everyone’s jumping on the Jack bandwagon’ but actually it was five main meal recipes for £30, not a whole week’s eating.  This one jumped up and cried ‘make me, make me’ so I will!  It’s got my favourites – bacon, smoked paprika and tomato – and it’s dead easy and open to tweaking.  I’ll let you know!

Now it is Monday lunchtime and I have time to post three blog entries at once.  Overkill?  Well, yes, maybe.  Sorry!!