Cooking for one (Mark Three)

greenbee

Full fat milk seems to freeze fine, but not for long... which means it's not ideal for emergencies.

My peppers are ripening, so as the weather is due to stay warmish, I'm risking leaving them longer. I'm still picking padron peppers, with enough for a once-a-week treat on Friday after work with a drink. I've just pulled up the last of the carrots and beetroot (failure to thin them means they all came up together. So beetroot curry may be on the cards sometime soon. And soup with the carrot tops and beet leaves. 

justkeepswimmimg

I never have a problem freezing semi skimmed, does need a bit of a shake or mix once defrosted though…

Another nice day today, the most stressful part was assembling an IKEA desk drawer unit 🙄

Lunch after swimming was beans with toast. Tonight was two Waitrose stuffed chicken thighs (pack of 4 was part of the 3 for £10 deal), mashed potatoes, creamy mushroom sauce, carrots and broccoli. Was yummy 😋 

Brambling

Quiet day today other than sorting stuff in the bedrooms, my sister comes up to stay next week and I started off sorting the second bedroom for her and migrated to the others. No one has stayed since she came last year so the Christmas tree and decorations have been been stored there with other stuff being added over the year. The small bedroom is now storing bags of stuff for the charity shop.  His lordship loved flitting between the spare bedrooms getting into things as he's usually for good reason shut out of them.

I came across some of the china  bits and pieces inherited from my mum, on top of the spare room wardrobe where they were put ten years ago and I have returned the box there.  Not my taste it includes some Victorian vases from my grandparents.  I can't persuade any of my sisters to take them as they also have inherited China which is now hidden away 😐 not valuable but my mum gave them pride of place on her dresser, I feel guilty at the thought of getting rid of it

Lunch was a quick tuna sandwich about 2pm.  Dinner roast beef with roast parsnip and Jerusalem   artichokes, tenderstem broccoli and root veg mash, may be just as well I'm CFO 

greenbee

@Brambling - my mum is always giving me stuff because it’s too good for the CS. I’m very clear that I will probably either give it away or CS it (at least that way the taxman loses out!). However I do use odd bits of china - a saucer as a soap dish (good for presents if you wrap a nice soap and saucer together), a bowl for pot pourri, and I keep one or two cups in various sizes and patterns for when I want to indulge myself. There’s something rather nice about drinking my coffee in bed out of Spode cup, or sitting in a boring meeting with a really ornate old imari coffee cup, or drinking tea from a Minton cup. My every day crockery is the remnants of my grandmother’s Susie Cooper. I keep the boring plain white stuff for when I have visitors… I use the ‘best’ stuff everyday. 

Brambling

@greenbee the two tea services are in lofts of two other family members this is ornaments, my mother liked her China cabinets, we repurposed a lot of her CS and jumble sale finds but were all willed family pieces unfortunately more farmer's daughter pieces rather than Minton or Spode.  One of my sisters did luck out with the Charlotte Reid Art Deco vases which we all liked but declined to swap for my Victorian ones 😐  my ex sister in law was really touched to inherit a tea service but said it would join the one she inherited from MIL in the loft 

greenbee

@Brambling - in that case, send them to the CS where someone who likes them can enjoy them as much as your mum did. I know it’s hard, but if she loved it, then hopefully you’ll feel better if you know someone else is getting pleasure from it. Otherwise someone else is going to have to deal with it when they’re clearing out after you…

Farway

All this inherting stuff, I've nothing to speak of, the decendants from the posh side of the family had that, we got the pauper side stuff and my mum was very much chuck out that old junk school of thought so nothing survived

I turned my kitchen into a blood bath yesterday, pickled beetroot juice everywhere when the tub of marge turned out to be the marge tub I'd decanted the pickled beetroots into from their plastic wrapper

The subsequent cheese & beetroot sarnie was not as appetiing as it should have been

It'll be another C & B sarnie for lunch, it's the last beetroot, next lot I'll decant into a see through container

Dinner, maybe breaded fish from freezer & HM chips, with nuked frozen peas, but I do have some salad around so could be that

caronc

Good morning everyone,
I have few family bits but we did give lots to charity when my Dad died. 
Oh no Farway, beetroot juice makes a helluva mess!
Damp, windy and dreary here today, I was pooch sitting overnight and he was very reluctant to go out this morning!
Once I finish my cuppa I'll get a pot of soup on the go. I had planned to make chicken, rice and veg but going with leek & tattie instead to use up some of the surplus milk so it will be soup for lunch. Tonight's veg chilli from the freezer with a baked spud.

justkeepswimmimg

Snap on the veg chilli, caronc - I had some of my batch with a bit of grated cheese and a toasted pitta for lunch 😋

Has felt a bit damp and cold today but as I was wfh I only had to go as far as the bin to put the recycling out. A productive, drama free day, which is always nice 😂

A favourite traybake tonight - chorizo, sweet potato and spinach hash with aioli and soft boiled egg.

caronc

Veg chilli & a baked spud ended up getting bumped JKS. I made 4 pints of white sauce earlier to use up some of milk so DS2 requested a broccoli & macaroni pasta bake with some of it. Chilli never made it out of the freezer lol!