Cooking for one

moneyistooshorttomention

Beginning to think it could be "all at mine" for this meal then:rotfl:. I've got enough seating for 6 in the garden. Quick count of mugs comes to 18 - and wondering who would get the giant-size more "soup" size ones.

Sitting room - could seat 11 if taking into account floor cushions and dining table chairs (though it's not much floorspace at all vacant - by the time I've got large sofa/small sofa/folded-down dining table/2 floorcushions and sideboard in there). I can feel visitors mentally deducting a bit of furniture from the room when they see the size of my largest sofa:rotfl:

24C in my house and currently trying to persuade myself to head off to a garden centre this afternoon (courtesy of how hot it is outside already) - as I've got a fair bit of "empty earth" out there in the garden at the moment - that I could be growing more food in.....:rotfl:

EDIT; Pastures - I'm wondering what you sit on in your home - do tell....

SunnyGirl

Good morning Oneskis. I can add about 18 homemade ready meals to the proceedings a mixture of bolognese, lasagne, veggie lasagne, soups, curries, shepherds pies and a variety of frozen fish, millions of potato wedges and a raft of Mediterranean vegetables just ready for roasting. There's also some olives in the fridge to add to the mix. I'm another one who votes for a seaside stroll at PN's then arrive at Faraway's for his glut of cherries!

A very warm, cloudy and humid day here with thunder already starting to rumble. I was lovely and cool after my shower then decided to pull up the last few weeds and do battle with the 2 wheelie bins that are due to be collected tomorrow :rotfl: Having a coffee and sit down then the plan for today is the fish tank (inherited when my daughter went on holiday 2 years ago and have never gone home lol) and clearing the pantry room in the kitchen although I am very tempted to sit and crochet and watch a tv series instead!

Lunch will be the potato salad I made last night with tuna followed by a yoghurt and some frozen berries that are defrosting in a bowl. Tea is a keema curry with naan bread.

Caronc Thank you for the gardening advice I spent a fair time
Googling last night and am full of plans:D

Hollyharvey

PasturesNew wrote: »

Indoors here, with all the curtains closed since the sun came up, it's 82F/28C

I've been out all morning and have just got back home. I had closed all the curtains before I went out and it was lovely to walk into the house just now, it feels so cool, and I only walked from a friends car parked across the road where she dropped me off. The temperature in the sitting room now is 26C.

PasturesNew

Hot out there! I kept the curtains closed in here and it's retained its 28C indoors - but the car thermometer told me it's 34C out there!

I drove/parked and walked 100 yards to where I was going and I was disorientated and dead on my feet.... good job I did decide I wasn't up to walking 2 miles without a hat in 34C temperatures .... I'd be an NHS statistic ... hopefully just on the "discharged" list

While out .... did the stupid thing of wandering round £land and they had some crisps at half price (50p for a bag of 6, instead of £1). Lamb/mint, sounded nice, so I got a pack ....and another .... they sounded nice. Just eating my first pack and they're a bit tough on the teeth to be honest and the flavour's not a subtle and pleasant mint at all.

Lunch will be the last bit of quiche, I've popped it onto the worktop to come up to room temperature. I'll serve that with "random things I decide at the last minute", which, this time, might be some pickled beetroot, boiled egg, grated cheese and some orzo/tuna/sweetcorn (as I made it).... but anything else could end up on the plate.

I might give the coleslaw a miss - as that'd go with a cheese burger in a bread roll for tea.

EDIT: Well, lunch was nice enough .... but I'm a bit bored of the salady stuff now ... yet I've still loads more to plough through. Never quite got the right quantities/mix to actually "enjoy" a meal/food.

Hollyharvey

Breakfast today was scrambled eggs on toast, a yoghurt and a banana. I thought I had better eat a lot as I didn't know what time I would get back from the hospital. Just as well I did, as we left at 9.20 this morning and I got back at 12.20, that sitting around makes me hungry


Lunch was some quiche and salad bits and a banana.


Dinner will be quiche, a sausage roll, some tinned tuna, salad and potato salad. If I want pudding I will have a choc ice.


I have just enjoyed a choc ice, the first today


Tomorrow there is a yellow weather warning for heavy rain and severe thunderstorms, that should cool things down a bit.

