Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Wednesday2000

I have to stop eating healthily and getting in loads of steps during the day and then ordering takeaways at night! I blame Covid as we have so many apps on our phones to order food now. The apps make it too easy and tempting!

I just had a healthy breakfast when I got in from my walk, 7,000 steps and then had HM soup, bread and roasted veggies.

It's not sunny here today but it's at least dry.

Brambling

I hope the neck is better now Caronc

Its been raining here since about 10am, not a heavy rain but consistent the garden will be happy although I have some shrubs which haven't looked too happy in the front garden I may have to feed them 

I was awake on and off during the night with what I thought was a fly buzzing around, when I drew back the curtain this morning there was a large wasp on the window which was reluctance to leave when I opened the big window, after it came back in I shut the small window and watched it trying to get back inside!   I noticed high on the curtains lost in the pleats this small nest being created     the opening is the size of a 5p and it's about the size of a small marble.  The window has been left shut today it was obviously very busy all night house building I'll keep it to see if my sister wants to take it too preschool but it may be too small for little grabby hands 







Lunch was some LO new potatoes turned into AF chip with a fried egg on top.  Dinner will be LO Nasi Goreng without the egg as I had one lunch time

Farway

Our rain arrived yesterday at last, went on for a while so everything in the garden is bursting now, including the rhubarb which is getting more crumble looking by the hour, I expect once the rain has gone into it by this weekend I'll pull some, first this year and first from the new / old crown I was given

Plus I have a new pear tree arrived and needs planting, a job for later, at least sun's out & warm again

You had a narrow escape there Brambling, spotting the wasp before she really got to work

Busy day ahead, expecting my Asda delivery any time now, only item missing is the salmon side on offer , shame I fancied that over the weekend, never mind, at least the pizza are there

They are stopping carrier bag packing from Friday so I'll have to make a delivery note about requiring help unpacking at door from the driver, just so they are aware

Meals today, bit up in the air now no salmon

Lunch, probably cheese + salady sarnie

Dinner - not fresh salmon, TBD once I've checked dates on what gets delivered, could be sausages mash & beans

Update, delivery arrived, the carrots are manky so refund required on them the rest is fine, bangers & mash very likely tonight

caronc

Good morning everyone, 
Yikes you discovered that just in time Brambling, the nests are gorgeous though so intricate. 
Shame the salmon didn't arrive Farway you would have thought they could have subbed it with some fillets!
Dry but cloudy and chilly here this morning after a frost first thing. It's supposed to rain this afternoon.
I managed to get all 218 mini plug plants potted up yesterday only losing one petunia in the process which was due to my clumsiness rather than a poor plant. They are all looking very perky this morning.  
My sore shoulder & neck sorted itself out during yesterday, it was painful one minute and fine the next so I had obviously kinked something in my sleep the night before. Today my hands are giving me grief after all the potting, hope they settle down as quickly.
Domestics beckon this today, I want to change my bedding and give my bedroom a thorough clean while I'm at it, no doubt there will be the usual hair mountain lurking underneath the headboard!
Leftover baked spud & spinach sauce topped with some grated cheddar. Thai green chicken curry with green beans and rice for dinner this evening.

Farway

caronc said:

Good morning everyone,
Shame the salmon didn't arrive Farway you would have thought they could have subbed it with some fillets!

That was down to me,

I deliberately unticked the "subs allowed" box because I have some frozen fillets all ready and some of their sub choices are not ideal for me, celery or carrot sticks instead of whole celery / carrots for instance

 I had thoughts of a tin of salmon turning up if I let them sub  half side fillet

The carrots were manky, one is even squishy rotten, refunded of course but not ideal.

The Growers Choice [own brand] can be hit or miss, the bag of GC spuds this delivery looks very good & far better quality than my last lot of Marris pipers

I've just peeled the last of the MPs for tonight's use up mash

justkeepswimmimg

Good evening everyone, forgot to post yesterday. Work is full on at the moment, realised at the end of the day I hadn’t left the house for two days so did a 25 minute circuit 🚶‍♀️

Yesterday was soup, bread and cheese for lunch and pork stir fry for dinner (leftover roast pork from the freezer of course).

Beans with toast (I don’t like the beans on the toast as it makes it soggy 🙃) for lunch today, just fancied it. Made a lovely harissa chickpea and courgette stew tonight, served with garlic bread from the freezer.

One more day until a long weekend!

Brambling

I think I may be able to pull a couple of sticks of rhubarb at the weekend as well Farway, but I'm not expecting to get much this year.  I stewed a couple of cooking apples tonight with the last of my sultanas I'm trying really hard to stop thinking about crumble 😋

Work is also full on here JKS not helped by a recruitment ban and a project which is years behind  and is taking up all our time so we are trying to fit in the normal day to day stuff.  

We were meant to be working through lunch and carrying on until late tonight but our developers failed to release our last 'dummy run' to us so my advance prep of taking lunch and dinner out of the freezer was wasted and they were my only two HM RM in there 🙄. 

Lunch was the last of my turkey soup and dinner was spaghetti bolognese soother than cooking the spaghetti both meals were ping and go.  If IT deploy tomorrow it could be beans without the toast as I've no bread in the house 😁so it could be a bowl of stewed apple and o think there maybe a pizza lurking 

Farway

Bright sun out, have to pop out later to collect my prescription, which will also involve a quick mooch round Costcutter on a cauliflower & cabbage reconnaissance, sometimes CC surprises me and has super veg, but that's the exception unfortunately

I do wish suppliers wouldn't keep "improving" things, Asda best thick pork bangers were fine as they were, now they are Gluten Free and although OK just to don't cook the same, maybe it's the chick pea flour now used? I'll keep on with them because I've no real alternative at the moment, at least there are no mystery bits inside them

JKS, the soggy toast is the best bit of beans on toast IMO  But I also like custard & rice pudding skin, and Marmite, so maybe my food choices not to be trusted 

Today's meals could depend on Costcutter later

At the moment it's Cheese + salady sarnie for lunch

Dinner, this is where the Costcutter card may be played if i spot a YS in there

Otherwise it's defrost a salmon fillet, with AF LO boiled new potatoes as chips, with salad

Wednesday2000

I went for a walk to the chemist to pick up my prescriptions. It's lovely and warm. I wore my "new" red top I bought from a chazzer yesterday.

I've had crumpets and a packet of crisps and a banana so far.

caronc

Good afternoon everyone, 
Dry but cloudy and cold here today, it dipped below freezing overnight and there was a thick frost overnight. Our last frost date is not until late May so a few weeks to go yet before I'll risk any planting out. My tomatoes are needing potted on but I don't want to move them to the greenhouse as it's getting moved in a few weeks. I'm going to need a bigger conservatory I think.  
Tesco have been and everything was as ordered, it's all been sanitised and stashed so I'm having a welcome cuppa before giving the bathroom a scrub. If it stays dry I hope to get some tidying up done in the garden this afternoon.
Cheese and pickle toastie for lunch and either breaded haddock or fish fingers for dinner.