FOUND IN FROSTY LARDER! A TASTY LUNCH.

No grapefruit for her this morning.. oh woe was she. She had to check on Myra and see if she needed or wanted anything apart from what mama had brewed for her, so decided to go down to the market and do the weekends' fruit and vegetable shopping today.

Gosh! Every thing was cheaper! When she asked her favourite stall holder why, he said that he was only staying open until 3.00pm and he wanted as much gone as possible before he closed.

Hence eleven avocadoes £2.00, four ruby grapefruits £1.00, two ripe mangoes £1.00, six ripe passion fruits £1.00, two dark green cabbages 50p each and a big bowl of fresh ginger root was £1.00.

She tipped everything in to WW and went down the street to our butcher for two trays of chicken carcasses, half a kilo of chicken breasts and pork fillet to replace the meat we ate yesterday.

Onto our favourite Middle Eastern food shop for three large pieces of turmeric root.

Home again, home again jiggedy jig! It was cold and the wind was icy.. brr! 

She sliced and thumped the pork fillet, packed it into greaseproof paper, then slid the package into a freezer bag. The same happened to the chicken breasts, all except for a small piece which we'll eat tonight.

When she was putting the packages into the frosty larder, she saw and pulled out three little packages of green vegetables."Oh, they would be delicious for lunch with chopped bacon and a couple of eggs" she said and this is what we've just eaten.

The three bags contained French beans, Runner Beans and Sugar Snap Peas. She sliced a large shallot and put it into a little fresh lemon juice, boiled three eggs so that they the whites were soft but not runny and shelled them. Fried two slices of bacon until they were crisp, lightly steamed the beans and peas, then tossed them in a mixture of lemon juice, olive oil and seasoning.

She put the vegetables on a plate, then the eggs, crunched the crispy bacon over the eggs, put the shallots over the eggs, then ground a mixture of sea salt, chilli flakes and schezwan pepper over the plate. Easy, quick, tasty.. doesn't that appeal to you? 

Poor Myra is ick-dick. She dropped off a diffuser, night light candles with which to heat it, a bottle of mixed essential oils to burn in her bedroom and lots of ginger root.

With our wonderful transport system she can go to that brilliant herbalists Baldwins on Walworth Road at the Elephant & Castle by a 360 bus which takes her almost all the way there.

She needs to stock up on her favourite essential oils: Cinnamon Bark, Clove Bud, Frankinsense, Lemon, Eucalyptus Radiata, Oregano, Peppermint for internal usage, Rosemary, Lavender and a new bottle of tincture of Myrrh. 

Catherine, a dear French friend, has told her of a Algerian place which serves delicious couscous but has to find the address. A lamb tagine with lemon and pomegranate couscous would be perfect on a cold day like today, would it not?

Indeedy it would, in fact, it's the sort of stuff you dream about!

GeeGee Parrot.

February 23rd, 2018.
PostScript: Tomorrow she'll give you a recipe for mango, ginger and passion fruit fool.. it's slurpy.