Cooking for one (Mark Three)

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Farway wrote: »

:eek: Heretic! Brown sauce only for bacon roll / buttie :D
I guess that debate would be on same lines of milk in first or last with tea. I in the MIL camp BTW
The weather looks a bit dull and I would not be surprised if it rained,...

Brown sausage for sausage sandwich and red for bacon . Milk In tea I'm a bit more flexible, if tea is made in a tea pot it's milk in first if tea bag in mug it's milk in last :rotfl:

It's looking grey here too I'm now wishing I did my washing yesterday when it was sunny and breezy, I usually do it on Saturday when I'm working, just didn't think yesterday rain isn't forecast but looks likely.. . Hope it stays dry for your veggie feast Farway.

Lunch will be bacon and egg, still deciding on dinner.

caronc

Good morning everyone,

Enjoy your buffet Farway, hope the weather holds for it.:)

It's grey and wet here this morning and I'm shattered as I woke at 3am with a minor "spin" and never managed to get back to sleep properly after that:(. Gave up trying just after 5am and got up and made a cuppa then read for a bit in bed while listening to the rain batter down.I have managed to be reasonable productive since I got up having washed my hair and changed my bedding. I do love getting into a freshly made bed so looking forward to bedtime tonight:). I'll clean the bathroom in a bit and then that's my chores up to date:).

Breakfast was very "studently", a small piece of cold LO pizza:o and a banana. As it's a rubbish day I might make a hot lunch of scrambled eggs or similiar. Later on I'll make up the swedish meatball mix, I think there will be more mix than I need for tomorrow so might use some of it to make a burger for tonight. Otherwise dinner will be a freezer raid.:)

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baby runners farway you just cannot buy these


Cycling done after a break of several weeks, too hot and too many flies in the warm and too busy. Allotment and drat I have just seen 2 plants producing what I thought were squash but look exactly like marketmore cucumbers. I hope to goodness that the 2 cucs I did plant are the missing squash plants. Loads of top strawberries again and tomorrow I will be simmering very gently with frozen rhubard, I just want a day more ripening indoors, does not need any sweetner and I`ll be freezer packing, makes the strawberries go a lot further


Same soaked breakfast with rhubarb strawberry compote. Snack was flax/walnut cracker and fresh coffee. Lunch will be squash/cheese tart (rm) and salad. I have 4 large cups of flaxseed soaking and turning gloopy, will dehydrate to make crackers, will take 24 hours and last for a long. Good sub for high carb snacks and nice with toppings

caronc

Good afternoon,

kittie- I hope you find your missing squashes! Sounds like last year when I had a seed mix up and the cues I thought I had planted turned out to be courgettes:o. Thankfully my friend's came to the rescue with a couple of spare cucumber plants they had:).

My Dad popped by bearing gifts - herring fillets unbeknown to me he had ordered 2kg from a local fish supplier and they arrived this morning. I haven't counted them but I reckon my share is 12+ fillets so I'll be making a tray of soused herring later to have over the next few days and will vac pac and freeze the rest:D.
Lunch ended up being a flat mushroom & poached egg on toast which was yummy. Still think it might be a burger tonight as I'll want the herring to cool over night in the sousing liquid before using them.:)

Farway

Lunch finished up as baguette with bangers in side, think French long hot dog. I smeared it with the bright yellow American style mustard not brown sauce or ketchup

Weather is going even darker & cooler, I [STRIKE]think [/STRIKE]hope the veggie buffet will be indoors, hope so, it's blooming chilly outside for old bones

Time to scrub up & get ready, I'm taking one of my spare fig trees over, hoping to infect them with fig growing:)

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invicta success, just picked the goosegogs off that one, standing up and relaxed, I mean me. 3lb 11 oz and this is year 2 after taking off every side shoot bar the top few. It turned into a fantastic standard, perfect for me and next week I will just do a bit of summer pruning. No sawfly would get a look in


How one thing leads to another, I have thinned all my apples down, got 2 very full tub trugs, hundreds of apples off and in the hotbin. Gives the remaining apples space and air and de-stresses the trees. I will still have plenty but they will be good apples. I have 7 varieties and think I took about 70% off


Then I topped and tailed some goosegogs, enough for two crumbles. They are now cooked, only 2 tbs of frozen crumble on each 2-3 portions. I can cope with these goosegogs now. The other 5 won`t be ready for a few weeks and I will have eaten all these by then. The flaxseed crackers are dehydrating, 7 trays, I added aminos for a bit of flavour


Lunch was lovely and I got backache, all that standing and lifting. The recliner is calling and I`ll take the weight off. Last meal earlier from today 4pm, so that is all my food in a 9 hour window, today at least. It has to be rhubarb/strawberry compote, grano;a and yoghurt. Got to get blackcurrants into me tomorrow, good for eyes but today, cba, done enough


Love soused herrings, used to have them a lot. hehe, hope they are gutted

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Farway wrote: »

Time to scrub up & get ready, I'm taking one of my spare fig trees over, hoping to infect them with fig growing:)

Mine is still growing away at quite a fast pace - ie noticeable amount of growth since I got it (only a couple of weeks back):D.

