Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Farway

Pheeew, a scorcher already, out watering early and the sun's burning and no cooling breezes.

I may even scoff a very old choc ice I spotted yesterday.

PN, I thought same about baking spuds but since shopping online I've started buying them, pack of 4 60p @sda, nice size.

Thing is on line I'm unable to pick the packs with larger spuds, so could get a bag of midget misshapes or black scabby ones.

Both of which I've suffered, which is why I now buy the baker pack, and to be fair they do bake well, with nice skins & are decent size

More beans ready, but not for today, too hot

Picked some ripe plums at last

Lunch will be last of the bacon in a BLT

Dinner, last of the LO sausage & pasta, eaten cold out of the container

very likely the freezer burnt choc ice sometime today

In middle of on line shop,

I've two on the go and it's a race between getting my £4 Ice£and Bonus top up applied or @sda having flour, FR eggs & deodorant available

In the meantime I've plenty to get by with

caronc

Good afternoon everyone, 
No heatwave here - 17C and raining!
My balance is iffy and my oomph has gone somewhere without me! I've done what needs doing chores wise and Tesco have been so I think the sofa, a snooze and a box set beckon this afternoon.
Salad bagel for lunch and dinner tbc, my son will probably have a chippy and I'll raid the freezer. Yesterday we ended up with pasta with ragu from the freezer which really hit the spot but unfortunately there's no LOs.

PasturesNew

Absolute scorchio here. Beach car parks full by 10am and warnings galore and the press/news are all over how many people are at beaches.   Sun's now obscured by some cloudcover, but it's still hot, hot, hot. 
I could walk down the road, along the wide concrete promenade.... but CBA  
A walk, somewhere, nattering with somebody, is one thing: plodding out on your own is pretty "pointless".  I can't go out in the sun, I become overwhelmed in the heat too.... so it'd be daft as I'm likely to "get caught out" and come over feeling all out of sorts/light headed. 

Earlier I nuked/boxed up two sausage patties, to be used as a flatbread filling later. 

Irony: One of the fat chaps here... at least twice my weight, obese, mostly belly on him .... giving me "what you should eat/you should eat better" advice when I popped was nuking my sausage patties. *rolls eyes*.  How lucky men are to be men and how lucky us women are that they can give us such sound advice.  

Farway

Melting here, clouded over but very close & sticky, not scoffed the choc ice yet

Did scoff one of the ripe plums off the tree, gorgeous & honey sweet, not counted but about two dozen there at varying ripeness

Ripe couple left for later

I'm still on cold pasta LOs for dinner, for which I'm glad, nil cooking dinner today

I spotted loads of climbing French beans at the front, seem to have popped up overnight. Bit like courgettes I imagine

Has to be a bean day tomorrow so I've taken last of the XCFO roast turkey lump out to defrost for tomorrow dinner

PasturesNew said:

Irony: One of the fat chaps here... at least twice my weight, obese, mostly belly on him .... giving me "what you should eat/you should eat better" advice when I popped was nuking my sausage patties. *rolls eyes*.  How lucky men are to be men and how lucky us women are that they can give us such sound advice.  

Now then now then.

It's not just men who tell others how to run their lives, lost count of the number of posts on MSE saying how they have to train hubby to do it "properly"

candygirl

PasturesNew said:

For those who have toyed with the idea of getting an air fryer, Lidl have them from Sunday.
Salter. £39; they say RRP £99, but do your own research. Basket type, 3.2L 
https://www.lidl.co.uk/en/p/kitchen-essentials/salter-3-2l-hot-air-fryer/p34041 
I won't be buying one as won't be able to use it here and don't want to buy something just to stick into storage. 

That's'a good price for the make n size !

Brambling

Woke with a headache this morning which I think was a combination of not drinking enough yesterday and sinuses, I had to get up as I had promised to take a elderly friends cat to the vet at 8.15am which combined with the heat meant a quiet morning.  

