Wintery weekend

Well, the weather this weekend has not been too spectacular. After some beautiful days during the week, the weekend was grey and dismal.


I've been dieting this week (trying to lose the weight I packed on during last weekend's eating efforts! :p), and I'm proud to say the meals in the post are indeed diet friendly, and more importantly winter friendly:


Slow braised lamb shanks with mushroom ragout, and panna cotta with cinnamon cherries.


The panna cotta melted a little bit, as you can see from the picture, but that was because I had to dip the moulds in hot water to get the panna cotta out, and unfortunately because the panna cotta, being low fat, was primarily low fat milk, low fat yoghurt and gelatine, it melted quicker then the full fat versions I've made in the past, but - wow, it tasted just as good as the real thing and the cherry sauce was delicious (it was basically a jar of cherries simmered in their juices with a cinnamon quill until the sauce reduced, and it was then cooled in the fridge). And of course, who doesn't like slow cooked lamb shanks.... diet? what diet?