My Very First WIAW!

I’ve always been fascinated with food and what other people are eating, so I’ve loved reading What I Ate Wednesday posts – but never been able to participate because what I eat.. well what do I eat? Nothing worth sharing, and what I do eat is often so bizarre I’d never want to put it out there.

However I do have some better, more on track moments. I thought that I would share a few favourites from the past week with you. There isn’t much green in here – I could say the capsicum in the salad and the splash of lime juice count, as well as the green grapes!

Favourite Lunch - 

grainy bread with beetroot, corn, spanish onion, crumbled tofu and mustard pickles; cheese flavoured sunrice crackers; home-grown passionfruit and grapes.

I’m loving the tanginess of this sandwich filling. Another variation that I often eat uses tinned tuna instead of tofu.  I also love to add chopped beetroot, corn and onion to hummus.

Favourite salad -

Tofu salad with beetroot, corn, red and green capsicum, tomato, spanish onion, mustard pickles.

Favourite treat – Home-made Ice-cream! Please do not snark at my ‘mixing bowl’. I have a VERY basic kitchen and this was bigger than my real mixing bowl! How appropriate to make ice cream in an old ice cream container lol.

Condensed milk, cream, mashed banana and a splash of lime juice - so simple. So rich and creamy!

It worked!

Ice cream is a huge fear food for me, as are cream and condensed milk so this was a huge but worthwhile challenge. I’m definitely going to do it again, and experiment with flavours – maybe coffee, maybe mango.. It could have used a splash of vanilla essence – but I didn’t have any.

Favourite chill out -

Coffee and the local paper while watching Shalimar in the garden.

Coffee never lasts very long with me. Someone needs to make a heat-resistant hydration back pack so I can sip coffee every minute of the day, hands free.

Shalimar is back on her lead – after 1. being very naughty and running away! and 2. A neighbour telling me to keep her out of the communal gardens in case she ‘hurts the flowers’… really? She’s a cat, and she’s snuffled those flowers for almost three months and caused no harm. So sad – but I’m in the process of organising an enclosure to be built outside the front of my unit, around her favourite snuffle-place and under the window where her cat-door conveniently happens to be. Hopefully soon she will have access to HER area whenever she wishes, and no save-the-flowers neighbours will be able to ruin the fun.

Poor Shalimar. I really feel like the fun police. So not right.

And I was so chuffed that I had to include my favourite compliment - 

Victoria Beckham? Oh really? Nah.

My helper from HACC (Home and Community Care – helps me with everyday things that being ill means I need help with – shopping, cleaning, transport etc) said that I looked like I was channelling Victoria Beckham yesterday. She cracked me up! I am missing the sky-high heeled shoes and the utter cool, stylishness she exudes. And the extreme skinniness.

I bought this dress from an Op Shop and really like it – the photo (and myself) do not do it justice. It’s a warm, heavy wool dress by Cue, perhaps a bit large, but I really liked the shape of it.   I’m stuck wearing my utterly UNcool shoes because of my very sore feet and legs! If I don’t have to walk far, I can wear ballet flats, but heels are out forever sadly.

Well I hope you all enjoyed my post and were not too grossed out at the food I ate!!! Happy Wednesday.  And Shalimar says hello… Really, she’s clawing at me because she is jealous at all the attention the computer gets. Time to go play with her

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