Cooking for one (Mark Three)

justkeepswimmimg

Glad today’s done, as I heard someone on the radio say, a very Monday ish Tuesday 😂 just the 5 meetings…

Lunch was some of the food parcel houmous with carrot and cucumber sticks, toasted pitta and some olives. Swimming tonight so early tea of poached eggs and avocado on toast. There’s a mini egg cake from the food parcel to have with a cuppa later 😉

Brambling

Farway why didn't you AF you're slice? 

Just the one 10 min meeting for me as the guy who asked for it failed to turn up, just 7 of us twiddling our thumbs and unable to get hold of him 😡 I did have a 2.5 hour Skype call with the boss when we sanity checked a 75 page doc provided by our developers who in theory should know how the system works as it is theirs 🙄 oh and 250 emails in our team mailbox to deal with when I started this morning  😳 I did get them down to single figures by 5pm 

lunch was some minestrone soup from the freezer, the temperature has dropped a little today or it could be because I was sitting all day.  Dinner ended up as bubble and squeak with bacon which i realised needed to be used today

caronc

Good morning everyone, 
Sunny and warming up after a frosty start. The postie has just delivered my bedding plants which I wasn't expecting until tomorrow. Once I've finished my cuppa I'll start potting them up. I do hope they will be okay in the greenhouse. I usually keep them on my kitchen table until they're ready to go out but with DS2 using my dining room as an office/storage room I'm using the kitchen table a lot. Wasn't an issue for the last two years as no one was socialising!
Off to my sister's for dinner tonight, we're trying to take week about to host a mid week meal and it's her turn though I think that might change if we get a good spell of weather and can eat outdoors as I have a private garden but her's is shared. Yesterday DS2 bought a gas outdoor grill so I'm anticipating lots of grilled things over the summer. 
Lamb salad wraps for lunch.

Farway

Off to Mark’s this morning in the warm sunshine, nothing really need but wanted to give the car a run plus diesel top up if not stupid queues

All worked out well, Mark’s even had red & round bog standard salad tomatoes, seems in short supply something to do with Spanish lorry drivers strike, or take you pick from a dozen others depending on political viewpoint

YS button mushrooms, plus YS MFO crispy sweet & sour chicken for tonight’s dinner, and most import, YS Bramley apple hot cross buns

Amazed to find no queue and loads of diesel in Sainsbugs garage, full tank now, which is good because I hope to be going up to RHS Wisley first week in May, did hope to go next week but with my lack of puff I need to borrow one of their electric buggies and none available until then

Lunch was fried egg sarnie with my fresh sliced loaf

Dinner, the Chinese crispy chicken from Mark’s

Brambling said:

Farway why didn't you AF you're slice? 

I have gas oven so find it convenient as I don't really need to preheat and although not costed I suspect not much difference in cost. It is a subject that I am bearing in mind for future shopping though

justkeepswimmimg

Really enjoying the weather at the moment, been lovely again here. Out for an offsite meeting this morning but then wfh for the afternoon, got a load dried on the line 😀

As I had forgotten to defrost the planned posh fishfingers, lunch was a couple of feta and spinach parcels (bought for the bonus nectar points mostly), rocket, cucumber sticks, olives and some whipped feta and mint dip.

Quick egg fried rice with LO roast pork, baby corn and mange tout after swimming tonight.

Brambling

Quite day at work just a couple of meetings and a lot less emails 🙂 I even managed to get the minutes for my meeting sent out this afternoon and finish the day by 5pm 

lunch was LO beans on toast.  Dinner the beef rendang I was going to have last night.  I think tomorrow will be a fishy day 

Farway

Lovely day again, and high pressure for a while yet so they forecast warm & dry

Just pottering today, highlight will be read the gas meter at request of EDF, seems having just provided a reading on Price Rise day [1st April] they now want another one and I bet I’ll still get estimated bills

Lunch today; really should have something healthy for once, now I have more toms could be cheese + salad sarnie

Dinner, I have Asda Best rump steak, so that plus eggs, AF HM chips, some of the YS mushrooms from Mark’s should be fine

Any empty space will be filled with a YS Mark’s Bramley hot cross buns, or two

caronc

Good morning everyone,
My poor hands are very unhappy after yesterday's marathon potting session worth though as I got them all done! I'm very happy as only 1 plant wasn't viable out of 175 plugs. They have survived their first night in the unheated greenhouse.   
We had dinner at my sister's last night and she cooked a Rachel Koo recipe of beef stew with puy lentils and baguette dumplings. All very good but the dumplings were gorgeous. https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/boeu ... with_17690
I'm CFO tonight, there various bits in the fridge so I'm think unless I cba making something else dinner will be a use up bung together. Cheese salad wrap for lunch.

justkeepswimmimg

Another beautiful day! Shame I was in the office all day…nice calm, productive one though.

Bit of a use it up lunch - the other two spinach and feta parcels, rest of the houmous, last of the olives and carrot and cucumber sticks. Tonight was harissa chicken thighs, cumin roasted carrots and chickpeas with whipped feta and mint and flatbread 😋

Brambling

I've never heard of baguette dumplings and now I'm tempted to try them 🙂

There are definitely benefits of Easter this week at work, not too busy after a dodgy Tuesday so lots of outstanding work done 🙂 and just the one short meeting 

lunch was scrambled egg, bagel and smoked salmon with some wilted spinach followed by bad heart burn this afternoon so dinner was a bowl of cereal at 9pm as I didn't fancy the smoked cod I had taken from the freezer