Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Brambling

I got the best night sleep I've had for a while, this heat has been so draining. Just as well a work was manic I managed to finally leave after 6.30pm rather than 5 and I'm not hopeful that tomorrow will be better

Lunch was salmon salad and dinner ended up as bacon and egg with beans, I intended to cook kedgeree but cba when I finally got home, the bacon needed eating so that's good. However it means no LOs so I will need to think lunch for tomorrow :cool:

I brought a half side of salmon YS in s*insbury lunchtime it worked out less than £1 per portion when I cut it up to freeze, it was good timing as I've just used the last of what was in the freezer. :T

caronc

Good morning everyone,
Overcast this morning but still really warm.
Usual toast for breakfast and lunch will be a salad of some sort. Dinner tonight is still tbc.
The orzo with pesto served as a side with the baked turkey/veg worked really well. There is some LO so might have that as part of my salad at lunch time.

caronc

Thankfully after all the hassle getting it my new printer was a dawdle to set up:).
I'm currently enjoying a late lunch of LOs & salad. I think I'm CFO tonight as my son has headed off to get his Dad.

Farway

Walked down to L's this morning, nice day and car was still duff

Needed milk and salad stuff, just in case car was still non runner on Saturday.

Update car now back on the road, it was "only" a blown fuse, grrrrr:mad::mad:, first breakdown bloke should have spotted that, and TBH so should I.
Once upon a time it was standard practice to look at the fuses more or less first, so easily to think it is big immobiliser magic problem when a quick check would have shown otherwise. Oh well, lesson learned, again. Now, where did I leave that starting handle?;);)

I found YS black pud again in L's, liked it a lot last time so got that pack and changed meal plan. Couldn't buy much of a lot else because at the time I never knew if I would have a car or not, so it was whatever would fit & I could carry in a backpack

Collected car lunchtime. Late lunch was cheese & salad sarnie

Some sausages out of freezer and defrosting in my fly proof meat safe AKA microwave

Dinner tonight is black pud, bangers, frozen chips & eggs

Rain is a possibility here according to forecast, wish it would, it is very humid & close

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love the sound of your dinner farway, a real meal for a man

I went to waitrose because I needed a break from all this overwhelming bottoming of rooms. Ate a small salad thing and part of a pizza, both were reduced. I only really went to get a couple of their tiny pots of orchids, they look fab in my bathrooms. I left a mess here but have finished now, hands and knees stuff but by golly the bathroom looks lovely. Lol, I almost daren`t use it but will have to get over that. Photos on wednesday and then a nice break until september, when I will have to do it all over again. No fun selling a house btw. I can`t tell you how many things I have hidden in the shed. More window cleaning tomorrow and the next day and then I am done

I bought some (cba making it) scrumshus granola, mine tastes the same but I only have very little with frozen strawberries and greek yoghurt. I am loving my frozen strawberries, so will be pegging runners down on my allotment, to take with me

I have umpteen mini cucs and a lettuce in the fridge, I am going to bin them, might as well get fresh straight from my plot tomorrow. I have cold cooked pizza and a bit of salad will be nice with that but I need more protein and will have sardines on rolls for breakfast. I can`t buy rolls as nice as these

Brambling

Evening

It looked like we were going to get some rain when I drove home, it was getting dark and I thought I heard a rumble of thunder when I got out of the car, unfortunately it seems to have passed over again

Work was as I suspected a little :mad: what is it they say 'a lack of planning on your part doesn't mean an emergency on mine' unfortunately that only works if that person isn't your senior and covering for the boss :cool: finally got things sorted but that meant a 3pm lunch, so haven't really fancied dinner yet

Lunch was smoked salmon and cottage cheese salad and dinner will probably be fruit and cheese maybe some crackers.

Just off to wonder why I have so many peppers in the fridge and what to do with them, thinking stuffed or roasted, truthfully probably enough to do both :eek: some may end up chopped and frozen :think:

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all change on the food front for tomorrow, at least as far as lettuce and cucs are concerned. I won`t be picking any tomorrow and glad I didn`t chuck them. Reason being I am dressing up in lycra, having decided to go on a group bike ride tomorrow. Never worn lycra before but I tried the top and pedal pushers on and they look fine. Tyres are pumped and bike is shined with a rag. Water out and ready. The pedal pushers have a padded rear and that is the worst bit on a bike, hence me buying the gear a few months ago So breakfast will be as I wanted, rolls and sardines and I will be glad of the pizza and quick salad when I come back

moneyistooshorttomention

Breakfast - errrm...porridge oats still soaking. Forgot to soak those oats overnight for the default breakfast. Guess I coulda had avocado toast for breakfast - as I've got half of one left over from yesterday. Somehow I can never go for anything "savoury" at breakfast time - even if I'd happily eat the same thing for lunch.

Been more focused on making sure the ants get their "breakfast" today. Re the fact that I discovered the ants nest I had figured out during recent years was somewhere in my back garden - and then found out it's lurking in two gaps of the exterior of my house:eek:. One gap that a bodger left between the upvc windowcill and original concrete windowcill underneath my larder window. The other gap a different bodger left where base of my adjacent back door step joins the path outside back door.

Cue for me throwing corn grits (nearest thing I have to cornmeal - and I've not even tried cooking it myself yet - to see what I think of it:cool:) at both those gaps. I've now read divided opinions as to whether ants take it back to the nest/they eat it/they explode/end of ant problem on the one hand OR they take it back to the nest/eat it/think "Ta very much for breakfast" on the other hand.

Either way - they want it - and so I'm still chucking some more cornmeal at the bodger gaps at intervals and waiting to see if any more of them rush out and head for it. At which point I belt them one and poke a crochet hook into the bodger gaps to see if I can hoick any more of them out to belt them one.:cool:

The cornmeal being my "makeshift" whilst I'm waiting for a tube of Nippon gel to turn up from Amazon.

caronc

Good morning everyone,

Hope you get the ants sorted out MTSTM

Beautifully sunny here today so I hoping to get quite a bit done outdoors as we have rain forecasted for tomorrow.
I did end up being CFO last night so had a CBA meal of keema curry & chickpea/lentil/veg mix from the freezer. :)There were a couple of spoonfuls left so I've had them on a piece of toast for breakfast:o
I'm not sure what my food plans are for the rest of the day yet, will see what my son is up to once he surfaces. He was out with his mates last night and not back until the early hours so I'm not expecting to see him up for a while yet!

PasturesNew

kittie wrote: »

... I am dressing up in lycra... bike ride ...

I'm partial to a bit of lycra, at home ... for comfort, but there are limits. It might be because my only experience of lycra has been "cheap market leggings" that I'd fear leaning over on the bike handlebars peddling like mad.... while the rear splits/unstitches and I'd no idea ... resulting on an exposed bottom sticking in the air. Not a good look.

Just about every time I've ever taken my bike out there's been some problem ... and I've usually ended up carrying it back to the car, or home.... I never cycle further than I can guarantee I can carry the bike back home