Iola's Idiocy

this 4.5 point stew I made. It's pants. Now in 15 years of making stews in the oven I've not made a pants stew before so it's a bit of an ego blow. I mean stew - easiest thing in the world isn't it? seal the meat add about twice the volume of onions, carrot, swede and 1pt stock Or a bottle of beer and usually 1 other veg and 1 tin of tomatoes per 500g of meat. bring to the boil and slap in the oven for 2 hrs at 180/gas mark 4. Somehow I broke the stew: I assume it's the celeriac, that or the lack of tinned tomatoes. Mental note when experimenting only changing one variable at a time is more likely to result in success.

Anyway it may be the celeriac, I've just put 2 sticks of celery in my soup of the week and it too tastes a little dubious. I think that I may have to accept that liquidy celery flavour is not to my taste. (in fact the only time I like celeriac is in 2:1 potato+celeriac mash). Of course that doesn't change the fact that I've 6 portions of soup to eat but I'll live - there's always tabasco to wipe out all other flavours....

tomorrow is weigh-in/whalin'/wailin'. Here's hoping for another 1lb away, but more realisitically I'll expect a 1/2 lb loss based on yesterday's chip trauma and todays non-gymness.

Labels: diet