Cooking for one (Mark Three)

justkeepswimmimg

Great news about the baby, Brambling. Much better day at work thanks 😊 

Celery and Stilton is one of my favourites, Farway. It does have a festive feel so perfect for Christmas. I had another portion for lunch today 😋

Got away on time and have had a very easy evening. Made prawn and cherry tomato linguine for dinner, served with broccoli. The pasta needed a bit more chilli but was tasty and filling which will do me tonight!

Very glad it’s the weekend 🙃

Brambling

He does look sorry for himself Caronc 🙂 good luck keeping the cone on

I may have only worked 4 days this week but it’s felt like 5 🙄 just glad it’s Friday and the boss had had enough so we finished on time 

lunch was a small portion of vegetable chilli from the freezer, I think I’ll soon be able to condense every thing into the one freezer so can replace my fridge freezer, it’s getting very loud and I fear not long for this world 

Dinner was a rump steak from the freezer with chips, mushrooms, tomatoes and fried onions. It was a lovely and tender piece abd brought on offer and with a £1 off voucher from Waitrose which made it taste all the better 😋

I’m meeting a friend in Chichester tomorrow so hoping for clear skies and running trains

Farway

Brambling said:

I’m meeting a friend in Chichester tomorrow so hoping for clear skies and running trains

Looking out of my window, it's a perfect mooching around Chichester day, sunny, blue sky with a few puffy clouds, and cold enough to warrant siting in a café with tea & cake

Just been on the phone about my broadband cost, I was supposed to stay the same price, but somehow wires have got crossed, and it's gone up over £12. Still in process of formally complaining, so I'll see how I get one, taking with CS agent seems I'm not alone. Not the end of the world, just annoying niggle I can do without

Wednesday2000 said:

Mushrooms were off this morning even though the date was the 20th! So annoyed as this happened last time I bought mushrooms and they had to be binned too.

Just my thoughts as I looked at my very sad just on edge of slimy mushrooms this morning , not quite compost but unless they are for lunch they will be compost, so lunch is sautéed mushrooms + eggs on stale HM bread toast

Dinner, salad despite it being cooler weather

LO cold roast pork, HM AF chips + salad

caronc

Good morning everyone,
Hector is now wearing a fetching bodysuit plus the cone. He was able to reach the bottom of his wound and either on their own wasn't enough to stop him worrying at it. He objected to the suit far less than expected.  

It's been a long time since I've had a bucket the bath filled with baby clothes steeping in Napisan! 
Butcher's order arrived as expected along with the trimmings ingredients I ordered some joints of meat and a pack of their gorgeous pork ribs which at 4 to 1kg are more like chops. Two of them will be dinner for DS2 and I tonight.   
Accounts are now approved, we don't require a full audit so it just took a couple of hours. I'm always so relieved when the random checks tally with what I have. 
Apart from making pigs in blankets and possibly the stuffing I've not got any plans. Ribs with baked spuds, coleslaw and corn for dinner. BLT for lunch. 

justkeepswimmimg

Good evening everyone.

Does everyone know the trick about a sheet of kitchen roll in the bottom of the mushroom punnet? Seems to soak up some of the moisture…

Fairly chilled day after a bit of a week. Have been to the farm shop for chicken thighs and sausages, Lidl for stock up shop and sainsburys for the few things I couldn’t get in Lidl 🙃

Got sourdough boule as my free bakery item so bread and cheese with some cherry tomatoes for lunch. Made grilled salmon with yummy creamy leeks and cannellini beans tonight.

On the sofa ready for strictly now 💃🏽

Brambling

You're adding insult to injury Caronc 😁

i had a lovely lunch in Chichester with great company 🙂 the train was full of Spanish students who it seemed due to train issues were taking the guided tour of the UK to get from Cambridge to Portsmouth, i was listening to the English person explaining while they were going to have to change again at Havant 

my friend's husband met us for tea so a slice of Bakewell tart added as my evening meal.  

Farway

Cold morning, but bright, poor old Hector, not quite as bad as when my daughter used to dress up poor old Tessa our whippet type mongrel in her [DD's] clothes, a very fetching jumper and woolly tights

Already had one power cut this morning, let's hope that's it for the day, the other week power seemed to be on & off all day with some fault, but it was very stormy that day which could explain it with floods & lightning strikes

Lunch, LO cold roast pork in a sarnie

Dinner, going for one of my Parsley Box meals, pork & apple, but only because they are getting close to use by, this one is a use by December. I may add some fresh veggies to it, both for variety & bulk it up a bit

Wednesday2000

justkeepswimmimg said:

Does everyone know the trick about a sheet of kitchen roll in the bottom of the mushroom punnet? Seems to soak up some of the moisture…

I have read that and it did work when I tried it. Had totally forgotten.

caronc

Good morning everyone, 

Lol Farway, I used to dress up the dog we had when I was growing up, he was very long suffering. 

Didn't get as far as making the stuffing but 100 (eek!) pigs in blankets are now stashed in the freezer. Stuffing will be made today along with a pot of soup and maybe the veg prep for tomorrow's ragu. 

Hector has discovered he can flip toys and balls with the edge of his cone much to his, and our, amusement.
Yesterday's ribs were amazing. No LOs so lunch will be a fridge rake. I've a tub of cooked lamb shoulder in gravy defrosting for dinner. We'll have it with baby spuds, tenderstem broccoli, green beans and carrots.

Brambling

We had a lovely warm day here until just before dark when we had a heavy hailstorm and the temperature dropped 

I went into town for a couple of hours lunchtime, I had to take something back and then just pottered around the shops, when I was at the bottom of town I went into Waitrose as I was fancying roast chicken and had a 50p voucher I was disciplined and only brought a small chicken and some YS Jerusalem artichokes

lunch was egg on toast. Dinner roast chicken, roast J artichokes, runner beans, tenderstem broccoli and the last of the Savoy cabbage. Sometimes it's just as will I live Ali e 😁🫣