Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Brambling

I did check check if he was working today Caronc before agreeing :rotfl:

Now why didn't I think of putting them to work although as my hearing is still ok I would have had to listen. . Not sure who they were, not young enough or clean cut enough for morons and JW usually try and give you a pamphlet. He did thank me for being polite when I said no thank you

caronc

Next time Brambling Agree courtesy costs nothing- the only time I was less than polite was to a rather insistent chap in the street who told me my mobility issues etc. were due to past sins and his church could help me redeem them.:mad: I'm afraid a four letter word and a three letter one swiftly followed.....

Brambling

:mad:

I'm pretty sure that's not come from any bible or other religious book Caronc, I'm assuming that works for vulnerable people :mad:

PasturesNew

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

.....Nimbus Maps ..... size of your plot (hence I know mine is about 90% of the size of those 1/10th of an acre madly productive gardens a few people have).

Mine's 0.047 of an acre.
That's the frontage, house, garden, parking turning area and parking spot. It's one of the largest plots in this bunch. My adjoining mid-terraced neighbour has 0.03.

Food:
Breakfast: 2 hot sausage rolls.
Lunch: veg stew/dumplings.
Tea: whole pack of Jaffa cakes

moneyistooshorttomention

PasturesNew wrote: »

Mine's 0.047 of an acre.
That's the frontage, house, garden, parking turning area and parking spot. It's one of the largest plots in this bunch. My adjoining mid-terraced neighbour has 0.03.

Well - that's just confirmed another house could be built on my front garden then - as that's the size of it, ie 0.03 (ie both tarmaced bit and "garden" bit). But I've no intention of trying.

My intentions are more along the lines of working out what is the smallest amount of space I can allocate in my front garden for parking for my visitors - and then take as much as possible of it that isn't currently "garden" back as extra "garden". I've got quite a bit of food already growing in the "garden" part of it - but more will be good:).

Having to figure out best way to deal with a wide garden - when I'd actually like it to be a long garden (ie to have plenty of the space away from my house - the better for tree planting not having to be nearer to my house than I'd like).

PasturesNew

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

....what is the smallest amount of space I can allocate in my front garden for parking for my visitors....

One annoying change to local new developments appears to be that houses built must have turning room, or something... bigger ones, room for a dustcart to pull in.

Translated, this means that if you were a builder wishing to build two semi-detached houses, while you could draw on paper two plots each with a house/parking in the front garden/drive, it'd probably be rejected as they'd prefer to see two houses with one open space between them at the front, with ROW to pass over one or the other to get to your "allocated parking spot" - and, without boundaries, that means you're at the mercy of the other one deciding it's "common land" and turfing their 8 kids out to play around your car with a football... boundaries marked in the deeds, but so many have NO idea what the deeds say or mean... they see all that space as "ideal for us to park our six cars"....

Annoying where there is clearly plenty of space for both houses to have a clearly defined border, with a little fence.... yours and mine ... boundaries obvious.... yet you'd be at the mercy of the neighbourly behaviour of whoever lived next door. Not for me.

PasturesNew

Breakfast this morning, I started early ... hash browns, beans and the last egg, scrambled. Splash of brown sauce. Black coffee.

Farway

Breakfast, porridge, sliced banana, honey & HM yoghurt.
The first jar of HM yoghurt I took out had gone mouldy on top:eek:
No idea why, I'll tip that one, the others are good.

My new batch is fine but I'll keep my eyes on them. The milk starts sterile so I can only assume a mould spore crept in somewhere between saucepan & jar

Last night's dinner plan fell apart at the implementation stage.
I went off the idea, wasn't really hungry and CBA, so just had the last YS burger in last YS Brioche bun, with a small apple & blob of Cheddar later

Lunch is planned idle one of fried egg sarnie

Dinner, no idea, the easy option is retry for bubble & squeak, but it's all a few hours away

Update on my baked bean trial, the W/rose Essentials are nice, bit dearer than Asda but higher percentage of real beans in them, 52% V 49%.
I'll buy them in future, until they become "improved new recipe" anyway

Sunny but chill wind today.
Main garden job is plant my grape vine.
I've not yet installed support posts, but I'm awaiting a hernia operation, post op this will prevent me from digging anything for a while, and I need to get on & get it in the ground before Spring

Money, parking in front garden area, depending on how you feel about mixing cars & food you could check out the RHS greening spaces, maybe low growing herbs or similar that cars could pass over? https://www.rhs.org.uk/science/gardening-in-a-changing-world/front-garden-research

caronc

Good morning everyone,

Money - we always want what we don't have, my garden is long and narrow and I'd love it to be more square-shaped.;)

It's a beautiful morning here but very cold, there was a heavyish frost when I got up. A good day though for the local winter fair which is on this afternoon as long as you are well wrapped up.:)
Beef & mushroom stew for dinner, for once I only froze a small amount of stewing steak and as I'm keeping it simple ingredients-wise I'm hoping it might just make one portion or failing that a portion plus enough to have on a slice of toast for lunch tomorrow. I'm going to make a big pan of mash as well, some for tonight, some to make bubble & squeak on Tuesday and some for the freezer. I'll cook extra sprouts as well for the b&s:).
Lunch will be a roll filled with lorne & tattie scone and a good splosh of HP. Unhealthy yep but lovely and not something I eat frequently so I will enjoy every bite:).

PasturesNew

Farway wrote: »

Update on my baked bean trial, the W/rose Essentials are nice, bit dearer than Asda but higher percentage of real beans in them, 52% V 49%.
I'll buy them in future, until they become "improved new recipe" anyway

I'm happy enough with the 4ldi/Corale own brand ones. One tin 30p, pack of four 98p (used to be 89p).

51% haricot.