Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Farway

I'm slowly running out of fresh food so must be getting time to get back into online shop, funny thing is when I started last year lock down I was struggling to get above minimum spend, now I rocket past but thinking back my shopping items have changed from my mooching around S/ms days, for instance I'd never buy bags of spuds or prepacked fruit & tomatoes, and although I have no way of checking I suspect there is more choice of cheaper in store than online, and of course no YS items at all

Food today will be fairly lazy stuff

Lunchtime a sarnie, possibly cheese & tom

Dinner, real CBA and snap Brambling, except pizza is Asda's cheapo cheese & tom, maybe add extra cheese and a fresh tom?

caronc

Good afternoon everyone,
There wasa strange yellow thing in the sky this morning.......   
Forecast looks decentish for this week so I'm hoping to start getting the garden into some sort of order. Growing wise it will be fairly low key this year as I'm planning some changes in the lay out and having a new log store built. I'll still want some colour though so I really must decide on what I want annual plant wise fairly soon.
The meal my son cooked yesterday was superb - whole cod baked with mussels, patatas bravas, salad and home made focaccia. There's bravas sauce leftover which has been turned turn into a veggie soup for lunch.
We a trying a Yotam recipe from "Simple" this evening - pasta with pecorino and pistachios. Anybody fancy shelling the nuts for me as it's a job I dislike?

Brambling

Someone stole my get up and go today  or I left it on the bedside table either way it's lucky work wasn't too challenging today.  I had planned to do a little pottering in the garden lunchtime but we had a rain shower 

Lunch was the last of the farm shop bacon from the freezer with a muffin also from the freezer and a fried egg.  I remembered too late that the frying pan was heading for the bin so my egg was stuck to the pan and broke.  The pan is now in the bin, I did replace it but hadn't thrown it away.  Dinner was smoked haddock, mash potatoes and green veg

justkeepswimmimg

Oh dear, MIA again...

Scrambled eggs with mushrooms and a bagel for lunch yesterday, after a lovely walk. Made harissa roasted chicken, couscous and feta stuffed courgettes last night.

Today was jacket potato with cheese and coleslaw for lunch and then leftover chicken,etc tonight 😉

Other than that, today’s excitement was getting a load of washing line dried 🤗

caronc

Good morning everyone,
Sun is shining again this morning although it's much cooler than yesterday. As the forecast looks okay for next couple of weeks I'm going to take a punt a sow my tomato and cucumber seeds and just keep my fingers crossed that they get enough light.
The Yotam pasta dish was lovely though shelling enough pistachios to get 75g of kernels was a pain. It's just a take on pasta and pesto but we both enjoyed it and after the prep was so easy to cook so it's on the make again list. I reckon chopped walnuts would work well as a cheaper and easier sub.
Back to Jamie tonight for us with the Bejewelled pork from 7 ways though I'm using loin steaks rather than a piece of fillet.

Farway

Caron, you have mu sun today, dull but mild anyway

Snap, sowed my tomatoes yesterday but had e mail, no apple trees I ordered, returning my dosh.

Not the end of the world but they were unusual varieties, never mind, if I ever get out to S/ms I may spot a YS one, which will be even better

Went out this morning, posted a letter & essential shopping for bananas plus spotted a nice CFO sized cauli in the Co-op

Lunch was cheese & tom sarnie

Dinner will be cauliflower cheese + some HM AF chips

I keep trying Asda to complete my list, but bog standard stuff, like milk & salad bits is OOS, I don't want to order then have to go out & buy items like that

W8rose is a fortnight waiting list for a delivery slot so that's no good, I may check on Iceland later

Brambling

I know what you mean about Asda's Farway, no salad bits, milk, eggs, bananas, blueberries etc for my delivery on Thursday so I grabbed the last W8itrose slot which is for next Thursday evening and cancelled it.  On the way back from my jab tonight I popped into Lidl when it was quiet and picked up milk, eggs, fruit and veg needed to take me to next week (there's plenty in the freezer and cupboard)  I did a quick W8itrose shop to secure the slot and make up the min spend so will need to menu plan and go back in at the weekend and add some items for my sister as well.  I'm fancying lamb for Easter so will try and find a small joint which won't require a second mortgage 

My vaccine was all very organised and I was only a couple of minutes over my slot, lots of young volunteers running it very smoothly, I'm just hoping my wheezing is due to hayfever from walking through the park from the car park and nothing else 🤞 

I took both lunch and dinner from the freezer, HM RMs 🙂 lunch was a portion of Tesco's Nana's magic soup and dinner wasn't what I thought but was a very tasty vegetable rice (lots of HG veg in it) and a little chopped bacon running through it.

I've pulled out my tomato seeds and will plant up this weekend and check what else I can sort this early

justkeepswimmimg

I seem to be really lucky with sainsburys - very few issues with items not being available and only one unacceptable substitution that I can remember. I’ve probably jinxed it for tomorrow’s delivery now 🤨

In true CFO style, lunch was the end of the couscous, bit more of the chicken, end of the cucumber/yoghurt dressing, end of a tub of coleslaw, few olives and bit of feta (both leftover from the stuffed courgettes). I will call it mezze, sounds far more impressive 😉

Easy dinner of broccoli pesto pasta with salmon, lots of green-ness!

Farway

Brambling said:

I know what you mean about Asda's Farway, no salad bits, milk, eggs, bananas, blueberries etc for my delivery on Thursday so I grabbed the last W8itrose slot which is for next Thursday evening and cancelled it.  On the way back from my jab tonight I popped into Lidl when it was quiet and picked up milk, eggs, fruit and veg needed to take me to next week (there's plenty in the freezer and cupboard)  I did a quick W8itrose shop to secure the slot and make up the min spend so will need to menu plan and go back in at the weekend and add some items for my sister as well.  I'm fancying lamb for Easter so will try and find a small joint which won't require a second mortgage 

My Asda's not improved since yesterday but luckily I spotted a W8rose slot weekend after next and have grabbed it, the 30% gammon offer is still on and I'm tempted to add another one to the one I've already clicked, plus the Canadian strong bread flour is on offer so a couple of bags of that are in the basket, normally it is way over my "How Much?" limit

Still looking at Asda in case "stuff" arrives, then I can slip the W8rose slot

I've still got some posh FR lamb in the freezer from the Xmas delivery, and of course I may well have more gammon by then

Bit dull outside and my mind is thinking about cake, I may make one later

Lunch, another cheese & tom sarnie i think

Dinner, no idea, could even be cake & a cuppa, or pizza from the freezer, or stab & ping a MFO?

I have a small portion of LO cauli cheese maybe nuke that?

It's one of those food days where something easy i& CBA s required

Wednesday2000

I haven't been on here in ages. I have been cooking for two the last few months.

My husband is working nights so I am cooking for one this week.

I just had crumpets and tea for breakfast. How very British! I just made a huge chickpea salad and am having half for lunch after my shower.