What I Ate - 15 February 2010

Today I ate:

2 pieces of Vogels toast with Pic's Really Good Peanut Butter.
1 trim latte.
Glass of pineapple juice.
Leftover burritos and salad.
Mint slice chocolate biscuit.
Pizza with homemade onion confit, roasted aubergine and courgette, and feta.

I am SICK.  Monday morning I felt pretty rotten so I stayed home from work.  No point going in when I had a terrible headache and might pass my illness on.

At the moment I am reading 'Under the Tuscan Sun'  by Frances Mayes.  It's probably better known as a film with Diane Lane.  The book is a travel memoir about the author's experiences owning and renovating a villa in Italy.  It has quite a few recipes, including one for pizza that had onion confit and pork and fennel sausages.  Obviously the sausage was out, but I decided to give the onion a go.  What you do is slice three onions, and slowly cook them in two tablespoons of olive oil and three tablespoons of balsamic vinegar.  They need to be cooked for a long time, say an hour.  Use on pizza, sandwiches, that sort of thing.  They are really delicious and I am quite tempted to make up a large batch for onion confit emergencies.