Monday - Chicken and Green Bean Stir-Fry with Soba Noodles

Jo is becoming a real expert in making stir-fry and last nights efforts is a prime example. We agreed to start the week with a healthy dinner and no wine until Friday - we definitely achieved the first part but the second part wasn't so successful!

Jo made chicken and green bean stir-fry with soba noodles in a sweet and spicy tamarind sauce.

Sunday Sea Bass

On Sunday Joe and I made a mid year resolution that we're going to get healthy.  We're both fairly active (well, Joe is, and I make a pathetic attempt) and I like to think of myself as healthy, but the curse (and blessing) of the blog is that it is an accurate representation of just how many treats we indulge in!  Especially as Joe is running the marathon in  a couple of months, and W-day dawns in just six months, this is prime time for getting into shape and eating well.

So, bearing that in mind, please ignore the Sunday croissants that graced breakfast in bed...yum.

However, we both hit the gym during the day, and then had a rather healthy sea bass late lunch in the sun shine.  While we were out on Saturday Nick commented that our most gross blog post so far has been the pheasant plucking a few months back.  I'll be honest, the scenes in our kitchen on Sunday afternoon, with me descaling and gutting the bass, we're not that pretty either!  Joe didn't take any pictures though, so don't be too scared of the pictures below!

Lunch was a rather yummy roasted sea bass stuffed with herbs and lemon, served with a Greek salad and new potatoes.  We did feel rather virtuous and I'm sure it's set us up for a good week.  Feel free to tell us off when we fall off the waggon though....

breakfast croissants.  Thank god for the gym!

The prepped seabass.  Pretty neat and tidy I think!

Greek salad

Roasted sea bass, new potatoes and greek salad

Saturday - Mike's Birthday and Soraya's Cooking!

Saturday started with a long run for me and a shorter one for Jo.  I decided in the week that it would be a good idea to drive to the city and run along the canal and back and that's exactly what I did! Ok, so the drinks and curry the night before didn't help to much but I did do the the 17 miles I wanted and I wasn't too broken after! Next long run, I think I'll try and eat a bit better beforehand, although Jo's food is hard to resist.....18 miles on Friday it is.

My run time on the Garmin

After a quick turn around, we were picked up by Wolf and Gelt and headed to Mike Work's birthday drinks in Horsforth - he is 31 but looks way older that me! ;o). Soraya had laid on a great spread including chicken fajitas, potato skins, tuna pasta, garlic bread, pizza and salad - it was a really good effort and we were all very impressed....BRAVO!

The birthday spread

Soraya also managed to find the time to knock together a chocolate birthday cake for Mike, which was super rich but also light as a feather! - those who said it was really dense were just jealous!

Work Mike and his cake

Jo filling her face

After a few more drinks, we all headed into Horsforth to the Queens Arms for drinks, pool and good times....hooray! And happy birthday Mike! I didn't do a very good job of playing photographer, so I pulled some pictures of the attendees off facebook - here they are;

William of Saville

The Ahad clan

Wolf and Gelt 

 

 

 

We had a substantial lunch, but Jo and I were getting hungry as the evening wore on, so our kind cab driver stopped on the way home so we could grab and oven pizza - very good it was too!

Pizza with extra pastrami and basil