Stop the presses! Fussy ate pizza!

Tonight - really he did! The man that does not like cheese or tomatoes or onion.

Well the pizza he had didn't have onion or cheese on it just tomato sauce, peppers and chicken tikka. Odd combination for a pizza but that's what the Cafe seems to specialize in - interesting toppings with jokey names. Mine was a spinach, salmon and cream cheese calzone - Posh Nosh it was named.

Yesterday's brekky was also good;

Wholemeal muffins (homemade)
Poached eggs
Smoked Salmon
Hollandaise sauce (homemade too) - lots of egg but very tasty!

Not saving the bacon....

Fussy worked from home today - waiting for the delivery of an external hard drive to protect our data and photographs. What he didn't tell me was he had also ordered a Mac book! Well it's his money.

So he was supposed to have a bacon sarnie for lunch (we had crepes for brekky - he had made he batter last night). It seems he had a bacon sarnie for dinner too rather than the pasta I'd got for him. Leaving none for me for my dinner - damn!

Instead I had stuffed peppers...stuffed with about 3cms of chorizo, 3 large mushrooms and a helping of goats cheese, bung in oven for 30 mins. Lovely!

Of Shepherds and Toads

So Fussy got his Shepherds Pie last night with roast carrots and parsnips and broccoli. There was enough to make two so one is frozen for later in the month. Fussy even had to help cook it whilst I took a call from my lead marker on the exam panel he peeled and boiled the spuds. He took notes too on how to complete the whole process.

Todays breakfast was our warmer weather version (ironic considering that last night was really cold and we woke to frost this am).Tonight we had another of his favourites - toad in the hole. As I still have lots of carrots and parsnips I roasted them again and included some cabbage too.

After dinner Fussy made batter for crepes for Pancake day breakfast tomorrow. I've not got a lot of time spare so I just handed him the Carrier cookbook at the page entitled basic French crepes. I'll cook them and will mess up the first one or two, as always but the rest will be fine, usually.

Dinner for Fussy will be (horrible) packet pasta before he heads out to a concert - I'll not be home until after he's gone, sadly.

Elephantitis....!

Before Christmas Fussy Eater and I bought some vouchers from LivingSocial and Groupon for various meals and events and we used our voucher for the Elephant Public House on Thursday.

Good food, nice wine, lovely place. 7-8 out of 10 I'd say

Fussy shared a charcuterie platter with me for starters and even ate a sun dried tomato! Main course was good old bangers and (dijon mustard) mash for me. The mustard was rather concentrated in one place and I had to mix it in a little better and the extra gravy provided in a gravy boat had clearly been waiting a few mins to be served and was a little 'skinny'. Still pleasant enough with really tasty sausages.

FE had a spatchcocked poussin which I was surprised about as he doesn't usually like chicken that might have bones in it. This was served with a buttered cabbage and a rather nondescript dip/sauce that neither of us could figure out. Tasty non the less.

So perhaps not at good as when under the previous owners (who have since run the Star and Dove and also moved on again). When it can to dessert we were disappointed to find that many had sold out already but the brownies with raspberry sauce and ice cream was rather a pleasant change for the creme brulee or crumble king!

Last night was curry night as both of us were too tired to cook - he has Chicken Makhoni and is recognised at the takeaway and greeted warmly (The Curry Centre, West Street) and went to CTM this time although often has a mixed kebab.

Tonight Fussy cooked chicken fajitas for me as I worked all day. Tomorrow he's requested a winter favourite of Shepherd pie but with a sweet potato topping, think I'll also add some roast parsnips and carrots and some savoy cabbage.

Food For Life

All this started when hubby suggested I keep a record of what we've eaten - 'you know, like Jim' he said. No Jim is a real foodies and keeps a record in his diary of exactly what he has served to anyone that has visited and for all I know what he's cooked any day of the week. But hey - life's too short for that......

Anyway, hubby is a fussy eater in my book - he does not eat onions or tomatoes and only a few less mature cheeses. Considering that these are three items that I love to eat, my cookery live is not easy! Nevertheless we have been married for nearly 15 years so at least we're managing to cope with it and I've even sneaked a few new items into his limited choices.

I have now decided to keep a track of what I have fed him and what he has tried outside of my kitchen to hopefully expand his repertoire further and to give me and partners of other fussy eaters some inspiration.

So, last night I created a Fussy Eater Pizza - based on a little idea on the menu at Watershed Cinema in Bristol but with far less fat;

Take a soft flour tortilla for each adult, spread with a little pesto (make your own or use any jar from the Stupormarket) top with your choice of toppings - I used pepperoni, grilled chicken and mozerella. Grill until cheese melts and bubbles. Enjoy!

Tonight we dine out.......


Wifeoffussyeater - you can contact me at wifeoffussyeater@btinternet.com