Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Brambling

I fear it's a losing battle Caronc he cant do it himself and won't accept the high offered by other neighbours :cool: I swear I can look out of the kitchen window and watch them grow this time of the year

caronc

Brambling wrote: »

I fear it's a losing battle Caronc he cant do it himself and won't accept the high offered by other neighbours :cool: I swear I can look out of the kitchen window and watch them grow this time of the year

Not so good - would he let you nip in and do a bit of "ninja" pruning on the grounds they are invading your property?

Brambling

caronc wrote: »

Not so good - would he let you nip in and do a bit of "ninja" pruning on the grounds they are invading your property?

They're over 2 foot deep his side of the fence it's gone past anything I can do, and he's an old fashioned gentleman so the 'little' women wouldn't be allowed to do it :cool: He keeps apologising but ..... we have had several conversations the last couple of months. I could have lot worst neighbours so I'll just keep plugging at the brambles. I think if I wanted to sell I would have a different attitude at least the 6 foot fence hides the worst from view

moneyistooshorttomention

Thinks - Caron might know.....

(or anyone else that knows)...

I've just been having a quick google for specifically Basque recipes - and it's rather difficult to find even standard ones (still less vegetarian ones).

Reason - I took a fancy to trying out a vegetarian Basque recipe or two - having just had the surreal experience of taking it into my head to check out YouTube videos of the music/dancing of the Basque era and finding the words were on the tip of my tongue to one of the traditional songs there and the dance moves on the tip of my feet. :rotfl: anyone who "knows" me can guess what I'm thinking about that one then:rotfl: (believing in reincarnation as I do:)).

Hence - the fancy for trying out a traditional recipe or two - if I can find some vegetarian ones (it doesnt seem to be a very vegetarian-oriented cuisine as far as I can see so far.....:cool:).

caronc

Brambling wrote: »

They're over 2 foot deep his side of the fence it's gone past anything I can do, and he's an old fashioned gentleman so the 'little' women wouldn't be allowed to do it :cool: He keeps apologising but ..... we have had several conversations the last couple of months. I could have lot worst neighbours so I'll just keep plugging at the brambles. I think if I wanted to sell I would have a different attitude at least the 6 foot fence hides the worst from view

Och that's a shame,

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Thinks - Caron might know.....

(or anyone else that knows)...

I've just been having a quick google for specifically Basque recipes - and it's rather difficult to find even standard ones (still less vegetarian ones).

Reason - I took a fancy to trying out a vegetarian Basque recipe or two - having just had the surreal experience of taking it into my head to check out YouTube videos of the music/dancing of the Basque era and finding the words were on the tip of my tongue to one of the traditional songs there and the dance moves on the tip of my feet. :rotfl: anyone who "knows" me can guess what I'm thinking about that one then:rotfl: (believing in reincarnation as I do:)).

Hence - the fancy for trying out a traditional recipe or two - if I can find some vegetarian ones (it doesnt seem to be a very vegetarian-oriented cuisine as far as I can see so far.....:cool:).

Can't really help I'm afraid as most dishes seem to have meat/fish/cheese/eggs even if just small quantities. Only things I can think of is padrons, piperade, green beans with almonds & garlic, patas bravas and romesco sauce! Pincho receipes might be a good starting point.

caronc

Good morning everyone,
Overcast but warm & dry here this morning.
I've just picked a beauty of a courgette, a yellow one and slightly bigger than I usually let them get. It was hiding..... (Note to self - next year don't grow yellow courgettes in a yellow tub:o) I can see a tray of roasted veg being made this weekend .
Not sure what my plans for today but I think I fancy steak tonight so will pop a piece out to defrost.

Farway

Up bit earlier today, wanted to get cracking in the cool of the day

Last night's oven fish & chips + LO YS coleslaw was delicious. The fish was W/r frozen cod fillet, it was on offer a bit back and I'd seen a programme showing how it was caught etc, not an advert but it should've been.
Any way, it was that & the offer that tempted me, and I'm glad it did, very nice, proper fish, not the "formed from " type
If ever on offer I'll get more in, bit pricey at real price

Breakfast was my standard porridge, honey, banana & HM yoghurt

Then out feeding & watering the runners, plenty more ready again, I'll use them tomorrow I think

At last got round to prune & pick the red currants this morning, 335 grammes, plus some for the robin helping me, and extra for any blackbirds looking on

Once I'd got into it, found the gooseberry at the back, quick pick & prune them, 170 grammes

I was going to make a start on summer pruning the apples, pear & plum, but my back was twinging by then. A job for next week

After co-codamol & cuppa, made stewed fruit thingy using the berry harvest. Cooling now, I'll be adding it to my porridge during the coming week

Lunch will be repeat, cheddar & salady sandwich

Dinner, no idea, but I have cold, LO YS cheese & onion quiche in fridge, probably use that up unless something else pops into my head

PasturesNew

I think I don't like "summer food" - some of it's OK for a few hot days, but, as it usually rains in the English summer we get plenty of "pie weather" too, so it's not often noticeable how unsatisfying "summer food" is.

Being in a serious CBA few weeks (it's been over a month now since it was a little cooler), I degenerated into just scoffing sweets in the main

So, on reflection, I think I'm not a fan of having to eat summer food endlessly.

It did rain, briefly, overnight. At 4am this morning when I went out into the garden the patio was wet and mostly dried and there were a couple of small puddles on a couple of footpath slabs...

I did an 8am dash to the shops ... not for much/nothing in particular. Grabbed two reduced/half price items (some chicken breasts in a marinade and some cheese/potato croquettes) - for no good reason; they're in the freezer. Got some bread rolls, chocolate digestives, stocked up on baked beans and got a bar of chocolate ... then off to "L" where I got sausage rolls, fish fingers (no cheap fishcakes again!) and sausages.

While in A I spotted their 17p diet cola and thought I'd give it a go as the CO2 shortage means I might run out of my preferred ginger beer - so now's a good time to try it out as its primary job is to extend the life of my preferred stocks. Ditto in "L" when I got a bottle of their cloudy lemonade, although I've already tried that before and know I prefer the ginger beer.

Lunch was a corned beef and tomato bread roll - and a slice of the corned beef I ate while I was making that. ... and I've just grabbed another slice of corned beef from the fridge. It needed to be used up, it was a BBE 20 July and I'd not opened the pack yet (5 slices). So just 2 slices to go. Tomatoes were going off a bit too ... so I'll probably have another corned beef/tomato roll later.

Farway

I did prune the plum & the two small apple trees after lunch. The others can wait a bit longer

Found a packet of pudding rice lurking, so made a rice pud which is ready in about 30 minutes. I've got HM blackberry & apple jam from last year, seems like a pud idea forming

moneyistooshorttomention

I'm rather leaving pruning my plum trees until after I've had the fruit off them. One is looking fairly pathetic in output - if an improvement on last year (when there was none at all from it). But the other one is positively dripping with fruit and I'm already visualising drying a lot of them (as it looks like there'll be a lot more than I can eat or stash in the freezer).

Any problems that anyone has with "internal plumbing" in time to come = I should have an awful lot of prunes stashed away:rotfl:

Berates myself for not having thought of using my dehydrator for drying surplus blackcurrants. Thinks.....guessing dried blackcurrants would be the equivalent of currants maybe??