Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Brambling

justkeepswimmimg said:

Good evening. Is it just me or are the days really all blending into one now 🙄? Damp, grey weather didn’t help my motivation today...at least the rain will wash the remaining snow away.

I know what you mean JKS usual January blahs plus lockdown isn't a good mix at times

i managed to get one W8itrose delivery after they dropped their minimum spend but haven't any luck since with them. I have had 3 Iceland ones but the last couple have had loads missing I received a £5 voucher the first time as a we're sorry and a £8 one last time which I'm wondering if I cba to use especially as I'm not so keen on their F&V and as Farway said limited.  I'm lucky I can get out so feel I should try, I've used the farm shop and farmers market and paid a little extra for M&S which is quieter and the local T Exp or garage shop is handy for milk.  

Lunch was a egg and rocket pita.  Dinner a venison steak with bubble and squeak made with LO mash, kale and broccoli

threepenny_bit

Sorry Farway; meant your daughter! So glad everyone is on the mend 

Farway

Another dull, grey, damp + misty day, to blend into all the rest as JKS spotted

Luckily I acted accordingly yesterday & removed a pack of YS mince to defrost overnight.

The mince is LBC [life before covid] Feb 2019, from Iceland, it was never an exciting life mooching round Iceland but I'd love to do it again, the death toll this morning makes it even more gloomy but hey ho I'm a glass half full person so looking forward to Spring now

I've just made a pre mix loaf in the Panny, it looks very tasty and will use for lunch, I think a cheese & cuc sarnie

Dinner, the YS mince in a savoury mince concoction, using the very last of the bendy carrots and the subbed celery sticks

Probably make some dumplings to go plop in it, and if I remember maybe use up the 2019 XCFO frozen braised cabbage & apple, fed up with looking at ti every time I go in the freezer

caronc

Good morning everyone, 
No it's not just you JKS, if it wasn't for the days of the week on my my meds blister pack I would have no idea!
Dull and damp here but a tad milder.
I'm repurposing LO chive and parsley sauce into a pot of soup for lunch with the addition of stock, 1/2 a head of broccoli, peas and LO mash as it was too tasty to waste but limited in it's uses as the smoked haddock had poached in it. It smells great so fingers crossed it tastes as good.
Admin this after for my voluntary work to keep me out of mischief but apart from that I've no plans, what housework I'm doing has been done apart from dinner prep later. I've pork defrosting to made a slightly tweaked version of JO "Bejewelled BBQ pork" from the 7 ways book using loin instead of fillet and mixed rather than black beans as that's what I have and they should work just fine. 

caronc

Soup was blooming gorgeous and there's enough left for lunch tomorrow (if my son doesn't snaffle it later lol) 

justkeepswimmimg

Glad it’s not just me with the days ☺️

Farway, I have two tins of soup that I bought just before the first lockdown as emergency supplies. I might start calling them LBC soup...I have wondered about putting them and all the unused paracetamol in some kind of time capsule. I did manage to use the emergency gin and tonic though 😜

Freezer stash soup grabbed at lunchtime between meetings. Chicken, green bean, broccoli and pesto pasta tonight.

Brambling

My emergency G&T was also utilised 

I do like a repurposed success story Caronc hopefully you'll be a to reproduce it at a later date 🙂

Another wash and repeat day although I did manage to finish at 5pm today the 'extra' hour has thrown me but it was good to escape on time for a change but tomorrow will probably be 7pm.

lunch was the same as yesterday egg and rocket in a pita.  Dinner was cba which was probably a waste of my extra hour 😐 jacket potato with beans and cheese and salad

candygirl

Just made a chick pea, mushroom n spinach balti, which tastes lush 😘
Still having used my instant pot yet lol 🤣
Am having it in a wrap later, as not hungry yet x

Farway

Dull day again but I've plenty to get on with, trying to get my old phone up & running having forgotten the PIN and reset it I'm now going round in Google sign in circles and computer says no .

I don't need the 'phone, just thought it would be a good idea to have a spare, how silly of me

Yesterday's savoury mince was OK, I suspect because the mince had been in the freezer for nearly two years all taste had long vanished.

Luckily brown sauce solved obscured that problem

Likewise the red cabbage & apple from 2019 XCFO, OK but not something I'll buy again

At least the freezers are starting to get space in them now

Today is another use up from freezer day

Lunch a cheapo fish fingers + tartare sauce sarnie

Dinner, posh leek & cheese bangers, HM AF chips, fried eggs & some tinned Baked beans

I've started to notice the beans, Asda have an "odd" taste and I wonder if there have been subtle recipe changes?

It's not unpleasant but just "odd". I may have to go up a price bracket to something like Branston beans just to check if it's me or them

Be bit of a bu66er if so

Thought I'd mention that I'm now using a crinkly chip cutter because it gives lovely chips in the AF and minimum oil

Not sure where I bought mine, probably some high class joint like middle of Lidl or £land

It also does fancy carrots but I CBA

caronc

Good morning everyone, 
Oh crinkle cut chips Farway how lovely. I remember the excitement when my Mum bought a crinkle cutter at something like a Tupperware party and for weeks if it could be crinkled it was lol.
I'm a great believer in rotating my cupboard stocks so of course the "emergency" G&T has been used and replaced (several times) as I wouldn't want it to go stale.
We are a vampire -free household after yesterdays pork dish which was topped with fried garlic slices, I could smell garlic on my skin this morning! It was lovely though and a definite make again. 
HM soup again for lunch and either spag bol or bangers and beans for dinner.