Welcome to this week’s edition of my weekly roundup of posts…Especially for you just in case you missed any posts during the week…
Take a pew and get comfy… have a read… I hope you enjoy it!
Monday always starts with news and my views… always something new to discover…This week was no different…Food Labels…
There are many reasons why food labels are not fit for purpose…The fact that only people who can generally read them are those with 20/20 vision, of course, we want to know what is in our food as if it is chicken I want to know chicken is the main ingredient…I want to know the source of my chicken as the way they are reared is vastly different depending on where they come from and the processing..regulations vary from country to country and of course, I don’t want my chicken to come from 1,000’s of miles away I want to be assured of its global footprint and health.
That is just for starters…
https://carolcooks2.com/2020/08/31/food-labelling-part-2/
Wednesday:
Found me over at Sally’s where it was time for the next letter of my journey through the alphabet and the letter Q…surprisingly there were lots of yummy foods beginning with Q…I also learnt that queso means cheese…doh! however, that just sums me up at the moment…I half wrote a post for Tuesday and it sits in drafts…I don’t like September it is my birth year and although I think age is just numbers..mine are totting up and I don’t like it… it is unsettling me or is it this Covid-19 or a combo but unsettled I am…
Anyways pop over to Sally’s and enjoy Q…
Thursday: How healthy is your breakfast?
Breakfast or brunch is most peoples first meal of the day…For some, it is a slap-up breakfast with all the trimmings and for others a snatched cup of coffee…
In this post, I look at breakfasts around the world and they certainly all have their differences and they all have foods which I would love to eat…
I unravel the breakfasts a little and dig a little deeper to find out more head over and have a read…
https://carolcooks2.com/2020/09/03/how-healthy-is-your-breakfast/
Friday: Tamarind…
One of my favourite fruits as the taste changes as it matures and each taste is different from the last and equally as glorious… I was asked which fruit I could compare it with and I couldn’t it has a unique taste of its own…
Picked young like this the fruit is white and slightly tinged with pink, a nutty taste with just a hint of its more grown-up taste of sweet and sour… Like this, they are available for a very short period of time literally a couple of weeks a beautiful snack…
When it ripens it becomes brown and sticky with an awesome sweet and sour taste…
Again they can be eaten as they are and are found in all shops dried in packets with or without the obligatory chilli and with or without the very hard black pit.
For more info and recipes on this lovely fruit please click the link and enjoy!
https://carolcooks2.com/2020/09/04/fruity-fridays-the-tamarind-2/
Saturday Snippets:
Yesterday I think I got some of my mojo back…Saturday Snippetts was more on point…Was it James Veicht who cracked me up it was an oldie but one I hadn’t seen and as I absolutely hate spam it was great…Toasters is all I will say I also defined the word Toast!….
Dr Zhivago was on the same page as Chuck Berry and John Lennon…Long Live Rock n Roll...my era…Omar Sharif used to make my heart flutter and methinks I will have another watch of that great film…It is also national organic month so there will be more on that in the coming weeks…you knew ..didn’t you? the very rare wolverines are back and Sally talks to us about statins in the Health Corner…scary…All in all a jam-packed Saturday Snippets I hope you enjoy! xx
https://carolcooks2.com/2020/09/05/saturday-snippets-5th-september-2020/
I also extend my apologies as I didn’t post the wild mushroom soup or the jalapeno stuffed pork loin…I will this week…I also had the biggest fail I have had in the kitchen for a long time…I absolutely ruined the paella although the power outage didn’t help what a disaster it was awful…I am not going to live that down here for a very long time…Ooppps xx
God bless you all in these turbulent times…be safe and stay well…
My hopes…for the future…
When this is all over my hope for the future is a cleaner world… I do want to see communities, and caring for your neighbour becoming the new norm…WORKING TOGETHER INSTEAD OF WORKING AGAINST EACH OTHER…Being kind to each other…Loving someone whatever their religion or skin colour…Can we make this happen? We have to but in the right way…Are we willing to make a stand? Personally, I would love to see lessons learnt ..realistically I have my doubts…
Thank you for reading be well and stay safe xxx
About Carol Taylor: Enjoying life in The Land Of Smiles I am having so much fun researching, finding new, authentic recipes both Thai and International to share with you. New recipes gleaned from those who I have met on my travels or are just passing through and stopped for a while. I hope you enjoy them.
I love shopping at the local markets, finding fresh, natural ingredients, new strange fruits and vegetable ones I have never seen or cooked with. I am generally the only European person and attract much attention and I love to try what I am offered and when I smile and say Aroy or Saab as it is here in the north I am met with much smiling.
Some of my recipes may not be in line with traditional ingredients and methods of cooking but are recipes I know and have become to love and maybe if you dare to try you will too. You will always get more than just a recipe from me as I love to research and find out what other properties the ingredients I use contain to improve our health and well being.
Exciting for me hence the title of my blog, Retired No One Told Me! I am having a wonderful ride and don’t want to get off, so if you wish to follow me on my adventures, then welcome! I hope you enjoy the ride also and if it encourages you to take a step into the unknown or untried, you know you want to…Then, I will be happy!
Thank you once again for reading this post I hope you all stay safe and healthy xx
Retired? No one told me! 