Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Brambling

Happy Birthday Caronc    enjoy all the spoiling and the langostines 

Brambling

Farway does your online butcher sell bacon or are they still too busy to get a slot 🙂 

PN I hope you found a cool spot to have chips and enjoy the view

I know we shouldn't complain but it's too hot today it was either 30 or 31 lunch time and the threat of hotter tomorrow before storms on Friday and a big drop in temperatures 🥵 the advantage of working from home is I can be grumpy on my own if it's too hot to sleep.  Just as well as my 1.30pm meeting was cancelled as the organiser emailed to say she was too busy to attend and to go head without her, one problem no one else really knew what she had wanted to discuss as it was a very woolly subject heading on the meeting invite 🙄

Lunch today was the last of the stuff peppers (well just a half 🙂) not sure about dinner as i5s currently too hot I've bacon or spicy lamb doners both from the farm shop so probably either with salad or HM chips

candygirl

Wow it's still scorching here, am pooped with the heat.
Just had a tiger roll with spicy cheese on, as cba cooking. 
Happy birthday CARONC, n have a lovely time with the family xx

PasturesNew

I went out earlyish and was scoffing a burger in a cool spot in the car by 11.30  
Bit stuck for things to do then, but took a drive around, look at some areas (no idea where I was half the time though, lots of trees though).  

One of the problems of looking to live somewhere is there are lots of boards out there - and you can spot something you don't even want and get home and look it up to see why it's not come up in results to date only to discover it's £460k, whereas you'd thought it was probably about £300k and you still didn't want it  

Left a note for LL today, setting out dates in clear words.  

It's been hot, hot, hot here, but airflow's a problem as I can't fling the patio doors wide open as so many houses overlook this room and the bed would be on full display to the world.... there's also the issue of LL suddenly driving up and me wishing to close the door/blinds and not invite any interactions.   I'm a funny bugg4h  

I'd consider a flat, of a very specific type... e.g. garage, own entrance, private garden   - it's a real pain to have to read all the details as the agents don't often tell you which floor it's on until you've read deep into the advert.  Then they often omit to say which flat it is (preferring to give a generic best image of the whole building shot).  I try to work it out from the floorplan and what I can see through the windows in the pics.  Then there's the service charges/leases, which rarely get a look in.  With some service charges being £7-8k/year it's important to know if any particular flat costs £1k, £2k ... or £7k/year.   I have to assume, therefore, that anything they try to hide is a red flag.  I also avoid all those with swimming pools and on site residents' gyms because ... I'm not interested in those and the service charges will cost a fortune     There's one flat I'm convinced has zero garden (as they don't mention  it) + I can't quite work out which bit of the converted mansion house it is .... and I really CBA to phone the agent just to ask.  I do wish they'd tell people what they need to know. GONE are the days when they just want to get as many viewings on every place on their books, they now need to provide more information from the outset so people can do viewings without a surprise they'd have rejected it for.

"Stunning" = "nothing special here"
"Stylish" = "some ghastly choices made here"
"Refurbished" = "we, too, bought some rolls of that awful deep pile grey carpet and threw it down"

Farway

Boiling hot already, bit of a breeze but it's not helping much

Brambling, my on line butcher does sell bacon, but it must be lovely stuff 'cos they're always sold out when I look

The "best" bacon, you know the dry cured etc I managed to get via ND & T*sco was OK, but so thinly sliced PN could've rolled a fag with it

I like bacon sliced such that I can pick up a rasher and not see the floor through it, I tried the A & C stuff, OK but not really what i was looking for.

Just wish W8rose minimum order was not £60 but it is what it is, I may try the Asd@ Best thick cut in my next C & C but TBH the reviews are not that outstanding, beggars & choosers though

Meals today in this heat? I think it will be pick at this & that

Lunch is easy, sarnie of some sort

Dinner, what a problem, I've loads of fresh peas in the garden and need to get them picked sharpish

I think I'll pick them & maybe frozen breaded cod fillet & HM  AF chips with my peas?

