Today is the weekly shopping day!  As the cold, wet weather is back, this weekend is going to be spent indoors and what better way to spend time indoors than to cook :)

First off, I made some bread for the week ahead.  Home made bread, yum.  Delicious when first baked, but it tends to go stale very quickly, so how to stop that happening?  Adding a teaspoon of lemon juice to the dough helps here.  The lemon juice helps, but it still goes stale quickly, hmmm.  The answer is to freeze it.  Bread freezes really well but it's really hard to slice, buying an electric carving knife really helps here, it cuts really fresh bread into slices, then throw it in the freezer, then use only what you need straight from the freezer.  Problem solved!

Next, what to do with those left over green and yellow peppers?  I know, I'll bake then with some olive oil, then keep them in a left over hummus container in the 'fridge, we can use them to make cream cheese and pepper sandwiches through the week.

Finally, what to have for this evening's meal?  The Good Food Healthy Eating recipe book comes in handy here, I'll cook a slightly modified braised winter vegetable salad with some grilled lamb steaks marinaded in olive oil, garlic and rosemary and finish with some mashed potato.  That's a lot of veg with celeriac, turnip, swede, carrot, beetroot and garlic, what to do with the leftovers?  I know, make some soup, we can have that with the bread.

Not a bad days work, now for supper and relaxation wit the family.  Cheers!