Breakfast Thursday 22 November - Ryvita & pate

OK, well all the potato bread is gone (just as well as I am flying out tomorrow), so I had one serving of mushroom pate on three Ryvitas. That leaves me one final portion for tomorrow's breakfast, so perfect!

I also ate 150g of fat free yoghurt & some coffee.

Breakfast Wednesday 21 November 2007 - You guessed it...

- potato bread, mushroom pate & coffee.

Breakfast Tuesday 20 November 2007 - Yet more bread & pate

Just another slice of potato bread, some mushroom pate & coffee.

Breakfast Monday 19 November 2007 - Bread & Pate

Breakfast was a slice of potato bread, toasted, with some mushroom pate and coffee.

Breakfast Sunday 18 November 2007 - Potato bread & pate

Breakfast was potato bread and mushroom pate with coffee.

Breakfast Saturday 17 November 2007 - Toast & Mushroom Pate

Breakfast was one slice of potato bread with some Mushroom Pate and coffee

Breakfast Friday 16 November 2007 - Er, nothing?

Skipped breakfast today - naughty! Most important meal of the day and all that stuff, but I am having a friend around for lunch and was busy, plus I knew I would eat a large lunch, so that's my excuse!

Just coffee today.

Breakfast Thursday 15 November 2007 - Mushroom Pate

Had one slice of potato bread with Mushroom Pate for breakfast, along with
some coffee.

Mushroom Pate
550g mushrooms, chopped fine
50g shallots, chopped fine
3 cloves garlic, chopped fine
250ml vegetable stock
zest of 1 lemon
juice of 1 lemon
handful fresh parsley, finely chopped
1 teaspoon pepper
300g tub light Philadelphia Cream Cheese

Cook the mushrooms, shallots and garlic in the vegetable stock over a low heat. Keep the pan covered at first, then when the mushrooms has released their water, remove the cover and leave it to cook until the water and stock have pretty much evaporated & the vegetables are soft and well cooked. The mixture should be dry.

Add the lemon juice, lemon zest, parsley, pepper and combine. Finally, stir in the cream cream and beat well to evenly distribute the mushroom mixture into the cream cheese.

Makes 8 servings
Nutrition Data per serving
Calories (kcal) 83.1
Carbohydrate (g) 3.5
Protein (g) 5.6
Fat (g) 5.2
Fibre (g) 0.8

Breakfast Wednesday 14 November 2007 - Toast & grapefruit

Breakfasted on two slices of potato bread, toasted, with Marmite, a grapefruit and some coffee.

Breakfast Tuesday 13 November 2007 - Potato Bread & coffee

Breakfast was two slices of potato bread & coffee.

Breakfast Monday 12 November 2007 - Bread & grapefruit

Breakfast was two slices on Experimental Potato Bread with Marmite, a red grapefruit and some coffee.

Breakfast Sunday 11 November 2007 - Bread & fruit

Breakfast was two slices of Experimental Potato Bread with Marmite, plus some canned pineapple, fresh blueberries and coffee.

Experimental Potato Bread
200ml water
55g malt extract
10g yeast
90g potato cooking water
260g potato flour
1 duck egg
250g wholemeal flour
35g linseeds

This was basically a way to use up the rest of the potato flour I had bought when I was trying to copy-cat Krispy Kreme doughnuts (I had read somewhere that their texture was partly due to using potato flour and wheat flour).

Anyway, I started as usual by mixing the yeast with the water and malt extract and leaving it to bloom.

I added some salted potato cooking water to the mixture because I have some vague recolection of reading somewhere that it made a good addition to bread due to the starch in it. Not sure where I read it or if it is true!

Add the potato flour and egg and mix to a batter. Leave to rise until doubled and then beat down.
Add the wholemeal flour and linseeds and knead well. Leave to rise, knock back, knead and rise again.

Form into a loaf and allow to rise until doubled and then bake in a hot oven until the bottom sound hollow when tapped, about 20-25 minutes.

Nutrition Summary
Per 100g
Calories (kcal) 255.3
Protein (g) 7.3
Carbohydrate (g) 53.6
Fat (g) 3.7
Fibre(g) 3.1

This was pretty decent bread, but not obviously any different than "normal" bread.

Breakfast Saturday 10 November 2007 - Last of the muesli

Finished off the muesli for breakfast, along with coffee & some raspberries.

Breakfast Friday 9 November 2007 - Muesli (again)

Well, another portion of muesli down. One more to go, I reckon.

Breakfast Thursday 8 November 2007 - More muesli

Breakfast was more muesli and coffee - nearly finished the muesli now!

Breakfast Wednesday 7 November 2007 - Muesli & pineapple

Breakfast was more muesli with 125g canned pineapple pieces and coffee.

Breakfast Tuesday 6 November 2007 - Muesli

Breakfast was more muesli and coffee.

Breakfast Tuesday 6 November 2007 - Muesli

Breakfast was more muesli and coffee.

Breakfast Monday 5 November 2007 - More muesli

Still working on the muesli, so had another portion for breakfast with some coffee.

Breakfast Sunday 4 November 2007- Muesli & dragon fruit

Breakfast was muesli and a dragon fruit with some coffee.