Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Farway

Back from a lovely day walking around gardens & woodland. Started off in the cafe, bacon sarnie & a cuppa

Finished the walk about 1.30, into market town, charity cafe, beef & mustard baguette with bit of greenery on the side for lunch. Very tasty, I wish one of our local charity shops would turn itself into a cafe supporting a "good cause"

Bought milk in W/rose. I wanted some bananas but the only ones left were only fit for compost heap, left them, I'll survive

All that is left now is sort out the photos, and maybe have a sandwich or similar if I fancy something later

moneyistooshorttomention

Now I've "broken the back" of the gardening that needed doing - tried out another recipe from one of my recent books.

So dinner was baked quinoa with saffron cream. The saffron cream being cauliflower cooked up in vegetable stock and with some saffron added. The main dish being quinoa, the saffron cream, chickpeas, frozen peas, courgette.

Was actually quite nice. Needed some more colour with it and "something else" with it - as I didn't find it that filling. Off to fill up with some sourdough bread I bought yesterday.

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amaranth, oats, strawberries, soya milk, all gone, down the hatch. I am going to make srir fry chard later, it was nice cooked with aminos with an egg on top, all in one pan


Lunch, easy peasy, the tomato veg stew that I made and I will put some frozen brown rice in and add some already shredded cabbage, I am glad of the vac jars, they are keeping the cabbage nice. Then stewed plums, made and bottled in 2012, no stones and absolutely gorgeous, made from mirabelles and so well sealed that I had to stab the inner lid to open the jar.


A new cookbook arrived yesterday, wow it is so heavy, hardback and very attractive, look away money! called ready or not, nom nom paleo by michelle tam


Got work to do inside this morning, only more sorting, what else

Brambling

Morning all

Off out for lunch in a while, the weather is looking warm so we may get to lunch in the sunshine . I'm sneezing well this morning so hopefully the hayfever tablet will kick in soon

Got most of what needed to be done in doors yesterday finished, was interrupted by my sister for a couple of hours so we put the world to rights. I also used the opportunity to split a YS bag of W*itrose Turkey breasts with her and sent her off with a lemon grass and a couple of limes also YS and some ginger, it's handy to split such things although it will be my nephew who cooks with it :rotfl:

Right best iron a pair of linen trousers, no point putting them on until just before leaving thanks to the cat

Have a good day all

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Break time! I have been a whirlwind this morning, I have started on a full room, not that messy because it has had 2 MK passes already. The third and final pass today, anything left will be taken with me, no question


Stir fry done and eaten, was nice albeit unusual for mid morning. Lovely green spring cabbage and the rest of my chard, aminos and steamed with an egg on top. I enjoyed it and it will energise me. It helps me loads to have these veggies washed and ready in the fridge. I made mayonnaise yesterday and put some on top


Nice black coffee now and will carry on after, doubt I will work at it all day, or maybe I will, depends on the energy flow

Farway

Woken by birds chorusing just after 4, but dropped off again, never woke until nearly 8 which is late for me. Must have been tired from yesterday's walking around

I'd had the foresight to put a delayed wash in last night, so that's out drying in the sunny breeze

Spotted ripe raspberries while out in garden, very early because they are Autumn fruiting, only 3 of them so far & not a meal there yet

Breakfast was porridge, banana, honey & HM yoghurt, had I spotted the raspberries earlier I'd have chucked them in

Lunch will be a bacon, lettuce & tom with mayo sandwich

Dinner? Too far away to tell

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oh me too farway, I saw baby raspberries yesterday.That veg stew was gorgeous, sometimes veg stews are so off-putting but this one was definitely moreish and so easy to re-heat with frozen rice


I have finished being whirly busy for today, becoming very hot out

Farway

Dinner now decided after freezer diving. Cheese flan defrosting on kitchen top. along with a couple of "just in case" sausage rolls

I'll probably have some salad with the flan, I had to chuck half a squidgy cucumber away this morning so better get on & eat some greenery quick

Plus my first nasturtium flower spotted today, if I remember I'll [STRIKE]ponce up[/STRIKE] garnish the salad with it

And now my "Cherry drops" tomato has started setting fruit, looking a good tomato year so far

PasturesNew

I've had to eat differently as the items I went into the shops to buy were out of stock... which often happens, which is why there's no point making a list.

I bought tiger bread rolls because my usual bread rolls were out of stock (4th time in a row I've gone in and the shelf's empty!).... that was it for 4ldi, had a mooch round but it was a dead loss... a shop without food I fancied in it.

So then I went into L1dl for sausage rolls and they had none. So I just mooched round and came out with fizzy pop, a pot of sandwich filler, frozen chips, a large tub of ice-cream (creamy/not solid) and 2 scotch eggs.

Lunch was coronation chicken in a tiger bap, followed by ice cream

caronc

Good afternoon everyone,

I've lots of reading back to do after an almost online-free 8 days:eek:.
My brood departed this morning so that's me back to an empty house & CFO which making me feel a bit , the weather is also on the the turn after what has been a very hot spell. It's still over 20C but I think that's the end of the very hot days.

Despite it being a tad cooler & cloudy yesterday evening we had a lovely bbq and it was fine to sit out though a cardi was needed. We all mucked in with the prep but when it came to te cooking the boys were definitely wanting be in charge so us "girls" happily let them while we sat back and scoffed pink gins:D.
No breakfast today and after the kids left to stop me mouldering I got on with exciting things such as making a dent in the laundry mountain and scrubbing out the bbq! I realised I was ravenous about 1.30 so a quick wrap of avocado, tomato and LO souvlaki was lunch.
There isn't masses of bbq LOs but I'm having more tonight of chicken & hasselback spuds. I'll make a big side salad to have with that.
Still no tomatoes set as yet but lots of flowers. The garden is really beginning to bloom. I must get my toms into their final pots in the greenhouse but it was far too warm in there last week to contemplate it. My friends' brought me the promised New Zealand spinach plants and a couple of kalette plants so I need to get them potted on. The kids sorted out my front bed so it's looking a lot better and wrangled a well past it's best hydrangea out of a massive pot for me so I need to decide what I want to put in that, probably just bedding this year until I decide.