Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Brambling

I checked my old hand written recipe book which is probably 30 years old and it is called Normandy pork chop and was probably copied from a magazine, it's basically what you said JKS but with sliced apple which I used to leave out. I may have to add pork chop and dry cider to my shopping list soon 🤔 although I don't need to add anything to my freezers, any LO cider could be utilised as a cider cake which I also haven't made for years but is rather nice 

I hope your foot is better Farway, I've been hobbling on a aching knee today but that's just normal flare up of my joints 😐 it feels like it needs a good click to right it's self but at least it's just the one knee 🙂

I've been watching JO I thought they were repeats but don't remember watching this one, I liked the look of his gratin gnocchi but I'm sure the pan would be a !!!!!! to clean, the fillet of pork also looked good and I do have both pork fillet and gnocchi I the freezer.  Now I'm watching masterchef so definitely a cookery watching night 

justkeepswimmimg

I drank my leftover cider....😗

Brambling

justkeepswimmimg said:

I drank my leftover cider....😗

 It wouldn't be very MSE if you had wasted it 

Farway

All this Normandy pork chop talk clicked in my brain, I remember that years ago, must have been one of those 60 /70 /80s sort of recipes, I distinctly remember the sliced apple on top, probably about the time we were bunging slices of pineapple onto grilled gammon steaks

Nice sunny day but due to go downhill tomorrow so I'll enjoy it while it's here, like JKS I think a spring like meal may be ideal for today

Lunch probably cheese & sliced raw onion sarnie

Dinner, defrost a salmon fillet and have fried in butter / EVO with salad & boiled "new" potatoes

With forecast of rotten weather I think I'll also defrost some diced steak out for a casserole or similar tomorrow

caronc

Good morning everyone, 
I think my recipe came from the Yorkshire TV Farmhouse Cookery (?) book from the 70s/80s which my Mum had (and is probably lurking here somewhere after clearing out my Dad's flat) and in my ancient note book is called "Somerset Casserole" though I'm not sure that is what it would have been in the book. The pork version uses thin chops or steaks, sliced apples  onions, sliced spuds, carrots and cider layered like a hot pot. The chicken and bacon version replaces the pork with chicken thighs and diced bacon and the apples with mushrooms. The spare cider was always the cook's perk! 
Brambling, the gnocchi gratin/pork fillet is on my "to make" list, I think I do remember seeing it in the programmes last year but I'm not 100% sure. I haven't been watching them this time so don't know if they differ.
Dull and dreary here today so far but dry thankfully as last night's curry (which was delicious) was lingering this morning so at least I could give the place a good airing. It's supposed to get wet and wild as the day goes on.
HM lentil soup for lunch and tonight it's JO's broccoli and blue cheese risotto from 7 ways. We've made this one before and thoroughly enjoyed it so fingers crossed tonight's effort is a good. 

Brambling

I think the JO series is a repeat Caronc but I missed this one

Dull and dreary here and that's not the weather   typical ground hog day again so just ticking along biting my tongue to avoid snapping at a bossy colleague 🙄 

lunch was some HM veg soup from the freezer, it was just a bog standard end of week, what needs using up soup and very green, tasty but green so had to be good for me  

dinner was the last of the roast beef with salad and new potatoes, I picked up some charred artichoke hearts in W8itrose on Friday so finished those off as well

justkeepswimmimg

Oh no, Farway - pineapple should never accompany gammon, fried egg on mine please 😉

I was also very taken with the JO pork fillet and gnocchi gratin recipe. Looks like one to save for an unspecified date at some point in the future when I’m not CFO...

Lovely day here, even got some washing line-dried - why is that such a pleasure?

Despite the weather, very un-spring-like meals today - quiche and baked beans for lunch and leftover Normandy pork/Somerset casserole, mash and green beans tonight.

Farway

Very dark outside, such a contrast to yesterday, but we know rain & gales are on the way and only unknown is ETA

Having sorted out my seed sowing in the lovely sun yesterday today's task is mundane car Insurance renewal with usual faff of a daft high renewal quote from present insurer versus much lower ones from any comparison site, around

I know it's all done by robots but how hard can it be to at least check the competition?

But I suppose their slackness is what gives low prices for those of us that care to check

Comfort & warming food day today

Lunch thinking of fried egg sarnie

Dinner, posh FR diced steak defrosted, going into a casserole type thing and maybe try out the new frozen dumplings

Hopefully I'll remember the pickled red cabbage this time as well

caronc

Good morning everyone, 
I'll have your pineapple JKS, I like gammon & pineapple (though less so on pizza lol). Mind you a fried egg never goes wrong either especially with beans & chips alongside.  
It's my younger son's birthday today. Last year he celebrated it in Bangladesh, this year he's in lockdown with his mammy - what a contrast lol. Never mind I'm cooking him one of his favourites for dinner - rose veal schnitzel, hasselback baby spuds, garlic mushrooms, green beans, broccoli and peppercorn sauce and I might be persuaded to make a jug of expresso martini. Decaff of course as I don't do "full strength" these days lol.
Another wild and grotty day here, the wind was pretty fierce overnight and is building back again to another hooley. I hope they empty the recycling bin soon so I can bring it in before it blows away. 

HM ham lentil soup again for lunch.

Brambling

I think your son has good tastes Caronc 🙂 although as a non-coffee drinker you can have my espresso martini 

Farway you've reminded me that my car insurance must be due soon and I know Martin tells us to allow plenty of time to sort quotes. I must look up when it's due 🤔

We've had a wet day but it's not too blowy yet, I think the coast will get the gales. I braved the rain lunchtime to pick up cat food, I had to ask the guy why there seemed to be a shortage of sachets (all brands) he said it was because most were made in Europe! According to tinternet it is also because of all the new lockdown pets increasing demand. 

I spent 15 minutes trying to sort out a query on my credit card which would have been easily answered if my access wasn't blocked, it seems it didn't like me using the app on my new tablet and then I tried my laptop which upset it more 🙄  The damn message kept telling me to use their website for queries 🙄 once I finally got through he was very helpful and fixed access to both the app and laptop. I only wanted to know why the DD which clears the balance on the 8th of each month hadn't been taken, it seems it was because February only has 28 days 🤔

lunch was a quick mug of minestrone soup I found in the freezer. Dinner was a really CBA fish fingers, chips and LO green beans, I forgot to take my chicken out of the freezer