Cooking for one (Mark Three)
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Glad your family are on the mend Farway, hopefully it will be a full and quick recovery.
Heavy sleety rain here today and only just above freezing. Looks set to stay for a few days too!
We really enjoyed the Balmoral Chicken last night, I decided to make a big one to slice rather than individual ones and that worked really well. There's some left which will be sliced for lunchtime sandwiches to have with the remaining HM tomato soup.
Smoked Haddock fishcakes for us tonight, I cooked extra mash yesterday to make them, with a chive & parsley sauce using the poaching milk, roast broccoli and green beans. For no good reason I've not made fishcakes for ages so I'm looking forward to them.
Lunch was a jacket spud and I made Thai red prawn curry for dinner (no leftovers ☺️)
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
Work on selling items and decluttering; sell at least $100 per month - use for c. card. Sales were December $181, January $160
Low spend/no spend January groceries etc $138/$150
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.
Freezer stash soup grabbed at lunchtime between meetings. Chicken, green bean, broccoli and pesto pasta tonight.
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