Week 7: (mostly) Slow in London by our community manager
Monday 4 August 2014
The usual breakfast: a boiled egg with or without E5 Bakehouse sourdough toast, and a cup of Colombian coffee with raw milk.
Home made tuna and mayonnaise on sourdough sandwich and a bought iced coffee for lunch.
Pizza in the park for dinner with friends.
Back to the popping candy chocolate.
Tuesday 5 August
The usual breakfast.
Home made tuna, tomato, avocado and mayonnaise on sourdough sandwich and a bought iced coffee for lunch.
I didn't know how long the buffalo mozzarella would last. So I cooked some spelt spaghetti and had it with fresh stairwell grown tomatoes, olive oil, Sriracha, basil, seasoning and a squeeze of fresh lemon.
From farm to fork
From stairwell to supper
Home grown tomatoes. Win.
Popping candy chocolate. (I know I know I could just stop buying it couldn't I). But why should I? A little bit of what you fancy . .
Wednesday
The usual breakfast.
Home made swiss cheese, tomato, avocado and mayonnaise sourdough sandwich. Iced coffee.
Out enjoying a summer night's free outdoor theatre, so beers, crisps, my friend's awesome home made savoury fetta, courgette and mint mini savoury muffins, and bought Japanese onigiri, inari and others.
A Daim bar. Dangerously delicious. Think it was salted caramel.
Thursday
The usual breakfast.
A bought falafel which was pretty good, from Pilpel. Good crunchy falafel balls.
Yo sushi - I order all the finicky prep foods I don't make at home - vegetable gyozas, pumpkin korreke, inari and chive futomaki, mmm.
Ice cream.
Friday
The usual breakfast.
I've slipped up with sandwiches, no interesting fillings or leftovers in the fridge and the bread's only good for toast now. So a bought goats' cheese and roasted beetroot baguette and the faithful Jimmy's iced coffee.
Felt like I needed some vegies. Unfortunately I misjudged the cooking time of the new spelt fusilli I'd bought so it was more saggy than al dente but never mind. Caramelised some yellow courgette and red and yellow tomatoes, seasoning - (2 types of salt, garlic, Srircha, pepper, some mint thrown in after cooking) and had with cheddar.
Popping candy chocolate. Yep, I bought some more.
Saturday
The usual breakfast.
I decided to visit Stoke Newington Farmers' Market. At one of the stalls you could pick and choose different tomatoes. I like that as I love all the different colours. The bread looked good but the Hackney Wild offered more bang for my buck so I took the train to London Fields to Broadway Market my usual Saturday destination.
A cold brew coffee.
By the time I'd got home then left again to run more errands and returned (getting organised for a super busy week ahead of me) it was definitely time for a very late lunch of the staple toasted halloumi sandwich with fried egg, gherkin, colourful tomatoes, mayonnaise, Sriracha sauce. I'd bought some eggs yesterday and then, forgetting them, cycled fast on cobble stones. Sigh. Only 3 out of 6 survived, I resurrected 1 which I'd fried for the sandwich. A German wheat beer.
A punnet of delicious English blackberries. (Time to get back to fruit). I'd bought bananas at Broadway - Fairtrade of course - for work eating during the week, and they won't get mashed cycling to work.
My simple favourite: buffalo mozzarella with colourful tomatoes, basil, balsamic, olive oil and seasoning.
A Daim bar. And 3 figs and .. a choc coated salted caramel ice block.
And later, hungry, a slice of fresh bread with butter, Vegemite, cheddar and tomato.
Sunday
The usual breakfast.
A cold brew coffee while sitting in a coffee shop watching hail is fun.
My simple favourite: buffalo mozzarella with colourful tomatoes, basil, balsamic, olive oil and seasoning.
My life's been missing beans I decided. Very important when you're mostly vegie. No wonder I ate a lot of fish last week, nearly daily which is unusual for me. So I bought some tinned beans which I plan to throw into some pasta.
I cooked some white pasta shells. I usually buy spelt but you can't get these in spelt and I felt like a change. With some fried romanesco and yellow courgette, tinned tomatoes, beans, seasoning, Sriracha, garlic, topped with grated cheddar and a squeeze of lemon.
A delicious Daim bar. Read Week 8 and my top 5 beers from Camra's Great British Beer Festival.
By our community manager Georgie Knight @slowfoodLondon aka @mermaid99.
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