Though admitted the stuff I'm doing to the garden now is dual-purpose ("kill two birds with one stone") - and one of those "stones" is make it look like I'm really really "established" here and it would take a lot of doing to "prise this house off me". No I'm not:rotfl: I have a price - but it's a high one:D

Back to the research Kittie put me onto....

Lunch today was the last of some stewed rhubarb (from last year's garden growing) and most of an apple that had only been part of a pack of apples I just bought. It had a large bruise I hadnt noticed on it - but I cba to take the pack back to Tesco and ask for a "swop" (despite the "organic price premium" I pay on so much of my food). Bit of yogurt chucked over the top and some cacao chips. Then a couple of bits of toast.

Dinner tonight - bowl food again. It'll be the last of those roasted vegetables and quinoa from yesterday. Think I'll chuck in tahini sauce/some new potatoes (steamed).

Must get onto using kale now - as the kale growing in my garden is doing pretty reasonably this year - so there's a fair bit of it to use.

The strawberries aren't doing so well this year. Looks like there'll pretty much just be enough for me to "have now" and some to stash in the freezer. Don't think I'll be giving many of them away this year. But the berries are all looking like they will do extremely well - so I'll be looking for ways to use them. One friend I have a bit of a "swapsy" arrangement with will doubtless be taking a close look at them when he next comes round (as he's very partial to them) - but I'm guessing I'll still have a fair amount left - even after we've both "had our fill" of them.

caronc

Good evening everyone,

Yes kittie they were gutted and beautifully filleted, my share was 15 small plump herrings, 9 have been "soused" and 6 vav packed in pairs and popped in the freezer:D:D
Mtstm - sounds as though your garden is coming on a treat. Kale freezes really well, jusr wash and open freeze it no need to blanch if you have too much:).
The rain stopped late afternoon so I spent some time giving the plants affected by "Hector" a bit of TLC. I also got tubs set up for the New Zealand Spinach and kalettes sorted out and those plants potted on.
Meatballs have been mixed and formed, from 250g each of pork and beef mince I got 24 meatballs and a burger for my dinner. Said burger was grilled and had in ciabatta roll with lettuce, gherkins, mustard mayo and a slice of gouda for dinner.

Brambling

Evening

Dinner was the LO massaman curry, and as per usual it tasted better once matured over night at least the tee shirt I threw it down was navy so will hopefully not show any stains :rotfl:

I have never soused herring Caronc although I have soused mackerel, I can't get it to taste as good as my mum I swear she missed something out when she told me her recipe :rotfl:

At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old lady :cool: there has been loud music playing from somewhere since I came home at 3pm I'm not sure if it is from the end of my Close or one of the houses backing on to it, but it's became pass annoying about 7pm, probably once I stopped pottering and sat down it was more notable :mad: obviously the cooler and slightly damp weather hasn't put them off. I shouldn't complain really as we are usually very quiet here and I didn't mind the ABBA this afternoon, but it's heavy base and drumming now. Sorry rant over but if it goes on much later I may start again tomorrow :rotfl:

caronc

If it's any help this is my (unoriginal) way of sousing them:D

6-9 herring fillets (or mackerel) - rolled and secured with cocktail sticks
A small onion very thinly sliced into halfmoons
3-4 dried bayleafs halved
Tsp peppercorns
A good grinding of seasalt
1/4 pint malt vinegar & 1/4 pint water combined
Sprinkle of paprika (optional but gives them a nice colour)

Place the rolled herring, tightly packed. in a dish deep enough to be just higher than the herring
Pop the onions, bayleafs & peppercorns inbetween the herring
Pour the vinegar/water over the herring until they are 2/3rds covered
Add salt and paprika over their tops.
Cover the dish loosely with foil then bake at 160C for 45-50 mins, turn off the oven and leave for a further 15 mins. Remove, cool and pop in the fridge (in the covered dish) overnight.