Of pants and food

It's Saturday again and my temperature is still up - hovering around 37.6/8 today which is at least better than 38. Breakfast was this morning interrupted by the post man bringing a parcel of cloth nappies from Ebay. They're far from perfect and are no Itti Bitti's but are the best we can afford right now and mean that we are significantly reducing the amount of 'sposies we use and that can only be a good thing - both for landfill and our pocket.

Food has loomed large today as it does more than ever since George began weaning three months ago. Today we had a big salad for lunch with chunks of cauliflower, pepper, red onion, radish, cheddar, cucumber, tomato (I cut everything into sticks wherever possible for George to be able to grab them easily) and lots of crunchy iceberg. I made a dressing to go with it with mustard and the usual stuff, we also had hummous and French bread. Then slices of nectarine, apricot and plum for afters.

For tea I roasted courgette, aubergine, pepper, red onion, new potato, sweet potato and butternut squash with oil, garlic and my own stab at morrocan spices - cumin, mustard seed, mint, fennel, coriander, cinnamon and chunks of lemon. This I then set aside, soaked and then simmered some lentils (split peas, red and yellow lentils) and made a rough sort of dal with onions and more spice mix, added in the vegetables and vegetable stock and finally some apricots and a tin of chick peas with a little glug of cream and a final handful of chopped fresh mint from the garden - we had this with couscous of course, and a little slow roast lamb shoulder which had ticked along in the oven all day and some simple flatbread. Honest to goodness George LOVED it. Bless his heart.

I'm trying to include as many pulses as possible at the moment to help with my iron levels - under instruction from my best friend and lifelong veggie Shaz. I think she's have loved tonight's effort, hold the lamb, obviously.