Cooking for one (Mark Three)

caronc

Good morning everyone
👋three-penny bit from a very cold and murky Scotland
Good suggestion Loanranger21 I was going to suggest a spray of WD40
I'm pooch sitting again today, he's no bother at all and he's developed into a proper cheeky chappie. 
Lots of admin to do today as I need to check I have everything I need for the school club virtual audit meeting tomorrow. That should keep me out of mischief. Apart from that I've not much planned though need to finalise my Tesco order that is due tomorrow.
Toastie for lunch I think and tonight we are having cheese omelettes, mushrooms, beans and AF chips. 

Farway

'morning, Brambling some shredders have a reverse function to unblock jams, mostly not the cheapo ones though

Dull & murky here as well, spits of rain in the wind, still manged my amble round the block though

threepenny_bit said:

Hello everyone from a chilly but sunny Canada. Have been reading and running every day and glad to see the boiler and chimney sweeping went well Caronc. Reminded me to get the furnace serviced so have made an appointment - thanks! 

Gasp , that sounds like serious heating, I now have images of ship's boiler rooms with sturdy stokers shovelling coal in

The salmon fillet last night from @sda Extra Special range was excellent, farmed Scottish

I'll get that again, better still on offer 3 packs [2 fillets per pack] for a tenner is £1.66 a fillet

I made up the offer with a chicken, cook in bag, unfortunately not FR, just can't find on line SM FR but maybe not looked hard enough

However it looks a reasonable size, BBE is the 1st so maybe the weekend roast?

Lunch will be HG apple with cheese + crackers

Dinner, not sure yet

Update, dinner decided, it's Morries MFO frozen liver, bacon & mash.

Need something hearty in me this weather

threepenny_bit

Ha ha Faraway - no ships boiler room! Just looks like a double size immersion heater with a large metal box next to it to be honest. It is in the basement and in its own cupboard so you never see it ... except I also have my freezer in there as it is a big cupboard haha! 

Loanranger21

I think the whole of north America refers to their central heating boilers as furnaces. Ours in the uk are about the size of a wall mounted kitchen cupboard.  

Brambling

Thanks for the oil suggestion for the shredder but unfortunately it didn't work  it does have a reverse function which works great it's just the shredding bit it's failing on 🙄  I may recycle the basket as a bin for the small bedroom as it's a black mesh ( MSE 😁)  and look out for another one, not urgent but as my return to the office is unknown I don't really want to stock pile more stuff here.

Late finish to tonight after  7.30pm and we had lunch on the run, it wouldn't have been that late but a senior colleague kept saying she didn't need us to help her finish stuff and she did 🙄 in the end I went into the process document she was working from and took tasks and handed some to another team member and the manager, we were on a Teams call so she knew what I was doing.  She doesn't like to delegate but I had visions of finishing midnight as we were waiting for her 🙄 

lunch was a portion of ratatouille from the freezer with grated cheese on top.  Dinner was pan fried sea bass fillets, new potatoes, French beans and broad beans

threepenny_bit

Loanranger21 said:

I think the whole of north America refers to their central heating boilers as furnaces. Ours in the uk are about the size of a wall mounted kitchen cupboard.  

Ha ha yes I think you are right! I am originally from England and we emigrated to Canada a while back. We had a little potterton boiler in our kitchen in Surrey and growing up the central heating boiler was a baxi Bermuda boiler behind the gas fire. 

caronc

Good morning everyone, 
When I moved to this house we had a Baxi boiler behind the fire. It was great and I was sad to see it go when it became difficult to get parts for it.
Cold and grey here though dry.
Tesco has just been and I'm enjoying a quiet cuppa before I need to gather my braincells for the school club audit. I think I have everything needed so fingers crossed it goes smoothly.
I thoroughly enjoyed my cheese omelette yesterday something I must make more often.
Lunch will be a quick sarnie when I get a chance for a break and dinner tonight is tbc, possibly a posh fish finger sandwich or similar.

Farway

I remember the Baxi gas fires, we had one, warm as toast despite nil central heating at that time

Cold & dank today, right now wish there was a nice Baxi in my lounge to toast the toes with

caronc said:

I thoroughly enjoyed my cheese omelette yesterday something I must make more often.

Lunch will be a quick sarnie when I get a chance for a break and dinner tonight is tbc, possibly a posh fish finger sandwich or similar.

Now I'm tempted, not for today though but I've added them to my must do list

Lunch today was the subbed Ginster's Cheese & onion slice, I heated it in the AF, which worked fine

Not worth 88p though. I have just checked the on line prices, seems "normal" price is £1.30 most places, my 88p was sub price .

Blimey and I thought I was seen off at 88p! Just goes to show how rarely I buy such items

Dinner, Was toying with idea of another salmon salad, but not the weather for it, so it's breaded "formed from" cod fillet + HM chips + frozen peas

Brambling

I'm assuming a Baxi boiler is what my mum called the back boiler? Which lived behind the fire when we were kids, my dad always complained the immersion heater always costed more to heat the water 

I'm not sure sure if my very old clock radio didn't go off this morning or if I hit the snooze button twice in my sleep 😬 but it's just as well I only have to roll downstairs to work as the furry alarm also failed and I had to wake him 🙄 After yesterday's busy day it's was quite today so my brain didn't need to with it

lunch was a couple of small sausages from the freezer with a Irish Farl also YS from there and a fried egg.  Dinner was beef and vegetable stir fried with rice and a thrown together sauce

threepenny_bit

Quiet day here. I decided to try a banana spread with peanut butter for breakfast as my co worker swear by it .... doesn't keep you full for long and I missed my usual porridge lol! Not sure it is a substantial breakfast really! Had some time to check the store cupboards for dried fruit ready for mincemeat and found a few odds and ends lurking from making the fruit cakes; also found an old jar of store bought mincemeat  from quite a while back. I will add it to the Mary Berry Farmhouse Kitchen mincemeat cake recipe I use and make a fresh batch for mince pies. I struggle to find suet here so will go to the British store and buy a box of Atora at an exorbitant price and use the rest for dumplings!