Cooking for one (Mark Three)

justkeepswimmimg

Nice day - pottering this morning then out to get my hair cut and coloured. Did a food shop on the way home. Watched some of the diving with a g&t 🍸 before making dinner. 

Lunch was beans with toast. Made chorizo and broccoli pasta tonight. Out for lunch tomorrow 😋

Brambling

I hope you are now recovered LNH 

I food shopped yesterday, lunchtime s quick dash around Lidl for fresh F&V and a look at their middle aisle -  welding helmet anyone 😁 I hadn't planned in going to W8itrose but a elderly friend was in a panic over cat litter so I went in just before 7pm, the plan was just for the cat litter but I was led astray by some very good meat, fish and fruit YSs at half price and less including a £1 pack of smoked salmon and 3 packs of blackcurrants 50p each all tucked away in the freezers now (filling the gaps I was creating 🙄 my old fridge freezer had better not give up! )

freezers and fridge tidied this morning and the fridge cleaned 🙂 this afternoon I went to the beach with my sister, her friend has lent her beach hut again 🙂 when I got to my sister's I had a warm welcome from the dog they are dog sitting, he sat on my knee as soon as I sat down until we left 🙂 I asked if it made her want one and it seems he has been successful in putting them off 😁 something about 5.30am toilet requirements, his owner has a toddler who gets up that time.

lunch was LO salmon with watercress salad and a bread roll.  It was after 8pm when I got home so dinner was scallops (from freezer) and bacon watercress salad, a teatime piece of flapjack on the beach filled a gap 

Farway

Up early and out pruning my apple tree after breakfast, nearly finished it now. Sunny & hot already with clear blue sky so decided it's more salad and have taken a salmon fillet out to defrost

I have a few more in the freezer but will need to curtail or limit eating them now gout has returned, one of the forbidden fruits no matter how tasty. Which set me wondering if my recent returning to fresh mackerel could have triggered my gout after all these years? I'll take no chances and just avoid it, especially as it now comes in anti CFO pack of two

Lunch last of the gammon in a sarnie, just with mustard

Dinner, as above, salmon fried in EVO + butter with salad + boiled new spuds

I found a slightly OOD [2019 ] pack of YS Aunt Bessie rice pud and may knock that up if feeling like it

caronc

Good morning everyone,
Small drama here yesterday afternoon. DS2 had headed out on errands leaving just me and Hector here. He'd not long left when a baby seagull landed on the conservatory roof and decided to stay and bang a pebble ignoring Mum's attempts to get it to leave. Poor Hector was both terrified and outraged! I retreated to my bedroom with pup and assumed it would fly off. Nope still there when DS2 returned a couple of hours later . Meantime Mum had retreated to the roof ridge and baby had settled down for a snooze. It didn't seem hurt just reluctant to fly. Eventually DS2 got the hose and some gentle spraying persuaded it onto the main roof where Mum was gradually able to persuade it to fly off. Thankfully they've not returned.   
Lazy day planned, it's grey and chilly.
Bacon and egg for brunch. Mongolian Crispy Lamb for dinner based on this recipe but using boneless breast and the slow cooker rather than stove for the first stage. Cooking The Books: Mongolian Crispy Lamb (typepad.com)  I slow cooked the meat yesterday and I'm hoping it's dry later so we can finish it on the bbq. The recipe works well with belly pork too. We're having it with rice and cucumber salad.

CJRyder

Afternoon all!

Tonight will be a liver crap-in-a-pot. I haven't worked out what else to add yet. Thinking tomatoes and maybe some root veg.

@caronc A baked apple maker isn't something that I would have purchased but was given by Mum. I do now eat a lot more baked apples though! I am glad that it has another use.

Brambling

I'm trying not to think about giving up fish or seafood Farway but I've eaten a lot this week and have prawns in the fridge for tomorrow   

Bedding washed and line dried, it's been hot here and wheelie bin washed before the hosepipe ban, I lead an exciting life 

lunch was a bowl of pineapple and watermelon as I was t that hungry

I made the mistake of deciding a roast chicken would be a good idea for dinner 🙄 I did spatchcock it for a shorter oven time.  Dinner was chicken, peas and lettuce, runner beans, roasted cauliflower and chicory (YS) with new potatoes. Freezer tidying yesterday it seems I managed to lose the clip on the bag of peas and today I grabbed it by the bottom and emptied out half a bag in the little chest freezer, damn things worked their way down to the bottom and were a pain to receive 🙄. Plenty of LOs for the week, chicken and the veg 

Farway

Another hot & sunny day ahead, and I'm on use up LO savoury mince, so Brambling you are not the only one with oven on, I may try & nuke it, but the container is not right shape & the faffing required in decanting is just not worth my time & blood

pressure

Caron, Mum seagulls can be vicious, so retreat to bedroom with Hector was a good move. I remember reading of someone who had to wear a safety helmet when going outside due to nesting gulls attacking / defending

Watering already completed for this morning, I've a lot of blackberries ripening now so may get round to picking some later, they can go with the LO Aunt Bessie rice I made yesterday, I'll not buy that again even if YS, nothing wrong with it, but CFO is cheaper & easier to buy a tin of ready-made once cost of packet + 3/4 pint of milk + gas + time is taken into account

My fridge is nearly empty for once with Asda delivery due Wednesday morning there's plenty of space

Lunch OOD part baked baguette, with cheese & sliced fresh onion filling

Dinner, warmed up LO savoury mince, with own grown climbing beans. There are spuds within the mince.

LO AB rice for pud with blackberries if I pick them

caronc

Good morning everyone,
Yes Farway, I was very keen not to antagonise Mum she was annoyed enough that the baby was ignoring her!
Bright and sunny here this morning, it's to be pleasantly warm rather scorching today so I'll be making the most of it. That said one of my tasks for today is to clean out the bbq after grilling lamb yesterday evening, can't say I'm looking forward to that but needs must! The lamb was delicious though so worth it.
LO lamb & salad wrap for lunch. Tonight it's pasta with a HM chorizo, tomato and pesto sauce.

Brambling

Another hot day and the temperature is due to ramp up 30+ over the next few days until at least Sunday  I know one shouldn't complain but I don't do heat very well 🥵 

Depressing telephone call after work from one of my sisters, my 92 year old aunt has CV and isn't too good, as she gave it to my cousin, looks like it was passed on by one of her carers and our eldest BILs is receiving  palliative care for lung cancer, not treatable unfortunately both are currently at home. 

Lunch was chicken salad sandwich. Dinner after a easy prawn salad with LO potatoes made into a potato salad

justkeepswimmimg

Good evening everyone.

Out for roast dinner yesterday but as it was a bit last minute, I’d already taken a small gammon joint out to defrost. Decided it would get used and can always go back in the freezer cooked so shoved it in the oven yesterday afternoon. Just a smoked salmon sandwich for tea.

Whilst the oven was on, I roasted some carrots with rosemary and cumin seeds. Turned into a salad with lentils and feta for lunch today (plus LOs obviously). Tea was gammon, new potatoes and salad.

Better day at work but I am counting the days until my week off 🙃