My list of not-resolutions was always going to be rather longer than everyone else’s

1. More Blog
2. Less Twitter
3. Achieve saving goal
4. Claw back my health / Lose that pesky 5-10 kg / fit into my clothes
   • No more second (or third!) helpings at dinner
   • More walking home from work
   • More eating proper meals
   • Less snacking on junk
   • Take vitamins regularly
5. Make at least 2 camping trips
6. Spend more time on self-maintenance / grooming / pampering
7. Keep up the diversity in all things cooking
8. Add a few more non-meat meals into the rotation
9. Take more of our own food to the footy
10. Change work hours (again!) for more time away from the ghastly SaltMinesLimited
11. Stress less about the SaltMinesLimited. Accept that I’ll be there for another year at least because there is no way I’ll find the flexibility elsewhere
12. Procrastinate less
13. Act more like a lady
14. More projects / less computer
15. Let go of perfectionism
16. Complete Don’s accursed jumper!

Bessie wanted to cook something for dinner and after trawling through the cookbooks arrived at this:

‘Aglio e olio’: angel hair pasta with garlic and olive oil from Ed Halmagyi: Dinner in 10 (p.131)

We’d never heard of this dude (tv’s favourite chef according to the cover?), but they were offering his book as a freebie at Broadway if you spent over $30 on groceries, so who could resist?

Really quite delicious indeed (J/F particularly enjoyed it), and extremely inexpensive (!) but we would do the following next time:
– halve the pasta (800g is ridiculous – we have TONS leftover)
– use spaghetti, not angel hair
– double the olive oil
– double the breadcrumbs

Also, the 10 minutes is utterly preposterous, unless you don’t include the 20 minutes to prep all the ingredients in your timing!

05.01.11

Cooked by: Bessie and Carol and Don

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1. save money for a holiday
2. go to the gym and shed pounds
3. get career direction
4. stress less
5. keep my home in order

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