Cooking for one (Mark Three)

justkeepswimmimg

Wow, it’s been hot wfh today. It just got hotter and hotter late afternoon and early evening too but is quite pleasant now. Three loads of washing dried on the line 🙃

Nipped out at the end of my working day to stock up on basic groceries to keep me going until the weekend - lots of salad and fruit mostly.

Cobbled together a lunch of gigantes plaki, toasted pitta and a couple of stuffed vine leaves (had tins in the cupboard from Lidl’s last Greek week). Chorizo, prawn and sourdough skewers on the bbq tonight, served with a salad including roasted peppers and a dressing using the oil plus sherry vinegar 😋

caronc

Good morning everyone,
I forgot to post yesterday after being out for most of day.
Sadly no sunshine here, it's warm but very grey.
I'd a lovely long lunch with friends yesterday. The world has been put to rights yet again!
My sis is feeling much better and tested negative this morning.
I need to tackle a fairly long list of admin stuff today including sorting out my broadband renewal. I can't say I'm looking forward to that.
Fridge gravel lunch. Pasta and HM meatballs for dinner using a couple of burgers from a batch I made recently.

Wednesday2000

It feels fresher today as yesterday was very hot here, but I am washing the bed covers as it is still dry and warm.

I am going to have a mini pot of houmous with celery sticks and crackers with an apple, a banana and some pistachio nuts for an unusual breakfast!

I am going to make tofu scramble (like scrambled eggs) with wholemeal toast for lunch. I hope the football today is better than the England match last night *sigh*.

Need2bthrifty

Not such a nice day here either, the sea haar has crept ashore. I went for a walk earlier and noticed it out at sea but by the time I got home the headlands either side of the bay had disappeared and now the town is engulfed; that can be the pattern here in summer - 1 day sun, 1 day rain, 1 day fog 
 
Lunch was leftover quiche with a tomato salad and tonight more of the dhal stash I have in the freezer with a baked potato, pickles and chutney.

Farway

Scorching hot, but an early start & finished up in Morries. 

Nothing special, some YS Wensleydale, YS Marconi cheese MFO and top up lettuce & tomatoes.

I was hoping for dinner inspiration to go with salad, but left uninspired, except for a pork pie & some pasties.

Need2bthrifty said:

Farway said:

Need2bthrifty said:

That's a nuisance with your milk delivery Farway, hope they get themselves sorted out.

I phoned and said I'd ordered four times, and only twice have items arrived despite them saying they were delivered and the time of delivery.

Pointed out the blooming obvious that they were probably going to the wrong address. 

Upshot is I'm now on a so-called Focus Delivery, where a photo is taken when delivered, some parcel companies do the same, still goes to wrong place, complete with wrong door photos, but it's a start.

Hope some "toe rag" hasn't nicking it off the doorstep 

Could be, but round here, quite & off the beaten track, most stuff on doorsteps, including Amazon parcels etc, stays there

And it would be a very determined thief who wants to lug 2 X 40L bags of compost down to the waiting car.

I can understand a bottle of milk, but not bags of compost, even our apples & fruit are not "scrumped"

My money is it went to wrong address, or never delivered, especially as an empty milk bottle remained

Lunch, one of the new Morries pasties.

Dinner, some cold pork pie + salad bits

Need2bthrifty

Farway said:

Scorching hot, but an early start & finished up in Morries. 

Nothing special, some YS Wensleydale, YS Marconi cheese MFO and top up lettuce & tomatoes.

I was hoping for dinner inspiration to go with salad, but left uninspired, except for a pork pie & some pasties.

Need2bthrifty said:

Farway said:

Need2bthrifty said:

That's a nuisance with your milk delivery Farway, hope they get themselves sorted out.

I phoned and said I'd ordered four times, and only twice have items arrived despite them saying they were delivered and the time of delivery.

Pointed out the blooming obvious that they were probably going to the wrong address. 

Upshot is I'm now on a so-called Focus Delivery, where a photo is taken when delivered, some parcel companies do the same, still goes to wrong place, complete with wrong door photos, but it's a start.

Hope some "toe rag" hasn't nicking it off the doorstep 

Could be, but round here, quite & off the beaten track, most stuff on doorsteps, including Amazon parcels etc, stays there

And it would be a very determined thief who wants to lug 2 X 40L bags of compost down to the waiting car.

I can understand a bottle of milk, but not bags of compost, even our apples & fruit are not "scrumped"

My money is it went to wrong address, or never delivered, especially as an empty milk bottle remained

Lunch, one of the new Morries pasties.

Dinner, some cold pork pie + salad bits

    Ha, Ha Ha  I thought it was just milk that hadn't arrived 

justkeepswimmimg

Another very hot day here. Just the five meetings today 😬

Found about 15 minutes to eat my Greek mezze lunch - gigantes plaki, dolmades, houmous, cucumber sticks, olives and feta - forgot to take a pitta bread but was a good lunch. BBQ back on this evening for salmon and charred spring onions, served with salad and new potatoes.

Brambling

I wrote a post yesterday and got sidetracked and it never got posted 🙄

It's definitely too hot for me 🥵 even his lordship chose to snooze the day away in the darken lounge until about 7pm.  I had my asthma review lunch time and the car read 33 having been sitting in the sun all morning and the steering wheel was too hot to hold.  This is my first face to face review since 2019 as last year I had gout, I was never sure how they would on the phone! 

I popped into Sainsbury's as the surgery is next door and I parked there, I just needed some fruit and veg and I brought a side of salmon as currently they are a third off with nectar, I'll portion it up tomorrow when I take a piece for dinner.  It is only a small side just cost me £10.50

Poached eggs on toast for an early lunch.  I marinated a pork loin chop, sliced and quickly fried and had it in a wrap with salad for dinner, too hot to eat much 

Need2bthrifty

Much nicer day today, went for an early walk before it gets too hot. The sea is quite choppy so there could be some "weather" on the way
 
I'm in "use-up" mode before I even contemplate another online shop - yesterday I made the loveliest banana & cinnamon scones with two very spotty bananas, thought it best to ration them so most of them are in the freezer but kept one out breakfast.
 
I also need to use up the last two eggs before they get too old, so for lunch I will scramble them, pile on toast with some very ripe toms.
 
Some more freezer diving for tonight using up a portion of Kung Pao chicken, wedges from the last baking potato and some green beans.

Farway

Very restless & humid night, which seems to have improved since I guess a “front” went over. Fresher & much more pleasant now.

Brambling said:

I popped into Sainsbury's as the surgery is next door and I parked there, I just needed some fruit and veg and I brought a side of salmon as currently they are a third off with nectar, I'll portion it up tomorrow when I take a piece for dinner.  It is only a small side just cost me £10.50

Maybe something going on with salmon, Morries was knee-deep in them yesterday, but these were whole ones, including heads & tails, ideal centrepiece but not CFO.

Lunch, another of the pasties

Dinner, unless I get a better idea it's lazy pasty, frozen chips & open a tin of beans