Cooking for one (Mark Three)

caronc

Good afternoon everyone,
Hope you find something soon PN. 
Farway Asda seem to sell quite a lot of household goods as part of their grocery delivery options. 
Brambling I can only get pig cheeks online here unless I get the local butcher to order them in for me which works out as an expensive option so I tend to buy a goodish number when I do an online meat order. Said cheeks are chuntering away in the SC though with a slight change of sauce - hoisin mixed with garlic & chilli paste as I remembered I had hoisin in the fridge needing used up. I hope they taste as good as they smell!
It's still really warm here but clouding over as the day goes on. We're supposed to get some rain during the night but I'll water the plants just in case it changes again. My tom and cue plants I planted yesterday are looking a bit floppy, fingers crossed they perk up over the next few days once they get a chance to settle.
I'm a bag of aches and pains today, far too many hours yesterday perched on a stool hunched over tubs for comfort. Thankfully it's not something I need to repeat like that for another year, you would think I would have learned to pace myself by now but I just wanted it done!!
Earlier there was a small newt sunbathing on my deck, I've seen the odd one near the compost bins but never as near to the house before. Needless to say once it sensed my presence it legged under the deck. 😁
Lunch was something Ive not had for yonks - a tinned salmon and cucumber sarnie. The salmon was mashed with vinegar and lots of black pepper and it made a nice change. Tonight we're having the pig cheeks with stir fried veg and noodles. I think I may there may be LOs as there was more meat than I thought when I defrosted it but I'll freeze any spares for when CFO life resumes. 
ETA - ah well won't need to water the garden it's raining!

greenbee

I'm very envious of the rain! I've just watered, in the hope that it will encourage the rain. I've also just sown some peas/beans/chard/lamb's lettuce and rocket, as well as planting out a few of the tomatoes that will be living outside. Today I had my first salad based on stuff from the garden - the radish seeds I had for sprouting (china rose) make great sprouts but hopeless radishes, so I uprooted them all and am using them as salad leaves. 

Brambling

I'm also hoping for rain Greenbee but the forecast for tomorrow looks like it could miss us 😐 I planted French breakfast radish but mine have gone to seed without producing any radishes I think it could be the heat so I'll be replanting radishes as well, annoyingly the spare pack of seeds I gave my sister are giving her loads.

Caronc I only see pigs cheeks to buy at the meat counter in the W8itrose next to the office 

i dropped a couple of tomato plants off at my sister after work and we had a distance chat and a cuppa whilst discussing some minor plans for my back garden, I have a narrow strip down the length of my back garden 60cm wide between a path and next door's fence which is currently gravelled as nothing use to grow there (I think my previous neighbour put weed killer his side which came under the fence) I'm going to see if I can find some narrow raised beds with bases and maybe put fruit bushes in them, it's just a matter of finding the right size and if they're flat pack not too complicated to put together 

one of the advantages of social distancing and working from home is being able to eat gnocchi with wild garlic pesto for lunch 😁 the gnocchi has been in the freezer for a while and the pesto was from the farmers market.  Dinner was some feather steak stirred fried and added to LO rice and veg from yesterday. I came home via T Exp looking for milk and berries and a tub of vanilla ice cream fell in my basket, I'm blaming the daily visit from the ice cream man putting the idea in my head

Farway

Brambling, your wish [& mine] has been granted, rain at last.

Not enough to do more than wet the pavement & require intermittent windscreen washers on though, at least it rinses the dust off the leaves

The rain is courtesy of my neighbour, the same one who planned a BBQ the other weekend & caused torrential thunder storms & downpours

Yesterday they laid a lot of crazy paving to extend the patio, duly cemented in and now along comes just enough rain to perhaps spoil the cement setting properly

Last night's dinner finished up as a bacon sarnie, followed later by my HM stewed rhubarb with Greek yoghurt & dribble of honey

I've just enough LO rashers for one last BLT this lunch time

Dinner, during my rootle for something yesterday I uncovered a YS cheese & onion slice thing, it's been defrosted overnight, given the dull day dinner is that, plus HM AF chips & open a tin of beans