I decided it would be a good idea to check if the SM was quiet at lunchtime when it was hot 🥵😳 the car read 39 when I got in it and had barely cooled by the time I got there.  I was right it was cool and reasonably quiet in there unfortunately the car temp was 42 when I got out and I could hardly hold the steering wheel, I was worried the ice cream might melt  . 

Too hot to eat anything other than fruit when I got home and unpacked (well unpacked the frozen and cold stuff) after I cooled down I made a courgette cake for the freezer, some stuffed courgettes also for the freezer and blanched a mound of runner beans, 3 small courgettes were grated and froze and 3 large ones cut into rounds and blanched for freezing, my fridge is a courgette free zone and I cba to cook dinner and was too hot to eat anyway

Farway

Restless & muggy night's kip, way too hot for comfort.

Still hot & muggy now, however I've watered the front pots already before it gets even hotter

Post porridge breakfast I prepped the veggies for tonight, bit early in the day but the veggies are limp LO odds & sods and need a good drink to perk up

Soft carrots, curly celery & saggy Savoy are done. I'll pick my beans later in the day

Too hot really to put oven on but my I expect once I'm tucking in to my roast turkey dinner I'll be glad I did it

It'll be Aunty B's frozen roasties BTW.

I know it would be cheaper to buy a bag, peel etc & do my own, but CFO to me is frozen, grab what you need and not be left staring at 2 Kg of sprouting spuds for the rest of the week

Lunch, last of the HM Panny loaf for a cheese & onion sarnie

caronc

Good afternoon everyone, 
Hope the headache has cleared Brambling.
It's never to hot for a roastie IMHO Farway
It's a lovely day here dry, sunny and pleasantly warm rather than scorching. What a contrast to yesterday! My son was up and out early as him, his brother, my DIL-to-be and nephew were going up Tinto hill. The views from the top should be stunning today.
Oomph & balance are still a bit lacking so I'm pacing myself today but fully intend to make the most of the good weather even if it just sitting in the sunshine with my book. Lunch will be a salad roll and tonight gammon steaks and pineapple unless my son fancies bbqing.

PasturesNew

It started off bright/sunny, but has become overcast and very muggy.  I've been sitting here sweating most of the morning. 

Had a peculiar breakfast, bearing in mind the weather, but I've got food that needs eating, so went for it.  
2 hash browns, 1 sausage pattie, half a tin of beans, 2 scrambled eggs, splash of brown sauce.  

I'm trying to get through the hash browns (L1dl) as they used to be very good/the best, but this bag's not so good as they're lighter in colour and a bit soppier.  They are also not "neat" in the freezer, so take up more room than is ideal.  I still have four to get through.  I'd also pre-cooked the sausage pattie yesterday, so that needed to be eaten somehow, so it seemed sensible to toss it into the cooked breakfast. 

Won't be buying those patties again, it'd be better to buy a pack of sausages, skin them and turn each one into a pattie and freeze them myself if I were particularly looking for a pattie shape.  Priced at £6.73/Kg, it's tastier/cheaper to buy something like the 4ldi own brand Cumberland, Lincs or Pork sausages which are £2.97/Kg.  Miffed I fell for it really and hadn't checked/compared price/weight before.

Farway

PasturesNew said:

Won't be buying those patties again, it'd be better to buy a pack of sausages, skin them and turn each one into a pattie and freeze them myself if I were particularly looking for a pattie shape.  Priced at £6.73/Kg, it's tastier/cheaper to buy something like the 4ldi own brand Cumberland, Lincs or Pork sausages which are £2.97/Kg.  Miffed I fell for it really and hadn't checked/compared price/weight before.

Not one I buy but sometimes fall for the "looks nice for a change" without checking too much.

And, although not been in,  I suppose these CV19 days hanging around reading ingredients is punished by death stares

Still roasting, and still roastie dinner

Son & family back home, seems solid traffic everywhere, luckily they were going against the tide so dead easy.

Not the time for a trip Westwards Brambling