Cooking for one (Mark Three)

justkeepswimmimg

Another day of an offsite meeting and then into the office for more meetings. At least the sun shone today!

Lunch was the rest of the sweet potato and feta grain salad. Made a chicken and mushroom sauce with pasta and tenderstem tonight.

Friday tomorrow 😀

Farway

Bright blue sky with sunshine, and even better this weekend so they say. I did see the warmth came up from Africa with the sand, so a silver [or yellow] lining at least

Yesterday’s roast turned out well, and the YS Aberdeen Ang ready to cook joint from Mark’s was excellent, with LO. Bit pricey maybe but YS and no waste is better value in my eyes than a cheaper, tough & gristly joint from elsewhere

With his weather & LO cold meat it’s salad days ahead

Lunch, use up stale bread, more grilled cheese on toast I suspect, but I do have some LO beans so may nuke them instead

Dinner, LO cold roast beef + HM AF [now I’ve cleaned it] chips + salad

Hearing yet again about UK glasshouse growers chucking the young plants away because they can’t afford to heat them, same in Holland apparently.  Next time I’m out a packet of cucumber seeds will find its way into my basket, or next free P & P offer that arrives in my mailbox.

Just checked the Mini Munch seeds, nearly a pound per seed, I think I’ll pass on that variety

caronc

Good morning everyone,
Tesco due soon, one sub that I had asked not to be subbed so that will be going back! That's twice now that's happened.   
It's a lovey sunny, though chilly day after a frosty start.
Once the shopping is put away, I'm going to tidy the big freezer. Gremlins seem to have been making messy again lol . I can't even really blame DS2 as I tend to be the one that freezes stuff or takes things out. 
LOs from last night's traybake to be used up today, I'll probably have the sausage in a sandwich for lunch and use the veg/gnocchi as a side for dinner with some fish or chicken.

justkeepswimmimg

Beautiful day here at last 🌞

Got my productive WFH day, to-do list completed! (Today’s tasks, can’t clear the massive ongoing one)

Portion of the batch of vegetable chilli with a dollop of creme fraiche and a toasted pitta for dipping for lunch. Treated myself to scampi and chips tonight (from freezer), had it with some peas and the end of a bag of rocket dressed with lemon flavoured oil 😋

Brambling

At that price Farway I'm hoping I'm gifted another plant this year 🙂

Im afraid my to do list stayed unticked today 😐 lunchtime I did tell the boss I had done nothing I came in to do and he replied welcome to my world  I did have to bite my tongue just after 9am when I was chased because 'no one in the uk had responded to a email sent earlier' 🙄 I did remind them that we were a hour behind Holland 🙄 I threatened to hit the gin lunchtime 😁

Lunch was bacon and egg wrap, I picked up low carb wraps by mistake, not recommended  I wasn't  hungry dinnertime so dinner was a bowl of fruit about 9pm and some cereal 

caronc

Good morning everyone, 
It's shaping up to be a gorgeous day after a frosty start. I'm wishing I had asked DS2 to retrieve the garden furniture from the garage before he headed off! 
While tidying the freezer yesterday I discovered a bag of HM pork and venison meatballs I had forgotten about. I had some with the LO gnocchi and veg for dinner. I also discovered I had six decent sized bags of chicken bones, no wonder I was short on space! They're defrosting ready to roast for stock when I have the oven on later.
Last of a pack of sliced ham in a sandwich for lunch. Tonight it's a bag spud with roast chicken thighs and a crunchy salad.

Farway

Another sunny day with blue sky, I’ve already been out in the garden doing more pruning, next door’s buddleia this time, just tidying away

And to complete the garden theme, my tomato seeds are up already, only sown Tuesday, now the work begins in finding window sill space

Made an overnight loaf in the Panny, then sort of busy morning, made a bread pudding, and attempted to make some coleslaw for dinner, but the white cabbage that I’ve been nursing in the fridge had turned into compost when I cut into it, so it’s a very sparse coleslaw for tonight but enough for a different taste that isn’t lettuce

Lunch with HM fresh loaf was very unadventurous C & Onion crisp sandwich, crisps were BBE Dec 2020 but still crunchy in their foil packet

Dinner, LO cold roast beef + HM AF chips & salad, including my HM poor man’s coleslaw mix

Bread pud for nibbles later

justkeepswimmimg

So nice to see the sun, still cold in the wind but a beautiful day 😀

Bit of domestic pottering this morning before heading out for a swim. Home for scrambled eggs and mushrooms on toasted bagel (glad to see the back of the wholemeal bagels tbh).

Walked into town this afternoon, ran a couple of errands and did a small sainsburys shop. Cleaned insides of all my windows (curse the sun 😂) and caught up on Saturday Kitchen.

Made masala cod traybake tonight with tenderstem broccoli and lime and coriander yoghurt.

Brambling

Not a lot done here today, I slept late for me, furry alarm clock didn't go off this morning and felt like someone had stuffed my head with cotton wool.

I had a Sainsbobs voucher to use by today £4.50 off when you spend £30 the 7p a litre off petrol starts tomorrow for a week so I must remember to use that at the end of next week.  I topped up on fresh stuff and picked up 2 packs of cooked salmon YS half price for the freezer one was tandoori which I have done myself previously.  I used their smart shop 'thingy' it's so much quicker to scan and pack as you go.  As I went about 1.30pm it wasn't too busy either, probably helped by people making the most of the weather

Lunch was some YS prawns with salad in a wrap. I defrosted a small chicken brought YS last time I was In Waitrose and spatchcock it before roasting (less time in the oven) on a bed of herbs and the greens from a bunch of spring onions, I brought a nice big cauliflower so veg was cauliflower, broccoli and roasted fennel and parsnip. 

Farway

Still blue sky & sunshine, set for the week now so they say

Just a spot of garden pottering planned for the day, as this may include catching up on Gardeners’ World you can tell it’s not going to be strenuous

Lunch, just fancy cheese & pickle sarnie

Dinner, the very last of the LO cold roast meat, with salad and has to be frozen chips ‘cos I’ve run out of spuds.

I did have enough but some of them proved to be the sort with horrible black insides so those ones had to be binned. I suppose it’s getting to that time of year when the cold stored spuds are coming to an end. Continuing the gloom I heard that cost of fertiliser may mean spuds not being grown by some farmers which of course means expensive ones will be the only choice left, perhaps manky black spuds will be seen as a luxury this time next year?