Cooking for one (Mark Three)

caronc

Good morning everyone, 
Very wild here and there's a fair bit of flooding in town and surrounding area. Our internet keeps crashing which is a pain for DS2 who is in back to back Teams meetings.
I see my 2017 Haggis thread has been revived! 
It's my sister's birthday today and we're having our usual Tuesday get together. We're having HM steak and sausage pie in shortcrust pastry (much prefer that to the puff pastry version), baby roasties, cabbage, root veg mash and HM gravy. I cooked the pie filling and the mash yesterday so not too much to do today. LO salmon for lunch.

justkeepswimmimg

It’s getting wild and windy again here this evening.

Very busy wfh day so will enjoy taking my frustrations out on the swimming pool in a bit.

LO potato and pepper traybake for lunch, I chucked it in a frying pan to warm it up and then sprinkled feta on top. Had beans on toast a little while ago (early tea before swimming).

Brambling

I did see the return of the haggis thread Caronc and had to laugh at PNs comments about it.

Grey and wet day   usual work day just the one meeting 🙂 lunchtime was spent picking up my prescription request sent to GP nearly two weeks ago and they were just doing it when I went in, I thought only two customers in the chemist was too good to be true as it took over a half hour for her to check my meds,  I did think they all came in from a central location already bagged 🤔.  I was told by another customer that our local Tesco now want 10 days to sort your meds this chemist is 72 hours from the time the surgery sends it to them.  

Home just in time to make a smoke salmon and cream cheese wrap and eat on the go.  I promised my sister she could have my next Waitrose voucher for £1 off a small chicken so that needed picking up today before they change tomorrow.  I needed milk and some F & V.  I was ignoring YSs but the lady on the meat and fish counter was putting bags of reductions on the top of the counter, I wasn't greedy mainly as limited freezer room but did pick a bag containing a kilo of their 'posh' sirloin steaks for £9.27 usually £40 a kilo there are three large thick steaks which I think will do six good size steaks for me.  I ignored the big chunk of tuna but picked up a £10 piece for £2. I'm not keen on cooking halibut so ignored the 6 pieces of halibut got £6 but they were nabbed quickly.  A lot of the fish was bagged up in large portions which put me off.  

I dropped the chicken off at my sister and came home to a late dinner of LO chicken and orzo traybake and green veg 

caronc

Good morning everyone,
We seem to have escaped any further storm damage and the storm seems to be blowing out now.
Admin and more admin on the cards today.
Pie was demolished, there's some LO veg and gravy. the veg will get used for lunch and I'll freeze the gravy.
Ragu from the freezer is defrosting to have with pasta tonight.

Farway

All quiet here now, no wind to speak of & sun's back out

Went to Morries first thing, just for a mooch around, really. It must be Sirloin steak time, Morries had some on offer, not quite bargain price of Brambling, but bought a pack as a treat, and same with some rump.

YS was OK, I got YS fresh cod fillets, small but two in the pack, and YS beer battered flavour chips so that's tonight dinner sorted

One unplanned bargain was a gift pack of three fancy waxed covered cheese truckles, shelf price was £7, individual truckles were £2.75 so splurged out. Worked out very well because the pack went through at £3.50

Only thing left for today is checking the garden over now the wind has gone, I think all's well but just in case

Lunch, warmed up YS Morries sausage rolls

Dinner, the YS cod fillets, floured & fried i think, with AF YS beery type chips + nuked frozen peas

Wednesday2000

It was very gusty when I walked out of the hairdressers yesterday, but today feels lovely and mild. I have the windows open and it is sunny. I'm washing my bed covers and I was wondering if it is mild enough to dry my laundry on the washing line. I have to go outside and clean it first as I haven't used it in ages.

My tooth was feeling sensitive (even though I just had a checkup at the start of January) and I bit down last night on my dinner and I think my filling is loose so I have booked an appointment for tomorrow. I don't even remember how long I have had that filling, maybe decades.

I've had a cup of coffee and I'm about to have a bagel. I was talking to my hairdresser about my finances yesterday and saying how much we spend on food and eating out. She was quite shocked so I am having a NSD today and I am doing a meal plan for the rest of the week! I am going to try and only chew on one side of my mouth when I eat.

Wednesday2000

It was very gusty when I walked out of the hairdressers yesterday, but today feels lovely and mild. I have the windows open and it is sunny. I'm washing my bed covers and I was wondering if it is mild enough to dry my laundry on the washing line. I have to go outside and clean it first as I haven't used it in ages.

My tooth was feeling sensitive (even though I just had a checkup at the start of January) and I bit down last night on my dinner and I think my filling is loose so I have booked an appointment for tomorrow. I don't even remember how long I have had that filling, maybe decades.

I've had a cup of coffee and I'm about to have a bagel. I was talking to my hairdresser about my finances yesterday and saying how much we spend on food and eating out. She was quite shocked so I am having a NSD today and I am doing a meal plan for the rest of the week! I am going to try and only chew on one side of my mouth when I eat.

Need2bthrifty

Thankfully I’m on-line again, I’ve spoken with customer service staff in N Ireland, Falkirk and Cardiff, all who patronisingly kept telling me that my assessment of the fault couldn't possibly happen nowadays. Well it did and the engineer confirmed that today and fixed it. How vindicated do I feel and I’ll take great delight in telling them so in their follow-up call tomorrow.
 
I’m glad everyone survived the storms, we missed most of it this time around, apart from a rather brisk wind.
 
Lunch was a feta salad with some of the olive bread I picked up on Monday, it is very nice, but a bit expensive so wont be buying it too often.
 
I found a jar of bhuna curry sauce in the cupboard, so I’ll have a chicken curry, rice, poppadums' & relish tonight. 

justkeepswimmimg

Less chaotic, more productive day today which is good. Boss bought me lunch too 😋

Made a chicken, cashew, pepper and pea egg fried rice after swimming tonight.

Brambling

I did lay in bed listening to the wind during the night but woke to a nice sunny day 

I had to go to the hospital in the next town today for my hearing aids all fitted in half hour with apps for my phone and instructions to link to Bluetooth to hook up my phone, music and the works laptop. Just need to get use to them. I had to park on the road and expecting to be delayed added far to much time on the parking meter and I went in early 🙂 I can if it doesn't make noticeable difference to my tinnitus have it set to give me white noise which it seems tricks the brain. Tomorrow I get my hip X-ray just shoot me now   at least that is the local small hospital 

I picked up a crusty roll on the way home and add bread and pate for lunch.  The last of the LO chicken traybake and veg for dinner, tomorrow I'll have to think about cooking 🧑‍🍳