Midweek Munchies

Still tired. Still here.

I tried out the new Nature's Kitchen Mushroom Carbonara ready meal, only realising after I bought it that the sauce is based on coconut cream. Though it wasn't too overpowering or gross, which was a surprise. Otherwise is was a pleasant enough dinner (with some baby spinach, of course), but nothing outstanding. Needed more mushrooms and mushroom flavour.



I had a sourdough crumpet left after buying some at the markets, just handing around in my freezer. I make indian spiced fried crumpet with it, which I saw a friend do on their IG one time and I googled up. Just chop or tear up your crumpet into smaller pieces, and fry with some oil or vegan butter and whatever spices you desire. I used garam masala, garlic power, cumin, and coriander. I served it just with some sauteed spinach and mango chutney. A few way to do something different with crumpets!



I love pickles, and was intrigued when I found these carrot and daikon pickles with mandarin yuzu. They are lovely pickles, with large thin slices of carrot interpersed with a few slices of daikon. They are great to put as is on sandwiches, or slice up to sprinkle over sushi bowls. The only small let down is I was looking forward to a very citrus forward pickling juice, but it is pretty subtle.



An easy dinner using some packaged tofu, frozen vegetables, and the Passage to Asia satay sauce. The sauce on its own does have a bit of a spicy kick, but maxing through the vegetables and tofu and serving over rice helped cool it down. I had spent so long checking the ingredients on the back to make sure there was no chili, I didn't notice that it has a half chili coloured in on the front. I guess chili goes under spices or something in the ingredients. I also added some leftover baby corn I had in the fridge to go with the rest of the vegetables.





Finally, my friend gave some some of these Fancy Plants chia pudding. I am not a huge chia pudding person, I have issues with the texture. I had all these plans to do this and that with them, but I ended up just eating them out of the tub. Texture issues aside, the flavours were good.



Cute Kitty Photo of the Post



Boo treating herself to some hot stone acupressure in the cat max. Why do some cats insist on lying on rocks and stones? Who knows. They are wonderful mysteries sometimes!