Cooking for one (Mark Three)

justkeepswimmimg

No CFO last night (made chorizo and mushroom risotto with broccoli and sugar snaps for guest and I). It rained and rained yesterday 😮 but lovely day today - load of washing line dried and bit of garden pottering this afternoon. I also food shopped and made 4 portions of lamb, chickpea and spinach curry in the slow cooker - smelt amazing all day 😊

Beans with toast for lunch and some of the curry with a garlic and coriander naan tonight 😋

Brambling

I haven't made curry for ages I'll have to fish some recipes out 

my sister is coming up Monday for the week so today was a housework day and getting the spare room ready. I also booked a trip to the tip tomorrow so was clearing out stuff to fill the boot.  My sister is her mothers daughter and will find and mention any cobwebs and dust I've missed 🙄

I had booked a Waitrose delivery for Monday morning but decided that as i was adding things to make the £40 I would go there after 6pm when you don't have to faff with the car park. I also 'found' £20 of John Lewis vouchers given to me last year so used those. I avoided any YS items as not really needed and TBH not that much off, but did buy five mackerel fillets from the fish counter for 30p each, I was going to buy just the two and got talked into the rest  🙂

lunch was cheese, crackers and sliced tomatoes.  Dinner  sticky chicken wings, coleslaw, wedges, and corn on the cob

Farway

Woke up to thunder, and rain of course, but sky is brightening up now, just very soggy looking outside

First time ever I have after effects from 'flu jab with headache & a stiff neck, hope it sticks at that, a fellow volunteer had a rough 24 hours with it. The parking when I went to chemist was awful, and that's where my Covid jab is next weekend. Also, a long queue I noted, not sure how I'll get on next weekend, wait & see I guess

Due to being awake anyway, I got up earlier than usual and popped a ready mix packet loaf in the Panny, more use up than need, close to BBE day & I've found the OOD ones just don't rise well, I added a bit of extra packet yeast just in case, and it has turned out very well, ideal for my BLT lunch

Fancied fishy day for a change, so I have Iceland frozen smoked haddock fillet out defrosting for dinner, I'll probably poach that, and use up the OOD packet of Smash + open tin of mushy peas, easy-peasy comfort food

Wednesday2000

I have had a cup of herbal tea and some toast with Marmite.

It is very dull and rainy here after being lovely and sunny yesterday. I think it is meant to thunder later. I will try and get out for a walk and stop in at Coop on the way back in the few hours it is dry this afternoon. It is very dark in the house, but not cold, thankfully.

I think I will be be lazy and "make" soup for lunch. I have a tin of butternut squash soup and I will add some passata, a tin of green lentils and spinach and then blitz it up and hopefully stretch it out enough for a few lunches. Not sure about dinner yet.

caronc

Good morning everyone,
I'm Hector sitting for an hour or so while DS2 runs some errands.
Weather is a tad better here so far today, yesterday was just dreich but at least it's dry(ish) today.
Roasted what will be the final batch of homegrown tomatoes for this year. Considering I really scaled back on the number of plants I grew I've a fairly decent stash of passata in the freezer. 
Soup making this afternoon (leek & tattie).
Sirloin steaks with baby spuds, tenderstem broccoli, asparagus and peppercorn sauce for dinner.

justkeepswimmimg

So much rain and so dark all morning! Got a pork shoulder joint in the oven nice and early so it could slow roast. Stripped and remade the bed, dusted and tidied the bedroom then went for a swim.

Had the pork for a late lunch with roasted new potatoes and carrots, Savoy cabbage and gravy. Out to the cinema early evening so a cheese sandwich and glass of wine when I got home, while catching up with the strictly results.

Brambling

The day started really wet and is finishing that way, luckily there was a warm sunny bit in the middle which coincided with loading my car and doing the tip run  I've been putting it off but now they only have booked slots there's no long queues on a weekend. On the way back a neighbour shared the last of her runner beans from the allotment as a thank you for providing them with milk on Friday night 

my sister came round for a quick 3 hour cuppa   and shared the good news that her granddaughter came home from hospital lunchtime, the last few days they were weening her off drugs given when she was ventilated   she left with half the runner beans and a stolen slice of gammon from the pressure cooker 🙄

lunch was cheese and coleslaw wrap.  Dinner gammon, new potatoes, runner beans and purple sprouting 

Wednesday2000

That is good news Brambling!

Wednesday2000

It was rainy and dark and there was thunder here for a while yesterday.

Today looks very nice and bright as a contrast. I have had a PB sandwich and two cups of herbal tea.

I will heat up some of the leftover lentil soup for lunch.

Farway

Shared yesterday's rain with Brambling, it was awful come evening, the G Centre one of the granddaughters works at for Weekend job flooded, Southampton way, and DS was up on his garage roof earlier clearing his gutter drains, luckily he got that completed before the real downpours arrived

Good news about the baby Brambling, a much better Christmas now

My fish yesterday was OK, but the Smash was not as I remembered it, nothing like real mash, but I think I had it in as Covid standby when there was nothing around, and we were all going to die. I'll not bother replacing it in my food horde cupboard standbys

My flu jab headache is easing, as is my stiff neck, had a very long full night's sleep last night, catching up I guess

At last my daughter & the two teenage girls are off on holiday, it's been put off & off, started way back as celebration on finishing school & starting college, a week in Amsterdam, however COVID came along which knocked that into touch and ever since it's been one thing or the other, so long in fact the girls finished college and now starting the University bit , but all being well they are off to Portugal for five days this evening, flying from Bournemouth so nice & easy for them as they live near the New Forest

Updating my Asda online shop, added in an Essentials Christmas pud, and Lurpack + Organic butter, such is the silly prices the Asda own brand is £2 and the Lurpack [on offer] and Yeo Valley organic is "only" 25p more so decided to treat myself, actually I'll probably freeze the Lurpack for Christmastime

My meals, back to BLT for lunch, dinner, I have a LO Smash mountain which I may use somehow but more likely I'll nuke a frozen MFO