Category: Food/ Recipes

Sleepy Sunday

Posted on by Libby Withnall

Well, maybe not sleepy but I did spend the WHOLE DAY in my PJs :-).

Woke up around 7am (so a bit of a sleep in for me) and straight to the kitchen for a cup of tea and slice of banana coconut loaf. I also sampled the oat slice from yesterday – it was quite nice but a little sweet.

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I had trouble deciding what I wanted for breakfast this morning but eventually decided on an omelette around 9am. I made it using 2 eggs, diced tomato, diced red onion, a handful of spinach and a handful of grated cheese. Twas rather yummy – but too much – I ate about 2/3.

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I spent the morning playing on the computer, making ANZAC biscuits (for ANZAC Day) and sorting some photos. At 11am I made a green smoothie. Love those frothy bubbles.

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Around 1am I made a salad for Kevin and myself. He had egg, I had falafel and hummus. Today I added some of my home grown sprouts. I wonder if I’ll ever get sick of this combination?

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This afternoon I got to work on finalizing more plans for our UK trip in June. Normally sitting working online I’d be eating lots and lots but I really surprised myself today. I didn’t even enjoy my first ANZAC biscuit until 2.30pm.

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My afternoon snack was some protein chips.

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Around 5pm I was feeling like a little something with a cup of tea. Kevin had one of these tarts he’d bought.

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But I was feeling like a crunch so had a couple of cruskits with spreadable cheese :-).

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Dinner was courtesy of Kevin, who braved the cool night and cooked us a BBQ. I had a lentil pattie (with a piece taken out for Christy), sweet potato slices, a little potato, pineapple and onion. It was absolutely delicious.

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With tonights cup of tea I’ll either have another ANZAC biscuit or one of the chocolates hiding in the back of the fridge.

ANZAC Biscuits

Posted on by Libby Withnall

I love ANZAC biscuits (cookies for my US readers) all year round but if we’re home on ANZAC Day then it’s one day I definitely have to make them.

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Ingredients

  • 1 cup (150g) plain flour
  • 1 cup (90g) rolled oats
  • 1/2 cup desiccated coconut
  • 1 cup  brown sugar
  • 125g butter
  • 2 tbs golden syrup
  • 1 tbs water
  • 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
NOTE: Australian tablespoon is 4 teaspoons

Method

Preheat the oven to 160°C. Line two baking trays with non-stick baking paper. Sift the flour into a large bowl. Stir in the oats, coconut and brown sugar.

Pour the butter mixture into the flour mixture and stir until combined.

Roll level tablespoons of mixture into balls. Place on the trays, about 5cm apart.

Press with a fork to flatten slightly. Bake for 10-15  minutes or until golden brown.

Set aside on the trays for 5 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack so it cools completely

*** Will keep in airtight container for one week (if not eaten before then) and will freeze for 2 months.

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Great start to the weekend

Posted on by Libby Withnall

Thankfully I woke up this morning WITHOUT a headache and managed to stay headache free all day. As soon as I awoke and saw the brilliant orange streaks of the sunrise, I launched out of bed and got ready to go for a walk. Unfortunately by the time everyone was ready (the dogs and Amy) and we got down to the lake we missed the best part of the sunrise but it was still lovely none-the-less. And still so warm for late April.

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When we got back I had a glass of water and read blogs for a bit before going and doing the Red Carpet Ready session I missed yesterday. I did SASE – strong again. Next week I need to kick things up a bit I think. Post workout I enjoyed a green smoothie.

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Played on the computer much of the morning, in addition to doing things like getting dinner started in the crockpot and making an oat slice (a new recipe).

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I had a late breakfast with the family. Only ate half though as the bread had that frozen taste it sometimes gets from the freezer.

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Around 11am I had a handful of grapes…

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then enjoyed the other half of my smoothie on the way to my book group.

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Lunch at book group is often pizza – which it was today. Despite the smoothie at 12pm I was getting hungry again by the time pizza arrived at 1.30pm. I had two pieces of the veggie one. Should have only had one as the pizza today was rather oily and I didn’t feel great after the second piece. I was too self conscious to take a photo – until I found myself alone in our meeting room – luckily there was still one piece left to photograph :-). Yuck – look at the grease – they aren’t normally that bad!

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Got home just after 3.30pm and put together an afternoon snack to enjoy with Kevin. I’m not real keen on store-bought dips (except hummus) but this roast capsicum one was rather nice. However, after looking more closely at the ingredient list (compared to the hummus) I’m not sure I’ll be buying it again.

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Since we’d had a substantial afternoon snack we didn’t end up eating dinner until 7pm. Unfortunately the crockpot meal was a big flop. After cooking for 8 hours the potato was still not cooked through. Oh, well, at the least the dogs will have a yummy dinner tomorrow night. Instead I whipped up a quick substitute of brown rice, falafels, pineapple and hummus. Kevin then proceeds to tell me he’s getting a bit sick of falafel??? Surely that can’t be possible :-).

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The night was spent putting the final touches on this blog before making it’s introduction to the WWW. Around 9pm I enjoyed a small bowl of vanilla ice-cream with a  small amount of chocolate flake on top. Yum! This is about a 1/4 of the bowl I used to have and I enjoyed every bite and did not feel one bit deprived.

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Finally I enjoyed a cup of tea. I was tempted to have a chocolate but realized I didn’t need one and I’d already enjoyed my ice-cream so left it at that.

*** Oh, and the oat slice didn’t quite work out. It’s rather soft but should still be edible.

My food blog

Posted on by Libby Withnall

Well, I finally have my new food blog – Libby loves soup, salad and chocolate, all prettied up and ready to share with you.

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I hope you’ll drop buy and check it out. And of course, if you want to read/see more please feel free to add it to your RSS feed. Also if you any suggestions for improvements or see any glaring errors please let me know. I’m quite excited about it and already it’s helping me to make better food choices :-).