Cooking for one (Mark Three)

caronc

Good morning everyone, 
Trying to be sunny here but it's chilly. Looks as though we could get a few showers as there are lots of black clouds. Laundry is over the airer rather than pegged out, I can't be doing with the in out malarkey! 
Admin day for me catching up on my voluntary stuff. 
Pasta bake worked well but ended up larger than I anticipated, plenty LO for lunch and my sis took a largeish tub home with her for my nephew. Nadiya's baked chicken and rice for dinner tonight.

Farway

Out to Mark’s this morning for car battery run & general YS mooch, weather is dull& a bit chilly

Not much YS in Mark’s, enough but not wide choice as in the past.  However all went well, saved 94p with my Sparks card discounts on stuff I was going to buy anyway, like yoghurt & salad items

YS nice sized cauli for cauli cheese later this week, and two YS MFO stab & ping meals and some YS fruit scones fell into the trolley as I went by the bakery section

My HM celery soup turned out well and I had some for lunch with a cheese sarnie

Dinner is one of the Mark’s YS RMs, salmon in watercress sauce with buttery mash & broccoli, very posh

justkeepswimmimg

Just a day again really, off-site meeting this morning then wfh. Definitely a chill back in the air, hopefully that won’t last.

Posh fishfingers in a pitta with rocket and pickled gherkins for lunch. Stuck a spud in the oven before I went swimming so jacket with tuna and sweetcorn mayo with salad for tea.

Brambling

Yes day very much the same for me as well JKS 🙂 except his lordship joined me on a call this morning 🙄 luckily we don't do video calls. He had a duvet day and didn't come downstairs until noon which was an hour into my meeting he then tried to get on the keyboard, purred into the mike and then sat on my pad and pen whilst I was trying to take notes 🙄 I completely lost one of the AOB and had to confess I was arguing with the cat and could they repeat  I then had to translate everything into the meeting notes to send out.  I lost the battle of the pen and blood was shed 

lunch was beans on toast as I've had too many eggs this week 🙂 Dinner was some lentils and veg from the freezer with a pita bread and some feta.  

Definitely colder today, I resisted putting the heating back on but the thick jumper came back out

Farway

Must’ve been cold overnight, my heating came on earlier so woke to nice and warm, luckily Boris has just bunged 150 quid in my bank to help pay for it

Looking a tad brighter out today but not one for sitting outside in a pub garden drinking cider with a Ploughman’s

Lunch is not that, more of my HM celery soup and maybe cheese & salady sarnie

Dinner, the Mark’s YS MFO beef casserole with buttery mash in rich onion gravy

I have some of the YS fruit scones LO if I feel faint from hunger at any time during the day

caronc

Good morning everyone,
DS2 left just before 6am to head  for a day at the office. I thought I wasn't going to get back to sleep after hearing him go but suddenly it was nearly 9am! I made a huge dent in the "to do" yesterday so apart from a sweep & mop through and some routine chores I'm for an easy day as my hay fever is still giving me grief.
LO chicken and rice for lunch and I've salmon defrosting for dinner. 

justkeepswimmimg

Oof, bit of a day - knew it was all too quiet this week 😂

In the office for various meetings and the odd crisis to be averted…🤞 for a quiet one tomorrow before my week off.

Lunch was second half of the roasted carrot and feta couscous. Eaten at my desk but at least in a calm few minutes.

Wound down by making a sort of stroganoff with the end of the LO roast pork from the freezer for dinner. Served with noodles and green beans.

Brambling

The £150 hasn't found it's way across the county line yet Farway 

Short and quiet day for me 😁 hygienist appointment first thing and the boss told us to go at 4.30pm as it was quiet 🙂 he's buying favour before it gets manic again. 

The hygienist was heavy handed my usual one is one mat leave and it was a double ouch as the price  has shot up in 6 months 

lunch was a salad with vegetable slaw with a yoghurt and mustard dressing and a portion of salmon, I've brought cooked salmon YS in Sainsbobs a couple of and it's a good quick meal.  Dinner was a recommended one from Caronc 🙂 chicken cooked in the pressure cooker with cider 😋 served with rice, runner beans and tenderstem broccoli.  I stripped the chicken as it's rubbish day tomorrow and there's plenty so I'll probably freeze some tomorrow.  And half a bottle of cider to be use tomorrow after work 😁

Farway

Heating had clicked on again this morning so assume it was another cold night, I’ll soon get through the £150 fuel bung at this rate. At least it’s a sunny day so free heat in my conservatory for lunchtime

And my gouty finger has eased off so back to two fingered typing and using the mouse wheel

Highlight of the day is recycling bin collection

I’ve taken a chunk of smoked haddock out to defrost, its Iceland’s pack, taste OK but best used defrosted they say. However the amount of water packed into them is frightening, very deceptive before defrosting; I’ll not be buying them again

Lunch, cheese & salady sarnie is planned

Dinner, cauliflower cheese using the midweek Mark’s YS cauli and HM cheese sauce served with the smoked haddock probably baked in buttery foil in same oven as the C Cheese

caronc

Good morning everyone,
I must make that casserole again Brambling now I've remembered about it. Used to make it often when the boys were at home.
The £150 was deducted straight from our bill up here, seemed a fairly faff-free way to do it and must be cheaper admin wise.
Frosty again first thing but lovely and sunny now. Tesco due soon and then I want to potter in the garden and do some potting on. Three subs in the shopping all in my favour.
Scotch egg & salad for lunch and tonight will be the usual tbc freezer rake while DS2 has a chippy though I have part of a cauli to use so cauli cheese could be an option as there's a tub of bechamel in the freezer.