Cooking for one (Mark Three)

justkeepswimmimg

Been a lovely day here, sunny but not too hot. Two loads dried on the line and a productive work day 😀

Also had a walk at the end of my working day.

Lunch was the rest of the smoked salmon with beetroot and cream cheese on a bagel 😋

Took the chance to use the bbq (before the weather turns) to cook a farm shop beef burger, served with salad and warm new potatoes tossed in olive oil and spring onions.

Brambling

It's been quite warm today 24 or 25 and other than some drizzle first thing it's been a dry day    

Today I realised as did several other people that I have finally lost the plot 😬 I'm going away with two of my sisters soon and became convinced it started on the Friday, when it's Saturday (I booked it in January and have the confirmation email for the Saturday  ) luckily when I confirmed the date to the person who phoned for final payment tonight she corrected me. I had persuaded my sisters it was the Friday and overruled them when they queried it last week 🙄 I think it's because I booked the Friday as holiday from work as well.  I've no idea when I decided it was Friday 🤪 luckily one sister is off work for school holidays and the other is retired so it's not a problem. I just need to check my sister has told my nephew who is cat sitting

 
Lunch was scrambled eggs on toast. Dinner fish pie with green beans.  

Farway

I seem to have slept through a vicious thunderstorm last night, according to local FB chatter it was like the end of the world overnight, lightning, howling wind, bashing rain etc

The previous sleepless hot nights paid a dividend in the end

My Iceland delivery arrived but this morning I noticed the bananas have 3 of the 5 ]prepacked ] squishy  even though look OK, refunds are 'phone local store so that's a job for later. Only a quid so shouldn't be a problem.

Just twigged this morning, their 5 for a quid prepack is nearly as bad as Co-op 25p each. In fact as 3 of them are manky even worse value. But at least I'm still covid clear and don't have to traipse around shops

The bacon was fine,

Had my BT sarnie lunch yesterday and thinking same for today's lunch

Dinner, fed up with salad but nothing obvious in mind, could be beans on toast the way I'm thinking right now

UPDATE, defrosted some posh bangers, peeled spuds, it bangers N mash night, with fried sauteed mushrooms & baked beans

caronc

Good evening everyone, 
Glad you realised you'd got mixed up Brambling, I'm assuming like me you're well past the age where having to sleep in the car sounds like fun!!
The forecast was for heavy showers and thunder this afternoon though neither appeared. However, the sky has darkened so I don't think we're far from a downpour. 
The herring had been in the freezer too long , it probably would have been fine soused but I'm super fussy with fish & seafood after horrible food poisoning from crab many moons ago. I hate wasting food but knew if I cooked it I wouldn't enjoy it so it's been binned. 
The tiny piece of gammon yielded more than I thought enough to cover dinner yesterday, fill a wrap for lunch today and have enough LO for lunch tomorrow. 
While I was unearthing the herring I took a small pack of cod pieces, trimmed for a huge fillet a few weeks ago, out to defrost for dinner tonight. Plenty to go in a CFO simple fish pie for dinner tonight with a quick cheesy, chive & parsley sauce and topped with some cooked sliced baby spuds. I'll have the pie with peas and broad beans from the freezer.

Brambling

I think I would have been sleeping on the beach Caronc and it's pebbles   it's not worth taken the risk with the fish, I'm always weary of chicken and fish 

Showery weather today, wet enough that his lordship took up residence on the sofa and the only movement  was the occasional repositioning  🙄

I had a very brief power cut this morning it lasted about 5 minutes but put me off having a shower as the alert text message said it was due to underground cable issue and could reoccur until at least lunchtime.  There were about 3000 houses effected mostly in the village next to us and where we are which is on the outskirts of the town, I think we just had a flitter the village was out for about a hour. My sister a mile away has no issues. 

Lunch was toasted cheese wrap with salad. Dinner a lovely venison haunch steak from the freezer with chips and beans from the garden  

justkeepswimmimg

Very heavy rain during the afternoon here but I was in the office so didn’t really affect me. Has dried up during the evening, which I spent ironing…the excitement!

Lunch was egg, tomato and new potato salad with a mustardy sort of French dressing. Dinner was beef (LO from a roast at some point in history), red pepper and broccoli stalk egg fried rice - needed to be quick and easy after a long day ☺️

Farway

Sunny with hint of dark clouds around, looking mixed weather day but only thing planned is empty the kitchen waste bin before wheelie bin day, edge of seat stuff

Lucky you Brambling, beans from the garden, mine have been feeding the snails for weeks now but I do have some embryo ones that may be spared once the snails are stuffed full

I'm on use up past BB bake your own baguettes for a few lunchtimes now, I'd forgotten them at back of cupboard. Not too far past so should be OK if I use PDQ

Today's use up BYO baguette will be BLT

Dinner, Caron's fish triggered idea, not a pie, CBA, but I have frozen unbreaded fish fillets lurking, one of those cooked in a tin foil parcel with steamed broccoli, carrots & baby new spuds, blob of butter and dinner is served

caronc

Good morning everyone, 
Nope sleeping on pebbles definitely doesn't appeal Brambling!
Do you fancy doing some ironing for me JKS since you have the board up? I have an ever growing pile that I don't think I can ignore for much longer lol.
Baked fish sounds good Farway. I enjoyed my fish pie last night though it wasn't the most appealing looking as I added too much sauce so the spud slices sort of sunk. Tasted great though and I managed not to over cater so no LOs.
Some rain here overnight and more forecast for this afternoon. No pegging out as I CBA rescuing stuff if it pours so a load has gone over the rack in the conservatory. It will dry quite quickly there.
Last of the ham in a wrap for lunch with salad and a wodge of melon. DS2 returns this evening and I'm making us pasta and meatballs. The meatballs are from a batch of burgers I made a few weeks ago but I've exhausted my freezer stash of tomato sauce so will need to make a fresh batch. My basil plants are rampaging so I'll be adding a good sprinkle of that and might make some pesto to freeze before it starts to bolt. 

Brambling

Farway said:

Lucky you Brambling, beans from the garden, mine have been feeding the snails for weeks now but I do have some embryo ones that may be spared once the snails are stuffed full

I've picked six runner beans and about a dozen French climbing beans in two pickings  Farway and I don't think the rain will help as it seems to be knocking off the flowers 🙄 I was chatting to my neighbours' dad and we were complaining it was a bad veg year, he said his outdoor tomato's already have blight. I noticed from the kitchen sink earlier that the  courgette plants suddenly look very large so I check them tomorrow to ensure the little plants haven't turned to marrows overnight 

Some heavy showers today in between the sun shine 🙂 

A late lunch today as a half hour call with my Dutch colleagues overran and was nearly two hours long so I just had some fruit and yoghurt.  Dinner was a JO chicken Kiev from the freezer, AF with chips with a corn on the cob and i made a little coleslaw (I'm now out of carrots  ) 

justkeepswimmimg

I’ll do as much ironing as you want, caronc, as long as you do my dusting in return 😉

We’ve had one of those four seasons in one day sort of days today - the thunderstorm with hail was pretty scary spectacular!

Lunch was very CFO - used up the LO leek and ham mix from my pasta the other night on toast with some cheese on top, so a sort of rarebit, was really nice. Another traybake tonight (I love a traybake) - courgette, chorizo and new potato served with rocket and a chimichurri sauce…hadn’t realised how easy that is to make, and it will be great with loads of things. Good job as there are obviously LOs 😎