Cooking for one (Mark Three)

caronc

Good luck with the move PN🤞
Glad your sis is out of intensive care Brambling 😁

PasturesNew

No time to stay, just to say I'm typing this from my new room.  I've got to return to the old place now to hand over the key etc.... she's expecting me about 12ish and I've not unpacked the car yet.  Kettle/mug next I think!

Catch you all later.

Brambling

Great news PN  hopefully you can relax a little now 

Farway

Congrats on the move at last PN, now you can get a decent night's kip without noises & pongs from the kitchen

And it's stopped raining, bit dull but OK for lugging items from car to new place

The lack of rain also means I can get out & pick the berries & currants later today

I've been searching for & bought new mobile. On it's way now, allowing for the CV delays of course

Had a fright the other night when I switched old one off, it went into Chinese test mode and I just couldn't stop it chuntering away, left it & eventually battery went flat

I've been convincing myself for a while I "needed" a replacement, with software that get updates and maybe even the magic pay by phone gizmo in the new no touching cashless world that will emerge.

Cursing this morning, trying on line banking setting up new payee {my ISA elsewhere], all the security meant I only got the whirling checking circle 

Phoned, after much robot speak I was put thought to a human line, but robot told me too busy due to CV and cut me off. Barstewards!!

Fuming is the polite word & problem is unresolved, grrrrrr

Lunch, cold LO SC beef sarnie with horseradish I think

Dinner, today should be a pie day with the dull cool weather, but it has to be use up day, so cheesy omelette, HM chips & maybe bit of salad

caronc

Good afternoon everyone, 
Glad you are in your new place PN 👍. 
We've actually had a little sunshine! It was lovely for about an hour but back to grey and damp now. Tomorrow is supposed to be dry if not particularly sunny or warm but that'll do me as I'm desperate to get planting!
The stuffed veg my DIL-to-be made was delicious and there was loads, enough for us to have  for dinner yesterday and lunch today. Tonight it's pasta, sausage meatballs and veg sauce so I can't complain about my veg intake this week lol. 

greenbee

Happy new home PN I hope you can feel a bit more settled and start eating properly now you are somewhere a bit more civilised. Fingers crossed a few more suitable places will appear on the market for you too.

Mostly I will be eating lettuce as I have a glut. Veg box due tomorrow - I've gone for Cooks' ingredients as I didn't need lots more salad leaves! I have one chilli and a few tomatoes starting to grow. Courgette plants are looking happy, but nowhere near producing. Broad beans have a few baby pods. Peas are rampant (I need more sticks for them!) but no sign of being useful yet. I think I'll lose a lot of weight if I rely on the garden to feed me... I've taken some bolognese out of the freezer to turn into lasagne or similar over the next few days so I will have some kind of protein intake. I'm slowly working through the freezer contents, although there's still lots of soup!

Pyxis

Hiya Greenbee! I was wondering if you were ok as haven't seen you on here for a bit.

I'm skipping a veg box this week as I still have lots left from last week. Just getting a few other bits and bobs delivered.

I'm going to try eating carrot leaves and radish leaves, probably in a stir-fry.

Brambling

Evening 

i hope you are all settled PN 

I picked four raspberries lunchtime from my new raspberries bushes and ate them as I netted them, there's not much fruit but I intend to eat more than the birds if I can.  The netting is a bit Heath Robinson but will hopefully stay up if his lordship gets bored of inspecting it.  I may look into building some kind of fruit cages for next year, my sister and I previous build one for the allotment which was a walk in one, no room for one like that in the garden as it's a smaller space only half meter wide.  Thinking cap on before next summer as it may be best to build something for each container 🤔.  

Lunch was a pita bread with egg, smoked salmon and salad.  Dinner was seafood risotto with the first of my French beans and Courgette. 

Farway

'morning all. Hope you've settled in now PN and getting back to normal hot food

Mixed weather bag today, at least it's dry if dull with sunny spells

I'm staying in today, not unusual these CV days of course, but my new mobile is on it's way for delivery today, according to the tracker it's at Southampton DHL depot.

Amazing world to my old mind, at 5pm yesterday it was in a French warehouse., went via Brussels at 1130pm, to Luton at 0430, to Heahrow @ 0630 and Southampton @ 0815 this morning. UPDATE, it went on the delivery van at 1005

Lunch will be last two stale crusts, toasted with grilled cheese with some HM pickle I think  Fresh loaf on the way via ND & T*sco today

Dinner, I've got LO beef still, with a load of peas in the garden to use & spuds sprouting in the pantry.

I think I'll mash all the spuds before they are really past it. I'll use up yesterday's opened LO B beans, so ,its cold beef, mash & LO beans

The peas will survive another day on the vines

I managed to pick the fresh fruit yesterday, stewed all except the strawberries

I'll have the strawberries for pud tonight.

The stewed berries, not enough for crumble so may freeze and add to the blackberries once they ripen

Here's yesterday's haul from the garden

Brambling

Lovely fruit Farway.  I'm trying again with gooseberries as last time i grew them i lost both the fruit and leaves overnight to sawfly larvae two years running and gave up. I've had a few years break and they are in a container so we will see what happens I've only brought a dessert red one if successful i may buy a 'proper' green one for next year.  

It's forecast to shower here lunchtime, currently it's just very gray and overcast and a little nippy again, if it doesn't rain I'll have to water 

Lunch will be LO seafood risotto i have a hard boiled egg which needs eating so that may get chopped up and added as it's a small portion of risotto.  Dinner will be haddock, not smoked (it's going to be a fishy day) probably with jersey royals and some green veg.  I've some spinach and chard which needs picking so I may wilt some of that as well.