Food Diary Day 6

Today we went fruit picking at a farm.  This has become a regular summer activity over recent years.

First stop is normally always the strawberry fields.   The trick to finding big strawberries is to find some rows that less people are picking from which invariably are the back rows.   Today we even went across the dirt track to find a field all to ourselves!  The easiest way to find the strawberries is to part the leaves and often there will be bunches of strawberries nestled within.

Yum yum.

We also had a little look at the blackberry plants but there weren’t that many ripe ones as yet and even the ripe ones were quite sour so we left them.

Our favourite stop is at the cherry trees!  Last year we found some trees which were laden with cherries so ripe they were practically black.  They were really sweet and gorgeous and moreish; we spent ages there picking and eating them.  This year the cherry picking wasn’t as good but I still managed to pick a whole basket.

Which I made into this cherry clafoutis when I got home!  I’ve wanted to make a clafoutis for years, ever since I read about one in a book about a woman who moved to France and learnt how to cook lots of French food.  Finally I have made one and I think mine should be pretty close to the real thing as the top was crusty like a cake and the inside was custardy, just like it’s meant to be.  GM really liked this and so did I.  It was really easy to eat, so much so that I ate too much! =(  Whoops for my health kick.  Well I’m going to look the bright side and make the clafoutis our one treat for this week.  GM and I have decided to give ourselves one treat or one “anything goes” meal per week because we don’t want to be too hard on ourselves lest it backfire and one night we awaken to find that we’ve sleepwalked to the fridge and eaten all the ice-cream!  Hahaha.

Food Diary Day 6

Breakfast - Muesli with skimmed milk

Snack - Loads of strawberries

Snack – A few blackberries and raspberries

Snack – Some cherries

Dinner – Leftover red and green carrots with spareribs soup

Dessert – Three slices(!) of cherry clafoutis.  It was very moreish, I just couldn’t stop eating it!

Drink – Water

Exercise

30 minutes swimming