#supperforone

What I did here, was buy an avocado, a bag of spinach, some pine nuts and some ready-made crispy bacon. I wish I hadn't bought the ready-made crispy bacon. In fact, it can sod off. It tastes like feet. 

What I did, was wilt the spinach in a wee bit of olive oil, with some freshly grated nutmeg, ground black pepper and some amazing Fleur de Sel that my friend Micky brings back from France for me every time she goes. I'm sure they sell it here, but it tastes better that way. Then I chopped an avocado, put it with the spinach, toasted some pine nuts, then sprinkled over some of my delicious spiced seeds (pumpkin, sunflower and sesame seeds fried in a pan for 5 mins until popping with a tiny bit of olive oil and a tonne of cayenne and paprika). I should have stopped there, and not crumbled the foot bacon on top, but I didn't, because I was greedy. 

At the weekend, I think I can pretty much get away with eating whatever I want, because I normally only have two meals - a late breakfast, and a late lunch/early supper. Sometimes though, on a Sunday night in front of the telly, after an afternoon of  boozing, I need a little something but have no brain to cook anything,

What happened here, was that I got a terrible cold, and needed all the vegetables in the world in order to cure myself, so went to Aryubi Express and bought all the good stuff - 2 fennel, 1 sweet red pepper, 1 aubergine, 1 head of broccoli, a knob of ginger, 1 bunch of coriander, a lemon and some Greek yoghurt. There's nothing more annoying than ill people who sit around going wah-wah-wah and not trying to actually do something about it. Do a steaming with some olbas oil. Drink hot lemon and honey. Eat a bag of clementines. Eat nothing but vegetables until it's gone. Put chilli flakes on everything to clear your bunged-up nose. 

So. I whacked the oven up to 220C and in it I put aubergine sliced into 1cm rounds which I had brushed with olive oil with a pastry brush and seasoned, straight on the grill pan. In a baking tray, I put the sweet red pepper (the long thin ones) in whole, and each fennel chopped up into about 8 chunks and put olive oil on and seasoned. 

While that was being blasted in the oven (I like things a bit burnt on the edges, or actually sometimes just fully carbon), I fried up some chilli flakes and the ginger chopped up very, very small. To that I added the broccoli which I had blanched, and fried it up. 

I made a yoghurty sauce by zesting the lemon into it, with a clove of garlic crushed in my amazing garlic crusher http://www.amazon.co.uk/GARLIC-Garlic-Twist/dp/B000173JMS , squeezing just a teensy bit of lemon on it. 

Last night we three went to The Times charity doodle auction to watch doodles by  Paul McCartney, George Osborne, Mo Farah, Grayson Perry et al be auctioned off, and the proceeds go to charity. If you look very carefully, and know who we are, you'll see us in the photo gallery here: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/visualarts/article3679328.ece  . If you look VERY carefully, you will see John Freida with his utterly fantastic hair, and Simon Cowell's brother. 

Got back home at about 9, to an empty fridge, and while in that situation normally I'd have a bottle of wine for supper, I was trying to be good and not drink. So I raided the freezer, and inadvertently pulled a bloody blinder. 

Boiled up some frozen broccoli and cauliflower (which I have a vague recollection of using on my horribly swollen ankle after a roller disco incident, so they may have been frozen and refrozen several times. Is that ok? I seem fine). On top, is Huevos Rancheros mixture which I had cleverly put in the freezer for times like this. Huevos Rancheros are another story, but it's basically  a spicy tomato/red pepper/chilli mix. On top of that is a poached egg, which I did my clever way (put the egg still in its shell in the boiling pan of water, count to a quick 20, then take it out, turn the water down to a simmer, and crack in - it'll just retain the perfect shape), and then lots of shavings of parmesan, and some cayenne pepper sprinkled on top.