Tuesday 5 April 2016

Better than Borscht AND how about Carrots and Ginger to spice up your life!

Oh.. de Spring, de sun is ris, you wonder were de birdee is? I am here, Dear Readers, here in deepest Knightsbridge, where the sun is shining and we are all a bit happy-clappy at the moment.. for I gained 20g yesterday!

She risked the beautiful rug given to her by Hay darling and put the small tub of hummus and my saucer of boiled egg plus other parrot enticing yumyum on top of the cupboard where I like to spend my days.

I ate a large amount of hummus , almost finished the egg, then ate five walnut halves and a large slice of apple when she was in bed, I ate it sitting on her knee, now you know why she has a lightweight cover on her bed. It can and does get a bit messy around here with grapes and apples and walnuts being consumed and after I have gone to bed, it's taken off, put into the wash machine and its' clean twin put onto the bed.

I also had a small snacket during the night to keep Beaky busy.. he also unfortunately snipped off some feathers from my back.. BAD Beaky.

Now to serious things.. did you read the last post? If not, please do so after reading this.. for that beetroot and carrot soup recipe is something that we should have given you years ago! We were due to have salmon tail.. why the tail instead of the fatter fillets in the middle or nearer to the head?

Think about it.. what makes a fish go? Its' tail.. so you don't have as much fat down there like you do further up and the 'meat' is firmer and it cooks divinely without any oil.

Anyway.. I digress.. she thought "I have got a few beets and carrots that need to be eaten otherwise they'll go soft", so made the soup, 30 minutes later, she whizzed it with her neat little handheld wand liquidiser to make a thick puree.

Plop went three ladles of this divinely coloured stuff into a bowl, she didn't have fromage frais but thick fat free yoghurt was as good. Oooh.. It's better than borscht, the taste is scrummydumptious!

Got to go now, for although her appointment with this new person isn't until 2.30pm, she has to wash, dress, get to Hammersmith where she's taking some clothes back as they're too big for her (yippee) and find Dale Road in Chiswick.

But we'll be back later with another cracking recipe.. Carrot & Ginger Soup. You know we are crazy-daisy about ginger in this house and we eat carrots almost every day so the two of them are a natural and this recipe is as simple and quick as the beet and carrot soup.. that's better than Borscht!

GeeGee Parrot.
April 5th, 2016.

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