Day2: In Search of Quark

What is Quark? Apparently it’s a soft cheese without any fat at all. I’m not sure how it can still be a cheese, I thought all cheese was, was fat! However I know I can add other stuff to it to flavour it and sweeten it.

I have bought it before and quite often find it in the back of the fridge out of date. I have cooked with it before and although the dessert was quite nice it didn’t quite have the same kick as jam roly poly, say.

So I am about to go out and buy some, unfortunately the cheaper supermarkets don’t stock it so I have to go further afield. Quite often the expensive supermarkets don’t stock it either.

I am also trying to experiment with drinks, I don’t HAVE to drink alcohol every evening but I am trying to concoct cocktail style soft drinks. For lunch today I made cottage pie - extra lean minced beef and mash potato without butter or cheese topping – still tasty and very filling. I accompanied it with low calorie tonic water and a splash of sugar free blackcurrant, loads of ice and slices of lemon and lime. If I’d had some suitable shrubbery and an umbrella, I’d have added them too!

I also need to buy some ginger and various curry pastes and herbs. Really, eating healthily is a bit expensive at the outset and what really annoys me is skinny-ribs husband and teeny-weeny, girl children keep eating my fat free yoghurts and drinking my diet coke. I bet they don’t  touch the quark, though!