Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Brambling

I've reached the stage where I've no intention of going into town before Christmas so I stayed indoors in the dry today.  I did make a large beef massaman curry in my pressure cooker using a beef cheek and some shin from the freezer.  The beef is local and was brought at the garden centre butcher, all their meat is local and if asked they could tell you the farm. I forgot how tough beef cheeks are to cut and have lost my kitchen scissors, but it was worth the swearing! It wasn't for today, but I did have a small sample 😋 and it's very nice 🙂 maybe another chilli next time or I should have left the seeds and membrane when I blitz the sauce ingredients but I'm sure it will mature.  Some for the next couple of days and the rest frozen. 

Cheese, crackers and pickles for lunch.  

My sister came around for dinner, I had two very cheap YS sea bass in the freezer which I oven baked with green beans, tenderstem broccoli and new potatoes.  I made salsa/sauce with basil, sun dried tomatoes, capers, anchovies, red wine vinegar, lemon juice and olive oil having tried a small taster my sister had a large spoonful and asked for the recipe and didn't appreciate my a little bit of this and a little bit of that reply. I had no recipe it was just what was in the cupboard that I thought would work, she's lucky I left out the olives 😁