Wednesday 8th July '09

I dragged myself out of bed at about 5pm this evening. My migraine wouldn't go away and my head was pounding each time I turned around, sat down or stood up. I took a few panadeines and shuffled into the kitchen to make food.

I defrosted a lobster overnight.

After my 4-midnight shifts I like to treat myself to an indulgent dinner of lobster. Too bad I couldn't have a nice glass of wine to go with this.

I parboiled some potatoes and put them into the oven with a drizzle of olive oil, thyme, sea salt and cracked black pepper to season them. I didn't want anything fancy tonight.

I finely chopped some fresh parsley and chillies.

I added a squeeze of lemon to the parsley and chilli, and spooned this mixture on top of each half of the lobster tail meat. Just as the potatoes were almost done, I put the lobster into the oven to warm up before serving.

Dinner
Lobster with Chilli, Parsley & Lemon
Baked Thyme Potatoes & Salad

I dressed the salad with some olive oil and white balsamic vinegar. Very simple dinner. The last time I had lobster, I prepared it the same way. It's so light and zesty and the chilli was really hot - there must have been one of Ling and Shallen's chillies amongst the ones that I chopped up. More appropriate for summer, but I wasn't in the mood to do much as I had a head full of nails.

I used the lobster shells (I removed the meat from a second lobster to use in the next few days for something else) to make some lobster stock. I wanted to actually make lobster bisque but I didn't have half of the necessary ingredients.

When the stock was ready, I made some soup.

Supper
Creamy Lobster Soup

I heated up a few large ladles of the lobster stock in a small pot and then added a small dollop of butter. When it had melted, I added some plain flour bit by bit, whisking in the meantime to make sure all the flour was dissolved. When the soup began to thicken up, I added some milk that I had warmed up in the microwave. The soup was still rather watery so I added more plain flour, just a little at a time while whisking. I would have normally used some cream but all I had was calcium plus milk in the fridge, which is pretty watery so it took quite a bit of plain flour to thicken the soup up. I seasoned with sea salt and cracked black pepper and served the soup with some slices of lobster meat. Yum! The soup still lacked a bit of flavour though - I should have used some tomato paste or more seasoning.

Throughout the day, I'd taken a total of:

2 x Panadeine Rapid Soluble tablets
2 x Sumatriptan tablets
1 x Imigran nasal spray

AND I STILL HAD THE FRACKIN' MIGRAINE!! I lay in bed feeling anxious that I might have overdosed on the migraine medication and I swear a few times I felt my heart race.