Cooking for one (Mark Three)

caronc

Good morning everyone, 
I'm glad you enjoyed your day. Snap re the red nose, I didn't realise the sun rays were so fierce so I'm a tad flushed today.
The weather was lovely yesterday, cold in the shade but gorgeous in the sun. I had a leisurely lunch in the garden with my boys and DIL-to-be, so good to get a proper non-digital catch up with them. 
Usually Saturday cook-a-thon here today, we are Zooming with the family this evening for Easter as I'm getting my jab tomorrow evening. Yesterday I boned and butterflied a leg of lamb which has been marinating overnight in herb, garlic and red wine mix. It will get cooked hot and fast in the oven later. While I'm noodling on here my son is griddling veg for a salad and later I'll put together some dips and Greek-style roast potatoes. We'll share our food with my sister & nephew and they'll make and share a pud with us.
Toasted hot cross bun with cheese is planned for lunch.

Brambling

The long weekend confused me  yesterday lunchtime I couldn't remember if I had taken my thyroid and hay fever tablets so checked the thyroid tablets which I knew ran out Sunday there were two left decided I must have missed them 😳 unfortunately I thought yesterday was Saturday and I had taken them earlier so double dosed. I didn't realise until today when I only had one thyroid tablet in the pack not two. Double taking them didn't hurt me but the two hay fever ones are probably the reason I fell asleep on the sofa 8.30pm last night to be woken at 10.30pm by gunfire on TV, I did have a good night sleep when I stumbled upstairs 😬. NB not something I'm recommending  

I've tried to garden the last couple of days but friendly neighbours meant very little was done 🙂 yesterday I was caught by my neighbour after he mowed my lawn and we discussed gardens and the fence between us and today I tried the front garden and got caught first by the lady opposite and then by the father of next door who was also gardening  😁 I'm not complaining neither is my back, but unfortunately the weeds aren't going anywhere so I'll be back out there tomorrow to try again 

I forgot I cooked a gammon last night 🙄 so lunch was sardines on toast (I seem to have a lot of tinned fish) dinner was LO from last night, chicken thigh, chorizo and butter beans with loads of chopped veg and tomatoes 

Farway

Nice & sunny but very cold, good day for you to try again in the garden Brambling

The pre packed meal plans from Hello Fresh arrived mid morning yesterday, very well packed & organised, yesterday's dinner was herby burgers with potato wedges & Chimichurri tomato salad

I had to  portion some of it as CFO, and being me I deliberately omitted the fresh garlic & chilli from the burgers , but all in all I'd call it a successful first go with LO unused fresh spuds & toms to fight another day

Today's HF dinner is chicken & mushroom crumble with basmati rice, looks nice on paper and seems quite simple to make with potions seemingly  adequate as well so could be some LOs

Tomorrow it's Waldorf style salad with chicken & bacon.

I'm only cooking in that order due to use by dates on the chicken, they have plenty of time but I'm using in BB date order just to be doubly safe

I've just made a pre packed loaf mix in the Panny, ready for lunch of BLT sarnie

caronc

Good morning everyone,
Happy Easter
Your HF meals sound lovely Farway, I made chimichurri sauce yesterday as one of the sauces/dips for the lamb. It goes well with so many things.
I had a lovely evening yesterday "with" the family but I'm looking forward to quiet day today - sofa, book and Lindt chocolate bunny may feature this afternoon before I head for my first jab this evening.    
Leftover salads with bought southern fried chicken for dinner so no prep needed.

Wednesday2000

I had a chickpea sandwich and some melon and a satsuma for breakfast.

It's lovely and warm here. I did 7,000 steps this morning. I am trying to eat more healthy so I got out my spiraliser (that I never use!) and I'm making courgette noodles for lunch. I'm not hungry yet.

Brambling

I'm another fan of Chimichurri it works with so many things 🙂 the Waldorf salad sounds nice if slightly retro which I have no problem with 

We've seemed to have been lucky with the sun today, T shirt weather 🌞 rather than the forecast cold day. I did a little gardening today before my sister came round with a chocolate muffin from my nephew we then went walking for a couple of hours in the local forest to eat it off.  We spent the rest of the afternoon drinking tea and talking she stayed late enough that I ended up feeding her gammon, fried egg and airfried chips.  The Pork fillet I planned to eat will feed me tomorrow 

It was a double gammon day for me as lunch was a gammon and HM coleslaw sandwich 

I hope you get no side effects from your jab Caronc 

Farway

Change of weather day today, dull with yuck on the way down according to Carol on the Beeb

yesterday's HF meal was a disappointment, the recipe / method worked just fine but the chicken thigh meat was not what I'd buy had I seen it, fatty with sinews and yuck, no doubt that sort of stuff goes in pies and take ways all the time but it doesn't in my kitchen, unfortunately I'd tipped it into the pan before I really looked at it, too late then.

I binned a lot of the meal and I think the LOs will follow later today the more I think about it.

just thankful it was free trial

For my last one, the Waldorf chicken salad I will have to pick over & trim the meat items before I start, however looking at the weather today is not the day for a salad, it's a comfort food day

Lunch, BLT sarnie again, nearing the end of the W8rose bacon now so enjoying it while it's here

Dinner, as above, just don't know but it'll be quick, CBA & easy, pizza? beans on toast? MFO stab & ping?

caronc

Good morning everyone,
How disappointing Farway, surely the whole point of these meals is that you shouldn't have to trim and pick over the meat!
Bitterly cold but lovely and sunny here this morning, a good day for being out and about as long as you keep moving.
I had my first jab yesterday evening, in and out in under 10 minutes. I'm feeling a bit blah this morning tired and a bit achey - minor in the scheme of things!
My son is going to haul the empty spare chest freezer in from the garage so I can get my freezers defrosted and sorted out this week, they really are a jumble! I can feel a lot of stock making taking place this week as I seem to have accumulated rather a lot of chicken carcasses, langoustine shells and meat bones over the winter which are taking up rather a lot of space.
BLT for lunch I think and some kind of stir fry tonight to use up the LO lamb.

Wednesday2000

It was snowing earlier! It didn't settle. It has been sunny as well, weirdly.

I had toast for breakfast. I'm going to make a vegetable curry with rice for lunch.

Brambling

The last time I had chicken that bad Farway was when I picked up chicken leg (drumsticks) fillets rather than thigh fillets and they were full of white sinews and not nice, sounds like what you were given

Hope your side effects weren't too bad Caronc, looks like you're going to be busy for a while stock making  🙂 i slow cooked a turkey drumstick to make stock today, the smell tormented me all day 🙂 it's currently sitting in the fridge so I can skim the fat off the top tomorrow to make Turkey broth  

Sunny but chilly today, deceptively sunny until you went outside

lunch was the last of the gammon with a cheese scone and a little pickle and some tomatoes.  Dinner a favourite from JO book, sweet n sour pork with peaches, I grabbed the chilli jam instead of the tomato and chilli chutney and found it a improvement 🙂 (probably because it wasn't the greatest chutney but will be finished) LOs of that are also in the fridge for tomorrow or Wednesday.  I was going to try his gnocchi gratin with fillet of pork but the gnocchi I have in the freezer is green and his recipe calls for some to be blitzed into milk to make the sauce and I didn't fancy the colour