Food diary 3
Monday: tinned tuna and linguine (spaghetti would do equally well) in a quick sauce of onions, tomatoes and green olive tapenade (plus some thyme and rosemary). Nice. Some toasted breadcrumbs on top (as in this favourite) would have worked well, but I didn’t think of it till it was way too late.
Tuesday: bit of an experiment; venison kidney and bacon in tomato and paprika cream sauce with peas and rice. The kidneys also came from the farmers market, something I’ve never tried before. OK, but didn’t light my fire.
Wednesday: baked potato day; with some baked flat mushrooms (topped with bacon bits), and topped of course with lots of butter and cheese. Yummy.
Thursday: sweet potato soup. Based on this Waitrose recipe, especially the idea of topping it with fried haloumi. Interesting alternative to the recipes that use bacon as a topping. (Didn’t bother with the ‘chilli-infused olive oil’ or the ‘Waitrose Five Seed mix’, however. And I used fresh sweet potatoes.) A couple of extra portions went into the freezer.
There are things in the world that really can’t go far wrong; turning sweet potatoes into soup is one of them. 
Friday: sort-of moussaka. Not the real thing because I didn’t feel like making white sauce (also, no milk). I layered lamb mince (cooked with onions, tomatoes, cinnamon, thyme and oregano) with fried sliced aubergines and potatoes, and topped it with cheese and creme fraiche mixed with a little warm water (plain yogurt would work too). If I’d thought of it earlier, some feta would have been nice. Still pretty tasty though. Some leftovers, but not really enough to freeze; microwaved for lunch on Sunday.
Saturday: egg fried rice with stirfried cabbage. Some ginger, garlic and a sachet of miso soup went in for flavouring.
Sunday: tried quinoa for the first time - a simple pilaf-type recipe, with tomatoes, purple sprouting broccoli and fried haloumi. It was pretty good.
