Monthly Archives: October 2009

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As well as having a great range of online workouts, they have some great Fitness Recipes over on fitness tv. too.

Sweet potato and chickpea cakes

Serves 4, makes 8-10 cakes

  • 3 sweet potatoes
  • 1 carrot
  • 1 tin of chickpeas
  • 1 red onion
  • A pinch of dried chilli flakes
  • Juice of 1 lemon
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • A handful of breadcrumbs
  • A handful of chopped parsley
  • 1 tsp toasted coriander seeds, ground
  • salt and pepper
  • 1 whole egg

Preheat your oven to 180C Drain the chickpeas and in a large bowl mash them with a potato masher. Don’t squish them to a puree, that’s not what you want. You are looking for a textured mush, with lumps here and there. Peel and grate in the sweet potato and carrot. Finely chop the onion and add this to the bowl, along with all the other ingredients. Mix everything together – this is best done with your hands. Line a baking sheet with greaseproof, rubbing a little oil on it. (If you rub oil on the tray, then push the greaseproof down onto it, it’ll stick quite happily). Take a handful of the mixture, about the size of a Clementine, and roll it in your hand until you form a ball. Squish it down to about a centimetre thick. It doesn’t matter if there are little bits sticking out – these will become lovely and crispy as they cook Place the cakes on the baking sheet. When you’ve done all of them, you can either pop them in the fridge to firm up a bit, or stick them straight in the oven. They’ll take around 25 minutes to cook.

The recipe is from Will … theboydonefood.blogspot.com

Go register on Fitness tv and discover it for yourself   πŸ™‚




Arrived Today

I wonder if these will help me πŸ™‚

If I learn a word a week, it will only take a 1001 weeks πŸ™

At least I am trying πŸ™‚

I usually listen to my French learning C/D on the way home from Cambridge on a Monday.

Last week I learn how to ask for things… Je voudrais = I would like

This week it was Avez-vous de =  do you have any

I like the c/d’s as you get to hear how to pronounce the words, which I can find hard .

I just hope pandammonia does not insist on speaking French when we meet up at the week-end.

A Sunday walk.

After feeling so poorly during the week I was so glad to be feeling much better yesterday.

It meant I was well enough to go on our planned walk with the Cambridge Rambling club.

Of all the Sundays we walk, yesterday was a special one, as it was 3 years ago that I met Geoff, on a walk of course πŸ™‚

So it only seemed right that we went walking yesterday .

Slimming World and weight Loss.

A few weeks ago I once again decided it was time to follow the slimming world eating plan to lose some weight.
I am afraid I am what you would call the typical yo-yo dieter πŸ™

I know the Slimming World plan works and I know it must become a way of eating for life – so this time I am determined to make it my way of life πŸ™‚ .

Its so easy to follow you never have to go with out any food and you never have to feel hungry.

Its easy to fit into your life and you can still eat out, you just have to learn to make the right choices.
So for any one wanting to lose a few pounds before Christmas, your motto should be weight loss is for life not just for Christmas.

I can really recommend the  Slimming world eating plan and no I am not getting paid for this post πŸ™
Most of the recipes I make are slimming world ones and no one ever notices any difference from ‘normal’ high fat recipes.

Tonight its  a Slimming World stuffed peppers and salad main course followed by a great Slimming World recipe pudding πŸ™‚

BTW if your wondering I have lost 7lb in 3 weeks and never once felt hungry.

Addicted

At the same time I started my French class I also started a beginners course in Yoga.
I may be struggling with my french but I am just loving the Yoga.
Having always done high impact aerobic exercise with very little stretching, my body is just loving all the stretching its now getting.
My son Andrew who is a very keen kick boxer even comes to yoga class with me.
I never thought for one moment I would enjoy the yoga as much as I do.
This is definitely one thing I will not be giving up πŸ™‚

Half Way

That’s me half way through my 10 week beginners French Class.
The class numbers have dropped by half and I am most definitely the only beginner.
I do enjoy the class , we have some fun and I always learn something even if it is just a new word.
Early on I realized that maybe before I took a french class I should of taken an English class…..
Then tonight I was horrified when we practised our French numbers by doing the times table.
I have never known my times table off by heart so when everyone else could just real off the answer they had to wait for me to work mine out, at that moment I just wanted to die πŸ™
One thing i know for sure… I will never be able to hold a conversation in French but I certainly know more now than I did 5 weeks ago.

My homework or Devoirs was to write about myself.

This is what I wrote and all of it was done using books notes etc.

Salut
je m’ appelle sally. je suis anglaise.
Jai quarante-huit-ans.
l’habite avec mon deux fils. ils sont dix-sept et vingt et un ans.
je adore le montagne.
Je vais a les alpes francaises et je frais souvont le ski.

Its half term next week and I hope I go back to finish the course πŸ™‚

Am I or Arn’t I

I have been thinking about changing internet provider for months well maybe even years.
After my last Upset with AOL its taken me 10 months to stop thinking about it and do it
Yesterday October the 13th was switch over day.
First disappointment was that my BT wireless hub had not arrived.
Not quite understanding how these things work I half expected to have no internet when I returned from work.
But I do have internet how ever is it with AOL or BT.
BT says its certainly BT internet on my line but when I look up my IP address it still says carphone warehouse.
I know it will take another 10 days before my internet account closes with AOL and my wireless Hub is in the postal sorting office in Milton Keynes.
What a shame that I cannot get twice the speed if I have Both AOL and BT it would certainly solve my problems with streaming on BBC Iplayer πŸ™‚ 
In the mean time i sit and wait for the postman  πŸ™

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