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… Blue Cheese, Hazelnut & Apple Salad\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

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I have felt like I have been neglecting my cooking project of late.\u00a0 I don’t seem to be doing many meals each week at the moment and my blog posts often happen several days after I have actually cooked the meal.\u00a0 I haven’t lost enthusiasm for doing it.\u00a0 It is just that, other parts of life, mostly good things, are getting in the way.\u00a0 I guess it\u2019s just a busy time of year.\u00a0 Tonight\u2019s meal was another where I just quickly picked a meal did the shopping, in amongst the beginnings of my Christmas food shopping, and then came home and cooked.\u00a0 It was another late start for cooking.\u00a0 About nine thirty I think.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I go into this one with a mix of feeling both confident and unconfident that I will do this in the time.\u00a0 I’m confident because the recipe seems quite simple and there isn\u2019t anything that is difficult to cook or very dependant on being fully cooked through (like there is when doing a chicken dish).\u00a0 I am not confident because my brain does not seem to be working properly.\u00a0 I would normally read a recipe through once before I start (occasionally twice) and I can usually hold the first half of it in my head.\u00a0 It is only after this point in the cooking process that I would usually have to start looking at the book.\u00a0 Tonight I can only hold about the first sentence in my head.\u00a0 I do need to do a lot more reading than usual.\u00a0 I think it may have been the annoying shopping trip that has fuddled my brain or perhaps it’s the knowledge that I have an awful lot to do in the next few days before I go away for Christmas.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite the significant amount of reading I end up doing, this is an easy one to cook.\u00a0 You add cottage cheese to the mushroom mix and pasta which seems odd but is actually really nice. The salad is very simple. Just baby spinach, a few toasted hazel nuts a grated apple and some blue cheese.\u00a0 The recipe says either grate or matchstick the apple.\u00a0 Quite a few of the other meals have done this as well.\u00a0 Up till now I have always chosen the matchsticking option.\u00a0 For a change I grate it.\u00a0 I thought it would also be quicker.\u00a0 I think it is quicker, but not much, not much at all.\u00a0 I do think the matchsticks look prettier.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It was done, without too much hassle, within the fifteen minutes.\u00a0 Although I do manage to get some of the whizzed up mushroom mix on my jumper.\u00a0 The jumper that I have only just washed.\u00a0 The Jumper that is white! The meal really does taste good.\u00a0 The salad is great for something so simple.\u00a0 The apple really does lift it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Who with:<\/strong> Gavin\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

How long:<\/strong> Fourteen minutes and forty five seconds\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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