Where to start? That was the hardest week I’ve ever had. OK, I know I have a relatively easy life, but still, it was hard. First off Bea (21 months) was sick, so I had her in bed with me. I awoke to her swigging from a paracetamol bottle (my fault, obviously, please don’t feel the need point that out – I obviously didn’t screw the lid on properly at 2.30am that morning), so we rushed her to A&E as she’d ingested about half a bottle. She was fine. Next, I reversed my car into a freight container thing, and basically wrote it off. Then Artie (just 4) split his head open on a slide (again, my fault, I stupidly was stood at the bottom waiting for him to go through my legs – he’s too tall – and he crashed into me at high speed, slamming back onto the metal). Another visit to A&E ensued. Then he was sick all night. Another visit. That’s 3 times in 1 week! At least now I am familiar with Sheffield A&E, which is 40 minutes away to add to the stress of it all.
During all of this extreme stress, all of us were really feeling crappy with a nasty virus, probably why Artie was sick rather than anything to do with the head injury. And my IBS (or what I think is IBS, currently TBC my the docs) went crazy, presumably spurred on by all the crying – I lost about 7 litres of water through my eyes this week in non-stop, self pitying tears!
God, being a parent is hard. When is it going to get easier??? Seriously, when? I want to know. Answers by email please!
Anyway. Today, the sun is shining. Bea slept through last night. My mum has the kids. I’ve been for a run. I’ve already hoovered and cleaned the bathroom. So, yeah, I’m feeling pretty good. (I seriously hope that I am not tempting fate to send me another bombshell by saying that)
What I am craving now is simplicity. I am not very good at keeping things simple. I ALWAYS take on too much (“I’m just going to make a birthday cake for Artie, no really, it’s dead easy!” even though I was on my knees with exhaustion – I had an icing disaster and was on the verge of tears for the 78th time in a week).
But I am determined in my new simple outlook. And at the forefront of this focus is food. This blog is definitely about easy, achievable family food. But now I want it to be even more simple. This salad was something I knocked up yesterday and it was very easy, very nice, therefore very blog-able. It’s Spanish in style, and would be great for a little lunch with friends or for kids too if they will eat salad leaves (if not they will enjoy the crispy sausage and chick peas).
How has your week been? Feel free to moan, we embrace moaning here!
Serves: 1 (increase for however many you wish to feed)
Prep time: 2 minutes
Cook time: 5 minutes
Total time: 7 minutes
Ingredients:
Mixed salad leaves (I used watercress, rocket and baby spinach)
100g of cooking chorizo
About 8 plum tomatoes
Half a tin of chick peas
Juice half a lemon
Handful of fresh flat leaf parsley, chopped
2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil
Salt
Instructions:
- Chop your chorizo into fat coins. Frazzle off in a pan for about 5 minutes.
- Halve tomatoes. Drain chick peas. Empty salad on plate.
- Throw chorizo fat (or add a little to dressing if you like). Assemble all your ingredients in a bowl.
- Squeeze lemon and drizzle oil over. Add salt and chopped parsley.
- Toss, and enjoy.
I hope your horrendous week is just a distant memory, but goodness that sounds mega stressful! Food looks great though 🙂
Ahhh, thank you so much for this sweet comment! Everything has been great since that awful week. I think we had all our bad luck in one week! Thanks for stopping by! X