Y'see, now I'm torn between the feeling that any time you spend pondering the boys' perverted sex acts is good, and the desire to encourage you to eat. If I wasn't across the pond, I'd probably be sticking homemade chocolate and ameretti cake, or jars of celery-and-cashew-nut soup.
As it stands, I'm biting back the urge to flood your message box with my favourite recipes.
Ah, just one dammit. It's a good fridge recipe, because it can last a while, it's filling healthy and you have it cold- proper, fresh muesli:
Take a handful or three of oats, put them in the bottom of a largish mixing bowl, add enough juice (apple usually, but orange or cranberry or whatever else will do) to cover the oats, so they soak them up a little. Add a carton or so of yogurt- about 500g, to a kilo (this is one of those recipes you make to the limits of your ingredients, so the proportions don't matter). Add dried fruit- I usually just add a handful of sultanas- and some chopped nuts (brazil nuts if you're under the weather, since they're loaded with zinc and selenium). Grate about five or so apples, add them in, mix it up. If it's sharp- and it can be, depending on the yogurt and the type of apple you use- add some honey to sweeten it. Leave it overnight, so the dried fruit soaks up the juices and gets nice and soft.
It can last at least a week, but usually disappears by the next day.
My parents- while believing that low-fat was a crime against humanity- were also big lentil eaters. We got butter, but not ice-cream (at home, at least). The snacks I grew up with were things like this, or yogurt and peanut butter (which works really well, especially if you've got a sore throat). Healthy food, not low-fat. No fish-fingers, but still a proper big fry-up for breakfast on saturday. Not low-fat, but healthy.
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Date: 2003-04-21 04:44 am (UTC)As it stands, I'm biting back the urge to flood your message box with my favourite recipes.
Ah, just one dammit. It's a good fridge recipe, because it can last a while, it's filling healthy and you have it cold- proper, fresh muesli:
Take a handful or three of oats, put them in the bottom of a largish mixing bowl, add enough juice (apple usually, but orange or cranberry or whatever else will do) to cover the oats, so they soak them up a little. Add a carton or so of yogurt- about 500g, to a kilo (this is one of those recipes you make to the limits of your ingredients, so the proportions don't matter). Add dried fruit- I usually just add a handful of sultanas- and some chopped nuts (brazil nuts if you're under the weather, since they're loaded with zinc and selenium). Grate about five or so apples, add them in, mix it up. If it's sharp- and it can be, depending on the yogurt and the type of apple you use- add some honey to sweeten it. Leave it overnight, so the dried fruit soaks up the juices and gets nice and soft.
It can last at least a week, but usually disappears by the next day.
My parents- while believing that low-fat was a crime against humanity- were also big lentil eaters. We got butter, but not ice-cream (at home, at least). The snacks I grew up with were things like this, or yogurt and peanut butter (which works really well, especially if you've got a sore throat). Healthy food, not low-fat. No fish-fingers, but still a proper big fry-up for breakfast on saturday. Not low-fat, but healthy.