Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Brambling

Crocus look lovely Farway and nice to see the blue sky 

Caronc Masterchef is on twice on Friday 7.30 and 9.30 as well as Thursday  blooming football 🙄
Glad you had a good weekend.

I had my ENT appointment this morning although getting there was a little challenging 😕 I allowed 30 mins for the 2 mile journey as it was a 9.30am appointment, as I joined a queue of traffic the local radio was saying the town was gridlock and to avoid if possible, broken down lorry on the one of the roundabouts on a main route into town 😳 I managed to inch to a side road which took me to a friend house and abandoned my car there I managed the usual 17 - 18 min walk in about 10mins to find the consultant was caught in the traffic 🙄 at least it gave time for the inhaler to work. He wants me to have a MRI so it's just waiting for that appointment which I'm assuming won't be 6 months to come through like this one was. 

I had a stuffed large mushroom and half a beef tomato for lunch with feta cheese on top.  Dinner was LO roast beef, braised red cabbage and sweetheart cabbage stirred fry with bacon, onion and garlic. 

The turkey stock set beautifully with very little fat to skim off the top (I did remove most of the skin before cooking) I unintentionally followed your example in the amount of broth I made Caronc 🙄 some can be squeezed into the freezer or I'll have to do my sister a favour and share with her  😉. My freezer supply of HM RM have increased back up to 9 if I can squeeze these in 🙂

caronc

LOL turkey broth seems to have ever expanding properties no matter how hard you try otherwise . Hopefully the MRI will be sooner rather than later....🤞
I hadn't sussed MasterChef was on twice on Friday thanks - blooming football indeed  
Looks as though my CFO will be short lived as sis & nephew are moving back in tomorrow, though if things go to plan for only a few nights. It's not the time of year to be without heating or patchy electrics & water!! Tomorrow I'll need to get motoring with the laundry to make sure there's enough bedding & towels for everyone

candygirl

Fuuuming at the lack of Masterchef tonight!I was looking forward to it
FARWAY, those flowers look so pretty , and Springlike
Had HM potato leek soup, n crackers for tea .Trying to empty the freezer , in the next month or so .

Wednesday2000

Nice pic Farway.

I had more bean soup as an early lunch with chilli salt and hemp seeds sprinkled on top.

I am trying the new Quorn spicy escalopes tonight. I'm also trying the Free From lemon GU cheesecake later!  

caronc

Good morning everyone, 
It was frosty and bright first thing but it's reverted to cold & grey again. Washing machine is on again and unusually for me I had the tumble drier on earlier to finish drying a load of towels. My sister's cat settled in just fine and wasn't a pest during the night. He's just having a mad 1/2 hour though where his aim seems to be to pretend he's a whirlwind and go through the whole house at huge speed ideally avoiding the floor.   No doubt it will soon be time for another snooze but he'll need to take himself upstairs if he wants peace as I'm going to hoover once I finish my cuppa.  
Lunch will be a cheese & coleslaw sarnie and tonight it's spag bol & salad, I have enough ragu in the freezer to feed us all so an easy meal. 

PasturesNew

caronc said:

 Lunch will be a cheese & coleslaw sarnie and tonight it's spag bol & salad, I have enough ragu in the freezer to feed us all so an easy meal. 

You probably know, but if you've gone off cheese/coleslaw and are only eating it as a sandwich to get through it, you can always chuck it in a dish, top it with breadcrumbs (mixed with a bit more cheese and a small knob of butter) and bake it for 15-20 minutes at about 200C.  Optionally give it a bit of salt/pepper, optionally add in a bit more cheese if you've got it and/or want it a bit cheesier.   That could be served with beans, but beans is my default instant veg  

EDIT: P.S.  I am assuming when you said coleslaw it's got the mayo already added, so is a wet mix, not just the dry/raw veggies.... needs mayo for baking. 

PasturesNew

After yesterdays Breakfast scoffathon I didn't need anything else all day..... of course, as I was sitting eating a packet of crisps and a whole bag of sweeties, I was thinking "Didn't need these really... why are you eating them?".   

This morning I did some impromptu "panic buying".  Not for me, but as a buffer against some media piece panicking people.  In my own home I've always got stacks of loo roll under the stairs... usually 2-3 months worth to be honest. Here I've just got the bare minimum, rebuying "just in time".  I figured "just in time" might not work next week   

So I bought a couple of cheapo packs (£1.99 for 6 rolls).  I also got a couple of jars of jam and a couple of pouch rices.  I couldn't get bread to make jam sandwiches this week though as I also bought a pack of flatbreads and a pot of coronation chicken sandwich filler and a pack of 4 veggie samosas. 

I had two flatbreads with coronation chicken for early lunch.  I'll finish off that filler tub with one more flatbread later and the samosas will be grazed on over the rest of the day. 

I've never prepped for any previous alleged impending disasters and, if I had my own house, I'd not be prepping for this one either.  I would, however, have food in my cupboards, which I don't really have here.  I have one "bag for life" that holds all my food.  In my own home I'd have a much larger range, including many packets/etc opened/sealed and grabbable.  Here I try to only have the food I am actually likely to want/eat soonish.   

caronc

Thank PN , it's in a spicy vinaigrette rather than mayo but like the idea of baking the mayo version. Will bear in mind is I have future surplus I'm happy to stick with my sarnie for lunch. Sounds sensible to make sure loo roll needs are catered for. I might add to my stock in my next shop as my existing stash has been pretty hammered with all the extra folk here recently.

Farway

Amazing, the sun has stayed out since yesterday

L's mooch first thing, zero YS suitable for me, so just bread & bleach, living the dream again   However I did pop into Co-op, to buy stamps prior to price increase, and found Wagon Wheels on offer, 6 for a quid.

Lunch, fried egg sarnie + Wagon Wheel 

I've taken a FR pork chop out to defrost, intention is oven cook that, try out the AF with frozen AB's roasties and have them with the cauliflower & broccoli floret iceberg that's been lurking in freezer from forever

Splodge of instant granule gravy, job done, freezer space made & dinner is served

Good idea on loo rolls PN, there's never too many

Brambling

Just as a word of warning I've just left W8itrose with one of their last packets of loo rolls the shelves had almost been stripped bare  and it's a large W8itose.  Definite sign of people panic buying in there, someone phone into the local radio this morning to say they had seen someone with a mask in there last night     I'm scattery enough today to go in for milk, toilet roll, kitchen roll and cat biscuits and forget the cat biscuits which seeing as I seem to be feeding two cats at the moment is a little annoying    Caronc i would charge you sister and nephew a loo roll each to enter the house  no loo roll no entry 

I'm glad I stocked up my supply of HM RM meals as it's the plan at work is to work until 7.30 / 8.00pm at least half the week for the next 3 weeks, although I did cause a couple of raised eye brows when i chipped in quickly the evenings I wouldn't work (yes I may be single but i do have a life  ) I also nixed the idea that i would cover Easter Saturday system maintenance, so that will be the boss on his own or he has to push it back and the rest of the team quickly agreed with me     

I also brought at the weekend some spicy veggie burgers I quite like the T*sco ones and fish fingers on offer in T Exp so they can do for quick in the air fryer type meals when i get home late

Lunch was the same as yesterday's stuffed vegetable with feta although today it was a pepper.  The plan for dinner is cauliflower cheese and the last of the roast beef