Day 36 Monday 24/09/07

Breakfast

Bowl of shredded wheat with semi skimmed goats milk
1 x Benecol probiotic cholesterol lowering drink
cup of tea

Daytime

One cup of vending machine white coffee
Ham and lettuce sandwich on wholemeal bread with flora proactive spread and fig and orange liquor preserve (from the farmer’s market)

Eve Meal

Oriental cottage pie (inspired but modified from Simon Rimmer on Something for the Weekend on BBC2 yesterday)

Topping – one sweet potatoe peeled, boiled and mashed with dash of goats milk, salt, pepper and a sprinkle of sesame seeds

Filling – fry off in olive oil one onion sliced, when browned add 6 button mushrooms (quartered), then after a couple of minutes add chopped water chestnuts (from a can) and 3 sliced carrots (in rings). Cook for a couple of minutes and add sauce as below

Sauce – olive oil in a sauce pan, add a chopped clove of garlic, 2 tsp ground ginger and a tsp of crushed chillies. Add 50ml dry sherry, 75ml red wine, 30ml soy sauce & 10 ml oyster sauce then 150ml veg stock. Bring to boil and simmer for 10 mins

Add sauce to filling and transfer to oven proof dish then spread topping on and crisp under the grill

Serve with pickled red cabbage (more Lancashire than Beijing – but what the hec)

2 glasses of sherry and 2 glasses of red wine

Pros – plenty of veg

Cons – ham in the sandwich but it was a lean piece