Cooking for one (Mark Three)

caronc

Farway wrote: »

PS, Caron, mixed up seeds, seems we are very much alike on that as well, my large pink Brandywine seems to be Sungold:o

Glad it's not just me:)
I noticed the other day that my blackberries are beginning to ripen. They will be a few weeks yet but it is usually mid September before they properly crop so very early this year.

moneyistooshorttomention

Farway - did you know daylilies are edible?

Have you tried them?

PasturesNew

I was up about 5am. Couldn't have had a lie in as the police helicopter decided to search/hover over the house for a good 20 minutes or so from 7.30am onwards.

Bit of "quiet time" after that stopped, before the neighbour opened her gate to let "all and sundry" in to bounce and scream on the trampoline from about 10.30 onwards... and still at it. Yesterday they did 11am to 8pm .... hoping they won't do that again today.

I had a couple of fruit pastilles for breakfast.

I've grated cheese and made a boiled egg perchance I might get round to using those as bread roll fillings in a bit.

Farway

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Farway - did you know daylilies are edible?

Have you tried them?

I sort of remember that from some where, never tried them. The lilies that are coating me at the moment are "Stargazer" not sure if edible or not, I'm not chancing it, I'll stick to blackberries & nasturtiums for the moment

Lunch was cheese on toast, with the other half tin of LO beans

Dinner, will be very unseasonable, a YS L's MFO cottage pie, defrosted and ready to bung in oven. I need to have it just to get some of the runners eaten before they are cooked on the vines

stargazer lily in my garden, and pollen all over me

moneyistooshorttomention

Ah right....further googling later - specifically on Stargazer ones - and it looks like those particular ones arent.

Oh well...back to the drawing board.

To date today - experimenting with bought cashew yogurt - that was a yes (though I prefer cows milk yogurt and it's certainly rather cheaper:eek:).

Tried out a muffin recipe - well it was meant to be made as "bars" - but muffins it was. Complete with apple sauce in and nut butter (almond - not the peanut butter they said). Yep...that was quite nice. Made half quantity of it - so that was "3 down and 3 to go".

EDIT; Kittie will know to what I'm referring - but my hopes re a nearby property for sale havent worked out. Darn it! Back to the drawing board....

PasturesNew

Takeaways aren't good round here, else I'd succumb more often.

Really fancied an indian, so I just phoned and ordered one.... it'll be 15 minutes, so I've about 10 minutes more before I go out and get it

Just a simple veg biryani, which is "more than enough", but I might just manage to shovel the lot down in two shifts across the evening

EDIT: Well, this is rubbish. Doesn't taste of biryani - and the veggies are mushrooms (which I don't like) and lots of nearly raw carrot chunks and nearly raw cabbage! It's got spuds and green beans and peas too ... but even more disappointing than the last time I allowed them to disappoint me. Last time for them!

EDIT 2: Well, that's a first - I just abandoned it completely. I've never, ever done that before for any indian meal! Never. It just doesn't happen! It's going in the bin and now I sorely regret wasting an important £6.75 on that rubbish.

EDIT 3: I couldn't bear the waste, so boxed it up and it's in the fridge.... I'll use it as the basis for "veg curry" and toss some curry powder or something at it in the coming days.... although I really don't fancy it at all... but it's easier to try that and eat it, than to work out how to dispose of it.

caronc

Good evening everyone,

How disappointing PN:mad:
Gorgeous lily Farway
Muffins sound lovely MTSTM
As planned I've had a very quiet day, apart from finishing vac packing my butchers order and some tomato triiming (both jobs done seated) I've done very little as my balance really isn't happy moving/standing. I was going to do some cleaning ready for the heating service tomorrow but the engineer will just need to take things as they are! I'm definitely back in a "spell":(, I just hope it's a short one!
Lunch was a tasty but messy to eat BLT, despite napkins I still managed to splat tomato down my shirt:o. I'm pleased I roasted the veg last night as it means my pizza dinner just needs assembling and bunging in the oven. My kind of meal when I hit the wobbles:). If needed I have some HM "ready meals" in the freezer that just need some veg and carbs added for the next few days if I cba cooking.

Tesco is booked for later tomorrow and I'll need to eke the milk out so I can offer the engineer a cuppa, I could open a carton of UHT but it seems a waste when I've fresh stuff coming. I've a lone choccie biscuit in the fridge (wouldn't like to guess how long it's been there for:o) that I can offer as well. Bad planning on my part as I could have got the order delivered today.

I'm happy to report that I have several almost ripe tomatoes in the greenhouse, I'm so looking forward to sinking my teeth into one:D

Brambling

Sorry you're a bit wonky Caronc hopefully the spell won't last too long.
PN I hate it when you buy something you could have cooked better yourself, definitely sounds a strange biryani to me

Just as well I have next week off as other than the washing I've done very little this weekend I woke with a headache early, took tablets, sorted the cat and went back to bed at 6am, side effects of the heat and asthma just leaving me a bit out of sorts. Never mind I used the time to watch Mamma Mia on TV this afternoon, my sister and I are going to watch the new film tomorrow hopefully it will be air conditioned as we old folk say we're off to the pictures :rotfl: my nephew finds it very amusing that his mother and I still say that :cool:

Lunch was chicken salad and dinner was a repeat of yesterday with LO potatoes, sweetcorn and cold chicken. I may take some LO chicken to my sister tomorrow I'll park there when I pop to the hygienist in the morning walking to town and back is four miles round trip from home and not worth the risk for me at the moment.

I love home grown tomatoes Caronc I could eat them like sweeties

caronc

Thanks Brambling
Sounds as though your body is really needing some downtime so thankfully you have time off - hope it helps.
Re the tomatoes - I do eat them like sweeties - I'm surprised I'm not orange by the end of season:rotfl::rotfl:
I say this only half jokingly as many years ago I worked beside a woman who over a few weeks turned a very strange orangey colour. Her GP thought it might be gall bladder/liver related and she had loads of tests all of which were clear. Turned out in a bid to lose weight she had been following a "celeb" juice/de-tox diet but didn't really like F&V so had stuck those she liked namely tomatoes. carrots and oranges and had overloaded on carotene and other orange pigments so the excess had ended up in her soft tissues & skin. Talk about "see in the dark" it was more "glow in the dark":rotfl:Must have been very worrying for her but she did see the funny side:cool:

caronc

Good morning everyone,

Another overcast day here with rain forecast for later. I need to be indoors anyway waiting for the heating engineer.
I'm still fairly wonky so planning another quiet day.

Lunch will be LO chicken and saldy bits. I'm not sure about dinner yet, I've a portion of roast veg left so will probably use that as the basis.