monday monday here again in tidy attire

well there you are now, its monday and im jobless, today anyway.

to continue the tale of the vegetarian the coeliac and the garlic-hater, i managed quite successfully in the end. I steered clear of thai curry cos i'd made a red one just days previously which was v tasty but didnt fancy repeating. Also i didnt feel like making the paste from scratch - the lovely premade one i use is gluten free, but not garlic free. I made a dhal curry (http://www.delia.co.uk/recipes/r_0000000787.asp), the recipe only had one garlic clove, so i figured leaving it out wasnt gonna be a big deal. it was a delia smith recipe right, and said it serves 2. So i doubled it. And i swear it could feed 8 now, so i still have a big tupperware yolk of it in the fridge now. And marks working late all week (again - sure someone has to pay the rent) so im deffo freezing some cos no way am i eating it 4 more days! Really tasty though. But that delia must be a greedy pig.

Emma's friend margo is a coeliac and has lived the last few years in italy & switzerland (i think), so emma fwd'ed the post to her, and this is what she told me - i've posted it here, cos i think its an enlightened and interesting perspective:

"the need for meat, gluten and garlic in everything is an irish/english/american thing.  I would say western but
most other european countries don't have the same dependency on those three... 90% of the time I eat meat-
free, gluten-free, garlic-free food. The other 10% of the time is when I order red rare steak and suck on it.....
(cue Homer drooling at mouth...).  My big big suggestion though is italian food.  Contary to popular belief italians
do not put garlic in everything...in fact for them it's the ingredients that are important so lacing everything with
garlic is just a nightmare and a sign of someone who hasn't a clue what flavours a tomatoe, zuchetti, carcofi*
should have"

*i dont know what this is.
But she gave me 3 deadly italian recipes that fit the criteria, so megan and graham may have to be my (willing) guinea pigs again.

im trying to be productive on my enforced day off, but things seem to be conspiring against me. All the biddys must do laundry on a monday, cos it took me 2 trips to the laundry room to get my 2 loads of washing done, and i've haven't a sniff of a dryer so all the stuff is just sopping in the apt for the moment. I'll try again later. I did go for a mad long treadmill jog earlier though, i did 5.2 miles (8.4km) in an hour, which is a time/distance ne'er seen since the mini marathon 2003. i felt bad cos i took all last week off cos i'd a rotten cold which is gone now.

please forgive my dodgy formatting re: quotes & links, safari doesnt support all the options that other browsers do for blogging, which is a bit frustrating, but apparantly they're working on it.