Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Brambling

Farway said:

Bit of drizzle this morning, I'm just on the wet side of the weather front fringe it seems from the map, hope it dries a bit because like Brambling I have a green garden waste wheelie bin to trundle out for collection tomorrow due to bank holiday

We were very much on the wet side of the weather all day 🙄 at least the garden appreciated it and better today than the weekend 🙂

It was a dreary enough day for soup lunch time and I had leek and potatoes which needed using, so the first soup in a couple of months was leek, potato with the leaves and stalk of cauliflower and broccoli.  Very tasty😋. I'll probably freeze a couple of portions and the last I'll save for the weekend, my second CV jab is 6pm tomorrow so I might need not to have to cook Sunday.  Dinner was also about using up end of the week lurking veg, I chopped up the odds and sods of veg from the veg containers and added  a pouch of black lentil Dahl (picked up in error for plain lentils) and some runner beans. Again LOs for the weekend I don't think I will buy the Dahl again unless by accident 😐 I prefer to make my own, I do like to keep a pouch of lentils in for quick easy meals 

justkeepswimmimg

Weekend again already, could get used to 2-day weeks 😉

Much cooler here today and slightly overcast, still managed to dry a load of bedding on the line though.

Lunch was quiche, HM coleslaw, last of the cold new potatoes and salad. Made Thai red curry tonight with aubergine and prawns, served with naan bread.

caronc

Good afternoon everyone, 
Overcast and showery here today but it's not stopping my son cracking on with building the new log store. It's nearly finished and I'm delighted with it, so much better than the old shed I was using before.   
I got on okay with the potting up yesterday but my dodgy hand & wrist is protesting today so probably will pause the planting for today to rest it. There are lots of other jobs needing doing in the garden I can make a start on instead.
Ham, cheese & pickle sarnie planned for lunch and I've a whole chook marinating in peri peri sauce to roast for dinner later.

Farway

Back to sunshine after yesterday's rain, and the garden wheelie bin has been emptied in time for me to start topping up again

The rhubarb has been crumbled, plus I thinned out the gooseberries & stuck them in, plus I topped up with tinned custard on multi-buy from Iceland the other week, mixed fruit crumble + custard later!

Lunch was toast topped with grilled cheese + pickle

Dinner, briefly fishy salad flashed in front of my eyes, but that would make four fishy days this week as I had fish again last night, the frozen bake in oven type, which came out a bit singed around the gills, again . Either my oven runs hot or the instructions are carp. That was the last of them anyway so not a problem ever again

Which means dinner remains "Don't know" except crumble & custard will be there

Could be frozen pizza or posh stab & ping frozen MFO

Here's my crumble earlier today

Brambling

I have been running around with a long list of things to do today, I've also been slightly scatty which didn't help 🙄  After picking up my prescription this morning i went around to a housebound friend to pick up a list from her.  A pit stop at my sister to drop off the car and grab a cuppa before walking into town for my hair cut and dealing with a combined shopping list. Then home via my friend before going back out again for afternoon cuppa with my sister in her garden before she took me to have my second CV jab.   I forgot to take my hayfever tablets so a sniffy day 🤧and a panic when I couldn't find my purse in my handbag, i had dropped it into my shopping bag by mistake 🙄

My sister's GP surgery had told her off for chasing her second jab (first one 11 weeks ago) so I spoke to the doc doing mine and she was able to go back at closing and have their one LO jab from a no show, they couldn't give it away until after closing and were happy it wasn't wasted.  We both await tomorrow with the hope of no side effects 🤞 

Once I sorted some stuff for my friend in her flat I didn't get home until after 3pm so lunch had to be something quick so fruit and yogurt.  I resisted the urge to open my cheese from the farmers market, this week his recommendation to me was another sheep one but with truffle, he also told me to try with as small drizzle of truffle oil (which I have) so that's reserved until I have the time to enjoy it. It's another local cheese.

Snap re peri peri chicken for dinner Caronc although mine was a YS half price one from M&S and just a half chicken.  I had it with new potatoes and a large salad. 

