Dreamy Pea soup, Heather's masterpiece, served with fresh bread and broad beans!
We cooked what turned out to be our best dinner so far. Heather came up with “Dreamy Pea Soup” as we just felt so good afterwards! It contains good amounts of iron and B vitamins, as well as being high in protein and low in fat – not so good for me, as I’m trying to gain weight, but you can’t have everything in life can you?
Recipe: 2 onions, 2 cloves garlic, 400g yellow split peas, vegetable stock, curry powder (blended smooth). Coriander as garnish.
We’ve realised halfway through that something is sorely missing from our budget – nice snacks that we can munch on. The plums have gone, (unfortunately some contained worms – a nice proteinaceous snack for some!) and the humous and peppers reserved now only for sandwiches – by 10 am, my stomach is feeling quite empty. We came up with a solution for tomorrow – fried broad beans with a little bit of humous – but we snacked on them after dinner instead! (Coincidentally, broad beans are also a great source of iron, containing over 2.5 times as much per gram as beef does!) Bananas may have to be bought again to solve the snack crisis.
Lunch – standard sandwich with humous, peppers, tomatoes and lettuce. The bread tastes so delicious and fresh; it’s wonderful. Can’t wait to buy more tomorrow.
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