No real recipe, just thinly sliced beef rump steak marinated in sesame oil, soy sauce and honey, seasoned with a little freshly ground black pepper – I’d have used white pepper ideally, but since it’s not something we ever have in the house, that was difficult – which was then thrown into a wickedly hot wok, along with some sliced red pepper, mange tout, bean sprouts, spring onions and noodles.  A bit of extra soy sauce and toasted sesame oil was added as final seasoning.

Day 2 of the ‘apple a day’ experiment saw me eat two apples – one for breakfast and one after dinner. Lunch was leek and potato soup.

Breakfast:

So predictable, I won’t repeat myself.

Lunch:

Sesame-flavoured demae ramen noodles, with some chipolatas making up the meat content. Token good stuff was a side dish of bean sprouts and spring onion omelette.

Dinner:

Polly seemed well enough to cook dinner, and she did a lovely lamb kofta with lemon and coriander couscous and raita. The kofta was supposed to be minced chicken but she couldn’t be bothered to mince up some chicken (I’m not sure our food processor is up to the job anyway, to be honest, seeing as it’s so old), so bought minced lamb instead.