If anyone cares to pop round I'd prefer lamb chop with Jersey's & fresh veg, including my peas,  with butter strategically blobbed on the veg but there's no way I'm standing over or near a hot stove / grill today

PN I hear so many bad things with flat leasehold, ever increasing ground rents and restrictive conditions for instance.

Very hard to sort out when agent's object is to hide it. At least with internet you are able to do some research without a phone call

CRANKY40

PN, don't buy a flat, you'd hate it. I've had a ground floor flat twice in my life and it's a never again thing for me. Alexi Sayle once did a sketch about the family of Wildebeast living in the flat above him. That is so close to how it sounds, honestly. 

Hello all, I'm still at home, cooking for me and heating stuff up for the HT. I've bought an ice cream maker which is keeping me entertained at the moment (it's a small 1.1 litre one). I have half a tub of sugar free chocolate left in the freezer, the HT has a third of a tub of proper vanilla. 

Today's meals are for me only, the HT gets a vitamin pill with his evening meal every day which tells you all you need to know about his lack of fine dining). There's courgette and garlic cream cheese soup for lunch and dinner tonight will be a pork chop with salad leaves, beetroot and maybe a few oven chips if the mood takes me. 

caronc

Good morning everyone, 
Thank you for the birthday wishes, I had lovely day though a tad too much wine was consumed! I seem to have managed to avoid feeling fuzzy headed this morning though.
When my sis was house hunting we became dab hands at interpreting the "descriptions" , requires a degree of modernisation was certainly an understatement for the place she eventually fell in love with!!!
We've been given a reprieve from the rain today and it's to be a scorcher, my kitchen is like an oven already so I've done what's needed and will avoid it as far as I can until this evening.
Griddled chicken salad with Ayrshire spuds for dinner tonight and a sarnie of some description for lunch.

Farway

CRANKY40 said:

Today's meals are for me only, the HT gets a vitamin pill with his evening meal every day which tells you all you need to know about his lack of fine dining).

I am the same, one multi vit every evening, hopefully makes up for the rubbish I eat at times.

Today is a fine example. Freezer full of nutrition.

Lunch, corned beef & HM pickle sarnie

Dinner, it's so hot it'll be another sarnie, maybe fish fingers & mayo. So much for grand plans

Brambling

With your sensitivity to noise PN I'm surprised you're  considering a flat! I lived in a ground floor flat for 15 years and found the elderly neighbour the noisiest 🙄 her lounge was above my bedroom as hers was a two storey maisonette and I would lay in bed some nights answering all the questions of the quizzes she had video during the day.  Mine had its own front door but was a shared garden.  Don't get me wrong I wasn't unhappy there but I due to house prices in the SE there were a lot more families moving in with multiple cars etc which caused problems and the maintenance charge kept going up and let's just say I moved into a house 🙂

Unfortunately my sister was moved to intensive care during the night and needed dialysis today which they are hoping is a one off, they think some kind of virus in the blood it seems she hasn't felt well for a while but wouldn't go to the doctors.  Not that a broken shoulder is lucky but it did mean she was already in hospital when she became very ill 

too hot to eat much during the day so lunch was fresh pineapple and melon.  Dinner was sea bass fillets with new potatoes, broccoli and French beans.  I should have had courgette but that involved thinking what to do with it but there are several which will need picking soon so I could be posting them through a friends cat flap 🙀 my sister recommended Lidl's sea bass and it was a good call 🙂 I do prefer whole sea bass as I think it tastes better cooked on the bone but it was so much quicker simply panned fried, too hot for much faffing 

candygirl

Hi guys
Have had a small feta salad today, minus the cucumber, which naughty Bon nicked off the work top n scoffed asap 🙄😂😂
Sending healing hugs to your Sis BRAMBLING xx