I've been feeling really groggy recently, you know, sleep for hours then still tired when I wake up. My skinny jeans are just an inch too skinny, and the scales are starting to appear in my nightmares. So I decided it's about time to get healthy - again.
I've dug out my old "Yoga Mind and Body" book (still available on Amazon!) and started planning my meals for the next week. The yoga is on hold for now though, I seem to have injured my back taking the kid to gymnastics!
One thing a lot of people might not know about me is that I used to be a vegetarian - between the ages of 10 & 22 - and for the last three years I've been living with a vegetarian housemate. I've never been a big fan of eating animals, and have decided that for the next couple of weeks my detox(-ish) diet will go back to my teenage roots.
Unfortunately it won't be quite the same this time round. Growing up we lived in a big farmhouse with a gorgeous deep red Aga. My friends' houses had Agas, my Grandma had an Aga, my Mum had... well she had a Rayburn but she was only 4"11 or something and the Aga was too high to lean her bum on! Sorry, going off on a tangent there... All I mean is that a lot of the food I cook nowadays I learnt to cook on an Aga. I get all confused when you have to pre-heat the oven, or cook on a medium heat. And things just taste different out of an Aga. Perfect jacket potatoes, vegetable casserole cooked slowly in the bottom oven, the best meringues just left on the top overnight.
Living in a small city flat doesn't lend itself to having an Aga, so I find myself settling for second best. There is, of course, always a way to get that little Aga/vegetarian fix... Aga shops countrywide (including the Norwich one!) are having an open day this Saturday in the build-up to national Vegetarian Week (which is May 24th - 30th). I'll be cycling down in the hope that I won't feel so guilty for sampling as much of the food as humanly possible, or be too tempted to buy any of the Aga accessories.
Maybe just an apron though...?
