Clotted Cream Part 2

Clotted cream is a thick yellow cream made by heating unpasteurized cow's milk and then leaving it in shallow pans for several hours. During this time, the cream content rises to the surface and forms 'clots'. Clotted cream purists prefer the milk to come from cows in the English counties of Devon and Cornwall.
When clotted cream is not commercially available, a reasonable facsimile may be made by combining two parts whole milk with one part whipping (heavy) cream, heating at the very lowest possible heat for a couple of hours until a skin forms, leaving it undisturbed overnight, and then harvesting the skin and its underclots. The remaining milk may be consumed or used in any number of recipes.
In the European Union, Cornish clotted cream is a protected designation of origin for cream produced by the traditional recipe in Cornwall. True Cornish clotted cream must be made from unpasteurized milk or the clots will not form. It has a minimum fat content of 55%.
Clotted cream is generally served as part of a cream tea (also known as a Devonshire Tea) on (warm) scones with strawberry or raspberry jam.

This is for all you readers who are wondering what the heck clotted cream is!

Clotted Cream for Breakfast!

I seem to be getting back into the swing of intuitive eating. I've really been fancying clotted cream and strawberries for the last couple of days. So I decided to buy some on Saturday. But I'm never hungry enough to eat a dessert, so I thought 'well why not have some for breakfast?', which I did this morning. It was truly delicious, and quite a nice way to start the day.

I can't imagine ever doing this in my 'dieting days'! But it had to be clotted cream, runny cream would not have been the same. I actually couldn't eat that much of the cream, but it was delicious!

Finally feel like blogging!

I just haven't felt like blogging recently, been busy finishing reports. They are nearly all done now. I am still sticking with BC, even though in the last week or so I have felt like kicking over the traces and packing the whole thing in. This is nothing to do with BC, and all to do with me! It would be the typical pattern that I would usually have on a diet after this length of time

, the novelty has well worn off, and out it would go, followed by an almighty binge!

But I have resisted this temptation, and avoided the binge, by thinking to myself, if I pack this in then what? I remembered back to how desperate I felt when I went to that first workshop, and how BC seemed the answer to all my prayers. Certainly nothing better is going to come along, and I need to get myself out of this rut, and realise that it is harder work than I originally thought it would be, but its still better than any diet!

The picture is of me and my kids; son's 21st at the weekend! (we made him take the rest of the cake back to share with his uni friends!)

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I have been thinking a lot this week about hunger signals, and satiety. It is still hard to wait until I am hungry, as sometimes it takes a long time. Also a lot of the time I don't actually recognise that I am hungry until I'm starving, and then it's hard to stop at satisfaction level. Its because of so many years ignoring my hunger signals.

So that's what I'm focusing on at the moment, and I know it's because I really want to lose some more weight. Equally there is no way I am going back on any diet, so the only way I can see it happening is if I do Intuitive Eating really well. So I'm doing the best I can, but it's still not easy!

But better than being on a diet!

Review /Refresh

I am having a mini refresher course reading the Beyond Chocolate book. It is amazing how much you forget, or don't practice in your daily life when you are living with IE. i suppose there is a lot to think about with all of the principles, so it's hardly surprising that some 'bits' go by the wayside. I've tried to concentrate on 'tuning in' and realised, that I was so busy tuning in for hunger signals, that I forgot to think about my emotions. So it's been useful. Also the 'pausing' when you are not sure if you are hungry. I've got to hunt for my little egg timer, it was really useful, but I had forgotton about using it.

It's funny how 8 months on there is such a lot still to deal with. I'm a little nearer sorting out my hunger sensations, I suppose I have had a lifetime of dieting and ignoring when I was hungry, and it's not surprising that I find it so hard to realise if I am hungry or not.

Back to work next week, but only 7 weeks to go, and then 6 weeks of freedom!

Mind you, I have spent most of this week on reports!