Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Brambling

Shame about the bacon Farway I'm lucky that the garden centre has a really good local butcher who can tell you where the meat is from, the last lot of beef cheeks I brought were his from his own Dexter cow (not cheap but so nice  ) if I want fruit and veg as well there is a really good farm shop with butcher (again local meat) about 7 miles away so I go that way when the car needs a run

I glad you're move finally went ahead Wednesday are you by the sea now? I use my air fryer a lot as well, works great for jacket potato and so much than putting the oven on

glad your feeling better Caronc/ JKS 

normal work day, I popped out lunchtime for cat food and milk for me  using my vouchers his lordship is sorted for a couple of months. I've noticed the quarterly vouchers aren't quite as generous as they use to be at Pets @ H 

lunch was falafels and salad in a wrap.  Dinner was a FS pork and apple burger from the freezer in a ciabatta roll with fried onions, HM coleslaw and a corn on the cob

caronc

Good morning everyone, 
Sunny but windy here today. No thunder but some very heavy rain yesterday evening.
I made good progress in the garden yesterday and hope to get a good bit more done today before rainy weather returns.
Salad wrap for lunch a Italian sausage ragu with pasta for dinner.

Farway

Sunny after overnight rain, with slight breeze good for drying I’d say

The car finished up mixed results  and looking like my CFO may be gruel with stale bread for a bit with the costs possibly ramping up

The rear light, in the end I needed a new one, as typical in this modern world you can’t get just a bit but have to buy the complete assembled unit, and with the ABS light none of their four different computers would work with diagnosing it, which means I need a proper Auto electric garage with all sorts of diagnostic equipment and abilities

Luckily there is one down Portsmouth and duly booked in end of May, cost is very unknown, labour is the problem if someone has to spend hours doing things it soon ramps up, and the lady on phone was telling me a lot of parts, not just my car, are hard to come by, presumably stuck in Shanghai with Covid

On brighter note my Asda delivery arrived, with one upward sub for same price, posh box of tissue instead of Smart Price. The SP mushrooms look a bit manky, so got refund, only 50p but why not, they’ll do OK  in a casserole

Another BLT sarnie for lunch

Dinner, another one on salad, fried steak, maybe add in some of the manky mushrooms, with HM AF chips and salad

Brambling

i hope you've a well stocked freezer Farway to tide you over  I've just renewed my home insurance in the same month as the boiler cheque   

we had quite a thunder storm last night with torrential rain and sheet lightning started about 11pm and went on past midnight.  At least the garden had a good water even if my sleep was limited and I had a cuddly cat to content with 

It was my last day of work for this week today as I'm off tomorrow in lieu of last Saturday and my sister and I plan to walk along the coast weather permitting 🤞 and have brunch, an ex Masterchef finalist has a place on the seafront in Worthing (Kenny Tutt) we want to try .  I forgot I had a dinner with work colleagues tomorrow night which is why it's not lunch 🙄

Lunch was smoked mackerel salad with potato salad and coleslaw. I took out a half pork fillet from the freezer so dinner was Korean pork (garlic, ginger, soy, sesame oil and honey) with red pepper, spring onions, steamed pak choi and tenderstem broccoli with rice. LOs for Saturday 🙄 I'm sure they won't be so tasty but will save cooking 😁

justkeepswimmimg

Day 4 done, nearly at the weekend. 

Another offsite meeting this morning and then into the office. Few bits done, including preparing for 2 more meetings, it’s mad at the moment.

Second half of the feta, roasted veg and rice salad for lunch. Quick Thai green prawn and sugar snap curry with noodles tonight.

Have also eaten two chocolate hobnobs (at the meeting) and an egg custard tart in the office (someone’s birthday) 🤨

Farway

Hope the weather held out for your coastal walk Brambling, it’s wet here and Worthing in the wet must be gloomy. Last time I was there I was using my bus pass on the Coastliner 700 bus which is a day’s outing all by itself

Now fridge is back to full I can pick & choose my meals again and today is mince day, Burgers while tempting but thinking more on savoury mince, or maybe a chilli, decision will be made after I have a poke around among my stocked tins of this & that

Lunch, still on the bacon, another BLT

Dinner, mince something / somehow and no idea what else, rice? Spaghetti? Mash?

caronc

Good morning everyone, 
Ouch re the car costs Farway but needs must I suppose!
I'm envious of your lunch Brambling, I thought he was a very worthy winner. I hope it lives up to expectations. 
Dry but dull here today with heavy rain due later.
DS2 was up and off before 6am to head to the office. After work he's heading to a leaving do for a couple of hours before heading back up.
I'm pooch sitting this afternoon/overnight, just as well it's due to rain as his favourite outdoor lounging spot is covered in plants. That said I made good progress yesterday so I'm just under the halfway point in potting up.   My hands are protesting painfully today so even if the weather holds until later I will give them a rest today.
Tesco are due soon - no subs or unavailable items.
LO pasta for lunch. Dinner is tbc, I will see what I fancy later. There's a quiche in my Tesco order so might have a piece of that with veg and oven chips. 

justkeepswimmimg

Made it to the weekend! Ended a long week with a wfh day but 4 meetings meant not that much actually got done…

Made a watercress, spring onion, cheese and sweetcorn omelette for lunch (to use up some sad watercress). Proper Friday night tea of scampi, chips and peas 😋

Brambling

Unfortunately heavy rain until after lunch meant a trip to the coast was put off 😐 my sister and I ended up at a nice pub just out of town which we haven't been to for a couple of years before driving out to a art supply shop for her (I may have picked up a couple of bits fr9m their reduced half price section 😁 and hone via the farm shop as we had to drive pass it 

lunch was a fish finger ciabatta sandwich and as I failed to read the menu it came with salad, coleslaw and chips (proper ones😁 I got home about 5 after a cuppa at hers 

Dinner was a meet up with 4 work colleagues, one who retired last year, I stuck to just a main course a very nice sea bass dish. The trip back was very country roads I should have ignored the sat nav 🙄

Farway

Today is the weather for a coastal walk Brambling, I think bracing would be the word for it

Today’s highlight is my Covid booster about midday, the rest follows on from that really. I had toyed with the notion of going to chippy after the jab but now the day’s here I don’t fancy it so it’ll be long way round drive home along motorway for battery charging purposes, then lunch of I don’t know what, could always open a tin of fake Spam or corned beef to pop in a roll

That may be plan actually because I’m stuck for dinner, don’t fancy LO savoury mince from yesterday but do have LO mash & veg so a bubble & squeak with tinned meat & fried eggs maybe?