Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Brambling

Mrs_Salad_Dodger said:

Gorgeous picture.

Thank you  not bad for a mobile phone taken between the fencing.  He's quite impressive like this too 

Farway

Today is rain, just the miserable drizzle stuff not downpours

Lovely pictures Brambling, reminded me of my first draft in the Navy to HMS Excellent, Whale Island and there were peacocks as part of the establishment, they just wandered around uncaged and screeched all the time, presumably it was someone’s job to tend to them but they were just noisy & ornamental really

Last night I tried one of the Parsley Box MFOs, liver, bacon & mash. The mash was a bit beige and a bit off putting, however it tasted fine, falls into “I’ve had worse” at HMS Excellent above for instance, so it did the job

Today is back to toast for lunch, maybe with cheese?

Dinner, despite the weather it’s a salad day, eat it or compost it TBH. One salmon fillet out defrosting, fry that with HM AF chips + salad

caronc

Good morning everyone, 
Gorgeous photos Brambling 
Glad the MFO tasted okay Farway even if it wasn't visually appealing.
Pensions urgh JKS, I son't envy you sounds as though the tipple was deserved.
Grey and damp here today though milder. I've turned my ankle so going to have a quiet day and hope it eases. I seem to have a fair bit of veg and milk needing used up so I'll make a pot of cream of veg soup later.
Yesterday's beef was gorgeous and there's LOs for lunch. 
Creamy paprika chicken for dinner which we'll have with baby spuds, asparagus, green beans and broccoli. 

Brambling

I hope you've been resting your ankle Caronc 🙂  you'll be joining Farway in the hop a long club 

My nephew's gf had their baby early this morning a little girl 🥳 So a great start to week 😁

Work was lovely and quiet so lots crossed off my outstanding to do list 🙂 

lunch was salad using some of the gammon I cooked yesterday. I'm not really hungry tonight and cba to ping chicken LOs so dinner has been some fruit 

justkeepswimmimg

Lovely news, Brambling!

Honestly don’t know where today has gone, thank goodness tomorrow is a wfh day, need to catch up! Good news is left on time and the tradesman arrived bang on time to look at the fencing…now to actually get a quote out of him 😬

Lunch was vegetable chilli from the freezer stash, with a toasted pitta. Made Thai green curry tonight with some of the roast pork, baby corn and sugar snaps, served with noodles. Rest of the pork (3 more meals worth) portioned up and frozen.

Farway

Milder today at least, good job now the cost of energy has gone through the roof, my heating still clicks on though

Reading about your Thai green curry JKS reminded me of the YS one from Marks the other week, never had one before and it had to be binned, all I could taste was fish, must be the anchovies or fish sauce, awful, but at least one good thing about YS, not as much of a waste of money as full price.

I’ve had green curry before but not Marks one, lesson learned

Invite received from daughter to go over for lunch / tea on Saturday, to birds’ one stone, my birthday on Friday plus Easter nearly.

Covid has prevented all of that for last couple of years so weather permitting it’s a family gathering. Sign of the times and growing older, three of the grandchildren will be working and be home later and probably with girl / boy friends in tow,.Congrats Brambling, give it time and before you know it this is what happens

Food today, lunch, more toast plus cheese

Dinner is use up mash / veg in bubble & squeak, plus defrosting a smoked haddock fillet which I may poach or ping, undecided as yet

All being well I’ll try out my foot on a YS mooch around Marks tomorrow morning, foot feels OK but still a bit swollen

caronc

Good morning everyone, 
Lovely news Brambling 
Glad your foot is on the mend Farway.
Back to winter here - tipping it down and none too warm. I'm glad I made a pan of soup yesterday, it's definitely the weather for it.
My ankle is much less swollen this morning but is still painful and unreliable so watching what I'm doing. I'm off with DS2 to my sister's for dinner this evening, I can't say I'm looking forwards to the stairs to her flat. They're a challenge at the best of times without an iffy ankle!

justkeepswimmimg

Slept really well last night, didn’t wake up until 7.40 so good job it was a wfh day 😉

Was going to have falafels and pitta for lunch today but I refused to pay Waitrose prices so had toasted pitta, houmous, olives, feta and cucumber and carrot sticks. Swimming tonight so standard early tea of beans with toast.

Brambling

Farway said:.

Covid has prevented all of that for last couple of years so weather permitting it’s a family gathering. Sign of the times and growing older, three of the grandchildren will be working and be home later and probably with girl / boy friends in tow,.Congrats Brambling, give it time and before you know it this is what happens

Yep I remember holding her dad for the first time and he's 28   I'm probably more depressed as I remember the letter and photo saying my niece had arrived 7 weeks early, I was 5 and her eldest is now 33 he's the first of the 'greats' 

The boss is back after a long weekend so it was a 90 min catch up this morning and a 4 hour meeting this afternoon so a 6pm finish today 

Lunch was gammon and AF artichoke chips with a fried egg 😋 dinner was LO chicken and chorizo  tray bake with broccoli and LO roasted cauliflower 

caronc

Good morning everyone,
My ankle is still iffy but I managed the stairs to my sisters okay with the usual assistance from DS2 though it was painful afterwards. The weather seems less fierce today, when we came out of my sister's around 9pm the wind off the sea nearly knocked me over and we were both drenched in the short walk to and from the car. I've not much planned for today there's some domestic bits needing doing but apart from that I'm going have another day of trying not to be on my feet too much.
HM soup for lunch and tonight I'm cooking JOs Gingery beef mince in black bean sauce which we'll have with shredded omelette , broccoli and green beans.