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We've been eating goat. We bought it from the butcher's on the way back from hospital, friday, and I cooked up a massive pot of goat stew/curry on Saturday morning, which sat in the slow cooker until that evening....

Thought it'd make about three evenings worth, I.E., 6 portions for W and I, but with what is left we've still got enough for another two nights, so eight portions worth in total.

This particular goat, comes from near the mental hospital. no, really it does. She, for it is a female goat, was a milker for most of her life, one assumes until she didn't do good on the making milk thing,

Its blinkin gorgeous

I marinated it over night on the friday, with ginger, a bulb of garlic adn and an onion, finely sliced all that went into the frying pan on the Saturday morning, with another onion, another bulb of garlic, mustard seeds, fennel seeds, and a little cumin seed too, plus black pepper (actually think it marinated in black pepper too)

Oh, and it marinaded a with two finely chopped scotch bonnet chilis

Added another chili when it was fried up, plus a box of mushrooms sliced up, some rosemary and oragino...

that went into the slow cooker, with a tin of kidney beans, and a large sweet potato, chopped quite small, a tin of tomatos, and stock to bring up the liquid Not quite Jamaican but close too... (needed cinnamon and star annis for that I think plus tumeric, none of which I had in )

going to use up the last two sweet potatos with it tomorrow night, make them into paprika roasted chips I think

Should be able to pick up the new brand of levothyroxin tomorrow, the Teva brand, and the final brand left for me to try and hopefully not to react badly too If this fails I'll have to try push to be allowed to try T3, or NDT and I think the NDT is hard to get as it requirs a private prescription

once I've started the new brand of levo, I'm E-mailing the Drs well, nurses, at hospital, to request they put me in for a blood test, 6 - 8 weeks from the date I start, so they can measure my free T3 and T4, and raise my levo dose if they're not in the top 1/3 of 'normal range', which is, afterall what they should do, if they bothered to follow the guidelines, seems unless I do the doctoring bit, they can't be bothered. Also going to write to request the results of the growth hormone test, recently, as I've not had that back, so to see if the dose for that needs increasing or not Plus I'd like some information from them regarding the heart scan that I've not yet had any results from, request to know what they intend to do about my oedema and also to ask for perhaps a consultation with someone to explain what I need to do now I have ostio pena or ostio porosis

went up the road this afternoon, took back the trousers that were a bit too tight on my swollen, oedemic legs, and got a cheap pair of jeans instead, that seem a slightly better fit.

Awkard to get clothes to fit, when I'm a size 14 (on my waist), but have tree trunk legs due to the swelling and oedema. the jeans I got in the end were male ones, 38 " waist - the last pair of jeans I got were a 30" waist skinny fit pair

walking is so much easier not being on the levothyroxin, as I can feel my legs and feet, and so know where my feet are.

Had a long bath tonight, with a Lush bath bomb, as per useual, and the customary coconut shampoo.... Must get some hairspray... I don't know anything about hairspray though, never used it, nor gel

I recently discovered wide leg trousers and they are wonderful! I too have proportionally wide legs (14 waist, 16 hips, and legs about a 17 if such things existed). I can now buy trousers for my waist size, rather than my leg size. Wide leg. It's a thing. .

Goat is good

Goat's Head Soup nopt so much



PS: Which liquid did you use for marinating?

I didn't really use any liquid for marinating, just well mixed up the diced meat with the diced up onions and garlic, and chilis, and black pepper, and rosemary and oragino and ginger... - there was some 'wet' with the meat of course, plus the moisture from the diced up vegetable matter etc, seemed enough to work... - I was tempted to go outsaine and add some wostershire sauce to it... but I thought I'd save that for th enext experiment with goat

Clothes sizing, especially for female clothes is a nightmare! - is anyone ever really a perfect size 14, or 16, or 10 or whatever?! - OK so maybe a bit more tricker for me given that I'm not actually female but even so - I'm a size 24 to 26 to fit my chest and shoulders, but waist down is basically 14 (OK so 16 in some shops sizing), but with the oedema I've extra inches of water sitting round my legs
Of course, it get smore confusing by the time I get to my feet;

I've been a male size 9 since I was 15 or 16. that remained unchanged into my late thirtys.

now I've the oedema too to deal with, and.

I can fit into a female size 8.
I can fit into a male size 9 (but not if my feet are particularly swollen).
I can fit into a female EE fit size 10 too- but not a male size 10 - and this, despite the recieved opinion, that a male should increase their shoe size by one or two sizes, for female shoes it makes no sense at all!

