Shortieweb

Not much doing today. Yesterday was busier with the Radio Show and all, but still not a hard day at work thingy!
Just walked the dog, here she is waiting to go with her lead on. Bless her!

And the first sight of her destination. The Beach!

Ahhh! lovely day and it's great to see the sea so calm and clear.
I have started a diet today, the problem is I cant make up my mind what sort of diet to do this time. I have done many over the years my favourie being the low carb, but I'm not sure I fancy it. I am going to go easy into it, as I dont like these 14 day inductions, you are going from eating loads to starving yourself and that is a recipe for disaster, so I am cutting a lot of fat and reducing meal sizes and at the same time reduce unrefined carbs. After a week or two, I probably wont see much difference because I am not doing an starvation induction, I will then make up my mind which direction I fancy. I believe that you should never be hungry, and you should always keep an eye on your nutrition.
Ive just eaten lunch. Last night I made a chicken tikka marinade with yoghurt. I kept some of the marinade behind. A couple of weeks ago I made a Sambal from some peppers that a friend gave me. I ground the peppers with a little garlic, fresh ginger, coriander leaf and salt to make a paste. I have about 4 large jars of the stuff and it is fantastic. You can rub it on meat as a marinade, grind some tomatoes and onion, add a little ketchup and you have a wonderful chilli dip, add a liitle more coriander leaf and a little olive oil and use it as a chilli like pesto stirring it into pasta. The uses are endless, but anyway, I mix it with greek yoghurt and some ground coriander seed and cardamon pods and marinate cubes of chicken for Tikka, but I used the part I saved as an Indian salad dressing. Toss some roughly chopped salad into it. Fantastic and if you use tomato and beetroot, fillng too.
Anway, you dont want to hear about all the tasty healthy eating ideas I have! so I'll let you go and I am going to sit in the sun while it is still here. Shortie