Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Farway

Very sticky & sleepless night, not much better this morning, hot & humid with still air

Caught up on plant watering first thing, before it gets unbearable again

W2000, I keep craving baked potatoes, but I'm not in the mood to have the oven on in this heat. It feels hotter in my house than yesterday. I have taken to nuking them, not the same I know, with skins not crispy etc, but for me it was any port in a storm. Passable and makes a change

Mainly salad again

Lunch, cheese + salad sandwich

Dinner, fried salmon fillet, boiled new pots & salad bits

Need2bthrifty

Lovely and sunny with a fresh breeze when I went for a walk around the bay at 8am then stopped off at the fishmongers on my way home where I picked up 4 Partan Taes (brown crab claws) which have produced just over 5oz of white crabmeat.

I cooked extra potatoes last night and hardboiled an egg that needed using so that I can have an egg and potato salad for lunch.

Tonight I’ll have the crabmeat but not sure how yet, maybe something simple and unadulterated like crab, tomatoes, brown bread and butter. 

caronc

Good morning everyone,

Yesterday was too hot for me, once it gets above 23/24C I melt. It was 38C in my kitchen/conservatory at 6.30pm so very glad to have round 2 of picky bits for dinner. Thunder came in overnight and we have three unsettled pooches so between the heat and the rumbles no one had much sleep. There is still the odd rumble but it well in the distance and it is thankfully a good few degrees cooler.

Admin and chores to catch up with and Tesco are due later with my "normal" shop. Fridge gravel for lunch and dinner is tbc.

Wednesday2000

I don't have a microwave Farway. I could chop the potatoes up and have them in the air fryer instead.

I have had a yoghurt and I'm about to have a smoothie. I'm going to use frozen bananas to make it more cold!

Brambling

Hot today again and the volunteering offfice has no air con, there was a breeze when I popped out lunchtime.

I've been bitten on my legs I checked his lordship but no visitors (he was de flead just in case, he wasn't impressed) however there was a mosquito buzzing around the bedroom last night and my legs weren't covered. I picked up some cream in the chemist and taken another antihistamine, the heat doesn't help with wanting to scratch.

Last of the quinoa salad with some chicken for lunch.

I cooked some pasta for tomorrows salad with the extra i sprinkled some cheese on top and some chopped peppers for a really lazy dinner

Farway

At last, a bit of rain overnight, not much, more of a dampen down really, but it's much fresher this morning, still hot sun & blue sky but the oppressive humidity has gone

Lunch, with all the egg talk, a fried egg sandwich I think, nice & easy. Not a boiled egg lover or I'd do that

Dinner, I'm fed up with salad, so it's a RM tomato & mozzarella pasta bake, but I'll nuke it, not putting oven on in this heat

caronc

Good morning everyone,

Ouch re the bites Brambling, I'm getting munched every time I venture inti the greenhouse, it's midge paradise this year!

Yesterday ended up just as hot & sticky as the day before with the thunder and showers throughout the day not really clearing the air. It does feel slightly fresher this morning though.

DS2 has headed to get some bits he needs for a forthcoming wedding so I'm pooch sitting, I've not much planned but the fridge could do with a good sort out and wipe out. If the kitchen temperature is more bearable I might tackle that. For dinner yesterday I made a mushroom and riced cauliflower "pilaf" which I had with cooked ham, fried eggs and AF sweet potato chunks. There's LOs for lunch. Tonight it's JO's Jerk chicken sandwiches from his & ways book with HM coleslaw and AF chips.

Need2bthrifty

Mid 20’s again in my little corner of the globe and I'm feeling a bit hot and sweaty. Went to catch up with a friend and we both thought it was too hot to sit in a cafe so bought some strawberries, bananas and bottled water and found a bench in the shade for our picnic.

I still have some crabmeat to use and found a waitrose recipe idea thats suits as I have all the ingredients to hand 😊

https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/recipe/crab-broad-bean-lemon-pappardelle

justkeepswimmimg

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/82049772#Comment_82049772

Have I missed dinner, N2BT? I love crab but it’s so expensive!

Been a long, hot week. Volunteer catering the last two evenings (so got fed 😋) and this afternoon (got cake and leftover ingredients 😉). Bit of pottering around this morning.

Smashed avocado and poached eggs on toast for early lunch. Balsamic salmon, cherry tomatoes and basil in a foil parcel with new potatoes and salad tonight.

Farway

The humidity has dropped, now much cooler, and more like a summer day should be, including clouding over & looking like rain 😁

Some opened milk had turned to yoghurt in the fridge overnight, luckily I had my new one still OK

I have a courgette ready, not grown them for years but decided to do so again this year, more as experiment TBH, not a veg I would ever buy. Of course I opted to grow yellow round ones, so now I have one about the size of a large orange to be used 😂 I'll probably pan fry in oil / butter

lunch, cheese & salad sandwich

Dinner, Use up before Use By, RM veg lasagne, plus th HG ball courgette