NO SUCH THING AS A FREE LUNCH

What do you call a deer with no eyes? 

NO IDEA. 

Boom tish. 

Anyone would think I've no ideas, no inspiration. No blog posts. I know, I know. 

I know it's been a while and I should be sorry but I'm not actually. 

The reason I started this blog was because I had far to much time on my hands - time that I absolutely was not being productive (nor positive - hence the rants) with. Now I have NO time on my hands. None. Whatsoever. It's completely filled up to the brim with doing. What happened? Well, (brace yourselves) I got a JOB. Hell yes... and *best M&S voiceover voice* not just any job... a LOVELY job. Who'd a thunk, eh? 

So while I've been getting to grips playing nice with the new kids and actually engaging my brain in something other than what's going on with Bargain Hunt the blog has kind of taken a back seat. 

My job isn't only love for recognising me as the best, most amazing person for it (natch) but we have FREE lunches, yes, FREE, a 3-course lunch. FREE. Magic. Not so magic for my bum and tum though. Will the real Slim Foodie pelase stand up. oh. Zumba ain't going to fix this, I can tell you.

A typical lunch, for example, is:

Starter

Spicy parsnip soup with croutons and a dash of chilli oil

Main

Chicken and Leek pie with mash and gravy
or
Beef meatballs with a thai green curry sauce

or
Peri Peri chicken with wedges and veg's

Pudding

Crumble and custard (c'mon, who could resist a bit of crumble??)

Even more magic is that chef knocks this up for £1.80 per day - with a tidy little salad buffet as well (do I make friends with salad? do I ....)

EVERY DAY I promise myself I will show restraint, and every day I crumple I stagger under the weight of my tray of food. Then, EVERY single sodding DAY I promise myself I won't have supper as well and every day I do.

If it isn't the general busy-ness stopping me blogging, then it's the fact slump into a soporific stupor on the sofa every evening. 

Give it a couple of months and you'll be needing to send the cranes in.... 

Anyway, enough of me and my pampered freebie ligging lifestyle...here's a little tasty treat of your own to rustle up...enjoy!

Salmon en Croute



150g mascarpone or cream cheese
1 bag watercress , spinach and rocket
1 lemon
Pack of jus-rol puff pastry
2 large (wild) salmon fillets
1 egg, beaten

1. Preheat the oven to 180C
2. Put the mascarpone, watercress, spinach & rocket in a food processor with a squeeze of lemon and seaon tyhen whizz up into a paste.
3. Roll out the puff pastry, plonk a fillet of salmon in the middle
4. Top with the paste, wrap up, glaze with the egg (do same with other one)
5. Pop in oven for about 30 minutes

I served with peas with leftover paste mixed in and it was LOVELY! Wolfed in about 2 seconds flat actually. 

Always a pleasure, never a chore!

I leave you with  a bit of  Office cheer