Week 14: (mostly) Slow in London by our community manager
Monday
The usual breakfast of a boiled egg with or without E5 Bakehouse sourdough toast, and a cup of Colombian coffee with raw milk.
Left over vegie fried rice for lunch: tofu, fresh spinach, broccoli, aubergine, sweet corn, egg.
A bought tuna cheese toastie.
Tuesday
The usual breakfast. More coffee.
A toasted cheese and tomato sandwich.
Made some more fried rice as I'd cooked enough rice first time for that. Fried rice: tofu, fresh spinach, broccoli, aubergine, sweet corn, nori, egg, sweet chilli and chilli sauce.
Wednesday
The usual breakfast. This was one of those scrappy days where I ate a bit here and a bit there.
Couple of slices of sourdough with hommous. Some pizza with Shane our chair at our strategy and update meeting.
A steamed red kidney bun from Chinatown.
Later at home left over roasted vegetable crudites and hommous. Some chocolate.
Thursday
The usual breakfast. More coffee.
Lunch was a spicy Caribbean vegie pattie with chilli tomato sauce.
Some lovely Henrdicks gin punch in Hendricks tea cups at a lecture about London. Went to a place in Chinatown that had been recommended to me the previous night as having good dumplings. They are. My friends enjoyed their dishes too. A cocount bun from a nearby bakery - oh yes.
Friday
The usual breakfast.
Pavilon Café in Victoria Park while dog-sitting: sweet corn fritters, good coffee.
Half a store bought pizza. I also boiled some new potatoes, cooled and sliced them to add to the pizza, with Sriracha. Chocolate.
Saturday
The usual breakfast.
A galette and coffee at Broadway Market while doing my regular shopping (eggs, milk, tomatoes, fruit, veg) + flour and blackberries for a longing I had, a recipe I wanted to try.
I baked a cake! I was so excited. I hardly ever bake sweet things. Sometimes cookies. I chose the recipe because it looked really easy and it had blackberries, which I'd been thinking of longingly. The recipe called for a 24cm cake tin and I only had a 20cm one. I simply used 20% less ingredients and it worked a treat. I also used 50% spelt/50% white flour instead of 100% white flour. It was very easy to make and went down a treat with clotted cream and prosecco.
For dinner a fantastic fresh lemon sole fillet from Fin & Flounder lightly fried in spelt flour and butter plus roasted very thinly sliced beetroot fries, and more regularly sized pumpkin and potato chips. Served with capers, mayonnaise, a squeeze of lemon and sweet chilli and Sriracha sauces. So delicious, this dish hit all the rights spots and is by far the best meal I've cooked and enjoyed in a long time.
A few more pieces of cake! With clotted cream. There are 2 punnets of blackberries - macerated in Cointreau plus orange zest in there so slices x3 surely equals one of my 5 a day. Plus I ate the orange I'd grated for zest.
Sunday
The usual breakfast.
An egg roll and cappucino out and about. Delicious figs x4 for £1.
Dinner; Made some more fried rice using the same rice I'd cooked 6 days ago - it seemed fine. With tofu, broccoli, yellow globe aubergines, sweet corn, egg, grated fresh ginger, diced garlic and chilli, sweet chilli and chilli sauce. And a dash of Worcestershire sauce as I'd forgotten I'd run out of tamari. I don't waste my time buying rubbish supermarket brands I buy a proper matured tamari, usually Clearspring, it's worth every penny in terms of taste and how long it lasts me.
More cake of course with clotted cream. I just wrapped it in a tea towel overnight and it's still lovely and moist.
By our community manager Georgie Knight @slowfoodLondon aka @mermaid99.
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