Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Farway

Hot day ahead, I've been out urgently watering already, TBH I was not expecting to need to water anything with the recent rain & it now being September, supposed to be getting hotter all week

Finalised the Asda delivery for Wednesday, my guess is with this weather my standard order of salad items will be missing or subbed

Nurse & Healthy Heart clinic tomorrow first thing, first time since Covid, so I suspect it is just box ticking time by them and not something really required and monitored any longer

Meals today, just light salady bits with LOs

Ploughman style lunch, with mini LO pork pies

Dinner, LO roast chicken leg + salad bits

I have LO HM banana bread if tum space remains

caronc

Good morning everyone,
Stove has been swept, serviced and a portion of the sealing rope replaced. The chap reckoned a partial repair rather than fully replacing it was probably enough but to give them a shout if it doesn't hold. Consequently he only charged me for the sweep & service as he was able to use an offcut. 

I've learned more about drains in the last few months than I ever thought I'd need to lol! Further excavation found what has probably been the problem on and off over many years. After discovering the buried trap, DS2 found a further capped chamber which then had a u-bend attached to it like one you would find in a loo but heavy clay piping which was clogging with silt and waste. One of his work mates who is a water engineer reckons it was put in as an easy fix to over come a level change. Seems like dodgy building practices aren't a new thing! All now replaced and proper accessible trap is installed.  I'm so very fortunate to have an engineer son who isn't afraid of a bit of hard graft! 

Slow roasted topside worked really well, managed to keep it nice and rare and it was beautifully tender. It's hardly shrunk at all. I'm think I'm convert to cooking this cut that way. There's enough left for  lunch time sandwiches today and a lump that I'll vac pack and freeze. Dal with rice and naan for dinner

Wednesday2000

I got a Chinese takeaway last night after my husband left for work as they deliver beer too! I feel quite full up even now.

I'm just having water at the moment. We have the workmen coming over later and I have an Ocado delivery tonight.

Brambling

I like my reviews via the telephone Farways it means they can't make you get on the scales 😁 so no weight lecture 🙄

Sounds like good news re the drains and stove Caronc 🙂 I have cooked big beef joints on the slow cooker but I'm not convinced I like it although it does keep it moist I end up with pulled beef !

I'm still on annual leave until the rest of the week so slow start to the day, up usual time as his lordship likes his breakfast on time, but a more leisurely start.  Picked up my meds today, the doc is slowly increasing my meds to prevent gout to 200mg before going to 300mg in a couple of months, but they only had 100mg tablets so with the other pill to take with it and my thyroid meds i was glad I have a medical exemption card or it would have been very expensive as it was it was a embarrassing large bag to pick up 

Watercress salad for lunch with LO roast chicken.  More chicken for dinner this time with LO vegetables although I cba to make wedges with the LO jacket potato 

Wednesday2000

I got some bread from Coop yesterday so I just had a thick slice with marg.

I am making jacket potatoes with something later, maybe baked beans and coleslaw.

caronc

Good afternoon everyone,
Brambling I cooked the beef in a very low oven rather than the SC. I find the SC is fine for pulled beef, stew  but even if pot roasting topside or silverside I prefer to do it in a covered pot on the stove and then in the oven for bit.
Scorching here today, a tad too warm for my liking!
Off soon for my Flu jab and then not much planned. My sis and nephew usually come for dinner on Tuesdays but other commitments have got in the way this week. It kind of suits me this as DS2 and I prefer to eat a bit later so I won't need to face a roasting kitchen until it's had a chance to cool a bit.
Teriyaki chicken thighs with baked spuds, corn cobette and salad for dinner. Salad bits for lunch.

Farway

Brambling said:

I like my reviews via the telephone Farways it means they can't make you get on the scales 😁 so no weight lecture 🙄

I got the lecture . But in light-hearted way, she knows me too well now and has seen me go up & down over the years, when I first started with her, she had to take maternity leave after a few years, this morning I find that baby is fourteen and takes size 91/2 shoes, gulp

Collected prescription as well while out, had a bit of a wait because somehow mine were "lost" it seems. Still I was not in any hurry so no harm done

Hot here, was a bit of a breeze but that's gone

Good job on the drains Caron, and having a son who can get stuck in, that with the fire alls et for winter now

Asda due tomorrow, I've ordered a different brand of sausages trying to get back to a more natural style, their own Extra Special were OK but have "Improved" with addition of rice flour, chick pea flour & a Calcium Alginate casing, yummy. 

Trying Porky Whites this time. Of course in an ideal world I would go down to my none existent local butcher and buy theirs

Lunch was BLT with my freshly made loaf

Dinner, bacon, eggs & chips, make some room for tomorrow delivery

Brambling

Hope there were no after effects from the jab Caronc, mine is booked for the 2nd October 

Farway a freezer rummage today found 4 farm shop sausages 😋 as well as some of their chipolatas which have been brought to the top of the freezer drawer.   Hopefully the porky whites will pass the taste  test 

Too hot to do any planned gardening today other than watering just before dark so a day of indoor takes including sorting the bathroom sink which had a very slow drain since I got back, old toothbrush, bicarb and white vinegar sorted it although i needed to pop into town to grab some more vinegar, too hot to linger there.  

Lunch was a chicken and salad roll.  Chicken, wedges, corn ribs and coleslaw for dinner. Chicken will be finished tomorrow 🙂 I'm meeting a friend in Chichester for lunch tomorrow so it will probably be a sandwich for dinner, if I haven't melted on the train 🥵🌞

justkeepswimmimg

Back from a sunny holiday to a bit of an Indian summer, which is a nice surprise. Washing machine on and trying to get my head back into shopping and cooking! Picked up a few essentials yesterday and had lamb burger (cooked on the bbq 🙃), new potatoes, salad and coleslaw.

Back later…

caronc

Good morning everyone,
Welcome back jks
Feeling a bit meh today, reaction to my flu jab I think or I've picked up a low grade lurgy.
DS2 is Glasgow looking after Frank as DS1 has to the office and it will be several weeks yet before Frank will be fit enough to go to doggy day care.
Overcast here this morning and a blissful few degrees cooler.
Decided to make teriyaki chicken next week when my sis is here as I know she likes it. Instead I marinated thighs in LO red chimichurri sauce then roasted them. Worked well and the end result wasn't dissimilar to peri peri. LOs for lunch. Thai green curry with rice tonight to use up the rest of the pack of thighs.