Cooking for one (Mark Three)

justkeepswimmimg

Oh dear, I’m not doing very well with posting each day at the moment, was sure I’d done last night...

So, yesterday was a lunchbox day so butternut squash, feta, dried cranberry and rice salad. Tried a lovely recipe from the Waitrose magazine last night - masala potato and cod traybake, was really good and very easy 😋

Back in the home office today so some of the leftover rice salad plus some falafels for lunch. Very simple pasta with sugar snaps, sun dried tomatoes and ricotta tonight, it’s been a long day...

Brambling

It's been a long day 😐 phone call from the doctor at the hospital where my elderly friend is could I come in as 'she was in a delirium' and hopefully a friendly face would calm her down, she had removed her drip etc and got herself out of bed less than 24 hours after a hip op. She was sitting in a chair when I got there and seemed fine until she asked me how I got there as they had moved her to a nursing home in Spain!!! had I used the secret tunnel.  It was a interesting three hours going from normal to weird but she was a lot calmer when I left although I don't think she believed me when I told her where she still was we will see what tomorrow brings. 

No lunch just a apple and cheese when I got in after 4pm

I worked late to try and catch up before going to vote, they had reallocated us from the usual polling station at the school around the corner to the rugby club, the legs on show as they were training was worth it 😁 then family birthday dinner with my sister the first Chinese takeaway in about 18 months so I could be looking for the Rennie later and my nephew made me a carrot cake with cream cheese icing I brought home a couple of slices and left the rest there

Farway

Today could be rhubarb crumble day , I was leaving it until the weekend but weather forecast is awful for tomorrow and trudging down the garden to pull rhubarb will not be a high priority

Just toast & ginger marmalade for breakfast, didn't fancy much else

Lunch, sarnie of some sort, undecided

Dinner, something and then rhubarb crumble, desperately hoping to find a Brambling style tin of custard hiding behind tinned tomatoes, or even the vanishing pilchards

caronc

Good morning everyone, 
Belated Happy Birthday Brambling
Drizzling here this morning though it's supposed to be sunny this afternoon before turning miserable again. Plans to have my sis over for dinner in the garden tomorrow have been shelved, we'll make her up a "takeaway" box for dinner so we can still share a meal and will catch up virtually instead. Still hopefully not long until we can have indoor guests again.
Tesco is due soon and once that's put away fingers crossed the rain will have gone and I can get my tomatoes potted on.
HM soup for lunch and freezer rake for dinner this evening - probably breaded haddock. 

Brambling

Hope enjoyed the crumble Farway   

lovely sunny day unfortunately I ended up working through lunch so couldn't potter in the garden  and it looks like rain for the next week

lunch was HM chicken soup, I froze the portion I didn't eat yesterday.  Dinner was salmon, new potatoes  and green veg a nice and simple dinner after a long day / week

justkeepswimmimg

Lovely sunny day here too, finally managed an after work walk. Looks like we need to batten down the hatches tomorrow though 🙄

Rest of the butternut and feta rice salad and some more falafels for lunch, too busy to think of anything else so was glad of leftovers! Really enjoyed my chicken fajitas and 🍷 tonight

Farway

justkeepswimmimg said:

Lovely sunny day here too, finally managed an after work walk. Looks like we need to batten down the hatches tomorrow though 🙄

Hatches battened for this morning, it's bucketing down & very windy, very glad I picked the rhubarb yesterday

That crumble turned out very well, the rhubarb had good big stalks, must be with new location & more muck, some years have been mediocre, this rain hopefully will prompt another lot of growth

Because I knew I had the crumble I used a frozen MFO Sweet & Sour chicken  last night , which was an Iceland one, £1, it was tasty & lots of chicken as well, another for the list next time I shop there

I read that W8rose have started charging for delivery, could be the last time I buy on line there as I have annual Asda pass already paid for

Today's meals,, I saw someone mentioning a beef & onion sarnie, and that has decided my lunch, using some of the FR beef, HM bread + sliced fresh onion

Dinner, some of the HM rhubarb crumble of course, the first part I'm not sure,

Brambling's salmon new spuds & green veg sounds nice and tempting. I have some of the on offer Waitrose salmon frozen  & a head of broccoli, plus new spuds, sounding like a dinner plan right there, I'll take the salmon out to defrost in bit

There wasn't a tin of custard hiding in the cupboard , luckily there were two packets of instant powder for just such an occasion so made up one of those

caronc

Good morning everyone, 

Back to wet and miserable here.
It did dry up yesterday afternoon and I was able to get my tomatoes potted on. It was lovely to be outdoors for a couple of hours even if it was decidedly chilly.

I'm having a lazy morning and apart from prepping and cooking dinner I've not much planned for today.  I'm trying out a new recipe for dinner - Pomegranate and sumac chicken https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/may/04/yasmin-khans-new-recipes-cooking-in-refugee-camps-from-greece-turkey-and-cyprus. My son is making a salad to have with it which includes griddled aubergines & courgettes, feta, rocket and tomato. I'll roast some baby potatoes with garlic & oregano and make a yoghurt dip.
BLT wrap for lunch. 

Brambling

The wet and windy weather got better just after lunch, although it stayed grey it stopped raining.

The headache I went to bed with was still lurking this morning so I had a easy morning I've been watching old episodes of Wycliffe on ITV3 it's from the early 90s so a little in PC at times but lovely Cornish scenery and large mobile phones 😁  I was feeling more human after lunch so tried to rescue my seeds, I brought a non peat compost earlier and shouldn't have used it, it was dry and horrible and doesn't retain water so only the peas and cucumbers seem to have come up and 2 tomatoes.  All replanted in 'proper' compost and hopefully it's not too late, my sister won't be impressed if no runner bean plants. I'm debating whether complaining to the garden centre will do any good

lunch was cheese, crackers and tomatoes.  Dinner a JO filo chicken Kiev from the freezer with jersey royals and tenderstem broccoli 

justkeepswimmimg

Miserable weather slightly improved here mid-afternoon but still very grey. Have had a very quiet day...

Lunch was beans with toast (plus a bit of cheese and HP). Made mushroom risotto tonight (the recipe has some dried porcini in which really makes it), served with tenderstem broccoli and a 🍷