Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Wednesday2000

Farway said:

DGD at Chelsea, big day yesterday, she was celeb spotting and chatting, Brian May, Alex, One Show, Alan T, Adam Frost, Judi Dench. No King, they were not on the Royal Route!

But topping it all, they won a Gold Medal . A bit from Beeb site with DGD pictured

Oh wow! Well done for her! I met Floella Benjamin at Chelsea Flower Show when I had to work there once year. Lol. She used to be on a kids TV show. I forget which one.

Why does Sparsholt College sound familiar to me? Hmm.

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Play School.

caronc

Good morning everyone,
Congratulations to DGD Farway!
Poor you Brambling I hope you can get quickly get some relief.
It's dry here though cloudy and and not particularly warm. After another cuppa I'm off the tackle the weeds that have sprouted all over the front garden over the past week. Clearly it's been ideal growing conditions as some are huge!!
The lamb was lovely JKS definitely a recipe worth keeping. There's LOs so a lamb salad wrap for lunch. Easy dinner tonight spicy breaded prawn Po'boy style sandwiches with salad and HM wedges.

justkeepswimmimg

Great news Farway! And DGD is properly famous now 🙃

Glad you liked the lamb caronc 😋

 Wfh today. Bit mixed, didn’t get off to the best start but I’ve had a productive afternoon. Plus, load of washing dried on the line and no heating on!

LO spinach and feta tart, salad and coleslaw for lunch. Out for early tea before the theatre tonight - looking forward to it.

Brambling

Another disturbed night when I was woken at 3.30 again looking for pain killers  work was done via the sofa today so I could keep my foot up.  The nurse could have prescribed the tablets I was on Farway but wouldn't the Allopurinol which is why I have to wait six weeks for the doctor 

gammon and egg bread roll for lunch. Shepherds pie from the freezer for assay dinner 

caronc

Good morning everyone,
Hope your foot is less painful today Brambling.
Waiting for my sister's pooch to arrive as we are looking after him until the weekend as she is going away with work and my nephew's shifts are conducive to pooch watching/walking. Today will no doubt be mayhem but then hopefully they'll calm down.
Cheese, crackers and salad for lunch. Sticky chicken thighs for dinner Sticky honey garlic chicken recipe - BBC Food with Jersey Royals, broccoli and green beans. 

Farway

Sunny with a cooling breeze

I suppose looking on the brighter side Brambling, at least your gout held off until after you need to drive to Dorset, I know I couldn't drive with gout but maybe yours is a bit different? I couldn't even get a shoe on

JKS, lamb recipe, I'm still looking for lamb steaks, just an empty space in Marks and same in Morries when I went in this morning

I went to Morries first thing, I don't go there these days but had an offer I couldn't refuse, £4 off £20 spend. I wanted some tinned yeast, and they sell it, as it happens 50p cheaper than W8rose

Off course, I bought other items, doughnuts and a pork pie are examples of my foolishness, but at least I'm set for the BH weekend. I was a few pennies short of twenty quid at the checkout, so had to buy a pack of chewing gum to take me over the magic number, money well wasted because it knocked four pounds off my bill. I don't use gum, but I expect one of the grandchildren will relieve me of it

Lunch, among my purchases was a packet of baps, and a pack of bacon misshapes. I'm hoping to get a bacon roll out to those

Dinner, the other kipper, with LO mash & maybe oven baked YS on the way out tomatoes from today's shopping

justkeepswimmimg

Perhaps I’ve created a shortage, Farway - like Delia with the cranberries 😂

Lovely evening out last night but I am now confused about what day it is!

It’s Wednesday so usual offsite meeting this morning but then into the office as I had a short training session to attend. Managed a few bits and bobs in between but still got quite a lot I need to do by the end of the week.

Was quite late home and didn’t fancy rushing around to get to swimming so did some dinner prep then went out for a sunny walk.

Lunch was the rest of the Greek salad ish couscous. Tuna and green bean pesto pasta tonight, LOs in a lunchbox ready for tomorrow 🙃

Brambling

Farway said:

Sunny with a cooling breeze

I suppose looking on the brighter side Brambling, at least your gout held off until after you need to drive to Dorset, I know I couldn't drive with gout but maybe yours is a bit different? I couldn't even get a shoe on

No shoe or driving here at the moment Farway 😕 although as it is my left foot in theory I could drive but my foot isn't happy being down for too long and I would have to hop to the car.  I got a better night sleep last night so the pills are working, last one for three days tonight but I think it's on the way to recovery and I won't need a second course although red and swollen it isn't as painful unless I touch it   

usual work day here with the afternoon spent on a call.  My nephew came around this morning and did a little gardening for me, as long as he doesn't have to identify plants from weeds he's ok and is going to do some 'heavy' work for me 

Hummus, breadsticks and carrots for lunch with some fresh pineapple.  Lazy dinner of gammon, egg and AF chips

Farway

Woke early and failed to drop back off, so I was up & out to the volunteer garden spot, weeding & watering the neglected pots. Looking better now, just been waiting on weather really

Our forecast is sunshine all next week, so I expect the volunteer watering will become routine as it was last year

When I opened up the pack of "cooking bacon" from Morries I found it was mainly three large chunks of bacon, too thick and large for sarnie, so now I'm thinking a thick ham and veg soup, sort of chowder style for the weekend

Lunch today, a bit stuck now it's not bacon, egg I think, in fact I could have egg & cress using the bought in cress

Dinner, one of the Mark's chicken legs, oven cooked.

I'll cook both at the same time today, but leave one for tomorrow

Probably with a root veg tray bake that can go in the oven at the same time to help make it MSE