I nearly had rhubarb crumble and custard as well Farway, I got as far as picking it but never got round to cooking it, which with hindsight would have been a good use of the oven being on for the chicken 😐

Farway

Phew, feeling exhausted just reading what you did yesterday Brambling, certainly a busy day

Very cloudy & chilly this morning, can't remember the forecast even though I watched it, obviously memorable then?

The crumble turned out well if bit sharp from the gooseberry thinnings. I find it hard to judge sugar to get the line between pleasant tang & sickly sweet, thank heavens for custard

There's another ciabatta in the Panny, I was up with the early birds this morning so plenty of time to sort that

Lunch cheese & salady sarnie with the fresh loaf

Dinner, apart from more crumble I'm unsure, it was pizza last night, if the weather keeps coll something warming will be needed

caronc

Good evening everyone,
It's been gorgeous here today, one of those lovely days where it's warm but not so warm that you don't want to do anything.
My son had his first jab this morning as they ran a drop in clinic for younger folk. He arrived well before it opened but still had to queue for two hours as loads of folk had the same idea!
Bar the roof felt which I've still to organise my log store is finished and I'm absolutely delighted with it. The "boy" did well with his week off! I've been busy today getting the greenhouse ready to plant the toms in their final pots, just three deep troughs left to fill tomorrow.
It's back to CFO for me for a couple of weeks as my son has headed off to do site visits, that said my elder son is coming for dinner after playing golf on Tuesday evening and my sis invited herself along when she heard lol. 
Lunch was crackers with cheese and some fruit and tonight it's LO piri piri chicken with steamed Jersey Royals and salad. My plan is to mainly go with a mix of revolving LOs and lurking HM RMs from the freezer while I'm on my own so I can crack on with the garden and use some single portions of things up. I'm going to be well chickened though over the next few days as they'll be piri piri chicken to use up tomorrow and I've promised chicken skewers for Tuesday!

Brambling

Farway said:

Phew, feeling exhausted just reading what you did yesterday Brambling, certainly a busy day

Very cloudy & chilly this morning, can't remember the forecast even though I watched it, obviously memorable then?

I've got out of the habit of spending several hours in town which was busy, I find a day gardening less tiring these days 😐

other than a small bruise on my arm and slightly sore muscles first thing I had not side effects from yesterday's jab 🙂 I used it as a excuse to a slow start to the day 🙂 I did wrestle with the Sainsbobs online shop for my friend, I found it a PITA process 😡 it kept taking me to the log on scene and then it would have to send me a code to log back in, I told her next time I'll go to the shop it will be quicker 🙄 I wasn't helped by a shopping list which assumed I was psychic! I also twitched at all the brand names and had to fight the urge to put in some of their own brand stuff😁 

This afternoon I spent in the garden, pottering 

a non cooking day for me, as it was dull until after lunch i had a portion of leek and potato soup, the rest has been frozen. Dinner was LO daal and vegetables from Friday with some of the LO peri peri chicken 

justkeepswimmimg

Muggy first thing but has then rained on and off all day, which freshened it up. Glad I got three loads dry yesterday 😀

Bacon sarnie brunch and then grazed through the afternoon/early evening. Sticky Chinese chicken thigh tonight with rice and sugar snaps. One thigh and some rice leftover to make a sort of egg fried rice concoction tomorrow.

Farway

Dull & misty start, sun due later I hope

Caron, good move your son getting jabbed, I did see a report about hours long queue up your way once it was opened to all, Troon I think

Brambling, hope No. 2 jab wears off OK, I had a kick back about a week after but it was so slight it could've been anything TBH

Never did any gardening or much at all yesterday, one of my bleeugh days, and finished up with a sausage sarnie for dinner, which was quite adequate when the somewhat large portion of HM rhubarb crumble + custard is included

Lunch today, maybe cheese or maybe fake spam sarnie having opened the tin for yesterday's lunch

Dinner, another unknown, quite fancy tinned spaghetti on toast + couple of eggs on top, it's use up eggs & stale bread meal