Custard, it's a joy.

A cheery hello to you all on this chilly winters evening. In my book chilly winters evenings are the green light to consume what I like to lovingly call comfort food. Comfort food in my book usually consists of creamy warm and delicious things along the lines of really great bangers and mash with onion gravy. Or a steamed sponge pudding with lashings of vanilla custard. Or tender tasty beef stew and light as a feather dumplings. Or Chicken Korma with peshwari naan bread and pilau rice. Or rhubarb crumble and custard. Or apple pie with cinnamon and sultanas and custard. Or spotted dick and custard. Or steamed chocolate pudding and chocolate custard. Or just good old plain old english custard.

I must have a thing about custard, but really it's not my fault. It's my dad's. He loves it, always has and always will. So it must be a genetic thing. Custard passed on through the genes, now that is mind boggling. Now I wonder if he likes the skin? I do, of course I bloody do.....it's a childhood thing. For me custard was a real treat, and I don't remember anyone else ever loving the skin. So I always opted for it. And as a consequence I think sweet toothed custard loving me executed a cunning plan that resulted in bigger portions every time! Clever eh?!!

Anyway, as usual I digress! Now that I am adjusting to my healthy eating plan for life, I am totally having to rethink comfort food. Boy am I thinking outside of the box. When you have read as many diet plans and magazines as I have, you will have realised that comfort food is a no no in a big way. Oh they will tell you that they can come up with low fat, low sugar, low flavour, low cream, low alcohol versions of favourite comfort food, but trust me they are just not worth bothering about. Trust me on this one, when you have eaten cheesecake made with quark and very low fat fromage frais, or very low fat fromage frais wih a low fat low sugar synthetic hot chocolate flavour drink powder stirred into it simulating chocolate mousse, you will understand exactly what I mean.

So now that I have conquered day three of the diet, oops healthy eating plan for life, I have discovered some new treats. Last night was a low fat toffee flavour yogurt poured over a sliced banana, and tonight was a version of Gordon Ramsey's tikka masala recipie, made with vegatables. Obviously I am going to be the queen of low fat/sugar comfort food, and as soon as I can get my mind off custard I will tell all.