Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Farway

Morning all

Up with birds this morning, sun out & getting hotter

Breakfast of porridge, banana, honey & HM yoghurt

Then off to pot up last of the volunteer tubs before the heat got going. I was back home before shops open, so never bothered. One co codamol later I'm now thinking about potting on the dahlias in the front before the sun really gets round there

But first is lunch, boring, no thought required, cheese & salady sarnie

Dinner with current heat must be salad, probably easy peasy baked spud with grated cheese. It will be the last of my big baking spuds, and my frozen chips are nearly gone, losing some CFO options if I don't act soon

bouicca21

Seriously short of money this month, but store cupboard is ok and freezer diving produced left over Xmas turkey (= at least two days of curry), some sausages (= toad in the hole, enough batter for more than one meal but not enough sausages), and if I buy a couple of carrots to go with the somewhat sad looking sweet potato and ordinary potato in the fridge, I can probably make a veggie shepherds pie that will last 2-3 days.

That gets me through the week on pennies, with the possibility of pancakes from the left over batter. Though I have to confess that curry will probably be made with my emergency jar of Lidl korma sauce and not from scratch.

PasturesNew

Farway wrote: »

PN, drill bits..

Remembered this, popped in and got some today. £2.79, they had two sorts (wood & metal), so I got both, else I'll only wish to drill the other thing if I only get one

Scorchio here today.... scorchio.

Went car booting earlyish (pre-8am) ... shuffled round it twice. Trouble with this one is that once you've done it once you're really too late to drive to another one. On some routes you can fit in two ... perchance three if you start early and walk round quickly.

Bought a couple of minor items that were on my list to look for. Total spent on "stuff" was £7.50.

No breakfast before I went out - ate a pack of crisps in the car after I'd been round the field..... came home and put margarine on two slices of bread as I CBA to think about making an actual sandwich and finding/choosing/deciding on a filling.

Brambling

Stopping for a quick cup of tea and the last piece of quiche, no salad just grab and go. I know it's more gardening weather but my kitchen cupboard where I store my plastic containers has been driving me mad :eek: as I can't find the correct lids in the morning, i started with one cupboard and i'm now working my way around the rest of the kitchen. Currently I've walked away from a worktop full of stuff. I will be leaving the cupboard under the stairs until last :eek::eek:

There are some benefits I've found some HM strawberry and rhubarb jam I forgot about, and some raspberry gin I started last year so I've drained the raspberries out and decantered the gin into bottles. I've resisted trying the gin or I'll be falling off the chair I'm standing on to reach the upper cupboards. I don't need help to fall off anything as I can fall over my own feet :rotfl:

I will make my goat cheese and beetroot tart later for dinner, not good planning as it means pastry followed by pastry today :cool:

caronc

Good afternoon everyone,

Good luck in finding the lids Brambling mine seem to disappear into a black hole never to be seen again, that is of course until I ditch the base then the lid turns up somewhere random...

The rain has stopped and the sun is out though how long for is anyone's guess.:)
The chores are done and the house is clean and tidy.

Brunch was bacon & egg with a flat mushroom & tattie scone.
My son expects to arrive late afternoon, if the sun is still out I think we'll probably sit out in the garden with a g&t:D.

PasturesNew

Still scorchio here....

Made two egg/salad sandwiches (sans salad cream as I've been forgetting to buy it...). Ate one, other's in the fridge for later.... but as it's alongside yesterday's chinese leftovers, it might not get eaten today ... and I've still two quiche quarters in the fridge.

I had to use up the lettuce and I'd bought bread so needed to use that up .... so I couldn't "not make" the sandwiches as the lettuce will be going brown by tomorrow (and therefore even more unexciting/unappealing). It was a nice crunchy sandwich

I bought a pack of plums the other day, half price sticker on them as best by that day, but they were "ripen at home", so still waiting for that to happen! Also bought two bananas yesterday, which I plonked with the plums to encourage them to ripen. So I guess some fruit will be eaten in the next 2-3 days.

Brambling

I've been left with 2 bases with no lids and 3 lids with no bases and one which isn't mine :rotfl: I've put them to one side under the stairs in case their partners turn up as you say Caronc they're waiting until I bin them

I've given up i need to wash the floor and finish under the stairs but I've frizzled out of energy as it's a bit warm

Good luck with the home ripen fruit PN I've given up buying it even YS as I can rarely get it to ripen it tends to go from too hard to gone off

I need to test my electric pressure cooker I dropped the lid valve side down tidying I'll try it with the beetroot that way if it doesn't work I've not wasted any meat. And by the amount of baking stuff I've just found I may have to either bake or off load on my nephew :cool:

Farway

Now scorchio here, good job I mowed the grass yesterday, bit too hot for lugging a mower about

I'd forgotten I had 1/2 a YS pork pie LO, so that was lunch, with piccalilli, instead of a sarnie

I did pot on the dahlia, before the sun went round front. It look quite tidy out there now the dead daff leaves have gone

Never mind pot lids going missing, my hand fork has vanished, I only used it this morning, looked everywhere, and it has a red handle so not invisible:( I now have two trowels & nil hand forks:o

Spud in the oven baking, it is the grottiest looking spud I've seen in a long time but there is not a choice. Celery de limping in water, & all set for salad dinner later

PN, glad you got the drill bits OK, at that price worth buying both types just in case. I've paid more for one very good diamond tipped bit before now

Farway

Brambling wrote: »

I need to test my electric pressure cooker I dropped the lid valve side down tidying I'll try it with the beetroot that way if it doesn't work I've not wasted any meat.

I hope it does not give you a kitchen that looks like the Valentine's Day massacre should the valve fail and pressurised beetroot liquid sprays everywhere. Fingers crossed for you

PasturesNew

Farway wrote: »

PN, glad you got the drill bits OK, at that price worth buying both types just in case. I've paid more for one very good diamond tipped bit before now

I've had "keep eye out for 1mm and 2mm diamond bits" on my to do list for some years now.... trouble is, I never DO keep an eye out - and, I didn't used to have a drill ... and I never remember to even think about it. I'd be using them to drill through glass, which is a hobby/project I've had in mind for the last 10 years and never got round to.

I saw a dish today, printed with the words "Round Tuit" ... but if I'd bought that I'd have had a lot of work to do in the coming weeks/months/years as I could never say "I've not got a round tuit"