I love everything about Autumn (apart from the rain!). Many
of my favourite things are the burnt orange colours of the fallen leaves,
gorgeous blue skies on a crisp, misty morning and wrapping up warm to brave the
elements but... my ultimate love of Autumn is the food!
Autumn is a time for me to ditch the cold food and opt for
more comforting, warm dishes. When Katie and I are working and eating together,
we try to include seasonal foods such as: beef, pork and chicken, cod, crab,
sea bass and squid, cabbage, mushrooms, potatoes and kale and apples and pears.
Working from the
Kitchen Table
Obviously if we are working from one of our homes, we like
to keep lunch simple and quick to prepare so we don't get too distracted from
what we are doing. It's easy for us to get carried away and forget to eat when
we're together which is why I find it a good idea to prepare food in the
morning to eat in the afternoon.
Following a nice Autumn walk the other day, I made Katie a wintery noodle salad which she loved.
The recipe is adapted from one of my favourite cookbooks by Sophie Dahl
entitled From Season to Season. The dish consists of soba noodles,
shredded red cabbage, carrot sticks and a sliced spring onion. Simply cook the
soba noodles and leave them to cool while preparing the veg. Make a sauce of
sesame oil, rice vinegar, soy sauce and agave syrup and pour all over. You eat the vegetables raw, so it's easy to
cook it in the morning ready for lunch.
Firing Up Our Brains
Some spices are said to boost brain power which is always
welcome when we're prepping for a social media training session or organising
the marketing for our first app! I'm slightly addicted to cooking Mexican
street food at the moment (think burritos and tacos) and chef Thomasina Miers
has some amazing recipes in her book Mexican Food Made Simple. Autumn
Tacos with Onion, Squash and Chorizo (minus the chorizo for me) and Winter
Tacos with Creamy Greens are two current favourites to enjoy over lunch.
Eating Out and About
If Katie and I are out at meetings (or taking a class) we
like to find somewhere to work before or after as a nice change of scenery. I
took Katie to Boston Tea Party in Birmingham where we chose tea and cake
after a long meeting. Boston Tea Party has a gorgeous menu and so many
different teas and cakes to try. I particularly love their Eggs Florentine and
selection of gluten-free cakes. It's also got a great, unique atmosphere with
really friendly staff.
Sometimes the only option is to eat on the go so I grab a
healthy Eat Natural bar packed with nuts, seeds and fruit and sometimes
chocolate and yoghurt! I've tried so many 'healthy' bars in a quest to find a
perfect snack without tonnes of sugar or preservatives in and these are, by
far, the best!
Tea Time!
Often we'll work with each other for half a day as we find
having time to get our work done apart really helps but we'll always make time
for tea! Katie and I are kind-of green tea connoisseurs
now having made it our mission to drink more of the super-tea throughout the
day and we both agree our favourite brand is Clipper. Katie's kitchen
looks a little like a teashop with the amount of herbal teas she has but we
always go back to our favourite... Clipper Pure Green Tea!
And our perfect
pick-'us'-up with our tea? Homemade Banana Bread of course! My favourite
recipe is from the domestic goddess Nigella Lawson available on her website here.
Well all this talk of food is making me hungry so I'm off for lunch!
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