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| Recipe of the week... maple roasted root veg! |
Hi readers,
It’s
Fridayyyyyy!! Finally, an end to the working week. How’s the week been,
readers? Have you gotten much done at work, or in your studies, or in life??
Have you had some fun along the way? Have you braved the dark mornings or the
dark nights, for a bit of exercise? Have you braved the heating dial and turned
the radiators on?
Whatever
you’ve been up to this week, readers, I hope you’ve been having a good time!
For me, it’s been a pretty good, fairly uneventful week. I’ve swam and run and
done some yoga. I’ve finished reading a Danish crime book and I’ve seen some of
my family. Went out for a Nandos and caught up with some friends. Remembered
how much I love Nandos.
On telly, I
watched the Bake Off semi-final… how good is it this year?! Gripped! Can anyone
imagine buttercreaming for 3 hours?! And I also watched the Stand up to Cancer
celebrity special of Crystal Maze – what a classic show! Crystal Maze brings
back memories of me and my brother, parked on the settee together, watching
back to back shows on Challenge. Fort Boyard, Takeshi’s Castle, Robot Wars…
what classics!
This week
is also the week, readers, that I made it to the Donor Centre for my final
blood donation of the year. I know I might get high and mighty about this every
three months but, once again, may I say… that it’s such a good thing to do!!
You’re saving lives! Real lives of real people! The lives of babies just being
born and mother’s giving birth and people who have been in the most terrible
accidents and people who are surgery needing your blood.
Those
people are having such a hard time and, without people donating blood, those
people might not be here tomorrow! Simple as that. No one likes needles and
everyone has some excuse or other. You’re prone to fainting, you’re not sure
whether they’d have you or not, you can’t find an appointment after work, you
did it once before and it didn’t go very well… EXCUSES.
I don’t
like them! I don’t like needles, my blood pressure is erratic, it’s hard to
find a vein, I have fainted before… it isn’t enjoyable for me or for the nurses
fannying over me and yet I go and give blood. Half an hour of drama and it’s
done. A pint in the bag, and a cup of tea and biscuit for me. The nurses can
move on to someone with tremendous veins and health. Someone out there has
life-saving blood coming their way.
Unless
there’s a definite medical reason you can’t give blood then I don’t think you
have a reason at all. Tough love from ChefBeHere. C’mon readers! I’ll stop now
but please do the right thing, and make an appointment to go donate something
that costs you nothing and that gives another person the chance to be alive and
to live a wonderful life. Maybe one day you’ll depend on them to save your
life?? Just think.
ALSO
READERS just think of all the perks of giving blood! I’ve already mentioned tea
and biscuits, haven’t I? Not to be missed out on! Then there’s the next 24
hours… you aren’t allowed to lift anything heavy, you can’t attempt strenuous
exercise, and you’re charged with ‘taking it easy’. Like music to my ears!
Honestly,
readers, if you’re the kind of person like me who needs telling straight to
give yourself a break, then giving blood is a brilliant. The nurses literally
insist that you chill out! It’s their mantra. Should you get the dishes done,
put some laundry on, run the vac around? Nooooo! Should you run a bath, read a
book, eat some tasty food? Yes!
Readers,
regardless of whether or not you’ve made a blood donation in the last 24 hours,
my top tip for you this weekend is to eat some tasty food. Something hearty and
autumnal and nutritious. One way or another, you’ve earned it this week!
On Monday,
post-blood donation, I rolled out a ChefbeHere classic recipe and decided to
maple roast some root veg. Normally, in the evening when I get in from running,
or from the pool or yoga, I’m starving. Like I’m never really at risk of
starving but I am an eat-your-own-housemate sort of hungry. I don’t have time
to be roasting things in the oven. I do not. There’s no time. I want food NOW!
Can you relate, readers?
On Monday,
everything was different because I hadn’t been out exercising and, instead, I’d
been munching biscuits. So I had time to roast! Nipped to the shop for some
root veg – got carrots and parsnips and some shallots (small fancy onions) –
and chucked some oil and syrup and seasoning on them when I got in. Spent the
best part of an hour ‘taking it easy’ and building up an appetite, then had a
really delicious tea.
If you’re
feeling up to trying out a recipe this weekend, readers, then click HERE to
find out how you can make your very own maple roasted root veg. These tasty
vegetables could make a lovely addition to your Sunday roast. Jazzing it up
Canadian-style. Or you could pop a dish of root veg out on the table with any
meal, really, for people to help themselves to? Or they could be the seasonal
centrepiece of your buffet, maybe, if you’re having people over! Why be boring?
Do anything you like with them. So long as you enjoy.
Meanwhile,
readers, I’m heading off up to the Toon for a uni reunion with the geography
gals (and Dr Davies). I’m anticipating much alcohol and silliness, and it’s
likely I’ll survive the weekend on chips and overexcitement alone. If I do
indeed survive the weekend. You’re far wiser sticking inside where it’s warm,
readers, with some tasty maple-roasted root veg.
Wishing you
a lovely weekend, readers.
Roast
safely,
Hayley
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| BEFORE: Here are my veg ready for the oven |
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| AFTER: A tasty tea with a goat's cheese tart :D |
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