Quick peek out this morning and spotted a strawberry tuning red, I've moved the pot to place of safety [the YS blow away plastic min greenhouse]

Washing up bowl update, Asd* do sell them on line, one added to the C & C list. But the DW salt has fallen off, out of stock but a few days left before my collect day so things will no doubt come & go by then 

candygirl

Love that word "rootle !" 😁
It's dull n wet here today , was loving the sunshine too
Think I'm having a cheese n onion crispbake, in a bun with salad for tea.Got my shopping delivery later, so might have a few treats too  

greenbee

Green soup for lunch today (with a dollop of double cream). It's made from all the stalks and odd leaves and discards each week. This batch included all the carrot tops from last week's carrots. Once I made the effort to sieve it and get rid of the fibrous bits from the asparagus stalks it has been delicious. It's all gone now, but I'll do another batch in the next day or so. I've also just had my first HG radish, which was delicious!

caronc

Good afternoon everyone, 
We had a fair amount of rain overnight and looking at the sky more could well be on the way. It is much cooler as well. 
Tesco order has been delivered, sanitised and put away. No subs or unavailable items this week 😊. The white cabbage I ordered is huge so we'll be eating a lot of coleslaw etc. over the next few days!!
Last night's pork was delicious, there should have been loads LO but my son had seconds + so there was just enough left for to stuff in a roll for lunch. Tonight it's HM burgers with AF HM sweet potato fries, salad and probably coleslaw. If it stays dry I want to start potting up my nasturtium seedlings if not there's a pile of ironing needing doing. 

Farway

caronc said:

Good afternoon everyone, 
We had a fair amount of rain overnight and looking at the sky more could well be on the way. It is much cooler as well. 
Tesco order has been delivered, sanitised and put away. No subs or unavailable items this week 😊. The white cabbage I ordered is huge so we'll be eating a lot of coleslaw etc. over the next few days!!
Last night's pork was delicious, there should have been loads LO but my son had seconds + so there was just enough left for to stuff in a roll for lunch. Tonight it's HM burgers with AF HM sweet potato fries, salad and probably coleslaw. If it stays dry I want to start potting up my nasturtium seedlings if not there's a pile of ironing needing doing. 

Our rain eventually turned into something decent later this morning.

I just hope it's not a repeat of last year when we had rain after a dry spell, which then caused my cherries to split just as they were nearly ready.

It is that time of year right now. Fingers crossed. This year I'll keep a very close eye on them & pick even if under ripe and use somehow,

Unfortunately cherries don't ripen on their own unlike tomatoes / bananas etc

The white cabbage ND got from T*sco was not huge, it was a quartered one, but ample for one really, plenty left for more coleslaw

It is amazing at times the difference a few hundred miles makes, my nasturtiums are in flower.

Self sown so may not be fair comparison

caronc

Lovely flower, even my self seeding ones won't flower for another six weeks or so.

Brambling

I would like you to release the rain please Farway as so far we have had none today and I don't want to have to water later.  It has been a gray day and a lot chillier than it has been but none of the wet stuff yet     we were complaining on a call earlier and my colleague in Mumbai advised that monsoon season has started and for them it is 4 months they were also under threat of a  cyclone, so we stopped complaining that we had had a month of no rain.  She is working late tonight and has just dashed off as they have water which they haven't had all day so she needs to grab it whilst it's there. 

One of my sisters was picking her first courgette yesterday she down in New Forest but I think she was just ahead of me in planting mine were only planting out at the end of May bank holiday weekend. She was so complaining that the birds were getting all the strawberries this year

Lunch time was spent trying to get hold of my home insurance company as payment was deducted twice, a month DDs after I paid for the year in full it was sorted very quickly once they picked up, but lunch time is never a good time to call.  I'm usually too tight to pay by monthly DD as I object to the interest which was almost an additional month payment so not sure why that happened, unfortunately the paper work got mixed up with work stuff so I just picked it up on bank statement today

I forgot to take stuff out of the freezer this morning so lunch was sardines on toast dinner will be probably egg and chips as I have some  LO new potatoes which need using or maybe fish fingers and chips again I'll see where the mood takes me and what time i finish work as I have a zoom call with friends at 7.30pm