Cooking for one (Mark Three)

justkeepswimmimg

Bit of a day today…if I tell you I ate my lunch at 15.20, you’ll get the idea 😬

Oh well, only one more day to get through this week and things are starting to get sorted.

Lunch was the rest of the miso cucumber noodle salad with cashew nuts. Smoked salmon, watercress and horseradish pasta for tea (enough LO for tomorrow’s lunch 😉)

caronc

Good morning everyone,
Bright and breezy here this morning.
Hector and I had a lovely day together yesterday, night and day to when DS2 was away a fortnight ago. He's in holy terror mode this morning though!
Tesco due soon and then I need to scrub a sofa cushion after DS2 tripped over a dog toy and flung Thai Green curry over himself and the surrounding area!! Thankfully I had made enough for him to have a fresh portion.
Fridge rake for lunch to use up lurking bits and probably breaded haddock, spuds and veg tonight unless I CBA being more adventurous later.

Farway

'Morning all, another hot & sunny day here but slightly fresher with a breeze, with same for next seven days according to forecast, another restless night with heat, toying with buying a portable air con uni for bedroom come the winter, oops, just looked at prices, bin that idea

Cobbling together online shop, but whenever I go check out, both W8rose & Asda there are unavailable items, none of which are desperate just annoying, I can live without celery or a small chicken for instance. I don't want delivery until next week, so no rush

Up watering the volunteer pots early, then collect prescription and bits from the Co-op, heart attack time at the milk section, £1.60 for four pints But the smaller size, 2 pints? Was £1.30 so doubled up for 30p, One of those quandaries, costing more in fuel to drive elsewhere but feeling ripped off at the price

At least the manky small Iceberg lettuce was YS + members 15% discount

Lunch, more of the gammon + pickle in a sarnie

Dinner, has to be gammon and trying to think what to do with LO boiled spuds, a bit of once fresh broccoli and some carrots, maybe some type of tray bake thing with the spuds?

Brambling

Farway I buy 4 pints of milk for the same reason, it doesn't seem that long ago that i was paying £1.15 for it, I ensure i find one with the longest date and as you know it will last 2 or 3 days after the BBD.  My nephew tells me to freeze it but although i keep a emergency pint in the freezer over winter i'm not that keen on milk once frozen.  LO new potatoes turn into nice chips in the AF  so maybe gammon, egg and chips ?

I hope work was easier today JKS 

No hot water at the moment so a call out to my boiler man, I've told his wife it's not urgent as i don't need heating at the moment.  I think it is the 'pump' thing in the airing cupboard as no noise when the water comes on.  Don't know if the boiler or this pump but the system is 17 years old and in the last couple of years it's been little things, first the controller, then the value which switches between hot water and heating and now this  he did say the boiler should go on a lot longer when he serviced it.  Typically it occurred after I treated myself to some tickets at the local cinema/theatre, maybe just as well as I would have felt guilty doing it afterwards even if different budget!  the joys of house ownership 

Lunch will be the last of the gammon, probably with the last of the salad.  Salmon for dinner not sure if I'll go down the new potato and veg route or oriental style with stir fry and noodles 

CJRyder

Hi all!

Considering my options for tonight. Probably air fryer chips as I have potatoes that need using. I am also trying to decide on whether or not my microwave baked apple maker will do a stuffed pepper. I have some bell peppers that need using up so could make a veg curry or risotto, shove some in a pepper and ding it. Experimentation is required!

CJRyder

And the answer is...

Yes! You can cook a bell pepper in a microwave baked apple maker. Brush lightly with oil, ping for three minutes.

justkeepswimmimg

Much better day, wfh and got everything I needed to done. More importantly it’s the weekend and there is wine 😉

Lunch was LO smoked salmon and watercress pasta. Scampi, chips and peas tonight 😋

Very much looking forward to a chilled weekend.

Farway

Welcome, CJ Ryder, a microwave baked apple maker sounds like a gadget too far for me, my microwave poached egg maker is still lurking in a drawer after just one outing

Early start this morning, out watering the pots in the back before the heat gets going, but I need the sun to come round because my first fig is now ripe & needs sun warming before I scoff it

Dinner was decided when I spotted more climbing beans are ready, having been bean free for a couple of years due to pests eating them all this year I'm going to eat the beans when ready

I had some of my own tomatoes last night on my salad, but my planned bumper cucumber crop has failed, not one to be seen

Meals today, last of the gammon in a sarnie, with mustard today 'cos the Branston was used up yesterday & I don't want to open a new jar just for one blob

Dinner, the climbing bean change of menu means I have taken some YS beef mince out to defrost, it's marks YS so should be OK

I'll make something like cottage pie with it but instead of mash maybe slice LO boiled on top, with steamed use up broccoli and last few carrots and of course my own climbing beans

caronc

Good morning everyone,
Glad your experiment went ok CJR
Dull, damp and breezy here this morning.
Tackled a bit of the greenhouse jungle yesterday and hope to get it finished today. Picked a cucumber and there's a couple of cherry toms almost ripe.   
Cooking stage one of Mongolian lamb breast today in the slow cooker ready to roast or bbq tomorrow.
JO Jerk chicken sandwich for dinner and salady bits for lunch.

LateNightHunter

Evening all!! How are we?

It's been a rollercoaster few days, so apologies for not keeping up to date! I ended up with COVID in the end, sadly, which meant I was sleeping a lot and not online. Then when I recovered, I got some contact lenses for the first time..Current record is 20 mins to put them in and 15 mins to get them out!

Now I'm doing a swapped shift for someone on no sleep, because the naughty fixture computer decided to put our first game back in the Premier League at 12:30 against Liverpool....

Food has been a GF sandwich from M&S and tonight I have the Gym Kitchen BBQ chicken and Bulgar Wheat ready meal!