Cooking for one (Mark Three)

moneyistooshorttomention

Hiya Geeky :hello:

- at a personal level - I'm quite likely to be picking up ideas from you (as I eat a wholefood vegetarian veering on vegan diet).

Klew - LOL. Well....some of us do sometimes...ahem....

Farway

Hi Geeky, and paraphrase Money comments to Klew, you ain't seen nuthin' yet, however your jealousy may be misplaced once you get to know some of us with our sausage rolls, beans on toast, fish finger sandwiches etc

I was just thinking today, the garden is now looking nice, green & "jungley", with the previous months work paying off now the crops are showing

Sunny. warm but breezy, just right today

Just a cuppa for breakfast, used loose leaves this time, decided that I've gone off tea bags except in desperation. Now I need to find a good supplier, I was told of one in local Cathedral city, next time I'm there I'll give it a bash

Into L's on way to volunteering, needed top up and inspiration
Jackpot on YS today, a YS sausage roll mine, I thought of you PN as I foraged among them:) Even though not a big lover of them an exception can be made when YS

Plus a YS ready made macaroni cheese for one, and a treat myself YS smoked salmon

The SS has a few days left in date, but the temptation was too great & I had a SS & cucumber sandwich for lunch

Tonight's dinner was planned as the LO half of last night's cheese flan, but the Mac & cheese has trumped it

The 'fridge is looking quite full now, I think I'll freeze the sauasge rolls now I know the defrost ok

moneyistooshorttomention

:rotfl:Farway - well I was carefully not mentioning those food items:rotfl:

On the "jungly garden" front - things still growing here in leaps and bounds. Not having that much luck with starting things from seed myself. May be down to my definition of that having been to put seeds in pots in my greenhouse and "wait and water" basically. Think I shall probably use one of the electric propagators I bought next time I try this - even if it's summer at the time..:cool: Precisely one each has come up of the things I want most - ie Good King Henry, New Zealand Spinach and Tree Cabbage and they aren't the sort of thing one can readily ask about:cool:

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money try this. Sprinkle seeds on the top of damp compost in a small pot, sprinkle perlite on top and then put in a poly bag and loosely close the bag so it stands up and keep the pot in the house. Many seeds germinate better in the dark after a period of cold in the fridge. So not in a sunny window. I usually put mine on a tray on the floor and as soon as I see signs of life, I take the bag off and they go outside in the light. After that, just water by standing the pot in a saucer of water, so they don`t get damping off


I germinater everything without a propagator

PasturesNew

So, I started with a coronation chicken tiger roll... and a bit later I had a scotch egg - just cut it in half in the packet and used the packet as a bowl Saving the planet by conserving water one piece of washing up at a time.

I cut the grass... and did a bit of sorting/tidying (not much, don't want to break into a sweat).

I've been hankering after sausage rolls all day, wondering whether to go out and get any - I've resisted so far.... but I've nothing overly exciting here... I've got chips and burgers and fish fingers in the freezer ... but I don't fancy those!

moneyistooshorttomention

I'll have to give that a try Kittie.

I've been reading a lot of stuff about things like feeding the soil - but I guess "growing from scratch" is something I've not touched on really in my self-education.

Note to self time here - as I've just been advocating to a friend now in this area how I'd be going in for home education here if I had any kids.:rotfl: Must improve my own home education on missing topics...

PasturesNew

I ended up dreaming of sausage rolls, but being tough with myself to eat something I've already got.... and ended up with 2 fishcakes, chips and peas, ketchup/vinegar

Brambling

PN does this mean when you're house hunting you have to factor in the distance of Ls sausage rolls :rotfl:

Annoying I've not felt great today I think it's that typical thing of a break from work and your body plays up :cool: nothing major just my asthma I think the heat and pollen count didn't help yesterday. So no gardening today just pottering in doors a bit of sewing and catching up on some recorded tv on ancient Egypt and Alexander the Great. The asthma makes me tired so I've no energy left at moment so easy evening for me and walk cancelled. I thought it might rain earlier and be less muggy but no luck at moment.

Lunch was an apple and some Cornish yarg cheese. I roasted a half chicken tonight it needed to be cooked and threw in a jacket potato so simple dinner with just some tender stem broccoli, with more chicken left over than eaten, so chicken will appear in tomorrow's meal somewhere

caronc

Good evening everyone,

Welcome geeky:D, MTSTM will be glad to have some vegan company:cool:


Lol klew, I try to minimise the very processed food I eat though do indulge from time to time. This thread is to blame for the fact I have crumpets, fishfingers and sausage rolls in the freezer!!:)


After it being cooler this morning it turned into another scorcher:D, though it's much cooler now and the weather is scheduled to break later tomorrow with gale force winds forecast for Thursday:eek:.
I got a fair bit done in the garden and once the sun had gone over a bit I started potting toms into their final pots in the greenhouse, still loads to do but the tubs are all filled with compost ready to get lugged in so hopefully I can get that more or less done by the beginning of next week. My patio tomatoes on my covered deck are thriving and I have first tiny tomato on one of the plants, a red cherry type called Maskota which always gets going fairly early. It is a variety from Eastern Europe and seems to like the climate here:).


Lunch was a big bowl of salad with the pickings from the bbq chicken and the dregs of a bottle of ceasar dressing. There was little meat on the lamb bones I cooked for stock so I have picked that off and will chop and use it to mix through a chilli/tomato/veg sauce to which I'll add some of a frozen chickpea & lentil mix I bought a few months ago. I'll probably toast a pitta to dip. I think that will be all the bbq LOs used up .


ETA - sorry you are feeling under the weather Brambling <<hugs>>

Farway

'morning all

I was awake at still dark o'clock and eventually decided to get up, just couldn't drop back to sleep, thinking loads of rubbish about Bluetooth and mobile phones in my head:(

Pot of tea made and then nuked some porridge, added sliced banana, honey & HM yoghurt

Now on here, after finding my internet had vanished, usual IT fix, of turn it all off at the wall & try again sorted that:j

Money, your poor germination may be down to seeds themselves, I presume "Good King Henry, New Zealand Spinach and Tree Cabbage " seeds are from specialist suppliers? But if they were foil packed should've been fresh. Some seed are notorious for poor germination unless fresh

The only seeds I germinate in a propagator are tomato & beans, but only to get an early start, they will germinate OK even outside in the ground.

Once the day gets going, and after another cuppa, off into town to look at blooming Blueteeth, with eye open for YS of course:)