Saturday 23 June - Back to Low Fat Again

It's pretty obvious from recent posts that I'd pretty well abandoned the low fat diet. However, a visit to the Doctor this week after suffering several bouts of severe chest pains has meant I'm back on it with a vengeance. It's possible that I have gallstones, and one way of managing the pain is to cut back on fat (thanks Google!)

So, can we do a three course low fat meal?

Starters, Bobs favourite food in the world - crab and sweetcorn soup - I cheated a bit with the stock as had no chicken bones, so it was onions, garlic, ginger, soy, carrot, celery and some coriander stalks, simmered for a couple of hours, with a knorr stockpot. Then a tin of sweetcorn added to the strained stock, thickened with some cornflour and rice wine and finally the crab meat, an egg beaten with sesame oil was drizzled in and a sprinkle of spring onions.

Main course was planned around the mornings excitement of digging up the first potatoes (in fact the first produce we have ever harvested) from our allotment

To go with this Delias Thai Salmon Filo parcels, but with a spray of olive oil rather than the butter she recommends, and less pastry. The salmon is topped with chopped coriander, spring onions, garlic, ginger and lime, then wrapped in filo and baked. Served with our lovely spuds and probably the last asparagus for this year.

And for dessert   - how to get two of your five a day into children - jelly! But not just jelly, lime jelly with strawberries in it, and strawberry jelly with blueberries in it in layers. I also made some vanilla ice cream which the boys had with this, but I just had the jelly.