Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Brambling

I'm another fan of crustless quiches, great for using up odds and sods from the fridge 🙂 

todays post contained vouchers from Waitrose, I'm not sure what their thinking is, 6 vouchers all  £14 off when you spend £100 and all have to be used by the 18th July🙄 I think even a family would be hard pressed to do 6 £100 shops in 4 weeks.  Even when I added my shopping with my sister's and a friend I didn't come anywhere near £100, it would be a lot of wine and gin to make up the money   I also got junk mail re prepaying my cremation 

I had to pickup cat food for my friend lunchtime (because it would have been too easy to add that to her food shop i delivered yesterday 🙄) so lunch was a quick chicken salad before / during my 1.30 meeting.  Dinner was CBA a couple of goat sausages with fried onions in a ciabatta roll. They were very nice sausages with hardly any fat 

Heavy rain started here about 7.30pm so hopefully not such a stickler night and no need to water for the next few days 

Farway

Brambling said:

Heavy rain started here about 7.30pm so hopefully not such a stickler night and no need to water for the next few days 

Our rain was more like drizzle really, on the fringe again, very sticky night and not much sleep because of it. Dull & bit damp right now with a right drenching & thunder bolts due tomorrow

I finished up with a couple of slices of HM Ciabatta & HM marmalade for dinner last night, too muggy & CBA

Today's meals are a bit use ups,

Lunch, sarnie I think, with the absence of fish fingers I may clear out a couple of fish cakes I've had  lurking for ages and pop them inside

Dinner, use up toast with use up fried mushrooms & LO beans, maybe pop a couple of fried eggs on top? Or even scramble them?

caronc

Good morning everyone, 
Oh goat sausages sound good Brambling 
Warm and sunny here this morning, my son has obviously brought the good weather back with him lol!
Just as well as he returned with rather a lot of laundry. Not that he expects me to do it for him but I don't mind and it's no bother when the weather's good.
Garden beckons and I hope to get another section tackled today. I spotted earlier that one of my deck tomato plants has babies 
Crustless quiche for lunch. Stuffed pasta with a tomato and chorizo sauce for dinner. 

Brambling

Heavy rain all night here and all this afternoon but no thunder.  My poor tree peonies were the best they have ever been (it's taken 5 years) with a dozen big blooms on each now look like they have been jumped on, my fault I couldn't find the supports.  The cheap one from sad corner I brought last year came up but isn't flowering this year so no impact to that one 

I took a large bag of books to my friend whose still housebound after work and picked up a long shopping list for W8itrose for her, I made her type the list as her hand writing is awful 🙄, I was lucky to get her a slot for Sunday and hopefully I got the address changed to hers ok 😬 I don't know why she was worried about min spend as she has expensive tastes and likes brand names.

lunch was a fish finger roll.  Dinner mackerel fillets pan fried with new potatoes and green veg.  

Now that the weather has broken I may take the small chicken or a joint out of the freezer for the weekend 🤔

justkeepswimmimg

Much cooler today and rainy on and off, guess we need it…

In the home office today so a fridge buffet for lunch, last of the LO vegetable tart, some of the couscous, HM coleslaw, cherry tomatoes and a few olives. Salmon with broccoli and pesto pasta tonight, mainly because the salmon needed eating or freezing and the broccoli definitely needed eating 🙃

twopenny

Apologies if it's been mentioned but just been out and bought some smaller freezer contatiners.

While I often batch cook and make individual meals for the freezer I've recently been picking up the curry meals for two with different curries, nanns and such when they are discounted and divide them into 4 with rice and put those in the freezer. Did a large Shepherds pie too and split into portions.

It gives me something different to what I usually cook plus the extra bits which is tricky for one and  for less than £1.

The portions tend to be on the small side but then you just add something else. I do find though that if I'm not cooking I eat less and no washing up.

At least that's the theory so far

Trying to flatten the covid curves..........

Farway

having trouble with he new boards, keeps dropping out and logging me out

I'll try later

caronc

Good morning everyone, 
What a pain Farway, I've not had any problems (so far) with the new boards apart from not being able to find anything!
Yep small tubs are a CFO must, I save all the tubs that things like spreadable butter come in to boost my bought collection. Butter ones are just the right size for a portion of lunch time soup, cheese spread ones for a single portion of pasta sauce and pate ones for enough tomato sauce to top a pizza. They normally survive three or four goes before heading to the recycling bin. 
It's lovely and sunny here again today. Once Tesco has been more gardening is on the cards, I feel as though I'm making progress now. 
I was given some rhubarb yesterday by a woman who lives a few doors along, she's been inundated by the stuff and had much more than she can use or find freezer space for. I've promised her some tomatoes assuming that I do get a crop this year. No plans for a crumble just now, my son isn't keen on rhubarb so I'll probably just freeze it to use when he's not about.
Last of the crustless quiche for lunch and dinner is tbc, probably breaded haddock or fish fingers.

justkeepswimmimg

Well, as forecast it rained today…all day 🌧

Quite glad I was in the office as it meant I had to get up and out, plus grey days go quicker when you’re not stuck on your own!

Lunchbox lunch was the end of the couscous with added tinned tuna. Made egg fried rice tonight with red pepper, mange tout and LO roast pork from the freezer. Got the spicing right (Chinese 5 spice, ginger, garlic, red chilli) and it was yummy 😋

Brambling

Rain all day here as well. Looking out of my bedroom window the front garden looks very green and from that distance I can see any weeds 😁

just the two of us working in the team today so it was really busy, t least it made the day go quick and I'm now off until Wednesday.  I've only taken 1 day of my holiday so far this year and as our weekend work is not paid but days off in lieu I'll be running out of year, I'm also tired too many long hours so even through it's meant to rain I plan to have a couple of days just for pottering and sorting stuff In the house 

Lunch was scrambled egg on toast.  Dinner was a vension haunch steak from the farmers market with chips, mushrooms and tomatoes.  For the first time in over a decade I brought oven chips when they were on offer, Auntie Bs crinkled ones which were nicer than I remembered and using the AF meant no need to turn oven on,