Cooking for one (Mark Three)

justkeepswimmimg

Had a lovely day out meeting friends yesterday, absolutely fabulous tapas lunch and then tea and cake during the afternoon 😜

Bit of a catching up day today. Lunch after a swim was scrambled eggs and mushrooms on toasted bagel. Pottered around early evening with a G&T making chicken and chorizo jambalaya for dinner and doing some prep for work lunches…another busy week ahead but currently relaxing with a glass of wine and Mortimer & Whitehouse 😊

caronc

Sounds like a pretty perfect weekend JKS 

Brambling

Today started grey and damp but turned out quite warm, ski hope you had a good day Farway 

For the second day running the furry alarm clock woke me up silly ok 🙄 I bet tomorrow I'll have to wake him.  I woke feeling I hadn't slept so have been a bit muzzy headed today, which made it another pottering day. I caught up with Manhunt this afternoon.

lunch was HM smoke mackerel pate and crackers.  Dinner a roast pork dinner followed by blackberry and apple crumble with custard 

caronc

Good morning everyone,
Tipping it down here and much cooler.
Time to start the weekly soup making I think - cream of broccoli this week.
I skinned about a kilo of cooked cherry tomatoes yesterday, a messy & mindless task but like podding peas/beans I enjoy. The resulting pulp will get added to a veg chilli for dinner.

Farway

Brambling said:

Today started grey and damp but turned out quite warm, ski hope you had a good day Farway 

Thanks, it was same here yesterday but sun came out later at Wisley.

My they have made huge changes there since lat visit, which I think must've been late 2019 pre Covid.

I borrowed one of the free mobility scooters to trundle round in, my nil puff & energy would've made it hard to even get to the cafe from car park, all in all a very pleasant day out, just had a bought cheese & pickle sarnie while there, nearly choked on price £4.75 but on the bright side the scooter was free so swings & roundabouts

Woke up to rain, not sure how much came down and sun's lurking now but at least ti was fine for yesterday

My meals are topsy turvy today, I was starving come lunchtime so made a couple of beef burgers plus two fried eggs for lunch

Dinner, could be yet another LO chicken in a sarnie

I need to sort out the fresh perishable food soon, BBE is 30th and I'll never eat it by then so intend portioning & freezing, I may make a start portioning the roasted chicken tonight once I've picked off my sarnie meat

Here's some pumpkins at Wisley

Brambling

I glad you had a good visit Farway I'm afraid that price for a sandwich seems to be the norm now.

A definite feel of autumn when I opened  the curtains this morning, very wet and windy 😐 until about 10.30am.  As predicted the furry alarm slept in this morning, being a PITA is reserved for weekends 🙄 I did get revenge by poking him awake 😁

Lunch was LO smoke mackerel pate and toast with the last of my HG cucumber, no tomatoes 😐 and I had gone to T Express for bananas and tomatoes, I got raspberries instead (at least they  are red but don't go with pate  )  i begrudge paying 25p a banana but it was the easiest and quickest place to get them lunch time and this T Exp is not attached to a petrol station 

Dinner was LO roast dinner and blackberry and apple crumble. A nice easy day food wise very cba 

justkeepswimmimg

caronc said:

Sounds like a pretty perfect weekend JKS 

Yes, it was very nice thanks 😊 

First of my busy days this week done and dusted. Was glad of my cumin roasted carrot and ricotta rice salad at lunchtime. Nice easy Thai green curry tonight using some frozen LO roast pork and green beans.

Need to find some petrol tomorrow or Wednesday…🙄

Farway

Mixed weather day, tipping down then sunshine, rinse & repeat

Brambling said:

A definite feel of autumn when I opened  the curtains this morning, very wet and windy 😐 until about 10.30am.  As predicted the furry alarm slept in this morning, being a PITA is reserved for weekends 🙄 I did get revenge by poking him awake 😁

I sniggered at that, well deserved poke IMO

Excess fresh food portioned up & in the freezer yesterday afternoon. My next sort out is the apples picked last week, OK so far but not being good keepers I'll have to get on stewing & freezing before they are compost

Meals today are going to be 'fridge clear outs & a bit odd I suspect

Lunch, just a handful of fresh mince left so probably burger shaped fried meat blob + some fried sauteed fresh mushrooms?

Dinner, LO cold roast chicken calling, plus fresh but going past it mushrooms could turn into something simmered with bendy spotty carrots in a pan served with fresh mash, or maybe lob a herby dumpling[s] in the pot?

I'm OK for diesel, half a tank and seeing that I only covered 350 miles last year I reckon I should be good until Christmas at least

caronc

Good morning everyone,
Sunny here but there's a real nip in the air.
I'm pooch sitting today so had to be up an organised early (for me). He's snoozing on the couch and I could happily join him! More tea needed while I summon up some oomph to give the bathroom a scrub.
I cooked a vat of BNS chilli and a pot of cream of broccoli soup yesterday. The soup will do us again for lunch and I'll portion & freeze the remaining chilli.
Sausage casserole for dinner this evening https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/saus ... bean_96450 . There's leftover stuffing from Sunday which I'll whizz up with some more bread for the topping.

Brambling

I think it will soon be time to get the soup maker out here, it was another autumn morning although it's been heavy rain most of the day.  The drip drip onto my porch roof meant I've booked someone to come out and clear the guttering next week before the winter I was hoping to leave until after the leaves had dropped but it's outside my bedroom window   it was a bit nippy when I turned off the alarm but I'm determined to hold off putting the heating on yet, once I started moving it was ok, I might have to put the tee shirts away 😐

lunch was a small jacket potato with cheese and HM coleslaw.  Dinner stir fry veg and noodles with a sweet and sour type sauce and LO roast pork.  Last of the pork has been frozen