Lamb and Lawn Mowers...

Shopping for kitchens, more re-writes and my overgrown garden have all come back to haunt me this weeekend. Kitchens at £15,000 - com'on, some one's having a laugh... The re-writes to Return to Denthan are becoming fun, thank goodness; and my garden... Well, lets just say I need to chop trees, cut ivy and strim like there's no tomorrow. Going to settle down to a nice lamb curry and glass of Pinot Noir for now...

Time to cook - it calms me down.

Lamb Curry - (cheat-style)

half pound of diced leg of lamb (£4 or so...)
tea spoon of olive oil
rock salt
black pepper
ref onions x 2
yellow peppers x 2
Youngs authenic curry powder (in mmost butchers) x half pack
fresh corriander

heat pan add oil and onions
after 5 mins add lamb
after 3 mins add curry powder 0 stir all the lumps out of the powder
add half pint of milk
stir until thickens - simmer for ten mins

serve with long grain rice and pitta bread

plus large glass of Pinot Noir (Argentinian)

ahh... thats better.

serve

Still laid up... plus chicken and chilli

Got my blood results back... mmm... Too much bad fat so... I'm going to keep to a more healthy diet. You see, you get good fat and bad fat, and at the moment my bad fat is winning 4:1. Not good. So the good fats like - olive oil, fish oil etc have to replace chocolate, chips and butter. Not that I thought I over indulged too much, but I was reminded that I do have the odd binge on Ferrero Rocher and Thornton's Aplini.

Getting hungry again, so here's another one of my recipes... Quick, easy and healthy.

Chicken and Chilli Soup

1 x cup of chicken bits (cooked)
I x leek (chopped and washed)
1 x pint of water
Chilli seeds (pinch)
teaspoon of tumeric
1 x Chicken stock cube

Put a little olive oil in pan
add leeks, tumeric, chilli and stock cube
mix round with wooden spatula
add chicken bits
add water and bring to boil.
reduce heat and let simmer for ten minutes.

Serve in nice wee white bowls with chinese spoons

Job Done!

Feeling better already.

Part 2... Gosh, I promise to write more often

After a while I got into trailing the web for contacts etc. Soon I sent offerings off by email and, after weeding out publishers who wanted money, found one who wanted to give me some. Yippee, I thought. So signed contract, assigned an editor and got to work. Oh, it took a long time. Eventually the book was published in May 2008. A small one man, publisher, but it was out there. Would it show up on radar? Mmmm...