Feeling Better and Better !!!

[blackberry444]

I'm amazed at how much better I feel today. I'm feeling much less breathless going up the stairs and I think I can walk a bit further without having to stop for a rest, although It's difficult to tell when you're shopping, because it is, of its nature, all stopping and starting.

I went shopping to Costco and normally that would wipe me out, especially as it was so crowded today, but I went shopping at Lidl as well afterwards.

I was hoping to get some of the hare portions Lidl had advertised, but there were none. However, I was lucky enough to find another cheap goose, so roll on Easter Day!

I bought John's and Charles' Easter Eggs at Costco. I'm pretty sure that by this time last year they had hardly any left, but there was lots of choice this year. I bought John a large Cadbury's Mini-eggs one, and a Guylian egg with three different small boxes of chocolates for Charles. I was pleasantly surprised to find belly pork in the meat section so I bought some so that Charles can make Fabada and we can both make Boston Baked Beans.

In Lidl I saw some treat sticks for cats so I bought some, thinking that they probably wouldn't like them very much, but they all went nuts for them. In fact Bramble and Phoebe had a squabble over them. I shall definitely have to get some more.

I finally managed to get the MyClassicFM player to work more than 50% of the time, so I'm quite pleased about it as theJazz is going off the air next weekend.  Sob! Wail! Gnash!   It's terribly slow though and it must leave at least 2 minutes of dead time between the end of one piece and the beginning of the next.  It's better than nothing, I suppose, but it makes me so cross that I have to use Internet Explorer to listen to it.  I never use it for anything else and it really annoys me to have to use it for this.  Maybe later on I shall be able to use Firefox with it.  The other annoying thing is that every 60 minutes it asks if you want to continue listening, and if you've left the PC for the moment, and don't ask it to continue, it stops and it's next to impossible to get it working again.

Today I removed Firefox3mumble-beta-mumble from my PC as it would only run with gigantic pages and no matter what I did I couldn't make it run permanently at a reasonable size page.  In addition, none of my add-ons would work with it, and to cap it all, it started up when I was trying to start my old version 2.0.0.12, so it had to go for the time being.

Charles says that he feels much better too and doesn't seem to be having any problems with cake-withdrawal symptoms.

I'm feeling pretty happy tonight.  Ooops!  I still haven't listened to my two other new CDs.

Comments

[cat63.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad that something has started to make you feel better at last - long may it continue!

I wish I could help with your browser issues, but having been a Mac user for many years now I know next to nothing about the arcane workings of Windows, so I can only sympathise.

[g8bur.livejournal.com]

I'm very glad to hear that you're feeling better with your new medication; it must be an enormous relief for you.

I'd love to try roasting a goose, but with just Geoff and me to feed, I think we'd be rather fed up with it by the time it was finished!

[blackberry44.livejournal.com]

I'm very glad to hear that you're feeling better with your new medication; it must be an enormous relief for you.

Thanks! I'm hoping it will at least continue, if not get better and better.

I'd love to try roasting a goose, but with just Geoff and me to feed, I think we'd be rather fed up with it by the time it was finished!

You can eat it cold, you know. Mmmmm! Goose sandwiches!

But what *I* do when there's a lot left is take chunks of meat off the carcass and freeze them. Then I make a wonderful stock from the bones. You can freeze this too, but usually I use it straightaway for soup and later, along with some of the fat for making a pilaff with some of the frozen goose pieces.

And then you have all that *lovely* goose fat, which costs a fortune in supermarkets and which is wonderful for cooking roast potatoes and all sorts of other stuff. It's a "good" fat, too, although I can't exactly remember what it is.

Mmmm! I can't wait for Easter!

[g8bur.livejournal.com]

You can eat it cold, you know. Mmmmm! Goose sandwiches!

They sound good! Also, I wonder if leftover goose might work in a Chinese-style dish, perhaps re-crisped under the grill, and served with hoi sin sauce, straw mushrooms, garlic, and noodles or rice? I like crispy flagrant automatic duck, so goose might be good that way too.

But what *I* do when there's a lot left is take chunks of meat off the carcass and freeze them.

Or perhaps add some par-fried onions, a spot of stock, and maybe a suitable herb, and make a rather good potato-crust wildfowler's pie?

Then I make a wonderful stock from the bones.

That could be useful when I want something to base a good gravy on, when a chicken or pork roast has let me down in that respect.

And then you have all that *lovely* goose fat, which costs a fortune in supermarkets and which is wonderful for cooking roast potatoes and all sorts of other stuff.

I've not so far tried roasting spuds in goose fat, though I've heard it's good - the price of it in the shops put me off, for one thing.

It's a "good" fat, too, although I can't exactly remember what it is.

Mono-unsaturated, possibly? I'll have to have a gwgl for it and see. The other reason I haven't tried goose-fat-roasted spuds is that Geoff doesn't reckon it's good to cook things in in animal fat. If I can show him evidence that goose fat is 'better' than, say, lard, I might be able to persuade him to try spuds roasted in it.

[blackberry44.livejournal.com]

Goose fat is mostly Monounsaturated and polyunsaturated

This site will tell him Geoff all he needs to know about goose fat.

http://www.goosefat.co.uk/

All your recipe ideas sound good to me.

[g8bur.livejournal.com]

Goose fat is mostly Monounsaturated and polyunsaturated

I though as much; similar to olive oil, I think.

Many thanks for the link - (looks) - hmmm - goose fat looks quite versatile. I may well buy a small jar, and try cooking something for my own lunch with it first. I can then ask Geoff whether he'd like to try roast spuds cooked with it, and show him a print of the nutrition page if need be.

[g8bur.livejournal.com]

I asked Geoff last night and he doesn't mind trying goose, and roast spuds in goose fat, so tomorrow I'll go out and look for one, preferably not too big (it needs to fit in my roaster!).

[blackberry44.livejournal.com]

Try Lidl. They also have goose legs, which are quite massive, or at least my local one has.

You definitely need it to fit in the pan, because it will release lots of fat and you don't want to lose that, nor do you want it all over the oven floor.

Fortunately my largest pan will just take a small one diagonally. They do tend to be rather long.

[g8bur.livejournal.com]

Try Lidl. They also have goose legs, which are quite massive, or at least my local one has.

Thanks; I'll do that. The local one has had geese in before, though I didn't notice any legs, only whole birds. I'll take a look tomorrow.

You definitely need it to fit in the pan, because it will release lots of fat and you don't want to lose that, nor do you want it all over the oven floor.

That'll be something I'll need to check carefully. I'll measure the roaster, and take a measuring tape with me. I hope it will be deep enough to catch all the fat too; if not, I may have to bale some out now and then into another pan. Measuring a goose may get me some odd looks in the shop, but if the roaster's not big enough, I'll have to forget it.

[oldbloke.livejournal.com]

If Charles really really thinks he's coeliac, he must have the blood test.
If that comes back positive, they'll want to do a gastroscopy...
I dunno if he can join the group that gets him all the booklets and stuff without a diagnosis, I'll ask L to mail you.
If he DOES get a diagnosis, he can get pasta, biscuits, bread, some other stuff, on prescription. ONLY THE FRESH BREAD IS ANY GOOD.

[blackberry44.livejournal.com]

If he DOES get a diagnosis, he can get pasta, biscuits, bread, some other stuff, on prescription. ONLY THE FRESH BREAD IS ANY GOOD.

I didn't know he could get *anything* on prescription. Ta for that.

At present I'm trying to persuade him to go to the quack and ask for a test.