Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Wednesday2000

Happy Leap Year Day, is that even a thing? I thought it was Sunday today, for some reason.

My husband is working this weekend so I have the house to myself. I am doing two loads of laundry, I have vacuumed upstairs, emptied the recycling and I need to clean the bathroom. What a fun way to spend an extra day of the year!

Afterwards I am going to finish my book and watch a show I downloaded. I have some penne pasta I wanted to use up. I was thinking of making pasta e fagioli.

PasturesNew

Yesterday's snotty cold has turned into today's super snotty cold with sniffs and sudden sneezes.  Oh well. 
Peeing down here. I've a house viewing later, up an unmade/flooded road.  The place is all right, but then I wonder how I'd feel walking along that lane, alone, in the pitch dark, in the rain, with big puddles, mucky gravelly stuff and no pavement or lights at all.  

Yesterday I remembered my pouch rices!  I had one of my noodle pots, then I had a Tikka Rice pouch and then I remembered I've got 18 bags of crisps in the car boot, so hooked out a 6-pack and chomped my way through three of them. 

Starving today.  Not sure what I'll have.  I've 12 noodle pots in the boot of the car, so need to bring those in at some point, I'll probably have one for lunch. 

Farway

We had PN's peeing down rain first thing, dried up now as I assume PN's has and Brambling's soon will. Bye Bye Jorge

Porridge breakfast, then onto making a fresh batch of yoghurt.

caronc said:

Brambling said:

Dinner was boiled eggs and soldiers  

  I've not had boiled egg  and soldiers for ages, must rectify that soon. 

Now I fancy that & duly noted, could it be boiled egg & soldiers for lunch?

I've prepped the YS cauliflower and in soak to freshen up as it was a bit limp .  I'll nuke up some cheese sauce later

I may just have Cauli cheese on it's own for dinner, looks like the it will be ideal CFO size

Nothing planned for today, now the rain's stopped I'll have a prowl round the garden once it drains down a bit more

geminilady

De lurking to suggest PN that you take a good multi vitamin until you find your own place .I know normally you eat a lot of beans and eggs but I don't think pot noodles have much nutrition

Farway

Change of dinner plan, 'phone call, DS is fitting a replacement oven element later today and would like a bit of experienced eye nearby, "just in case", so I'll pop the freshened up cauli into the fridge ready for tomorrow  and nuke a RM Iceland frozen sweet & sour

PasturesNew

Well, had a bit of a plan ... do the viewing, go to the food warehouse, consider chips for lunch. 

Did the viewing, had chips and fishcake for lunch (not impressed with their fishcakes really, tried one once before and it's not worth the money).  Then, I filled up the car, nearly on red and I was passing and it was cheap... then I drove off to go to the food warehouse and the heavens opened again, so I decided to not bother with that today. 

candygirl

How did the viewing go PN?

Brambling

I think Jorge decided to give us a miss Farway 💨☔️ It was a bit drizzly when I walked into town for 10am and there was a hail storm when I was in the hairdressers, it then dried up until late afternoon when it rained for about a hour 🌫  the farmers market had been cancelled as they were expecting Jorge 

After the hairdressers I went to a local farm shop with my sister, it's about 7 miles away and a bit out of my way usually but my sister goes mid week as she drives past it on aThursday.  I do like the traditional green grocery feel to it, with brown paper bags and really fresh fruit and veg 🙂 not all local but very CFO as it means I can pick up just enough for me 🙂. Their meat is local I picked up a couple of pork and apple burgers for the freezer and some sausages as well as a turkey drumstick for £1 which I shall make stock in the SC tomorrow for turkey broth,  copying Caronc 😁. I shall go back and buy some local Sussex lamb when I've eaten what's in my freezer.

lunch was lovely peppery watercress brought by the brunch, with smoked salmon and egg sandwich.  I roasted a small beef joint for dinner with braised red cabbage, root veg mash and green beans with roast parsnips instead of potatoes.  Plenty of LOs 😁 

 

Wednesday2000

We didn't have much of a storm here, just rain. It's meant to be sunny here today. It is at the moment.

I have had a banana and two slices of seeded bread with marg and marmite. I have had a couple of cups of green tea too.

I made loads of pasta e fagioli yesterday. I put it into bowls in the fridge and I have enough for lunches for the next four days!

Farway

Sun's out, looks a good day for a spot of garden pottering. Unfortunately I've a package "out for delivery" today so I have to be in door bell distance and can't risk the back garden. Typical, the one day I could get on with a bit of pruning without being drowned 

porridge breakfast as per usual

Lunch, you guessed it, cheese toastie planned, nearly used up the stale bread now

Dinner, pressed "reset" on cauliflower cheese plan from yesterday, quite looking forward to that cheesy goodness on my plate

Brambling said:

lunch was lovely peppery watercress brought by the brunch, with smoked salmon and egg sandwich.  😁 

Sounds a lovely lunch. I love watercress but rarely buy it. I did grow it in my pond a few years back but the pond sprang a leak and became neglected and choked with chickweed  dried up. I did hear on the wireless that it can be grown in damp soil. I may just give that a go this year. Off to You Tube later to check this out. I started my original lot with a bunch from W8rose, in a previous life I used to drive past the watercress beds on the A32 on my way to work but it never clicked it was the same stuff