Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Farway

Another baking hot day ahead after a baking hot no sleeping night, one spot of excitement was next door's security light coming on at 0245, it was the local fox on the prowl, sometimes known to collect shoes left out and leave as gift for neighbours.

Spent a while watching him / her through the window, I think with all the bird feeding & BBQs must be fox banquet at times, and on the plus side I guess the occasional unwary rat / squirrel makes a meal for them

I can enjoy them but they are not digging up my garden or leaving poo around me

My milk did go off , I'm a milk sniffer and it smelt OK but once it hit the tea it curdled.

I had another later dated one in the fridge so used that.

I have a prescription to collect and will use the opportunity to get more milk, and salad bits, assuming all these scare stories are just that and there's something on the shelves

Another early watering of pots before I melt

Meals today, more cold gammon

Lunch gammon sarnie, maybe with a dab of Branston?

Dinner, more gammon + salad and if I can find them there's some frozen MW baked spuds around, if not it's AF frozen "salad" chips

caronc

Good afternoon everyone, 
Scorching here today. I had a catch up with a friend in the garden mid morning while there was still a smidge of shade.
Too hot to be out in it now though.
This evening my sis and nephew are coming round for a bbq - burgers, pork steaks and various salads. Hopefully it will cool down a bit once the sun goes over. Before then I need to brave the kitchen to cook some spuds for potato salad but I'll be putting my feet up in my relatively cool bedroom for bit before I contemplate that.

Brambling

Farway I had to smile re the fox and the security light, I inherited my light when I moved in 16 years ago and sometimes I have to wave my arms about to get it to come on but his lordship or any other creature walking near it and on it goes, I've checked many times and it's not aimed at the ground 🙄 

I have mini runner beans and a couple of baby courgettes, I picked a very small handful of French beans but the slugs are feasting well on those unless it's the very fat pigeons eating them and the  leaves? At least this year garden wise won't be a total write off. I think what could be the last of the rhubarb i picked lunchtime and popped into the freezer as too hot for crumble 

lunch was a cheese, coleslaw and salad wrap.  I took a portion of goat curry from the freezer which I had froze with cauliflower, I pinged it with LO sweetcorn from yesterday to clear that out of the fridge.

My china arrived today, it was just as well it was well packed as it was not handled with care 🙄 it was heavy and he had no trolley to be fair it wasn't labelled as fragile.  I'm still looking at the packing and 'air bags' (giant bubble wrap) it seems a shame to bin but I'm not sure I want to add anymore clutter to the house 🤔

justkeepswimmimg

Office day today and thankfully they seem to have sorted out setting the aircon so it was really quite pleasant.

Lunch was sweet potato and feta couscous. BBQ back in action tonight - just chicken thighs served with loads of salad and new potatoes. There’s LO chicken so rinse and repeat tomorrow I guess 🙃

caronc

Good morning everyone, 
Yesterday was scorching but today is to be even warmer, we're just on the edge of the Northern Irish heat alert. Early yesterday afternoon it was 37.2C in my kitchen eek! Thankfully apart from boiling some spuds for potato salad I didn't need to do much in there. That said while still very warm it was lovely to sit in the garden and enjoy a bbq and leisurely drink in the evening. 
Tesco are due shortly and once the shopping has been put away I plan to do very little until it cools down a bit later.
I'm beginning to get some ripe tomatoes, just one or two but it's a start and there's a couple of cues that will be ready in a few days. I am missing my beans this year, so will definitely get them going again next year.
LO salad for lunch and dinner is tbc.

Farway

Cooler today, still sun though. I'm in a standby for floods area on Sunday, not that I flood but will get the downpours if any going spare

Just to make sure I watered the volunteer pots this morning and will do mine later once it cools down a bit

Into Co-op for milk, only salad stuff left was celery so bunch of that and bottle of squash. I have a prescription due soon so maybe into Costcutter soon

I think my veg & fruit is following your pastern brambling, not quite a write off, no beans yet, I have flowers on them, runner & french, but can sense the snaily stalked eyes on them as I walk by

Tomato envy Caron, no sign of mine ripening even in the conservatory, my fruit & veg has all gone to pot this year but I do have apples coming along and the blackberries are not ripe enough for any rain to turn them mouldy just yet

My one missing item is figs this year, none at all, not even a tiny one. I put it down to the long cold spring, the trees never really came into growth until June

Food, lunch was LO ham + Branston sarnie [run out of Branston now ]

Dinner, I have a W8rose frying steak so could be that + salad, or CBA and stick it between a couple of slices of bread

I need to complete my online shopping, but when I get near something drops off unavailable, hence my celery + squash this morning

caronc

37.2C  in the kitchen was well beaten this afternoon 40.1C!! I have neither the genetics nor build to find that tolerable. Thank goodness for garden shady bits, a gentle breeze and a builder's bucket full of water to dunk my feet in! "Hot" water bottle is chilling in the fridge for bed time.........

Brambling

I think we will be sharing your weather Farway they have issue wind warnings as well as flood 😬 I'll take it over the heat.

I got all my washing washed, pegged out and dried today as the next week looks wet, I do like bedding dried on the line 🙂 only one meeting today so I was able to sneak out and put it on the line during the morning .  I have a empty laundry basket and all towels and bedding washed 🙂. I threw my dinner down my T shirt 🙄

When taking in the washing a breeze moved a couple of bean leaves and I saw my first beans, not many 3 runner beans and 6 purple French beans from my climbing French beans, they seem to be surviving the slugs more than my yellow dwarf  plants which did so well last year and have been munched this year   but enough for dinner tomorrow 😀 with another veg I planted two types of runner beans and a purple French bean so I have white, red and purple flowers which are very pretty, hopefully they will survive the weather 

lunch was avocado and salmon salad wrap,  Dinner was JO jerk chicken in a bun with salad

justkeepswimmimg

Much cooler here today, which has been a relief. We’re forecast rain and thunderstorms over the weekend but nothing too serious. Going to an outdoor event tomorrow evening so will pack for all eventualities…

Lunch was bits from the fridge that needed eating (houmous, cucumber, olives, feta) with a crusty roll. Dinner was the rinse and repeat chicken and Stilton salad with freshly cooked new potatoes.

Living_proof

Brambling said:

Farway I had to smile re the fox and the security light, I inherited my light when I moved in 16 years ago and sometimes I have to wave my arms about to get it to come on but his lordship or any other creature walking near it and on it goes, I've checked many times and it's not aimed at the ground 🙄 

I have mini runner beans and a couple of baby courgettes, I picked a very small handful of French beans but the slugs are feasting well on those unless it's the very fat pigeons eating them and the  leaves? At least this year garden wise won't be a total write off. I think what could be the last of the rhubarb i picked lunchtime and popped into the freezer as too hot for crumble 

lunch was a cheese, coleslaw and salad wrap.  I took a portion of goat curry from the freezer which I had froze with cauliflower, I pinged it with LO sweetcorn from yesterday to clear that out of the fridge.

My china arrived today, it was just as well it was well packed as it was not handled with care 🙄 it was heavy and he had no trolley to be fair it wasn't labelled as fragile.  I'm still looking at the packing and 'air bags' (giant bubble wrap) it seems a shame to bin but I'm not sure I want to add anymore clutter to the house 🤔

I gave my huge collection of bubble wrap and Mae Wests to local charity shop and they were very grateful.