I had a welcome visit early in the day. Due to his plan to spend two nights, Mr Smart (who is not a light packer) brought around his overnight bag including our much loved Pengi, before heading off to uni for the day. It was nice to get to have a morning cuddle and with Pengi's help I managed to get my desk tidied up a bit during the day. It was a good day's work, though I can't remember much of what was done specifically. I had a fun day playing with Pengi, and though it was a very dark and drizzly day in Melbourne we both eagerly awaited the evening's return of Mr Smart.
When Mr Smart did arrive, we headed off down Elizabeth Street to Schnitz for dinner. The Melbourne Central one is closer but we'd noticed the one in Elizabeth Street the other day when we passed it on our way to Huxtaburger. As we walked, Mr Smart held his umbrella over the two of us and we chatted away about upcoming movies we wanted to see together. The walk didn't talk long and soon we were seated at the bar at the window eating our Schnitz wraps while we talked of marketing ethics dilemmas and genre fiction gender biases and watched the beautiful dampness of a Melbourne evening as the world passed us by.
After dinner we headed home, stopping at Coles on the way home for essentials and we decided to also grab stuff for dinner tomorrow night. I had a Masterfoods slow cooker Moroccan lamb shanks recipe base at home and have a slow cooker yet to be tested! We tried to think of and grab, what all the necessary ingredients might be. Lamb shanks obviously, a zucchini, a carrot.. When we got home we discovered that we were missing one key ingredient, a 400g tin of tomatoes, and that none of the vegetables were required (though we decided to add them anyway). I've no idea how I could run out of such a staple as 400g tins of tomatoes. Mr Smart pointed out that I did have one tin of tomatoes but it's a 2.5kg tin so I wasn't about to open that just yet! He laughed and said he'd walk to Coles in the morning for the missing ingredient and assemble it all during the day while I was at work.
Wednesday's food was:
- Breakfast was a 45g Carman's Original fruit-free muesli bar and a 35g Carman's yoghurt, apricot and almond muesli bar.
- Morning snack was a green nashi pear, cored and sliced.
- Lunch was a 300g chunky vegetables with fire-roasted capsicum and quinoa skinny soup with a toasted wholemeal English muffin spread with 17.5g of The Laughing Cow cheese spread.
- Afternoon snack was a 30g serve of fruit and nut sesame snaps and an Imperial mandarin.
- Dinner was a Schnitz Hawaii Five-O wrap. A chicken schnitzel with pineapple, cheese and yummy barbecue sauce. It maybe had something else on it but their menu pdf seems to be malfunctioning at the moment so I can't check right now.
Before we watched a movie and went to bed, Mr Smart and I spent some time setting up the slow cooker and checking over the recipe and ingredients needed for tomorrow night's dinner. I'm really looking forward to beginning to see how versatile the slow cooker is. It has a pressure cooke function too, and a steam function! I was very excited too, that Mr Smart was insisting that he would take care of preparing dinner tomorrow. There is nothing quite as nice as coming home to a home-cooked meal and a pair of loving arms.
Jess
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