Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Farway

Back home after running a taxi service this morning

First time into a pub this morning for mid morning coffee break, it's a posh type pub, more gastro and take a well topped up credit card type. All very pleasant in there, and the only customers for a while

Late lunch, last of the bangers in a sarnie, with ketchup

Dinner, the salmon is on it's use by tomorrow so it'll have to be p[an fried salmon, boiled new spuds & salad

Brambling

Recipe looks good Caronc, I do like a tray bake 🙂

I like the taste of a whole roast chicken, but it's a infrequent meal so not to get bored of chicken 🙂  it was only a small chicken there won't be much stock from the bones

There were only two of us working today and it feels like I've never been away 🙄 And the same IT issues we had when I left with IT no further ahead with a fix then they were before I left  

Lunch was a chicken salad and it will be no surprise to you if I say dinner was also chicken 😁 this time in a satay type sauce with stir fry veg and noodles 

justkeepswimmimg

Yep, popping that traybake on my to make list (have a feeling I’ve seen it on the Good Food website). Let us know how it was caronc.

Roasting a whole chicken is one of those comforting, ritual type things for me. I can only eat it for a couple of days before I get bored of it and chuck the rest in the freezer 😂

Leftover pitta pizza, salad and coleslaw for lunch. Had a meat free Monday and made spiced roast carrot, lentil and feta salad tonight. Leftovers gone in a lunchbox for tomorrow 😉

Farway

All this chicken talk just reminds me that I was unable to buy one on my recent on line order, assuming all CFOs must have bought them all

I'll pop one on my next list, oops, just went to do that & still out of stock, only want a small one maybe that's the problem?

Feeding & watering the pots in the back earlier and noted plenty of blackberries ripe N ready for picking later, not enough for pies but good for a desert with some yoghurt

I only have two runner beans after the snail onslaught, I may even pick them for tonight

Lunch, I have two LO cold sausages, so it's a cold sausage sarnie, very inspiring if anyone would like the recipe

Dinner, at the moment it's just right weather for the individual ASDA Extra Special Chicken, Smoked Bacon & Leek Pie I have from last shop, maybe with HM mash, steamed broccoli, cabbage, carrots and the wonderful two HG runner beans

Maybe followed by fresh blackberries & yoghurt?

caronc

Good morning everyone, 
Traybake was definitely a keeper though I tweaked it slightly - I halved the chicken quantity, reduced the amount of potatoes and par boiled them and added a red pepper. This amount fed us both well with a small amount LO for lunch. 
I do love a full roast chicken - for the first couple of meals anyway. I often rather than cook the full thing take off the legs  and just cook the crown & wings. 
Well it's was probably bound to happen, two of the guys from the stag do have had positive COVID flow tests  , just waiting for PCR results now. DS2 is so far negative, he's had both jabs + two weeks so once they've had the PCR results he can book a PCR and fingers crossed it's negative but until that is done and dusted we're isolating. He's the only one out of his mates who has had both jabs, the rest have them due over the next couple of weeks as he stood in a very long queue to get his first one when there was a drop in rather than wait for his first appointment. I'm so glad he did.
This afternoon I'm taking part in an ONS household survey, it's on of those random selection things on labour market activity and won't take long and I get a nice £10 gift card for it. 
LOs for lunch and Chilli cheese meatballs with pasta for dinner. 

Brambling

Fingers crossed for negative results Caronc 🙂 

Farways I read today that some Nando's are having to close due to no chicken 😬  I have plenty of runner and French beans I'll pop them in the post 😁 another handful picked tonight 

A grey damp day here again, I'm glad I got my holiday washing and my bedding washed and dried Sunday and Monday.  I love line dried bedding 😁

A double chicken day again and the bones and odd bits are now in the freezer 😁 lunch was coronation chicken salad, I made it last night as it tastes so much better the next day.  Dinner was a mini roast dinner minus the roasties using LO veg from Sunday (2 types of beans, carrots and sweetheart cabbage) and fresh gravy

justkeepswimmimg

Like you say, caronc, not entirely surprising but 🤞for negative results. We’ve had a couple of people being “pinged” today at work…

Busy day of meetings today so was glad of my LO roast carrot and feta salad for lunch.

In the next instalment of Traybakes for One, tonight I made roast chorizo sausage, butternut squash and sage with cumin and fennel seeds. I swapped out the garlic and did some onion wedges, also added some mushrooms and cherry tomatoes that needed using. Served with harissa couscous, was lush. Plenty of LOs for a couple of lunches 😋

caronc

Good morning everyone, 
Like the sound of that traybake JKS. 
DS2 is still waiting PCR results but 7 out of the 16 are now positive so it doesn't bode well! 
Cheese and ham toastie for lunch I think or if I cba I might make a quick pot of chicken & corn soup as although dry it's quite chilly and grey.
Both my basil and parsley are rampaging so I'll make up a batch of pesto later. Most I'll freeze but some is getting mixed with breadcrumbs to top a couple of haddock fillets. We'll have those with spuds and either various veg or salad.

ETA - DS2's PCR test was negative phew!

Farway

Dull day but out watering the volunteer pots early, then it drizzled of course

Brambling said:

Fingers crossed for negative results Caronc 🙂 

Farways I read today that some Nando's are having to close due to no chicken 😬  I have plenty of runner and French beans I'll pop them in the post 😁 another handful picked tonight 

A grey damp day here again, I'm glad I got my holiday washing and my bedding washed and dried Sunday and Monday.  I love line dried bedding 😁

A double chicken day again and the bones and odd bits are now in the freezer 😁 lunch was coronation chicken salad, I made it last night as it tastes so much better the next day.  Dinner was a mini roast dinner minus the roasties using LO veg from Sunday (2 types of beans, carrots and sweetheart cabbage) and fresh gravy

I heard the Nandos item, if it keeps on they'll have to revert to the real old days & walk them [the chickens] to market, at least the Asda chick & bacon pie was OK last night except I forgot to harvest my two beans

Lunch was cheese, cuc & tom sarnie

Dinner, I found a YS ready to serve salad snack bowl thing  in the Co-op this morning, reduced to 67p which I guess tells you all you need to know

I'll have that with LO boiled new spuds, chipped in AF, with some Asda F/fingers, it's new packet I've never tried before, allegedly cod fillet and not "formed from", if no good it's back to Posh W8rose chunky ones

Good news about DS Caron, I wonder if the double jabs helped? Probably one of those things we'll never know for certain but it does seem coincidental doesn't it?

justkeepswimmimg

caronc said:

Good morning everyone, 
Like the sound of that traybake JKS. 
DS2 is still waiting PCR results but 7 out of the 16 are now positive so it doesn't bode well! 
Cheese and ham toastie for lunch I think or if I cba I might make a quick pot of chicken & corn soup as although dry it's quite chilly and grey.
Both my basil and parsley are rampaging so I'll make up a batch of pesto later. Most I'll freeze but some is getting mixed with breadcrumbs to top a couple of haddock fillets. We'll have those with spuds and either various veg or salad.

ETA - DS2's PCR test was negative phew!

It’s a good one, caronc, and LOs made lovely lunchbox lunch. It’s based on this https://www.waitrose.com/home/recipes/recipe_directory/c/chorizo-sausageswithroastedsquashandherbycouscous.html

Good news about the PCR test.

So, lunch was the previously advertised LOs…eaten between meetings, it’s crazy at the moment. Salmon, roasted baby potatoes and veg tonight.