Cooking for one (Mark Three)

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I had a bit of hm ice cream on my rhubarb today and was just thinking how it was ok to scoop out, compared to even the better shop bought makes lately. Some are rock hard, too much thin milk ie cheaper to make


I had a nap too, was up early as usual but pretty full on doing jobs and all of a sudden at 3pm, could hardly get one foot in front of another going upstairs. I was zonked and the nap has revived me. I can do another half hour and that is it for today, making very good progress though



Buttered scone and gooseberries and youghurt and that is tea done and dusted

moneyistooshorttomention

Whew! Heavy duty work in the garden today.

So - lunch was the omnipresent avocado toast (yep...so 2010's - sourdough bread/avocado/tomatoes):rotfl:. Followed by deconstructed banana nice cream (ie the deconstructed being I hadnt belted them to bits in my blender:rotfl:) eaten with oranges and oat "cream".

Really really really cba for dinner after all my hard work - so I'm going to grab whatever comes to hand first in the kitchen for dinner and suspect it'll be literally just new potatoes with "buttery" spread and "parmesan-alike" and whatever else I can think of with it. Phew - shattered...

PasturesNew

Had more chocolate covered peanuts and a cheese topped roll with margarine

Brambling

I'm another one who doesn't keep ice cream in the house, one of my sisters has a bowl of something expensive every day but I've never bothered with it unless I'm at the sea side one of the Cornish brands does a lovely gooseberry frozen yogurt but it's seasonal and not always available when I've been down there. If it's really hot I'll make a 2 minute frozen fruit yogurt by blending frozen fruit with yoghurt.

Lunch was a wrap filled with YS pulled ham hock (I'm too tight to buy it at full price) and salad. Dinner was some chicken curry from the freezer it hasn't calmed down any :eek: I think i added double chilli when I made it even with yogurt added it's still far too hot, there's still 2 portions in the freezer I'll have to think whether to eat it as too hot to be enjoyable :think: it's also not sitting too well now

My sleep pattern has been all over the place lately I'm not sure what is worst keep waking up every hour all night or not being able to drop off, it was after 2 o'clock Monday night when I finally dropped off. The rescue remedy arrive today so I must remember to take it upstairs tonight and give it a try, I think I'm now too tired to sleep so maybe just wait for the crash.

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looks like a better day for anyone with heavy work to do today, not so stifling.

I am definitely addicted to ice cream and chocolate but I sorted that by only having a strip of 85% chocolate everyday, vivani which happens to be vegan. Shop bought ice cream is too addictive and it is only the sugars and glucose-fructose that makes it palatable, not at all good for me. The last one was haagen and it was rock hard, I love magnums and kellys but don`t buy them for obvious reasons. My own hm ice cream is wholly organic and contains 3 egg yolks, double guernsey cream, whole guernsey milk, a vanilla pod and some sugar but not too much. I only need a small amount to feel that satisfaction. It is a bit of a potch to make but I am getting better at making the custard while doing other kitchen things, then the ice cream maker takes over a few hours later. I can spoon it out when properly frozen, I do have to wiggle the spoon but a proper scoop works first time. That solid ice cream means they have changed the formula to cheaper production. It should not need a hammer on a spoon

Breakfast was overnight soaked oats and I added some puffed amaranth to soak, amaranth was much better that way, that plus a couple of sliced strawberries. Very nice. Later will have some toast, must remember to take some bread out the freezer.

Lunch will be a mix of lentil/quinoa pasta with a stir fry assortment of veg, rhubarb crumble and ice cream after. I am going to make a big pot of brown rice in my rice cooker today, will quickly cool and freeze, so it is handy, I can then add it to anything, including a thin soup

I don`t intend to waste my day, back upstairs to sort more later

PasturesNew

It's wet/cool here, raining.

Breakfast was ages ago - toast, beans, scrambled eggs.

I've got sausage rolls, so I'll have two of those later.
I've got two cheese topped rolls, so one/two of those will be eaten later.
I've still got some lurking spuds and some beans as I opened a new tin earlier, so spud/cheese/beans might be a meal today too.

I've no sweeties as I ate all the chocolate covered peanuts yesterday.

caronc

:wave: everyone,
Sorry I've been AWOL but I've been having a lovely time with my elder son. It is very rare for us to just be the two of us so I'm making to most of it. The weather has been and still is gorious so I've hardly been indoors.
We had a lovely lunch out on Tuesday. I had ham terrine with picalli followed by halibut in a creamy sauce with truffle cream, asparagues and matchstick fries. Pudding was rhubarb four ways (poached, compote, mousse & crumble) with vanilla ice cream:D. The portions weren't massive so I enjoyed every mouthful of all 3 courses and managed coffee & petit fours afterwards! :D.
Yesterday was a pottering about outdoors day and we got a good bit of reorganising done in the garden.

Today he has headed to meet friends for lunch and I've just had a cheese salad wrap.

I think he wants to make pasta and prawns tonight so that suits me.:)
My younger son arrives tomorrow and my elder son's gf gets here on Saturday, they are all hear until Monday so we are having a big family bbq on Sunday before CFO resumes on Monday and I'll be back to posting as usual.

Farway

Looking forward to PN's rain arriving here, garden could do with a good soak, especially now I have a runner bean in flower

Bit muggy here, breakfast of porridge, banana, honey & HM yoghurt, then out to optician's first thing, no changes needed so no expense to be incurred.

The shopping mooch after, I really fancy a bacon sandwich, so bought a pack, in W/rose, a bit more expensive but not as white gungy when cooking like some are

Then spotted a YS pack of mince, organic Duchy stuff, I think Charles minces it & Camilla packs it, or they should do at the price of it;) That triggered an "I fancy a HM burger" response, so HM burger, with sliced pickled gherkins for lunch

I like L's pickled gherkins, not the jumbo ones, the sensible mid size ones

I'll use the rest of the mince in some sort of meat loaf, burger thingy done in the oven

Not sure what to serve with it, beans probably, my last egg certainly, chips? Dunno yet

PasturesNew

I've had two sausage rolls twice today

I've put the spuds on the worktop in case I can work up some enthusiasm to scrape/cook them ....

I've still no sweeties ...

I'll have a cheese topped roll with margarine for now.

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I feel tummy happy today and just finished the day with a pud-like small meal of bottled gooseberries, small amount of hm granola and yoghurt.


Tomorrow will start with overnight soaked oats and amaranth combo, at least those soaked puffed grains don`t get stick in gaps in between my teeth. Sliced strawberries lift it up a level

I just went and picked quite a good amount of strawberries, large, clean and dry, very good this year, no messing and I made the nets easy to lift. I put buckwheat hulls down last autumn and I think they have discouraged slugs and given the berries a nice clean surface to lie on. I picked 2/3 slightly underipe so can skip a day of picking.

I am just entering the productive time and will pick my first small duncan cabbage next week, a bit early but I have another 8 and don`t want them all at once. Chard is also pickable as is lettuce and beets are almost big enough. Rhubarb is plentiful but I have a fair bit in the freezer and may stop picking soon. Moonlight beans are flowering and 1 will be seeing beans in 2 weeks. So all I need do is that brown rice to keep in the freezer and just add tart, eggs, cheese, burger, turkey or fish or dahl or similar. I love eating with the seasons and will get 2 hens when I move, one of those colourful hen houses up a ladder with grass at the bottom and on wheels. I had hens in the past and they make nice pets