Enforced portion control

I had my wisdom teeth removed a while back, so food was on my mind all the time. Before the operation I spent a lot of time wondering what I'd be able to eat afterwards and stocking my kitchen accordingly. Afterwards I spent plenty of time wondering if I'd eaten enough!

Contrary to popular belief, crunchy or hard things weren't too much of a problem and my remaining teeth were all working just fine. The main issue was not being able to open my mouth wide enough to fit in more than a very small morsel at a time. This meant that even soup was a challenge and I had to slurp it from the spoon through a tight-lipped grimace!

I think about food a lot at the best of times, but it's amazing how much it played on my mind when I was having to plan strategies for small, thin dinners.

On the downside for blog-writing, I didn't really visit restaurants or try out any new recipes during my 'post-op' period. It's just as well I plan to make up for it ...!

Joyous photo-sharing!

If you're feeling bored or blue
Or find yourself with nowt to do
Visit Chortleberry.com - the new photo-sharing community website.


Yeah ... I never was much of a poet.

But anyway, Chortleberry is a thriving new site where you can post your own photos to share them with others, view the work of many other budding amateur photograhers and generally have a bit of a chat. It's all lovely and free, too.

This has nothing to do with food - unless you count the photos of eggs.

And egg!

I just spotted this other blog on the Foodie Blogroll (in my right-hand column). It's entitled 'And the eggs'.

Some people will see why that's funny ...

If not, it still has some nice photos of food and a few good recipes!

Monkeying around!

I spotted this blog post the other day, from The Monkey Blog.

Doesn't Monkey's lifestyle sound strangely similar to mine ...?!