Cooking for one (Mark Three)

caronc

Good afternoon everyone, 
Gorgeous looking fruit Farway 😁
It's actually dry and quite sunny here today for once so  I've been making the most of it and cracking on with the flower planting. I picked the first two cucumbers today and scoffed one with my lunch. My it was so tasty! Dinner is tbc so probably a freezer rake of some description. 

Farway

Well I'm here anyway

Afternoon folks, my 'phone arrived yesterday as expected so I've spent yonks trying to get my mind around it, much too clever for me at the moment but it has made me realise just how far mobiles have moved on since my last one

More good news, my garden waste wheelie bin has been emptied at long last, It's been left since lock-down in March. Now I can top it up again, the apple & pear are due for summer pruning soon

Lunch today was the very last of the LO SC beef with HM pickle use up in a sarnie

Dinner, I'm going to pick my peas to have with frozen breaded cod fillet + frozen chips.

Has to be frozen chips until I get fresh spuds on C & C on Sunday

Spotted this now ripe while having lunch in the conservatory, Bloody Butcher, my first HG tomato this year.

There are two more not far behind so salad is very likely in the next few days

PS. Photo taken with my new 'phone. Got that bit working at least

caronc

Good afternoon everyone, 
Oh I have tomato envy Farway, most of mine are only just beginning to flower!
It's back to cold and wet here, I've had to put a jumper on and my sis was phoned a wee while ago and had just put her CH on. That said it's typical weather for the first week of the school holidays so hopefully perk up soon. Such a contrast to yesterday when it was dry and out of the shade quite warm. I didn't manage to get all the planting done but another couple of hours should finish it. I also need to tame the greenhouse toms but that will wait until it's a bit less windy outdoors. 
Tesco order has been, the fridge was very bare of basics and fresh stuff just full of the multitude of condiments we seem to have but very little to actually eat lol. 
Lunch was a blt and tonight is tbc. My son was supposed to be zooming with his mates but that seems to be postponed so I'm not sure if he will get his usual Friday chippy and I'll be CFO or we'll cook something. 

Brambling

My tomatoes are on the patio and I do have a lot of little green babies (they are all cherry or little plum plants) the tumbling toms in the hanging basket at the front are a mass of flowers but no sign of any fruit yet.  I picked another couple of courgettes and a hand full of french beans lunchtime, I checked the runners and they have very very small beans on and black fly with a couple of lady birds helping keep them at bay.  Any ladybird friendly ideas to get rid of some of the black fly?

I need to make some kind of menu plan and put together a shopping list later, as it's more of a pain forgetting anything these days.  I'll probably pop into town rather than the farm shop as I need fruit and although they do lovely veg and meat some of the farm shop fruit isn't as good as the SM or farmers market local fruit.  I'll see how I feel in the morning and it will also depend on what else is on the list the farm shop has the advantage of only two people in at once.

Lunch was a lentil, vegetable and cheese 'loaf' with salad there seems to be a lot of the loaf so it may end up in the freezer, if I make it again it will need tweaking as there is something missing flavour wise.  I've taken a couple of chicken thigh fillets out of the freezer so for dinner I will probably do HM KFC airfried with chips, HM coleslaw and i have some LO runner beans from last night (not mine yet) 

greenbee

I made some individual lasagnes last night with defrosted bolognese, the last of my lasagne sheets and the last of the yogurt and creme fraiche. One for supper last night with veg, one for lunch today with salad. Supper tonight is (after trying not to bother) veg in a roasting pan with cajun spices topped with a frozen haddock fillet and kefir. ANd it was worth the 5 minutes of prep!

ajmoney

Hi everyone,

greenbee suggested I come onto this thread to get a bit of inspiration for my meals.  They are starting to get very similar and I have lost enthusiasm for planning anything different.  I have homegrown envy already.

missychrissy

I had homemade leek soup for lunch and a chicken stir fry with noodles tonight.

candygirl

Loving the sound of the lentil loaf BRAMBLING
I've had a veggie stir fry n spicy wedges 😋
Welcome to the thread AJ

Farway

Welcome AJ, plenty of variety on here, plus old favourites like left over cold pizza

I suspect your into town trip failed this morning Brambling?

It's blowing a hooley & wet outside for me, but so far my runners haven't blown over as they did last year

Still finalising the C & C list for tomorrow, trouble is I no sooner add something back it comes with another item no longer available, nothing I can't do without, just inconvenient

I know what you mean by condiments  and no food Brambling. One shelf in my fridge is full with sauces, pastes, umpteen types of mustard etc, just nothing to put them on

Food for today, fried egg sarnie for lunch, using up the older eggs TBH, I had to get a dozen or do without when C & C ran out of 6s

Dinner, ideal weather today wet & windy, for pie & mash.

The pie is a new one on me, one of my Ice£and frozen £1 pie, I'll nuke LO HM mash and weather permitting I'll pick some fresh peas & French beans to go with it.

Should it pour down I'll open a tin of B Beans

caronc

Good morning everyone, 
Welcome to CFO AJ
Brambling, a couple of tsps of curry powder might boost your lentil loaf
It's another cold, wet and miserable day here. I've made a quick trip to the bin, watered the greenhouse and picked the first courgette, I don't think I'll be venturing back out today unless the weather improves.
My son did opt for a chippy last night so I had stovies from the freezer with peas, a toasted soda scone and a good splosh of HP. Hardly summer food but it suited the weather!
HM burgers tonight unless my son has any better ideas.