4 March - bacon sandwiches and chow mein

After some top bacon and avocado sandwiches for lunch, we headed home and I cooked up some quick chicken chow mein for supper - chicken marinated briefly in soy sauce and five-spice powder, spring onion, pepper, mushrooms, carrot and noodles.

8 December - a bacon sandwich and a leek and bacon tart

Lunch today was a good old bacon and avocado sandwich with some proper smoky bacon from Ruby & White - mmm!

Perhaps inspired by yesterday's successful baking, I decided to use the leeks still sitting in the vegbox in a tart. It was sort of a made up recipe, roughly as follows:

• I made up some basic pastry and lined a tart tin - chilled it for a bit, then baked it blind for about 15 mins @ 200C.
• I sweated a couple of chopped leeks, then mixed them in a bowl with c.100g soft goats cheese, c.50ml double cream, one whole egg and one egg yolk, plus a bit of chopped fried bacon.
• I poured the mixture in the pastry case and put the whole lot back in the oven for about half an hour at 180C.

We had the tart with a salad of spinach and beetroot - tasty and warming, but not too heavy.

19 November - a bad food day

I was feeling particularly uninspired and woolly-headed today and some disappointing food did nothing to lift my mood. We had bacon and avocado sandwiches for lunch, but although the bacon was good, the bread was a bit dry and the avocado not really ripe. Then I fell back on kedgeree for supper, but put in too large a pinch of cayenne to give it a bit of kick and ended up overpowering all the other nice comforting flavours ...

3 September - steak and homegrown tomatoes

We grabbed a quick lunch on our way out to do stuff at Rocotillos, a great little diner nearby. We had a simple bacon sandwich and one of their fantastic milkshakes - banana, made with real bananas, of course!

The tomatoes from the terrace are coming thick and fast now and tasting really great, so dinner tonight was planned around a big warm tomato and basil salad. Served with fillet steak and rosemary roast new potatoes, the tomatoes were just perfect!