Carter and Kovac!

Before I post a whole bunch of pics of some every cute kittens (yaaaaaayyy!), my moning consisted of an apple and a tbsp of wheatgerm before I went on a 1/2hr 2.4mile walk/run.  Breakfast was my old favourite – OATS! I feel like it’s been too long since me and proper stove-top oats had a date, so here they are in all their glory:

Topped with grape nuts:

These had been hanging around for ages, and I couldn’t wait to taste them, especially after I saw them on a blog the other day! They were tasty, and softened up loads sitting on the oats.I also had some All-Bran as a topping:

Skill went into making this bowl of oats, check out my banana slicing!!

I’m talented, I know…

Then, we went to go see some kittens (I bet you’re surprised to hear that, I don’t think I’ve even mentioned kittens the past few days!?). We are getting 2 of the 4, and we’re naming them Carter and Kovach (two fit doctors from ER…!). Here are some beautiful kittens (they’re 5months), and 2 rather skanky ones of me – I’m very tired!!

They’re getting dropped off on Weds evening I’m actually thinking about coming home from uni purely to see them settle in that’s how in love I am!!

After we saw the kittens, I rode Chika again and, as usual, she was a superstar I even persuaded my mum to have a ride and she had a great time too! I was thinking yesterday how lucky I am to have a horse – my mum has worked her ass off to be able to provide for me and my sister, including paying for our horses; she left school with no qualifications at 17 to work with horses, but when my sister and I were little, she studied part time for a degree so she could have a complete career change (to a counsellor/drug therapist). She’s so awesome! We are far from rich or wealthy, and everytime I ride, it just makes me appreciate how much she has done for us – I’m so lucky to have her!

In a corny American way (:p), what is everyone else thankful for?

Moving swiftly on, for lunch, I decided to experiment a little bit – lentils, spinach etc etc…

I got 30g lentils and boiled them up with some sultanas, fenugreek seeds, garam masala, cumin and ground cloves…

Whilst also caremalizing 2 shallots with a pinch of sugar, and the same spices:

ALSO at the same time (I’m quite the multi-tasker), I roasted these veggies – squash, tomatoes, spring onion, artichoke and mushrooms:

With these spices – cumin, cloves and fenugreek:

Oh, and salt and pepper! But that goes without saying

When the lentils/sultanas were soft, I stirred in the onion and some spinach:

And served it with the roasted veggies and the rest of the sheep’s milk cheese on a pile of spinach!

It was really tasty, BUT it had a hint of bitterness – I’m not sure what this was from, maybe the fenugreek seeds as they caught a bit when I was cooking the onion? Ah that’s why I lover this cooking thing (and being at home with far more ingredients) – you learn so much!! I think some sweet something in the lentils would have worked welll…maybe cinnamon!!??

Has anyone else done much cooking with fenugreek seeds?

Anyways, no idea what I’ll do for dinner, maybe something very boring cos right now I am s-o-o- full!!

Hope everyone is having a good Sunday