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| Recipe of the week... ...Avocado Eggs baked with Plum Tomatoes |
Serves: One breakfast-sized portion.
Time taken: Under half an hour.
Hi readers,
How are things today? And this week in general? I hope all
is well in your world. All is not-too-bad with me! It’s be a frenzied week at
work, with big deadlines to meet and directors away on holiday for half term,
but now it’s Friday. And the end is in sight. I’m tired but I’m okay.
Tonight, readers, is my last sleep in the house I’ve been
living in for a little over a year now. I’m a bit sad to be kissing goodbye to
my little home and the cosy space I’ve caringly crafted for myself in my room.
It’s going to be strange not to walk home there anymore. I’ll miss the
neighbours and (more so) their cats.
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| They were friends with all my friends |
But, time for something different. A fresh start and
adventures yet to come. Though I’m not looking forward to the effort of moving
this weekend – which will no doubt be a bloody nightmare – I am looking forward
to being moved. Settling somewhere new. Making the unfamiliar into
someplace familiar and mine.
Did anyone check the news this morning? And find it to be somehow
even more downbeat / disheartening / dreadful than normal? Terror raids in my
own city. Thousands of people trying to fake their way to free entry for the
Manchester benefit concert this weekend, by claiming they were there during the
attack.. though they weren’t. Dozens of people suffocated in an arson attack on
a Manila casino. “Global dismay” as the US withdraws from the Paris climate
agreement.
What a pile of gloom. I don’t know about you, readers, but it
makes me sad. On leg four of my commute this morning, checking the news on my
phone, I was quite saddened. BUT – you know what’s good? We have butterfly
magnets in the office now. And a freezer and a fan to help with the warm
weather. And there’s upbeat new music out (I’m listening to Paramore, Rita
Ora and Mr Jukes this week).
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| Flutterby magnets |
Also, this week, I’ve developed an obsession with a podcast
called How To Be A Girl (you can find it here). This podcast is produced by a
mum living in America, with a young daughter who is transgender. She shares
stories from their life and tells of her little daughter’s struggles and
successes growing up with changing politics and public opinions medical
options, available to transgender people.
I’ve been hooked. She also shares her moments of stress and
joy as a parent, trying to raise a child with a gender that she doesn’t have
herself. Letting go of her attachment to her son and his name and the ease of
having a cisgender child, and embracing her daughter and her new name and learning
about transgender. Trying to safeguard her kid and protect their privacy, and taking
on the battle of advocating rights for all transgender people.
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| Yes they are |
I can use
the girl’s toilet and the girl’s changing room and shop in womenswear. Have you ever given this much thought, readers? Because, until this week, I hadn't thought about this at all. And I don' think I'm the only one. If you have the time spare over the weekend, readers, and
there’s room in your life to try an inspiring and enlightening podcast, go give
it a go. You don’t even have to have the time spare – you can play this while
you’re walking or cooking or ironing… multitask!
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| Check it out! |
Also, if you’re having a more leisurely
weekend than mine, I have a recipe for you to try out. My recipe of the week, readers, for Avocado Eggs baked with
Plum Tomatoes, comes from Tesco’s May 2017 edition of their free magazine
(entitled ‘The Healthy Issue) on page 72. Now I’m a big fan of eggs and avocado
in the morning on a weekend and, when time’s on your side, I think it’s nice to
do something a bit different for a change. Present your breakfast in a fancy
way – for absolutely no reason! Here’s what you do, in just seven simple steps…
Recipe: Avocado Eggs baked with Plum Tomatoes
1.
Pour an OJ, stick the kettle on and heat your
oven to 200C.
2.
Halve your avocado, remove the stone and put the
halves of the avocado on a plate.
3.
Look at the size of your eggs and the size of
the holes available. Do you think they’re going to fit? If so, crack away. If
not, spoon out some of the avocado flesh to make a bigger hole for the egg to
sit in.
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Tip: It’s a shame to waste avocado when it’s such a pricey (and tasty)
ingredient so I just cracked away and mopped up any egg white that spilled over
the top. Use your best judgement and it will work out!
4.
Add your tomatoes to the plate (making sure
there’s no raw egg white on there, first) and then season everything with salt
and pepper.
5.
Steadily transport your plate into the oven to
bake for quarter of an hour.
6.
Once your tomatoes are beginning to split and
your eggs look as they’re cooked to your liking, then safely remove your plate
from the oven and switch this off.
7.
Leave for a few minutes to cool and the tuck
into a tasty, colourful breakfast.
What do you think, readers? Because, I like this! Here are three
of my favourite flavours all together on one plate. It’s a healthy, filling
breakfast – I went to a spin class on this and put in some serious effort on my
bike! And I had fun in the kitchen trying to balance my avocado halves and keep
the egg inside… it was messy but there was a definite sense of achievement when
I tucked in.
Let me know, readers, how you get on if you give this recipe
a go. Did your eggs stay in the avocados?? Was it worth the hassle? Would you
do this again? Send your thoughts my way and I hope you have some fun in the
kitchen trying to work this out! I say, if at first you don’t succeed, keep on
trying… and maybe have spare eggs on stand-by.
Take care, readers. Don’t let the news get you down, when there
are butterfly magnets in the world and transgender kids can happily play with
their legos.
Breakfast safely,
Hayley
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