Cooking for one (Mark Three)

caronc

Good evening everyone, 
I hope you're not finding the beta blockers too hard going Farway, it took me about 4 months to get used to the side effects. Worth it my case so I'm glad I persevered but "wading through treacle" sluggishness was hard going at the time.
Sunny but chilly here today.
I've got up today with a horrible herpes(cold sore) outbreak up my nose and on the roof of my mouth which is painful so it's tepid drinks and softish food for a couple of days. I've not had a bout for a while and usually get them after a cold or similar so I'm wondering if my immune response to the Covid vaccine has triggered it.
Central heating parts arrived this morning, they're stashed between the sofa and my desk so not too underfoot. The company doing the install phoned this afternoon to confirm arriving at 8am or just before on Monday and ask that I switch my heating off on Sunday evening. Thankfully it looks as though the heavy frosts are away, for the next few days anyway, so it shouldn't be too chilly on Monday morning.
Pasta or eggs for dinner. 

Brambling

I hope it doesn't linger for too long Caronc 

Farway is there any school boys or girls nearby who will mow it for a bit of pocket money?

Another longgggg week which ended with the boss generously saying at 4.55pm we could log off 🙄 it's seems the problems this week were due to a IT guy deciding to ignore a process which took months to create and doing things his way, so 9 of us plus his team wasted most of this week testing and logging defects 😡  my manager did decline my request at lunchtime to have a half day, he wanted to share the pain  

lunch was YS bacon brought in M&s yesterday with scramble egg and a potato farl from the freezer.  Dinner was venison steak, broccoli, runner beans, buttered leeks and LO new potatoes AF. I down to the last 3 portions of my runner beans which had been hiding in the freezer so clearing them out for this years crop 🙂

justkeepswimmimg

Not sure what happened to me yesterday (didn’t post for some reason) but another one glad to have made it to the end of a loonngg week!

So, yesterday lunch was the end of the noodle salad for lunch, after first swim in about 4 months (lots of “new” experiences this week 😂) and prawn and sugar snap pea linguine last night.

Today was actually very productive and I even managed a jacket spud for lunch (cheese and beans, nom). Lazy CFO HM ready meal of aubergine parmigiana out of the freezer tonight, served with garlic bread. Oh, and there might have been a pre-dinner 🍸...  

Wednesday2000

I was on beta blockers at uni for a while and I remember they had a horrible side effect but I can't remember what it was.


I've had a bowl of strawberries and mango pieces. Then I fancied a burger so I had one without a bun but with salad. Weird breakfast but this is what happens when you live with someone who does shift work!

Farway

justkeepswimmimg said:

Today was actually very productive and I even managed a jacket spud for lunch (cheese and beans, nom).

I love that combo, easy but so tasty

Sunny but cold start, good for looking at but not for being in

Today is more pottering about, it's been so dry here and no rain forecast for another week I'll have to water the pots out the front this weekend, spotted my tree lilies poking up in them and they were so nice last year I want to give them every chance this year

Grass mowing, I'm sure I could find volunteer but hate asking, it's only a small patch & TBH I'm not that fussy about it, I did think of digging it up & using it for veggies, if I had what's 'er name come round she could do a make over with raised beds up there where I could potter in the afternoon sunshine

Another ciabatta in the Panny this morning, decided on lazy CBA meals today

Lunch will be toast + Asda pate

Dinner, the new loaf in LO roast chicken & salady bits sarnie

caronc

Good morning everyone,
Gorgeous weather here this morning but decidedly chilly, I hope it warms up a bit as now we are allowed to travel and meet up outdoors my son and DIL-to-be are coming down for a visit later this afternoon. I've not seen them in the flesh for several months so really looking forward to it.  
My herpes outbreak hasn't got any worse and after an early night I'm feeling much less "woe is me", I'm planning a fairly lazy day as lots to do tomorrow to get ready for the heating installation.
Egg mayo sarnie for lunch and chicken casserole for dinner.

Brambling

Gorgeous day here as well ☀️ 🙂 but like Farway I have some pots which will need watering probably by tomorrow night 

I hope you had a good visit Caronc  I'm glad the mouth isn't any worst 🙂

I took the car out for a drive this morning to keep the battery happy 🙂 and came home via the farm shop and as there was no queue and few cars went in.  I didn't need much and I have a delivery on Monday but I topped up on their bacon and sausages and a couple of pork and apple burgers all for the freezer, unfortunately no turkey drumsticks. I also picked up a few salad bits, some Jerusalem artichokes, asparagus, rhubarb and strawberries I've cut somethings from my W8itrose order. This afternoon was spent pottering in the garden

Lunch thanks to my visit to the farm shop was red chicory, watercress, pear, goat cheese and walnut salad.  Dinner was pan fried salmon, new potatoes, broccoli, runner beans and asparagus 

Farway

Sunny but cool start to the day, a good visit to FS there Brambling, shame there's not a FS on my way to / from anywhere, all require a deliberate journey, mostly Eastwards and the nearest is behind a pay parking paywall so I'm not doing that

Garden pottering continues, pea planting today I think, I found some self saved seeds so hated to waste them, now about half a dozen young plants to go out

I realised I hadn't eaten much yesterday but not really hungry, I wonder if it's the beta blockers slowing me down? Not complaining, I have a few extra ounces I can easily spare

Lunch today is another LO roast chicken sarnie

Dinner, LO roast chicken will feature, as will LO roast spuds reheated chips style in the AF, but not yet made my mind up if with salad or steamed veggies, bit weather dependent

caronc

Good evening everyone,
I wish the beta blockers had reduced my appetite Farway, they seemed to increase mine though it did settle.  
Damp and dreary here today, not a lot of actual rain just a persistent light drizzle, good for the garden though as it's been quite dry recently.
Thankfully the weather yesterday was kind, dry if not warm and I had a lovely catch up with my elder son and DIL-to-be. It was so good to actually see them in person.   
A busy day today getting everything cleared and ready for the central heating installation. Between my poor mobility and still feeling a tad blah from the herpes it took me ages but I got there in the end thankfully. I'm trying not to think about having to put it all back! The new boiler will be lower than the current ones so the flue complies with current regulations so I'll lose a bit of work top area and will need to have a bit of a reorganisation to find a new home for the bread bin!
Scotch egg and salad for lunch and LO chicken casserole with toasted pitta for dinner.

Brambling

How long will the CH take to do Caronc?

Farway the farm shop is approx 7 miles away, half way to the office, when it's allowed my sister and I have gone together or if one of us is going we get a shopping list from the other although I got told off as I didn't yesterday.  Their butcher counter is all local meat and they make their own sausages,  burgers etc I don't eat pies but they always look really nice. It's a handy distance when the car needs a drive out more than it's current 4 or 5 miles a week 🙂

another sunny day so the rest of the washing lined dried, some how I managed to dye two good towels a weird colour, it seemed a good idea to put a dark pair of jeans in with them. Part of me thinks they will still dry but there's another part which doesn't want towels that colour in my bathroom   so they may end up as holiday towels or donated to the local animal sanctuary.  Even my sister noticed when she popped around for a cuppa and catch-up

Lunch was a repeat of yesterday pear, goat cheese and walnut salad. I roasted a small beef joint from the freezer for dinner it was a T Express offer 1/2 price at Christmas if I had known how nice and tender it was going to be I would have brought two 🙂 I roasted some parsnip and a broccoli stem with it and cooked the last half of cauliflower.   I found some fresh cranberries in the freezer so made Delia's spiced red cabbage with cranberries it works really well with beef two portions of the cabbage went in the freezer. Plenty of LOs for another roast dinner and extra beef to use later in the week