Dinner

Roast potatoes, cauliflower, carrots and lamb with ice cream to follow.

Lunch

Chicken and tomato.

Dinner (Saturday)

Roast chicken, Mediterranean vegetables and roast potatoes with profiteroles to follow.

Lunch

Cheese, ham, tomato and lettuce sandwiches with minestrone cup-o-soup.

Dinner (Friday)

I had planned to have a nice roast chicken for dinner, but drink got me first. I didn't get back until 12 or so, so I just had some mackeral and onion sandwiches.

Lunch

Vegetable soup.

Snack

Aero and a cereal bar.

Breakfast

Juice and yogurt.

Tea

2 ham, cheese, tomato, scallion and lettuce on wholegrain bread sandwiches.

Lunch

Chilli Con Carne with rice.

Snack

2 cereal bars.

Breakfast

Juice and yogurt.

Dinner

Ah, steak!

Steak, potatoes, asparagus, tomato, with a cream and mustard sauce. I couldn't eat it all; stuffed! Still managed to have an Aero with my coffee though.

Lunch

Stir-fry rice with beef, pork and chicken.

Snack

2 cereal bars.

Breakfast

Juice, apple, yogurt.

Dinner

Bangers and Mash: it really does look awful. Hell, what kind of camera am I using anyhow?


Chicken sandwich to start. Then mash, beans and a medley of sausages; Polish, Romanian and South African. A lot of garlic in the Eastern European sausages made the South African one the best for me, but I was not overjoyed by any of them. Slightly disappointed.

Lunch

Vegetable soup.

Snack

2 cereal bars.

Breakfast

Apple, juice, yogurt.

Dinner

Believe me, it tasted a lot better than it looks

Creamy Chicken Curry a la Delia Smith. Ran out of green peppers, so used a leek instead. Excellent if I do say so myself. Of course the problem with going by a recipe is that you cook for four. I could only eat half.

Lunch

Slice of vegetarian pizza, followed by a Snickers and coffee.

Breakfast

Strawberry smoothie and two cereal bars.

Tea

Rushing off to see my grandad in hospital, so cheese and tomato sandwich, followed by an apple and banana.

Lunch

Seafood gumbo.

Breakfast

2 cereal bars, juice and I think a yogurt.

Snack (Saturday)

Prawn sandwich.

Dinner (Saturday)

Seafood gumbo. Well, it started out as a seafood stew, but I thought I'd add some rice. Nice. All the usual suspects; mussels, squid, prawns. Penguin to follow with coffee. The bar, not the bird. Even Moore Street doesn't seem to stock them.

Lunch

Mild curry noodles and bread.

Breakfast

Rashers and tomato sandwiches.

Late Night Snack

Mackeral in tomato sauce and onion sandwiches.

Dinner

Pepperoni pizza (frozen), prefaced by some pickled herring.

Snack

Twix.

Lunch

Chilli Con Carne with rice.

Snack

Cereal bar.

Breakfast

Juice, apple, yogurt.

Snack

Okay, so I had a Christmas chocolate bar from Germany. I confess. It was lovely. Thanks Mia and Lucy. (But I won't mention the beer.)

Dinner

Rainbow trout, fries and mushrooms. Trout is criminally under-rated, I think. I much prefer it to salmon. A far better fish.

Lunch

Lamb Kofta with rice, though they went very light on the rice. DCU restaurant for you.

Breakfast

Juice, apple, yogurt.

Dinner

Black Bean Beef with noodles.

Lunch

Potato and spring onion soup.

Breakfast

Juice, apple, cereal bar.

Snack (Tuesday)

Weight Watchers Chicken Noodle soup. Why bother?

Dinner (Tuesday)

Two small slices of pizza with beer. Well, I was at a screening of 'The Wolf Man'.

Lunch (Tuesday)

Turkey and bacon roll (brown bread).

Breakfast (Tuesday)

Juice, yogurt, apple, cereal bar.

Snack

Apple.

Dinner

Spaghetti with a variant on Chicken Arrabiata.

Snack

Pickled herring.

Lunch

Sweet potato curry with rice.

Breakfast

Juice, apple, yogurt, 2 cereal bars.

