Hi this is ME......on Mushroom Saute for lunch on a busy Christmas Shopping Day, Saturday, 14th December, 2013.

Home from shopping and my hairdresser's and I'm hungry.

It's ages since breakfast time.  I've already walked Alice twice today, added more kitchen waste to my composter and done a spot of housework....phew!

We had to take a parcel to be posted - a Christmas Parcel - for my darlings in Australia - which is late for Christmas, of course, but it will get there in time for the much anticipated arrival of a new grandchild in January 2014.  So 2014 will start with huge excitement for our family......simply can't wait to get out there later on in the year, to meet the newest member of our family circle!  Babies are so wonderful!!!

I also had to pop into Marks and Spencer for more of their Made Without Wheat bread and crumpets and a quick look around their fashion departments. Then into WH Smiths, Millets and a very quick peep into a favourite shoe shop - just to look at their boots!

Coming home after all this shopping I was exhausted; the 'fridge was empty of obviously quick food items, such as my kale pesto and that creamed black cabbage mixture.  However, I found a few mushrooms wilting, at the back of the 'fridge, for lack of attention and, breaking them up into little pieces, I tossed them a little hot olive oil in a small saute pan with a good squeeze of garlic puree, fresh parsley sprigs and a teaspoon of cornflour with a grating of black peppercorns.  While these were cooking, I toasted two of my Marks and Spencer crumpets and, when the  mushrooms were cooked, I tipped them onto my hot crumpets and devoured them with a large mug of tea....bliss!  Don't you just love hot mushrooms on toast???

And here's a photo-shot for you -

A quick saute...

and my mushrooms are ready to be eaten...!

For supper tonight, we're eating Marks and Spencer Gastropub Beef Bourguignon with Crispy Potato Wedges from their Dine at home for £10.00 for  two which I'm very much looking forward to!

I have another two carrot cakes to bake, plus Gremolata and Aioli recipes to make up, from  a magazine article found while waiting for my hairdresser, very busy with pre-Christmas hair-do's!


Bye for now.......Daisy