Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Farway

Woken up about 0330 this morning by foxes fighting nearby, awful racket, got up to have a pee & a peek but too dark, and never really got back to sleep so very early start to the day with an interesting cloud formation at dawn, pic below

Fridge is bursting with yesterday’s delivery but will thin out once I make a start, I need to divvy up the bangers for freezing, and they are linked so need separating, I can’t just pop in them in freezer “as is”

Brambling, good to hear my long range fault finding still works and the CH repair was straight forward , plus the lurgified members seem to be on the mend as well, a good weekend all round so far

Only jobs for the day are watering the pots out the back although heavy rain is forecast for tonight I can’t trust it to do the job properly

Meals, now I have fresh Aberdeen Angus mince it’s back to HM burgers, could do savoury mince but CBA and it’s not really the weather for it

Lunch, HM burger, but sarnie shaped ‘cos I’ve no buns. I’ll make extra and chill them for dinner

Dinner, more HM burgers, with HM chips & salad

caronc

Good morning everyone,
Glad your boiler is fixed Brambling.
Hope you continue to feel better JKS. I think I might be feeling a bit better, though I thought that yesterday but it didn't last.
Gorgeous photo Farway 
Hoping to bbq tandoori lamb kebabs later, I'll prep and DS2 will cook.
Front fence is replaced. The garden looks so much better now it's done.  

justkeepswimmimg

Definitely better again today thanks caronc, hope you are too 😊

Made it out to meet up with friends as planned (exhausted now though 😂). The weather was perfect, bit of a stroll with a takeaway cuppa before lunch sat outside at a nice pub - fish and chips for me. Another wander with an ice cream before we all headed home, a really lovely day.

Quick cuppa when I got home then braved sainsburys (blissfully quiet 😉).

Glass of wine and a smoked salmon sandwich for tea.

Brambling

Lovely picture Farway 🙂

glad you were well enough to go out JKS 🙂

Typically it's been a lovely day and I had to work until 1.30pm, at least I got my washing dried and the bedding can go back on the bed tonight, I do like the smell of lined dried bedding

i went to Lidl after work, it was quiet enough to get into the car park 🙂 I only needed some fruit and salad stuff although some mini own brand magnums fell into the basket as well, but otherwise a healthy shop 🙂

Lunch was sardines on toast, I fancied a change.  I was going to cook dinner time but it was too warm for what I had planned so cooked some jersey royals and made a slaw to go with LO chicken breast and salad. These were prewashed potatoes, I think Jersey royals tasted better when brought with a bit of dirt on 😁 but the first for this year and on offer in Lidl 🙂

Farway

The promised overnight rain was just a splash, and the drenching rain the garden needs is lashing down in the Channel south of the Isle of Wight according to the radar, just as well I watered yesterday

I was going to make another banana loaf this morning but CBA right now, maybe later? Divvied up some of the bangers for freezing, and put the diced beef in the freezer as well, BB is tomorrow and I shan’t be doing to by then

Apart from that nothing else expected today except decide on meals

Lunch, I think a sausage sarnie, which will give more freezer fodder

Dinner, I think use last of the mince as HM burger, eggs, chips & mushrooms, lazy CBA Sunday

caronc

Good morning everyone,
Glad you are improving JKS, I seem to be see-sawing between feeling better and feeling rubbish but getting there I think.
It was sausage sarnies here too for lunch yesterday Farway, DS2 cooked them on the bbq.
Dirty potatoes definitely have more flavour Brambling, the Ayrshire's are just starting but I'll wait until they come down a bit in price. Good as they are £8 kg feels like too much even as a treat.
Plants are out of the greenhouse and hardening off with a tarpaulin tent over them at night, there's too many to want to haul them in and out of the greenhouse daily. I might have ordered a few more yesterday   
Yesterday I marinated cubed lamb leg in a mix of tandoori spice, yoghurt and lemon juice which we bbq'd along with skewers of aubergine, sweet peppers and small shallots. We had these in flatbreads along with masala chips (Dan Toombs recipe https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food ... chips.html). LOs for lunch today.
We were hoping to bbq again this evening - spatchcock chicken, corn, asaparagus and baby potatoes but the weather isn't looking promising.

Brambling

Promised rain arrived here p, much to the relief of the garden 🙂

A quiet pottering day for me, trip to the garden centre around the corner with my sister where we had a cuppa and as I was trying to be good I just had a bite of her cake and none of my own    

I had some sad mushrooms so lunch was a mushroom omelette with a tomato salad.  Dinner was the last of the chicken with vegetables stirred in puy lentils, finished with a splash of red wine vinegar 

justkeepswimmimg

Slightly better again today but still feeling it after a trip out yesterday. Braving the office tomorrow so bedtime for me 😉

Quiet pottering here too, lots of food prep in light of the above, going to be a long week! Did go and have my hair cut and coloured but I count that as therapy!

Lunch was scrambled eggs and the end of the bag of spinach on toast. Made butternut squash risotto tonight, garnished with feta and fresh mint.

Hope you’re improving again caronc, can’t believe how much this bug has floored me…

Farway

Like Brambling, lashings of rain with thunder etc. later yesterday. so that’s the garden properly watered at long last, and because the weather turned black & manky I did make my banana loaf, but adapted it into chocolaty type because I found a pack of OOD cocoa powder while rummaging

Still dull this morning with sun trying to peek out. I’m making space in the fridge now the mince has gone and down to one pack of sausages needing freezing. I’ll do that once I open it for anther sausage sarnie lunch

Dinner, time for proper cooked food, including veggies I think. I have two RM W8rose single pies so I’ll have one for dinner, with mash & steamed broccoli, cabbage, celery heart & carrots

caronc

Good afternoon everyone, 
Pouring here and very grey.
Cold continues to linger, seems to ease and then return.
Very tasty peri peri chicken dinner yesterday though oven rather bbq cooked. Instead of spuds I made a fakeaway version of Nando's spicy rice. No idea if it was authentic or not but it was very moreish though did remind me a bit of the packets of Savoury rice with added spices.  LOs for lunches 
CFO this evening so have the spare smoked mackerel fishcake for diiner. There's some baked beans lurking in fridge so will use these up and nuke steam some green beans.