Cooking for one (Mark Three)

caronc

Good evening everyone,

:wave:johnlck99
Enjoy your gammon steak Farway, I have one planned for Sunday dinner:).
It's been bitterly cold here today but mainly dry apart from a few torrential & sleety showers. It was lovely to actually have some daylight after the gloom of the recent storm.:) "Wonky donkey" is still tapping:( but definitely not as strongly as before , I'm still wary of bending etc. but was definitely more active today and didn't conk out when I put my feet up after lunch.:)
Groceries have been delivered and stashed.:) Everything I ordered came which is always a plus, though in fairness the subs are usually pretty decent if made.
Lunch was sardines on crackers with salad, a satsuma and the remaining small handful of mini poppadoms which had been lurking since before Christmas. Although the bag had been clipped they needed using before they went soft (that's my excuse;)). I have say they bore little resemblence to poppadoms more like KP Skips but were tasty. Tonight I'm having a venison burger served on a toasted muffin with creamed spinach, mushrooms, red onions and grated cheese. The burger was spare from a get together last May and had been stashed in my freezer ever since.

Brambling

Welcome Johnick99 :wave:

True to form the torrential rain rolled along the bottom on the country shared by PN and then Farway :rotfl: I was glad not to have to drive home in it, by the sound of it now I need to get my gutters cleared :cool:

Gammon is obviously in the air I took out a small M&S gammon joint from the freezer picked up YS and half price last week only 500g which I'll cook at the weekend, I'll roast it with a equally small rolled venison joint (375g) so will be sorted for a few days. Although I would like to know why there isn't a space in the freezer the size of those two joints :cool: :rotfl:

I had an email re a Yodel delivery being made today at 10.30am (to be honest I forgot what I had ordered and was expecting it via Royal Mail) so was glad I was home as I chose not to have their deliveries if I can. Anyhow a three hour of telephone conferences meant I could watch their tracker on line mainly because when they emailed it was five minutes away and I couldn't understand why there were 97 deliveries before me :think: ok I was also bored . It had a guided tour of the area getting close a couple of times before veering off again arriving 4 hours later. It would have fitted through the letterbox. As my dad would say little things please little minds :rotfl:

Lunch was HM chicken soup and dinner devilled lambs kidneys with wilted spinach, soba noodles and the last of the water cress I had forgotten about,it had kept really well, I chopped and added to the kidneys rather than parsley, I think the benefit of buying from a farm shop and not the SM in a plastic bag. I also opened a panettone having a slice for breakfast and then one with morning tea between meetings and another with my afternoon tea :eek:

caronc

Brambling wrote: »

I had an email re a Yodel delivery being made today at 10.30am (to be honest I forgot what I had ordered and was expecting it via Royal Mail) so was glad I was home as I chose not to have their deliveries if I can. Anyhow a three hour of telephone conferences meant I could watch their tracker on line mainly because when they emailed it was five minutes away and I couldn't understand why there were 97 deliveries before me :think: ok I was also bored . It had a guided tour of the area getting close a couple of times before veering off again arriving 4 hours later. It would have fitted through the letterbox. As my dad would say little things please little minds :rotfl:

I used to do the crossword (sometimes two) on long tele conferences at work where I just needed to listen rather than do anything, I reckoned it made up for all the breaks I didn't get over the years:rotfl::rotfl:.

Brambling

caronc wrote: »

I used to do the crossword (sometimes two) on long tele conferences at work where I just needed to listen rather than do anything, I reckoned it made up for all the breaks I didn't get over the years:rotfl::rotfl:.

At least at home only the cat saw me yawn .

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I don't miss those tele conferences, (but they were preferable to being summoned to London for the same pointless dribbling). By the time I left the last place, I was getting through a lot of gel pens, highlighters & A4 pads.

caronc

Good morning everyone,

Dry at the moment here but we've another storm due to hit this afternoon, I'm hoping the "wonky donkey" has retreated enough not to be upset again! Time will tell..
Scotch egg with beetroot & salad for lunch and probably rissotto for dinner as I received a "posh" pack of a mix as part of my Christmas foodie gifts.

