Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Farway

More sunshine this morning, cold wind though but may venture into garden for pottering if it warms up

I picked the roast chicken over and there's loads of meat so for dinner I'm thinking of something with my mushrooms and a sort of HM creamy sauce, a bit like chicken supreme, and if CBA I may stir it into pasta, sounds nice but there's a lot of stages to fail along the way before I can call it dinner

Lunch is an easier option, grilled cheese on stale bread toast, topped with pickle I think

My genealogy DNA testing turned up trumps yesterday with mixed result though

A GG Aunt popped up so e-mailed off, expecting a reply from maybe her grown up descendents  because she would be over 100 by now, born 1920

Blow me down, mail came back from her friend, she died last Friday.

I never knew her of course but what a life she had, the first cross Atlantic flight was the the year before her birth, the year she dies rovers land on Mars

A bit deeper digging shows very eventful life, born in Fulham, married a Pole, become a Mormon,moved to Salt Lake City, went to Poland as Mormon missionary, amazing life with a lot more for me find I expect

caronc

Good morning and Happy St. David's day everyone
What an interesting sounding life your GG Aunt had Farway
Frosty here this morning but it's lovely and sunny.
I had a thoroughly good evening having Sunday dinner with my family via Zoom. Just what we all needed I think. The lamb was lovely but apart from a few scraps that go for stock as I suspected no LOs
"Soup of the week" chez Caronc is potato, leek and butter bean. I better get cracking once I finish my cuppa if we want it for lunch. I cba making it yesterday but wish I had done so now. 
My son picked up a pack of prawns over the weekend so tonight we are trying the JO prawn balls and dumplings recipe from the 7 ways book though using green beans and sugar snap peas rather than asparagus. 

Brambling

Am I correct in thinking that it's the Mormon that do the family trees and one of the ancestry sites  Farway? It sounds like she had a good life 

There should be rules about having to work when it's a nice day this early in the year 🙂

Fish finger sandwich for lunch, during a freezer rummage at the weekend I found two packs 🙂 whilst they were in the AF I made a Jerusalem artichoke soup I forgot I brought some last time I was in the farm shop, using leek, a stick of celery, small parsnip and a small potato it may be just as well I live alone 😁  

Dinner was LO new potatoes turned into chips, ham hock, coleslaw and salad  

caronc

Good morning everyone
Frosty first thing but so far no lovely sunshine to follow though it's dry.
The prawn ball and dumplings recipe wasn't a great success.  The prawns balls were good, didn't fall apart as I feared and would work just as well with cheaper white fish IMHO, but the dumplings were dire - stodgy bland lumps but not in a good way! We ended up quickly nuking a pouch of rice. That said it's the first recipe from the book that hasn't worked for us and we've tried lots of the recipes.
Domestics for me today - how  did my kitchen floor get so manky?
HM soup for lunch and tonight I'm trying out Nigel Slater's sausage and bacon frickdellar recipe published in the Guardian recently using sausage meat stuffing leftover from Christmas. https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/f ... ter-leaves

Farway

Sun's out after dull start

Off to Dr's first thing, all as expected, keep taking the tablets & return end of the month

My chicken supreme thing failed yesterday, had tum ache & just CBA, finished up with bowl of cereal instead, good job it's CFO or there would've been glum faces at the table

Lunch was cheapo Asda C & O pastie, plus brown sauce

Dinner, I'll try again with the chicken, it's now or freezer for it.

Keeping it simple today though, having it with HM AF chips + some tinned B beans I think

Brambling said:

Am I correct in thinking that it's the Mormon that do the family trees and one of the ancestry sites  Farway? It sounds like she had a good life 

Fish finger sandwich for lunch, during a freezer rummage at the weekend I found two packs 🙂 whilst they were in the AF I made a Jerusalem artichoke soup I forgot I brought some last time I was in the farm shop, using leek, a stick of celery, small parsnip and a small potato it may be just as well I live alone 😁  

Yes, Mormons are the FH folks

Bold, no Feline "How very dare you" looks?

Brambling

Farway said:

Bold, no Feline "How very dare you" looks?

 Oops forgot about the furry one 😋

How was the frickdellar  Caronc? I had to look at the recipe as not one I've heard of 🙂 it looked good and unsurprisingly I have most of the ingredients in 😁

Artichoke soup had really set overnight, it probably could have done with some cream to loosen it, I just added a splash of water, it's quite rich so only required a small mug with a couple of crackers some will be frozen.  

Dinner was LO chicken tray bake from Sunday with kale so a lazy easy day food wise today

justkeepswimmimg

Good evening everyone. Not sure where I disappeared to yesterday 🤨

Busy week already (is it really only Tuesday?) so glad of easy CFO options that I accidentally planned. Lunch yesterday was jacket spud and last night was my old favourite of pesto pasta with broccoli and salmon fillet. Filled pasta with tuna, avocado and tomato flung together at lunchtime today and another CFO standard of omelette tonight...ironically eaten while watching last night’s Masterchef 😜

Have also managed to catch up on last night’s Unforgotten, worth a watch if you like that sort of thing.

Farway

Dentist's first thing for a check up, passed OK so all's well there until December, and goodness knows where we'll be Covid wise then so not something for me to even think about for now

Made inroads into the LO chicken yesterday, now only a bit left which I'll use in a PB baguette for lunch today

Dinner, spoilt for choice but I have smoked salmon trimmings from last week's delivery and getting perilously close to Use By so I have a ciabatta in the Panny, trying a herby one this time, all being well it's smoked salmon herby ciabatta sarnies for dinner, no doubt I'll pop something in the sarnie, like salad bits

caronc

Good afternoon everyone, 
Yes the frickadellar were really good Brambling much better than the sum of their parts, definitely on the make again list and easily scaled for CFO. I didn't make the sauce as my son is less keen on mustardy ones but used a lurking pack of OOD IKEA meatball sauce which worked well. It was BBE Dec 2018 but perfectly fine. We had them with mash, carrots, green beans and sugar snaps as that was what I had in the veg drawer. 
I've Unforgotten on record JKS after thoroughly enjoying the previous ones. We are watching "To the Lake" on Netflix just now, quiet good if you go with the subtitles rather than appalling dubbing! I've yet to catch up on Masterchef but have it on record.
Domestics for me today again, the boiler folk are coming tomorrow and I want the place to be spick and span in case they need a look about. I'm just having a quick cuppa before tackling the dusting. 
Last of the HM soup for lunch today and this evening it's a bung in peri, peri chicken & veg tray bake.

justkeepswimmimg

I think Nicola Walker is brilliant, caronc. I’m no good with subtitles and gave up on The Woods because the dubbing was terrible (I thought the story was too slow as well).

Poached eggs and mushrooms on toast for lunch today, which I thoroughly enjoyed. Very easy option of reheated vegetable risotto (leftovers from the freezer of course) tonight. I crisped up the last bit of chorizo and sprinkled over the top...nom nom 😋

Another zoom social tonight, that’s two in two nights! Very much looking forward to actual meet ups soon...