Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Brambling

I week sounds like the reverse of yours JKS started manic and peaked on Wednesday leaving a quiet day, well as quiet as first day of the month is 🙂

it's been very cold again to day it's a flurry of fine snow lunch time, which came to nothing 

lunch was minestrone soup from freezer stock.  Dinner was a fridge trawl for the odds and sods of veg which was added to puy lentils and wilted spinach, followed by a bowl os cooked apple and custard 

Farway

Woke to frost on the grass & cars, c’mon, it’s supposed to be all over now. However the sun’s out & sky is blue despite the cold

My lurgi / covid / foot seems to be improving, I even fancied my tea & Weetabix breakfast this morning

Due not knowing how the appetite would be I left it until this morning to get a LO lump of roast beef out to defrost for dinner, all being well I’m going for tray bake roast spuds, parsnips & carrots tonight, with steamed cauli & broccoli, I’ll pop the beef wrapped tin foil parcel in the steamer to heat through at same time

Lunch; apart from featuring HM bread as sarnie basic item I’ve no clues right now, something tasty & savoury like bacon except I don’t have bacon, perhaps open a tin of fake Spam or corned beef? I have LO mash from yesterday so CB could become hash another day

caronc

Good morning everyone, 
Glad the lurgy/foot is improving Farway.
Cold, bright and frosty here this morning then rain but milder from tomorrow.
Checked my fuel account this morning, I have a smart meter but don't use the indoor monitor though might dig it out. Yesterday was a fairly low use day for us but still cost just under £6...
DS1 and my sister are coming for dinner tonight. DIL-to-be is away on a hen do and my nephew is working so just the 4 of us. DS2 is cooking curry and I'm in charge of prepping the chicken and making some spiced onions and raita.
BLT for lunch.

justkeepswimmimg

Another all the weathers day, sort of April showers but with sleety snow.

Just a pottering, laundry and grocery shopping sort of day. Tired after a long week and seem to have a bit of a cold brewing…

Treated myself to a Waitrose shop as they had sent me some £8 off a £40 shop vouchers. Also used the 3 for £10 meat and fish offer plus got a pork joint on offer 😀

Posh fishfingers in a pitta for lunch. Chorizo and mushroom omelette with chips and beans tonight, just fancied it!

Brambling

Very cold again today which was enough to put me off gardening.

My sister and I received vouchers for the local garden centre for a free hot drink with a piece of cake so we spent a couple of hours catching up over afternoon tea 🙂 her awaited grandchild has gone from threatening to be very premature to hanging in there and no sign of coming out now it's at its due date  🙄 

My Waitrose vouchers weren't so useful £14 off £70 spend which I didn't need ( 6 vouchers to use in 3 weeks ) 🙄 so I used my Sainsbury one which was £4.50 off £30 and needed using today, mainly fresh stuff and a box of cat food to push me over. I picked up some smoked cod on offer and a YS rump steak and pork tenderloin but I'm trying to eat down my freezer so resisted anything else 

lunch was cheese and biscuits with the last of my salad bits.  Dinner steak and chips with fried onion and mushrooms.  Mushrooms see to have gone up 20p so didn't buy the chestnut ones I usually buy as they had gone up 10p more than the white 

Farway

Up at silly time this morning, just couldn’t get back to sleep so up with a cuppa catching up with Monty D on iplayer

Very frosty morning now it’s daylight, roofs, cars & grasses, not doing my nearly doubled gas bill any good but at least I can begrudgingly afford it so small mercies

Black manky bananas have been turned into a bananas loaf which is now in the oven & bu66 er the gas bill

My coupons are not up to much this month, useful but not enough to reconsider my shopping, and no new Marks offers so it’s looking like Asda online again for the moment

Lunch today is looking like grilled cheese on toast with piccalilli

Dinner, unsure, I have LO makings for bubble & squeak but may just ping some MFO and top up with banana cake as required. Could even be frozen cod fillet F & Cs, lacking inspiration at the moment

caronc

Good morning everyone, 
Dry but lots of grey clouds nearby. Still very cold.
I had a lovely evening with DS2, my sis and DS1, so nice to get a catch up. There's not much by way of LOs despite there seeming to be far too much food! A bit of clearing up this morning as there was too much for the dishwasher and I wanted us to enjoy each others company not spend time on chores. It has resulted in a strong curry aroma in the house this morning though so the windows are wide open for a bit despite the chill.
A treat for us tonight of roast sirloin of beef.   

justkeepswimmimg

I can never understand why they send 6 vouchers to use in 3 weeks, Brambling 🤔

Dull until early afternoon when the sun tried for a bit. Still got a load of bedding mostly dry outside.

More productive today - paperwork and life admin stuff for a bit this morning, including a bit of pension tidying, which always makes my head hurt! Then went swimming, then after lunch cleaned kitchen sink, cupboard fronts, hob and tiles behind hob. Prepped dinner, stripped bed, dusted and hoovered bedroom, remade bed, sat down with a 🍸…

Lunch was a cheese and pickle sandwich with some cucumber and carrot sticks. Roast pork (including quite good crackling), roast new potatoes, carrots and green beans for dinner.

Brambling

There was a frost this morning but it was quite warm by lunchtime 🙂

I was on kitchen duty as well this morning  🙂 the disadvantage of living alone is you can't blame anyone else for untidy kitchen cupboards 😐 his lordship has no thumbs although he tried to help by joining me when I was standing on a chair    

After lunch my sister and I went walking around a local garden, camellias were still beautiful and the Rhododendrons and  azaleas were just coming out, they will be beautiful in another couple of weeks so we will go back around Easter we have annual passes and will renew when they run out at the end of the month.  Lots of wallaby babies sticking their heads out of pouches today and a peacock trying to impress his peahen, she wasn't impressed by him  

lunch was LO lentils and vegetable from Friday.  Dinner a chicken, fennel and chorizo tray bake with tenderstem broccoli and some roasted cauliflower and Jerusalem artichoke crisps.  I also roasted a small gammon joint currently less then £4 in Sainsbobs and glazed with marmalade and whole grain mustard 

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

Gorgeous picture.