Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Farway

Sampled my ripe Sungold tomato, tasty enough but I prefer the Balcony Yellow, a bit sweeter

Still melting, had to water my runners because they were wilting in the heat, even though I drenched them yesterday. I'll pop out & pick them for dinner in a bit, looks like loads ready again

I'm sorta looking forward to my stew, dumplings & runners despite the weather. Always a choc ice in the freezer should an emergency cool down be needed

PN, I've had watermelon, I find the seeds a PIA because they are not all in one easily removed spot, which is why I now stick with the honeydew or Galia type

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Farway wrote: »

PN, I've had watermelon, I find the seeds a PIA because they are not all in one easily removed spot, which is why I now stick with the honeydew or Galia type

I ate the seeds

Had 1/3rd of the melon; rest is clingfilmed in a bowl in the fridge for now.

Total count today is:
Choc covered peanuts
Onion bhaji
TWO pitta breads stuffed with a tin of tuna, boiled egg, salad cream, yellow peppers
Some sweeties
1/6th of a melon

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money I don`t regard squares of 85% chocolate as sweet foods. The chocolate is a healthy intake of nutrients which happens to be nice. Sometimes I will blend cacao with hemp and frozen berries in water instead. Alcohol! no, not any more. I never in my life drank much anyway, never miss it, never been drunk. I have 3/4 of a bottle of gin in the fridge. I might have a GnT about once a month if that and I use a 25ml measure. Tbh alcohol is poisonous to the liver and the liver is the powerhouse of the body. I don`t drink any fizzy drinks, except that once a month tonic



I don`t regard my food as virtuous, it is what and how I evolved to eat. I don`t read books about it, it just happens. I don`t go on powerwalks, I potter a lot and I (joint friendly) cycle when the weather drags me out. My last food today was all eaten by 3.30 and I had some strawberry and rhubarb compote, a bit of rachels full fat greek yoghurt and a small amount of hm granola, about a tbs. I ate my first meal at 7 am and had water at 6.30


I hardly use any oil but would if I were eg stir frying. I much prefer a good organic butter or ghee or organic grass fed beef fat, which is what I put in my 32 rolls instead of olive oil.

Brambling

Evening everyone

Slow day today, both because it's been far too hot again and because I didn't finish work last night until after midnight by then my mind was too active to go straight to bed and sleep. At least I was working from home my colleagues decided she would work better in the office so had to then drive 30 - 35 mins home.

Lunch was some LO jerk chicken with salad stuff. Dinner I ate the veg and cba to cook any meat, so was potato and celeriac boulangere with runner beans and tender stem broccoli, I suffered for having the oven on but did roast some peppers to make full use of it

All this talk of melon reminds me I have a small one in the fridge so some for dessert tomorrow lunchtime. Can't remember what type it is just that it's the kind with orange flesh

Think I may go liberate a choc ice now

moneyistooshorttomention

Well I was having some cacao - in powder form - today.

Evening meal was a chia pudding, made with plant mylk and some cacao powder stirred in and maple syrup for sweetening. Topped with the last of my frozen strawberries. That's that then for my own strawberries for the year - as there were so few of them this year:cool:. Trying out specific recipes with it in mind to have a bit of breakfast variation. I like chia pudding basically - but this one had too much sweetening and too much cacao powder in for my taste (even though I'd used noticeably less than the recipe said).

Lunch was megadarra (rice, lentils and onions) served with a stirfry of homegrown kale, some tomatoes, some mushrooms.

Yet another new cookbook should have turned up by now - so I guess it's going to turn up tomorrow now and is supposed to be particularly simple recipes (ie for those cba times). Must stop buying any more cookbooks - at least for a few years - ie until cookery fashions change again.

Brambling

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Must stop buying any more cookbooks - at least for a few years - ie until cookery fashions change again.

If you manage that please share your secret, I'm still working out how to stop that addiction :rotfl:

moneyistooshorttomention

:rotfl::rotfl: - and I manage it when I've got a more limited range of foods I eat than many - courtesy of being vegetarian:rotfl::rotfl:.

Suppose I should be grateful in some respects that I don't eat meat (ever) or fish (unless and until they clean up the seas - in other words can't see that happening in my lifetime) or goodness knows how many cookbooks I'd have by now.:cool:

Think I must set myself a more worked-out programme of teaching myself more about cooking - having basically been told the other day I'll never have a job again whilst I'm still living in this area (wouldnt mind a part-time one - all else being equal and a decent salary for it - ie not NMW). I was talking to someone here on holiday that was saying how much they'd like to move back here again - but they'd tried to get a job without success for some time and had to move away again. I didnt ask them whether they spoke Welsh or no - or I'd have even greater problems than them (ie because I'll never speak it).

So - I've got plenty of time to teach myself more about food....ie work my way through those cookbooks.:rotfl:

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fresh pizza being part eaten, LO pizza base and very nice toppings, esp the sliced cucs. Large mug of special breakfast tea and a warm content feeling because I have done the back outside windows, all of them. I have professional stuff and it doesn`t half make it a quick and sparkling job and just in time because the windows are dry and the sun is coming out

moneyistooshorttomention

Farway - quick gardening query here.

You mentioned recently somewhere or other re "white fluffy stuff" on your fruit trees.

What was it again please? As I've just wiped a little bit of that off one of my fruit trees.

(Wondering how commercial organic apple growers manage to get much of their crop - ie bug-free:cool:).

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organic professionals are allowed to use certain sprays


I am still uptight, my neighbours husband took a bad turn last night, paramedics came. Bad and warm air and very difficult for him to breathe. He survived but I am on tenterhooks