Dinner

Sunday dinner with the folks, so there had to be a joint involved, of the meat rather than vegetative variety. Smoked salmon and brown bread to start, roast beef, roast potatoes and cauliflower to follow, and orange trifle with cream to follow that.

Lunch

Maasdam cheese and tomato sandwich with cereal bar to follow. Tomato gives me indigestion, but I love the combination.

Supper

Mussels in garlic sauce, cheese and tomato sandwiches, some pate on toast and popcorn.

Lunch

Beef stew.

Breakfast

Kippers on toast.

Dinner

Beef stew... and one of my best, if I do say so myself.

Snack

2 pickled herrings. Nice.

Lunch

Broccoli soup.

Breakfast

Juice, 2 pieces of wholemeal toast, 2 pieces of white pudding, half a tomato.

Snack

Brussels pate on wholemeal toast.

Dinner

I tried a cheapo Chinese restaurant on Parnell Street after a couple of recommendations. A lamb soup to start and sizzling seafood with boiled rice for a main course was filling enough. In contrast to most of the Chinese restaurants I've been in (such as on Capel Street), the seafood actually featured pieces of fish as well as the usual seafood sticks, squid florets etc.. The mussels were proper mussels too. Not bad at all, but a bit of work on the restaurant itself wouldn't hurt.

Lunch

Vegetable soup.

Breakfast

Juice, apple and yogurt.

Supper

Toasted cheese and onion on wholewheat baguette.

Lunch

Lamb Hotpot.

Breakfast

Juice, yogurt, apple.

Dinner

Just put it on, but it's meant to be a Lamb Hotpot.

Lunch

Breakfast roll (2 rashers, 2 sausages).

Snack

Cardboard bar.

Breakfast

Juice, yogurt, apple.

Dessert

Chocolate Swiss Roll and cream.

Dinner

T-bone steak in a mustard and cream sauce with sauteed potatoes and broccoli. Hungry no more.

Lunch

Beef and veg cup-o-soup and a yogurt covered cardboard bar. Hungry.

Breakfast

Apple, yogurt, juice.

Dinner

Spaghetti with seafood in a white wine and cream sauce. Not bad if I do say so myself. I ate for four.

Lunch

Pork chop and beans, with bread.
Now there's an interesting one. Why is it 'with bread' and not 'and bread'? It figures as much on the plate.

Snack

Plums and popcorn.

Dinner

Hoisin Pork and basmati rice. Jar-based but with fresh garlic, ginger, onions, shallots, carrots, broccoli and mushrooms.

Lunch

Ham and cheese toasties. Extra mature cheddar, so perhaps a little too salty. Juice.

Late Night Madness

Ham sandwich. With mustard. Essential.

After Dinner Sweets

Truffles. Really sorry.

Tea

Chicken Provencal Pizza. Sorry.

Afternoon Snacks

2 jaffa cakes and an apple. Coffee is an ongoing daily routine.

Lunch

Tandoori chicken and rice.

Breakfast

Huge! Yogurt, apple, juice and cardboard 'fruit' snack. It should be said all morning juice is accompanied by vitamin, omega 3 and glucosamine supplements. So there.

Snack

Cup of soup - Beef and Vegetable - poured into the hot water instead of the other way around. Gross until dissolved, pretty gross again when consumed. Better than wasting money on the restaurant's idea of breakfast though.

I'll mention yesterday because it was a first. With a stack of root vegetables, I tried braised stuffed lambs hearts with vegetables. I did it all a little messily, but not unsuccessfully. As it happened heart is lovely. Something of the texture of kidney or liver, but with a meatier taste. The lamb flavour was certainly noticeable. I liked it. Sadly the veg was a little too sweet as an accompaniment, especially with a stuffing that included lemon peel. I'm a savoury guy. Still another tick on the list and one I will revisit.
Tonight I had lamb again, or rather mutton dressed as lamb. Basmati rice and Lamb Rogan Josh. Just a jar I'm afraid, though I added celery, onions, shallots, cumin and some fresh tomatoes. Tasty, but mutton dressed as lamb is still mutton. I left it as long as I could but it was still a little tough.
For the record, lunch was potato and leek soup, breakfast juice and a hazelnut yogurt.