Junior eats out!!!!

And here is the photographic proof

Okay, it consisted of a pitta and grated carrot which obviously wasn’t on the menu (can’t see it going down well with anyone else!) but she tucked into it with great relish as her t-shirt and its olive oil stains can attest to. When we usually eat out, which isn’t often because I can’t stand the guilt of sitting there eating whilst junior does her famished child routine for the benefit of surrounding diners, we end up rushing and going home so junior will be able to eat something. I think it’s been over 2 years since we actually ate out as a family, junior always used to share whatever I was having, sometimes eating all of it before I got a chance to tuck in. I long for those days and although a pitta and carrot isn’t a full meal, I feel that it may be a start. On the plus side as well, we didn’t have to pay for juniors food as the waiter said she was so beautiful, so straight away that’s a plug for ‘Nostos’ on the parallia! Anyway, Sean and I also ate of course, having skordalia for starters and then both having salad. As you can see from the picture of junior it’s been a lovely day today, just right for salad eating. For a vegan I’m not very good at eating salads and prefer to see it ensconced in a barm cake. Sean on the other hand eats salad come rain or shine. Methinks he should really be the vegan. Well for a not very enthusiastic salad eater I tucked in to the house salad with gusto, it was yummy and junior thought it looked like a rainbow. Certainly looks very appetising I think.

Easter has now ended although it is a holiday tomorrow (make that today as its gone midnight). I stuck with tradition and had most of my mini chocolate eggs for my breakfast on the Sunday and finished the rest before bedtime, Sean and junior also had chocolate for breakfast much to juniors delight. Being a slow chocolate eater (and having more to get through than me) junior still has a sizeable horde but I’m sure I can help her with that given half a chance.
As promised I made crossless hot cross buns, which took considerable time and effort on my part I may add, only to be spurned once again by the feckless child. It was the old story of one bite, squeals of delight, prolonged mastication, search for liquid to wash it down with, exclamation of ‘yuck’. Sean and I ate them though of course, it does have its advantages being married to a human dustbin. The easter nests aka chocolate cornflake buns went down a lot better. They were also a damned sight easier to make. Melt chocolate with syrup, bung in cornflakes, put in bun cases, cool, scoff. Junior and I were very happy with these although my human dustbin found them altogether ‘too dark’. Although I have managed to steer him away from the ‘chocolate is dairy milk’ train of thought, he does still baulk at the strength of the chocolate junior and I like to eat. The combination of chocolate in the easter nests probably equated to about late 70’s early 80’s in the percentage stakes which is just too much for him. Never mind, all the more for us.
Yesterday, on finding we had some mushy bananas, I decided to make chocolate and banana brownies. I would show you a picture but it’s the very early hours of the morning, I’ve got a laptop on my knee, 2 cats by my side, and I really can’t be bothered moving to take a photo! You’ll just have to take my word for it that they look pretty good and taste damned divine. They’re sticky without being too cloying and sweet without being too sickly.
Soya milk’s being going a bit funny lately, don’t know whether it’s the beans or the water, but it keeps curdling in my tea. I can’t function without a cup or three of tea a day so this is pretty dire. If anyone makes their own soya milk and has a solution to my curdling crisis then I’d love to hear from you.