Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Farway

No flooding around here Brambling, like you I'm on a hill so half of Hampshire would be under water by the time it was at my door. I'm told Chichester had a deluge monsoon and it always floods around there doesn't it?

It rained overnight BTW, keeping the puddles topped up

Having had my delivery I'm flummoxed for food, too much choice now.

And from famine to feast with Iceberg lettuce, the one that came yesterday looks a good one, large & firm, the sort we'd pick for ourselves.

If the sun continues it may well be salad, but the delivered broccoli & carrots are looking good, tempted now with some butter dotted on them & steamed salmon parcel maybe?

Lunch is easier, I made a quick white loaf using instant packet mix so it's cheese & salady sarnie

Dinner, gawd knows

Wednesday2000

I bought the Yorkshire biscuit tea and it is nice. I gave my brother a box to take home when he came over last week.

I had a craving for pasta and used a jarred sauce to make brunch but it really wasn't all that nice and I threw most of it away. I don't know how I could get pasta so wrong!

I will have to make something else when I get back from my walk.

Brambling

I assuming it was the jar and not your cooking Wednesday 

I missed the local news Farway so I don't know if they had flooding in Chichester yesterday but you're right they do get flooding around the town and I remember one year there were pumps brought in to protect the town

I've treated myself to a new dinner service tonight   my current one (what's  left of it) is over 25 years old with many chip plates and only one bowl left  it did well for a cheap sale BHS one 🙂 I've been eying up a denby pattern for over a year and checked their site tonight and there was 40% off the design I wanted and I could use Tesco vouchers which tripled up to £45, free delivery and my small premium bond win this month covered the rest 😁 very MSE and meant I went with 6 of each rather than the four I was thinking about, no serving dishes this time just plates (various sizes ) and bowls I may add on later 

lunch was another pear and blue salad.  Dinner was pan fried salmon, new potatoes and green veg with a salsa verde on the salmon

justkeepswimmimg

Snap, caronc, on the smoked haddock not the pegging out. I made smoked haddock florentine tonight with a poached egg on top and served with some baby new potatoes 😋

No pegging out as I was in the office today. Lunch was vegetable noodle salad with a peanut butter and sweet chilli dressing. Made a batch of it so expect to see it appearing for a few days…

Not sure I fancy biscuit flavoured tea…I’m a traditionalist with my tea 😂

Farway

Another snap on the salmon, parcelled up & baked with buttery steamed veggies on side for yesterday's dinner

Brambling, I managed to divi the W8rose salmon into four because it seemed longer this time, last one was short & fat hence not easily divisible by four unless it was into goujons

Sunny & warm this morning, and promising to continue for a few days, good job the salad option is viable again, plenty of everything at the moment

I'm currently cursing Asda mobile, they've swapped provider and having removed the old sim from phone I'm told to "Insert SIM" despite the new Asda SIM being fitted.

The new SIM works in another phone so it's looking like something has been disturbed or manky contacts etc in the old mobile, bummer , but my mobile phones are never top of the range, think around the tenner mark for a dumb phone and you have the idea

It's the emergency in case I topple over one I carry around in my pocket, not the all dancing clever one, and I have a "just in case" one handy anyway until it's sorted

Lunch today, another cheese & salad sarnie I think

Dinner, something + salad. I've made some coleslaw already, not sure of the "something" I have gammon steaks or beef steaks, both fresh from W8rose delivery. It's one the other anyway, whatever it is the other one will be tomorrow if the weather holds

caronc

Good morning everyone, 
Glad you have a spare emergency phone Farway, I hate to think of you toppling and getting stuck.
After a cloudy start it's turned into another gorgeous day. It's to be slightly cooler which suits me, yesterday was too hot and sticky for me at times.
The fence and gate are built and I love them. Now garden privacy has been restored my shorts are on as me in shorts is not a site I want inflict on my neighbours.  Not that they are short, shorts that would be a step too far, even in the privacy of my own home.  
DS2 is having a well deserved day off, he's heading to the big angling shop in Glasgow and then will either go to the trout fishery or the pier for a few hours relaxation. I'm tackling another laundry mountain, I'm not sure where it all comes from  and then plan to do a mix of sitting in the shade, deadheading and garden pottering.
Indian spiced lamb steaks, with peppery leaves & paneer salad, raita, curry sauce, rice and naan for us this evening. It's based on Jamie Oliver's Indian spiced beef steaks from his 30 minute meals book

Wednesday2000

Brambling - I think so. I looked and the sauce didn't have any added sugar or salt so I think that is why I didn't like it.

I got up so late today!

I've had a sandwich, a clementine and a yoghurt so far. I'm off out for an Italian meal tonight so that might be all I have before I leave.

Brambling

I hope you got the phone sorted Farway 

me and shorts are restricted to the back garden and indoors only Caronc and then they are long shorts when it gets hot I live in my M&S linen peg leg trousers I have several pairs brought at the end of the summer over the last couple of years 

The weather has definitely turned here and it's been really hot and sunny today 🌞 my lovely neighbour mowed my lawn this morning so I spent a half hour edging it lunchtime and did a little tidying after work to try and fill my garden waste bin for Friday, I managed to drop my secateurs in the bin and they worked their way down out of my short reach, I had to tip it out to find them again

Lunch was a tuna Mayo jacket potato, I AF the potato when I was in the garden.  Dinner was a pork and apple farm shop burger in a bun with fried onions and a salad on the side, I resisted the urge to make chips

justkeepswimmimg

Enjoy your meal out, Wednesday2000!

Been a lovely day here, unfortunately I spent most of it in two long meetings 🙄 but I did manage a 20 minute walk when I got home.

Lunch was the previously advertised noodle salad and tonight I made sweet potato and chorizo hash with soft boiled egg 😋

Farway

Warm overnight, too warm for comfortable kipping really so up early, another hot day ahead as well

Good news on the mobile, probably manky or badly seated SIM contacts because after a few tries and curses it all works again. Just need to top up the Asda Sim now, didn't want to do it before they changed over to Vodafone, just in case it never worked

Brambling said:

I hope you got the phone sorted Farway 

The weather has definitely turned here and it's been really hot and sunny today 🌞 my lovely neighbour mowed my lawn this morning

Snap on lovely neighbour mowing the lawn, my neighbour did mine yesterday afternoon. Mine was very long due to me not having enough puff since end of last year.

I've not done the edges but I never did so nothing changed there . It looks a bit brown now but will soon green up.

I went with gammon steak + salad yesterday, cooked both steaks [two pack] while I had the oven on so one cold LO in fridge awaiting another salad

Lunch today is use up a thick crust, so it's grilled cheese on toast + piccalilli

Dinner, one of the W8rose offer breaded chunky cod fillets with last of the frozen chips in a packet, possibly with frozen peas. One frozen dinner, at least it's easy