Wonderful Wednesday

Thankfully Wednesday is here – we are half way through the week!  This week seems to be dragging its heels…  And also seems to be rather short on time for crafting – last night we went to a talk about the churches around our area, tonight I’m going for coffee and Friday we’re going to the pub.  So all I have is Thursday which I’m hoping to use to draw and cut out a pattern for a fabric box.  My partner has requested some way of putting badges on display so I thought a fabric box would be a good idea – he can pin the badges to the side and use it to put stuff in!

Despite having very little time last night I managed to finish off the craft projects I had on the go:

A ladybird magnet:

A sock penguin:

And a hungry caterpillar:

I was thinking about the hungry caterpillar and I think you could make a really nice mobile out of it by making all the things that he eats along the way.  I might try that one day but this caterpillar is fated to join my sister.

Foodwise today is a bit of a write-off.  Lunch is gorgeous herby bread with lactofree cream cheese but dinner will likely end up being something really quick and easy.  At the moment I’m thinking that might be toast followed by chocolate porridge so a really nice comforting quick meal.  Don’t you just love toast?  It’s so flexible – you can have it sweet or savoury and it’s ready in minutes, for me it’s the ultimate in comfort food.  The chocolate porridge is a relatively new idea for me, in fact I’m only a recent convert to porridge but again it’s so comforting.

Chocolate Porridge

Oats
Milk or water
Cocoa powder

• In a saucepan mix half a cup of oats with a tablespoon of cocoa powder.
• Add about 2 cups of water or milk and bring to the boil.
• Simmer for about 8 minutes and serve.

For added chocolate yummyness add chocolate chips once served!

Home alone

Tonight I am home alone!  It’s become something of a rarity recently so I’m planning on taking full advance of it; I’ve finally decided upon a lovely dinner of egg fried rice with prawns and will settle down with a glass of something cold and white and watch American Beauty.  It’s a film I’ve been meaning to see for years but have only just got round to buying.

Egg Fried Rice

Rice

Oil

Beaten egg

Salt and Pepper

Chilli Flakes

Red Pepper

Prawns

Soy Sauce

• Cook the rice and then cool quickly by running cold water through it.  Preferably do this the night before using left over rice.
• Heat a little oil in a frying pan then add the rice (be careful, if there is too much water in the rice then you’ll end up with lots of little explosions!) and cook for a couple of minutes, continually stirring the rice.
• Push the rice to one side of the frying pan and add the beaten egg with a little more oil.
• Use chopsticks to break the egg up as it starts to cook.  Slowly work the rice and egg together.
• Add chopped pepper and the prawns and allow to cook for a couple of minutes.
• Season with salt, pepper and chilli flakes then pour on some soy sauce.

I like to serve this with prawn crackers.