Just did a little sorting through of my clothes this morning.... well sorting through the leggings and tights/stockings drawer. a few pairs just won't fit now - half were getting worn out anyhow, and they were mainly all the cheap cotton leggings I got off EBay when I first started wearing skirts and dressees.

My unicorn ones still fit though!
and the Christmas snowflake ones still fit too

oooo! - found a gorgeous red pair of footed stockings/tights/leggings that fit well too very me < sadly the two size 14 H&M black cotton ones have gotten a bit tight in places on my legs (damn oedema),
I've still got the new black ones I bought last week, two pairs, from Yours, which are a very good fit (if anything almost too long in the leg ) then I've a couple pairs of leggins that pretty much fit, but which are more like trousers really, would need to be very cold for me to want to wear tem

Must sort out more drawers at some point, and finish going through the rest of the footed tights/stockings at some point
Oh, and I've still one pair of the leopard print leggings, that fits, but they're in the wash ATM: sadly the other pair got a hole in them - they're a bit cheaply made, and were very chap to buy, so I might even get more of them, as leopard print is also just 'so me'

Got a litle bit of work Emailed to me today, whcih I must get done now, before we go to the pharmacy and see if they've got my new levothyroxin in stock

I see. Well, since it worked out so well for you I guess it's proven that no extra liquid was needed

Meanwhile I'm feasting on a prime piece of pork which I browned in butter, and then fried on a closed pan with a hot green Thai curry stir fry sauce for 25 minutes.
While the pig was sweating in the frying pan I cooked rice and fried an Asian wok mix.
Success! Especially because I leveled the sauce with cream. And because the meat was bought at half price because of its best before date

now, that does sound good and sound like a real meal... I.E., planned before hand - I bought the goat on a whim, in the butchers, so had ot make up what to do with it, based on what else we had in the cupboard and fridge - was day three of the goat tonight, I.E., 5th and 6th portions, and there is enough for tomorrow, for both of us i'd say probably has too much ginger in it, and as that was in the maranaid, I guess it marinated pretty well... its very hot spicey, from the chilis, too, but I don't think that is a bad thing <drool. had it with basmati in the end tonight just boiled plain

Actually my was also bought on a whim. Like most of my food. I was walking through the supermarket looking for something to eat which was on sale and found this. Then I noticed the asian wok mix was on sale also - two for the price of 1.5 or something. And finally I compared prices of two kinds of hot green Thai curry sauce and chose the cheapest which I mixed with some very hot curry paste I had in my fridge for years. Et voila: I had food for at least two days at a very low price

I try to eat something different every day, so tonight it will be something with leftover creamed corn which I tried for the first time Monday evening with rice and a tenderloin stew with paprika

weve had fish the last couple of nights haddock tonight... err... stupid memory, can't reallly recall what we had last night... err..... naope.... not a clue

It will probably be salmon for me tonight. It's on sale.

Will bathe it in truffle oil and sprinkle it with poppy seeds. Then bake it in the oven about 20 minutes at 200 degrees. Think I'll serve it up with pasta, green peas and sauce hollandaise

we've found a really good source of fish here now; there is no where local that sells fresh fish. seriously.... but there is a local small supermarket that does fabulus frozen natural fish; the wild salamon and tuna is gorgeous, and so is the white fish; haddock and cod I think we've already had, though next time, as we've found all of it good so far, might try some other fish they do (think they have natural smoked frozen fish too, probably haddock and cod, plus I think I saw mackral too ) - so few calories and so tasty the haddock las night, was like only 100 calories a fillet, I think, or maybe less, and having htat just with a small portion of rice and some sweatcorn, I should so* be losing weight but I'm not.

Yesterday I had two hardboiled eggs.
Two pieces toast with butter.
4 thin slices bread, with tuna (from a can), and lettuce and cucumber,
Then the haddock rice and sweetcorn in the evening, and a couple slices ham on a bit of bread for supper

Mind, I think so much of weight gain in me now is just the oedema. - I've had 1.2 or more litres of fluid this morning, coffee, tea, water, and had just one pee. my bodies storing up water, in my muscles and joints and tissues, and I'm probably dehydrated at the same time, in my blood

Today's salmon was bought in my supermarket (yes, MY supermarket. I actually own it. Albeit along with millions of other Scandinavians ) but we have a couple of real boutiques and on Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays there are at least three stalls parked in different places around town

we're not exactly farf from the sea here, yet, apparently the city can't sustain a single fish mongers!

It's a pity. But frozen aren't to be sneezed at either. Unless you get a cold from them, of course