Week 3 - Get Thee Behind Me Satan

I have tried dieting before.  It seems when I try to control my food intake and other nefarious vices I inevitably fail through lack of will power. Sound familiar to anyone? I seem to fail slowly though, through Salami tactics, to quote Sir Humphrey.  You don’t eat a stick of salami in one go like a banana, you eat it slowly over weeks, bit by bit. That's how my willpower is usually eroded. It often goes like this:

The little demon usually kicks back on my left shoulder casually drawling something like “One little bowl of ice cream here, it won’t matter; one cup of coffee there, just one, to make you sparky; you can have a glass of wine, to be social; sure you should tear off a big night on the town for your friend’s birthday; go on, people will be impressed with how many profiteroles you can eat in one sitting...  etc. etc.” and the next thing I know, slice by tasty slice, I’m back to where I started, often in worse shape than when I began.

This project gives me one solid rule to go by. It’s given my willpower an iron rod up and down the spine. One simple question that puts Satan behind me and stops me from even going to the fridge for the Pepperoni: Did I grow it? 

Oh, by the way, we got a puppy. His name is Martin. He's a Sausage dog and no, I'm not going to try to eat him.

Tobes and Martin

Some Sunflowers drying

Yet again a few pages drawn from the ever thickening Inaugural Showing Ribs Compendium of Lofty Meadows Cuisine.

Lofty Rostis

The mix of green, not green and egg shaped

Ingredients 

A few baby carrots

A few baby Potatoes

A few babies (just joking)

A leaf or two of Silverbeet

A leaf of Comfrey

Some spring onions

A Clove or two of Garlic

A sprig of Rosemary 

Two eggs

Method

If it is green, chop it finely

If its not, grate it (Except the eggs)

If it is egg shaped crack it over the top of the green and not green things and stir with a fork. Pour into fritter sized lumps in an oily frypan and flip when they start smelling crispy and tasty. 

The crispy and tasty Lofty Rostis

Nessie’s Special Stuffed Capsicum with Steamed and Roast Vegetable Salad on the Side

The delicious raw ingredients

Ingredients

A capsicum

A handful of baby Potatoes

A handful of baby Carrots

Two spring onions

A cob of corn

2 Squash

3 Asparagus spears

A handful and a half of Tomatoes

3 green Bananas

Two eggs

Some Basil

Some Vietnamese mint

Method

Boil the green bananas for at least half an hour in their skins. Drain peel and mash.

Halve baby carrots and Potatoes and put in baking dish with oil salt paprika, pepper, spring onion whites and a couple of tomatoes. Roast them. These are the roast part of the salad. Steam asparagus (that’s the steamed part). Separate the eggs and whisk the whites until light and fluffy. Stuff the halved capsicum with a mix of mashed boiled green banana, herbs, tomato, squash, corn, the rest of the spring onion and whisked egg. 

The delicious final product - Thanks Ness!

A Rather Flowery Salad

A refreshing breakfast

Ingredients

Some Rose, Calendula and marigold flowers

A spring onion

A cucumber

A handful of tomatoes

Some young Amaranth leaves

Some Basil

Some Lettuce leaves

 Method

Pick flower petals into bowl. Chop and combine rest of ingredients as you like them. Dress with oil and balsamic, salt and pepper, also as you please.

Thanks for reading and taking an interest. Write at you next week.

 Showing Rib