Wednesday2000

OMG, I got so drunk last night! I stayed up until about 3 when I got home listening to music.:o:rotfl:

I had vegan "fish" and chips at a restaurant in east London. It was delicious!

I just had a vegan sausage roll, 2020 hasn't been very healthy for me so far!

Farway

Back to proper normal now, into L's first thing, zero YS for me, there were some but nothing I could use, especially having hopped on & quickly off the scales this morning:eek:


Despite the scales horror I was going to get some fish & chips for lunch, it is conveniently opposite the GPs' where I was booking a blood test. The scales must have sent a signal out, chippie was shut:o


Lunch was thus a cheese & HM chutney sarnie
Dinner, going to be a LO frozen breaded cod, HM chips & if I can locate them, frozen peas


PN, cheese offer on the way in L's next Friday, not sure if one is near you these days


Turned cold outside despite the sun, I've taken a pack of YS mince out to defrost for tomorrow's meal

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Farway wrote: »

Back to proper normal now, into L's first thing, zero YS for me, there were some but nothing I could use, especially having hopped on & quickly off the scales this morning:eek:

Despite the scales horror I was going to get some fish & chips for lunch, it is conveniently opposite the GPs' where I was booking a blood test. The scales must have sent a signal out, chippie was shut:o

Turned cold outside despite the sun, I've taken a pack of YS mince out to defrost for tomorrow's meal

Snap, snap & snap. In my war against Oedema, my scales are certainly taking the mickey. I've ended up with a complex system of average readings and a spreadsheet with a trend line just in case. The steroids seem to have wrecked my blood sugar so I've yet more meds and a blood sugar tester (with Bluetooth) to play with. It's Friday, so fishandchipsnomatterwhat later on. Chippy opens at 4:30pm but I'm ready now. Lamb mince is getting defrosted overnight to make a BIG curry tomorrow

caronc

Good evening everyone,
Hope you're not suffering Wednesday after your wild night;).
I've not stepped on the scales post-Christmas, I tend to go with how my clothes feel and they seem fine. Mind you yoga pants & jumpers tend to be fairly accommodating:rotfl:, I'll worry about it in the Spring when the layers start to come off and use my jeans as a judge until then.......;) (I wore them last weekend, freshly washed, and they felt fine thankfully.:))

The storm hit as forcast and the "wonky donkey" is protesting again!!:( Rissotto plans have been shelved as I don't fancy the standing and stirring, instead I'm having the langoustines with garlic & lemon butter, spinach, peas and tagliatelle. I did toy with making the rissotto in the microwave but decided to just leave it and make it properly another time as I prefer the results from hob cooking. I've a lump of FR belly pork defrosting to SC tomorrow with garlic, ginger, soy and honey. Once it's cooked and soft I'll pop it in the oven to crisp the skin up. I haven't decided what to have with it yet but there will be LOs for the freezer.

After what feels like ever I finally decided on a replacement for my current laptop and it arrives next week. The replacement has had the thumbs up from my techy kids who were unashamedly surprised their Maw had found such a good spec for the price which was well within my budget for one. I think they forget that I'm not quite the Luddite they might like to think I am (or actually am but I'm good at research and interpreting results :cool::rotfl:). I wanted to get a new one before this one dies so I can keep my old one as a back up as I need one for my voluntary work. My new vacuum sealer arrived today but I haven't tested it yet. It's been a spendy week but planned spends so I don't mind parting with my cash especially as both were either budgetted for during or surplus from 2019. My nephew popped by after college and his UCAS stuff is good to go:D:D, we just need the email confirming his reference is logged and it should allow it to be submitted. My nephew has been sounding out some of his classmates and most haven't started yet never mind be ready to submit:eek:, I don't think they realise there is quite a bit involved. I think he's feeling very pleased to not be sweating over it at the last minute as it closes on Wednesday:).