Karen

No doubt you havery enjoyed the "steak" experience and all went down well but the big question now is 

Who washed up?

But on the subject of 

Got  me thinking, yes, truthfully I have been thinking about peas and thoughts were directed to pesto (what else does one do on a Saturday night but pea think)

So I searched my recipes  (not from "Womans Own" and found this one:

Hi Karen,

How was your meal? Did it taste nice? As long as you enjoyed it, that's the main thing 

Kind regards,

Good morning everyone - yes I have survived the night and having my first cup of pea - sorry- tea of the day. This is having the usual effect on Lily of gurgling, spitting liquid and being generally grumpy but at least I know she's not blocked.

So last nights tea went well although I bottled out on the peas! Diced the mushrooms into minuscule pieces and chewed and chewed and, as warned, they are appearing in the bag in a pretty much unchanged state. I braved one onion ring, chewed and chewed and I think little pieces of that are coming through in a similar fashion. The only trouble is I'm not sure if the mushrooms were worth all that extra effort and they went cold pretty quick so I'll see. Wondered about those little tomatoes on the vine but then there's the seeds.......sigh!

Anyway hubby cooked probably his best steak for me yet - I could virtually cut it with my fork. He used the frying,lan, as the George Foreman is at the back of the cupboard with the juicer, sandwich toaster, slow cooker and steamer - I'm sure you all know where I'm coming from!

So the steak teas go like this - I 'prepare' (i.e. Get out of freezer and put on baking trays) everything apart from the steaks then give hubby a 10 minute warning before everything is ready so he can cook the steaks. Mine goes in a good few minutes before his although I'm ok with 'pink-ish' now as long as there's no blood. He then has to re-heat the peas and mushrooms at the same time. He puts the steaks on the plates then i take over and turn the boiling peas down to a simmer and loosen the now slightly stuck mushrooms from the bottom of the pan. Et Voila! Steak tea for 2 and yes, hubby washes up!

So thank you all for comments - I shall be thinking about what to try next. 

Ian - nice recipes. I've not tried a lot of pesto as I'm not a big pasta fan but having it with crusty bread sounds very tempting. I notice 1 of the recipes mentions cilantro. Is this the American for coriander? Is it a recipe from your cowboy days riding the ranch in your sporran ..... oh dear I'm sorry , it's a bit early for that and I've run out of tea now

Happy Sunday everyone

Karen x

Karen, well spotted 

I always try to put a tsiwt into my posts, so now we will call you eagle eyed Karen 

Ian tsiwt

This was an enjoyable read, thank you. I too woke up following emergency surgery, with an ileostomy ( my Henry) over all we are jogging along nicely, and have experienced all of your above comments, tentatively initially, I am three years Henry attached. My question is Jacket potatoes skins. Can they be eaten? During my stay in hospital the most eaten meal was jacket potatoes, skin and all, he Henry was a new born. No advice re my choice of supper given. On discharge I was so careful, what I ate, that jacket potatoes were confined to flesh only. I would just love the whole experience. I even peel new potatoes, but have no problem with all kinds of meats eaten. Henry loves curry, but sometimes rebuffs Chinese although I have recently enjoyed a pancake roll. Henry struggled a little with the stringy bits what went in came out whole. I would be grateful of any advice, and the groups experiences.

Hi Ingrid

I have not tried the skins although I lived off jacketless potatos with cottage cheese when I was in hospital with the fluid build-up. Unfortunately the skins tends to be the best bit and I like them crispy so even while chanting Ians ' chew, chew, chew' mantra I'm not sure how small they would break down.

I hope somebody more adventurous than me can advise you!

Karen x 

Hey Karen

Once you've eaten the insides and fillings from your jacket potato forget table etiquette and pick up the shell or jacket fold in half and munch on it until you break it down

This is the way I eat mine and tempting fate I have not had a problem as yet.

It's the fillings that cause me a slight problem like coleslaw with the carrot shreds no matter what I do I just can't break them down.

Or here's a suggestion for you -

Normally when we prepare the cooked jacket we cut a cross on the top and squeeze to open up the potato to add the butter and the fillings  but

If you take the potato and cut across the width hedgehog style (to make slices, the way to do this is to place the potato on a large spoon and cut downwards until the knife reaches the top of the spoon - stops potato falling apart)

Add the butter and top the potato with your choice of filling(s). And enjoy

This way you are getting the potato but the skin is in small slices.

Ian

Have we started a cookery club?

Ian...aka stoma chef...... I am sensing a whole new discussion...perhaps   "Cookery Club - Stoma Style"?

Spot on!

I think I've made a start and you've echo'd my footnote perhaps everyone could share recipes or just suggest meals that cause them no digestive problems.

ANY TAKERS - if this takes off my next recipe/meal suggestion will be.

Grilled Cheese on toast 

For Karen I might do the Yorkshire Rarebit/Rabbit

For Lisa I might do the Welsh Rarebit/Rabbit

Or I might do the English Rarebit/Rabbit

Or it might be an Irish Rarebit

Not forgetting the Scottish Rarebit

Or I might go international with

AUSTRALIAN GROUND BEEF RAREBIT

Or an AMERICAN RAREBIT

or to spice up your life GREEN CHILLI RAREBIT

And you though it was just going to be a slice of bread some left over cheese scraps chucked under the grill

Ian