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Cooking for one (Mark Three)

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  • PasturesNew
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    From memory, so far I've already managed to scoff my way through: 2 crumpets/marg, 2 sausage rolls, maybe a banana (can't remember), 1/4 of a cheesecake and a pack of doritos. 
  • Farway
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    edited 23 August 2020 at 10:18AM
    Still damp outside but sun peeking through, the runners are still toppled. I'll stand them back up later even though forecast is wet & windy for Tuesday when I expect them to blow over again
    Your kitchen arrangements sound a bit muddled PN, especially walking down two flights of stairs to find someone taken over the space :s 
    I'd be a bad co lodger though as I do tend to leave stuff everywhere, and right now have a beef joint in the slow cooker which will be there at least until 4

    Early start in the kitchen, the beef joint is one of the posh ones, defrosted overnight & into SC for tonight's dinner
    Plus popped an Asd@ mixed seed & grain ready mix bread pack into the Panny, and just removed it, looking & smelling very tasty

    Lunch will be a fried egg sarnie using the new loaf
    Dinner, full on roast again, but using SC beef, Aunty B roasties, steamed cabbage, use up broccoli, carrots and maybe some HG runners / French beans if I spot any

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  • Farway
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    Update, lunch became a fish finger sarnie
    Put the beans back to upright and found more ripe apples, plums & figs
    A good harvest
    I'll stew the apples and bake the figs, plums scoff raw, they really are nice plump plums, the variety is "Stanley"

    Veggies prepped, beef smells yummy in the SC
    All set for dinner
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  • caronc
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    Good afternoon everyone, 
    It's a wet and rather chilly day here just 13C with a definite hint that Autumn might not be that far off. The stove may well get lit later. I've not long finished a video call with my elder son in Greece where it's over 30C and they were just off to have a swim now the fierce heat of day was over before heading to a beach taverna for dinner. What a contrast!! I had intended to do some gardening this afternoon but the weather put paid to that, I don't mind chilly but draw the line at weeding in the rain. 
    Pork pie salad for lunch and steak for dinner with baked spuds, flat mushrooms, onion rings, corn cobs and peppercorn sauce.
  • Brambling
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    Evening  :)

    Another grey day and other than taking cat food back to the pet shop as I picked up the wrong one ?I haven't been out. I just got the washing in 75% dry when the skies opened lunch time and by the time I had hung it upstairs the rain had stopped, we've had occasional storms all afternoon, so typical weekend weather  :neutral:

    Nice family dinner last night for my nephew's birthday we had a Chinese takeaway and too much was ordered, I made healthy choices and then they shared their not so healthy choices  :s that followed by a small slice of chocolate birthday cake meant I was searching for the Rennie 2am this morning, it's been a long time since I've had a takeaway other than fish and chips a couple of times this year (once in lieu of my birthday meal under lockdown)

    i finished off the LO beef today, beef and salad for lunch and LO beef and veg for dinner.  I 'found' a small amount of stewed rhubarb in the freezer so had that for pud 
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  • Farway
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    edited 24 August 2020 at 9:24AM
    Brambling said:
    i finished off the LO beef today, beef and salad for lunch and LO beef and veg for dinner. 
    Yesterday's SC beef turned out well, so I'll be joining the LO beef gang today :D
    There were enough Runners & French beans to use yesterday, and now the runners are back upright there are more flowers  so if this Autumnal weather improves could be more pickings
    I've still got apples to stew sometime today, no rush because I've baked figs lurking in the 'fridge :blush:

    Today is a real LO day
    Lunch will be last of the LO LM Veg "meat" loaf, probably inside a sarnie, maybe with pickle?
    Dinner, really CBA today, very likely LO SC beef & horseradish sarnie, with LO baked figs for pud

    I'm in today, package due, not that I'd planned anything of course
    Plus my mobile provider is changing over via PAC, not that it requires anything by me except swap a SIM over
    Busy day, not
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  • caronc said:
    I've not long finished a video call with my elder son in Greece where it's over 30C and they were just off to have a swim now the fierce heat of day was over before heading to a beach taverna for dinner. 
    Sounds lovely!!! Apart from the heat but at least they could cool off in the sea/pool. *Jealous* :D
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  • I'm making wedges and having some of the Richmond vegan sausages and probably a side salad. Brunch. Some days I wake up starving.
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  • caronc
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    Good afternoon everyone, 
    After a wet & chilly day yesterday it's lovely and sunny here today. I've spent most of the morning on the phone but finally got the out of school club insurance sorted out - 7 calls and numerous emails & texts later!!!
    No beefy LOs here, we scoffed our steaks :). Tonight we are off to a local pub for dinner, it's a "chips with everything" kind of place but everything is freshly made and well cooked so the food is usually lovely, though portions tend to be not for the faint hearted!  Consequently lunch if just a couple of crackers with lobster pate and some fruit.
  • Farway
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    It's just hammered down here, just as I was thinking one of the flower pots looked a bit droopy. Job done
    Completed my Asd@ on line order, due Weds lunchtime, I wonder if the bangers I keep ordering but always OOS will be dinner on Wednesday?

    Eight out of ten owners who expressed a preference said their cats preferred other peoples gardens
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