Farway

Here they are, dig in, help yourself. Now ripe and ready to scoff. I had a couple this morning for breakfast, now thinking of how, apart from just picking off the tree, to eat them


Thinking of perhaps buying ice cream to go with them in this weather. Not being an ice cream eater or buyer any suggestions for a nice one? Price is not a factor, just taste / flavour, plain old vanilla as the cherries will do just fine. Do not need any syrup or sweetening as very sweet already. I suspect M & S or Waitrose but Iceland maybe? No T*sco here so not one from there please. I have excluded Smart Price in my thinking

Still boiling, even early in the day. Into Asda this morning, due to the refit I was unable to locate the YS section, so a blank there. Came away with tin of salmon thinking I may just have it for dinner, either in a sarnie or part of a salad. Bit of a step up from yesterday's sardine salad sarnies

I had two of the crumpets last night, fluffier than normal as per PN, eyes bigger than belly, one would have done but I had a spare toaster slot

Lunch was the normal by now cheese salad sarnie, and two of the Father's day Ferro chocs

Dinner, as mentioned may be salmon somehow, or perhaps open tin of corned beef? First world CFO problems

Hollyharvey

Farway wrote: »

Thinking of perhaps buying ice cream to go with them in this weather. Not being an ice cream eater or buyer any suggestions for a nice one?

They look good, really good. I like Green and Black's vanilla, it's not too sweet and has proper flecks of vanilla in it

SunnyGirl

Faraway On a programme I watched last night the Carte D'or vanilla came first in a blind taste test with Michael Roux jr, Giles Coren, Jay Rainer and some other foodie types who I can't remember

PasturesNew

Farway wrote: »

I had two of the crumpets last night, fluffier than normal as per PN, eyes bigger than belly, one would have done but I had a spare toaster slot

I realised that at the point of taking them out of the packet, which is why I mostly only ate one at a time.

According to a newspaper website, yesterday I was in the hottest place in the country....told you I was hot

caronc

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Beginning to think it could be "all at mine" for this meal then:rotfl:. I've got enough seating for 6 in the garden. Quick count of mugs comes to 18 - and wondering who would get the giant-size more "soup" size ones.

Sitting room - could seat 11 if taking into account floor cushions and dining table chairs (though it's not much floorspace at all vacant - by the time I've got large sofa/small sofa/folded-down dining table/2 floorcushions and sideboard in there). I can feel visitors mentally deducting a bit of furniture from the room when they see the size of my largest sofa:rotfl:

24C in my house and currently trying to persuade myself to head off to a garden centre this afternoon (courtesy of how hot it is outside already) - as I've got a fair bit of "empty earth" out there in the garden at the moment - that I could be growing more food in.....:rotfl:

EDIT; Pastures - I'm wondering what you sit on in your home - do tell....

Ok so venue tbc but I'm bringing cullen skink, stovies, vegan burgers and duck eggs. I might need to borrow a trolley.....:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Farway wrote: »

Here they are, dig in, help yourself. Now ripe and ready to scoff. I had a couple this morning for breakfast, now thinking of how, apart from just picking off the tree, to eat them


Thinking of perhaps buying ice cream to go with them in this weather. Not being an ice cream eater or buyer any suggestions for a nice one? Price is not a factor, just taste / flavour, plain old vanilla as the cherries will do just fine. Do not need any syrup or sweetening as very sweet already. I suspect M & S or Waitrose but Iceland maybe? No T*sco here so not one from there please. I have excluded Smart Price in my thinking

Still boiling, even early in the day. Into Asda this morning, due to the refit I was unable to locate the YS section, so a blank there. Came away with tin of salmon thinking I may just have it for dinner, either in a sarnie or part of a salad. Bit of a step up from yesterday's sardine salad sarnies

I had two of the crumpets last night, fluffier than normal as per PN, eyes bigger than belly, one would have done but I had a spare toaster slot

Lunch was the normal by now cheese salad sarnie, and two of the Father's day Ferro chocs

Dinner, as mentioned may be salmon somehow, or perhaps open tin of corned beef? First world CFO problems

Oh fab looking cherries though I'm feeling less deprived as my Dad brought me a small punnet when he came by this morning as [STRIKE]bribery[/STRIKE] a gift for setting up his new mobile I like Mackies ice cream but not sure if you can only get it in Scotland, otherwise Cart D'Or is good.

Today has sort of disappeared on me. Breakfast was the usual and lunch a piece of stottie I found in the freezer while making space for the meat order with cold meat, pickle and rocket. Tonight I'm having turkey breast fillet steamed with butter, garlic and herbs, with charlotte potatoes, green beans and savoy cabbage so an easy one pot/steamer meal. I enjoyed my chilli last night and there were two portions left however I gave one to my Dad as he has a hospital appointment tomorrow and was going to buy a ready meal to have when he got back. The duck I took out the freezer is still completely solid so I reckon it will be Friday before I can joint it.:)