Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Brambling

Glad you had a good day yesterday Farway, hope your back is feeling better now . If your DD is a good cook your grandchildren may never leave home . She doesn't want to make it too comfortable or they're never leave :rotfl:

Shame about the soup Fire Fox I've noticed I never leave stuff out the fridge when it's really cold so doesn't matter . I'm going to steal some of your salad ideas, I'm always on the look out for new ideas for summer lunches

Playing catch-up at work today as not everyone had Monday off and the emails had multiplied over the weekend, not too bad as we had a full quota of people in today. The manager was trying to persuade us that we didn't want time off during the summer as our new system upgrade phase 1 is due early August, he didn't get the response he wanted from us :cool: two of us reminded him that we did the last big one which took a weekend and he was on holiday so it's his turn I was just glad i slotted in two weeks after the August bank holiday already, I just wouldn't mention I've nothing booked yet

Lunch was Mexican rice with bacon and loads of veggies which needed using. Dinner was a breaded quorn steak cooked in air fryer with runner beans and asparagus

flubberyzing

All went well with the Yr4 class I taught yesterday afternoon. We did some writing, and then started some research for their new Romans topic. I got to meet the class teacher this time, who confirmed that I would be covering that class on the Mondays and Tuesdays, but it was "flexible", and there might be days where I would go elsewhere... We'll see, I guess.
The class are lovely though, very well behaved, and just enough fun personalities to keep me interested.

I'm not sure if I'm working today... Waiting to see if either of my agencies call with work for me or not... Working (or not) will decide for me when I have my main meal today... I've got 2 hours of private tutoring tonight, until 7:30. So it would make more sense to have my cooked meal at midday, rather than not eat a proper meal until gone 8, which is way too late for me.

The weather doesn't look as nice out there today. My Alexa told me to prepare for lots of thunder storms! So take a raincoat if you venture out!

Farway

Last night's MFO chicken korma was excellent, it was a YS Morries one, OK YS, not at full ticket though


My back is improving, not painful just awkward if I turn a bit sharpish, it'll pass.



Forecast is similar to Flubberyz's, but I've not planned to go out, plenty in the house except milk, and at a pinch I can open a UHT should I run out


Breakfast porridge, but this time added the last of the blackcurrant conserve instead of honey. Bit more fridge space


New loaf on the go in the Panny, all being well it's first ingredient in a fried egg sarnie for lunch


YS Pukka Kate & Sidney pie out to defrost for dinner. Given the forecast of rain S & K pie & HM chips seems ideal for today


Quick seedling check, my "Cylindra" beetroot are showing in the tub, sowed a batch of "Perfect 3" round ones for succession, although beets store well anyway
Sunflowers are out hardening off, I may run out of space soon

PasturesNew

It's raining here. Got salad food in. That's the trouble a lot of the time, the weather's too changeable to fit with what a CFO household has bought in to eat... as what you buy takes so long to chomp through, you've barely started when it becomes "the wrong weather for the food you've got" - but you still have to eat it

Buying that cucumber was a bad move.... I always think that after I've done it. Still 80% of it to go, only had one chunk off it to date.

No idea today .... but, I guess, it might have to involve cucumber sandwiches

caronc

Good morning everyone,
Still sunny here but very breezy.
I got a good bit done in the garden yesterday and hope to get more done later.
First though I want make a batch of ratatouille as I have two aubergines needing used up we'll probably have some of this with pasta tonight. Made lamb stock overnight in the slow cooker it smelled lovely this morning and probably explains why I dreamt my son won 1/2 a lamb in a raffle:rotfl:
Cured salmon on sourdough again for lunch:)

flubberyzing

PN, a chunk of cucumber and a bit of cheese go really well together! One of my favourite snacks, and a good way to make a fair dent in a cucumber if it needs using up.

I'm not working, so I've got a curry cooking, which should be ready any minute. I'm just waiting for the rice to be done.

Wednesday2000

I had cereal again for breakfast and I just got a Subway for lunch.

I've got more soup for later.

PasturesNew

flubberyzing wrote: »

PN, a chunk of cucumber and a bit of cheese go really well together! One of my favourite snacks, and a good way to make a fair dent in a cucumber if it needs using up.

I'm not working, so I've got a curry cooking, which should be ready any minute. I'm just waiting for the rice to be done.

I've never been a fan of cucumber, to be honest... don't mind a bit of it on a salad plate. It's when you've got a whole one to chomp through, in X days ... in the wrong weather .. it becomes a real nuisance.

If I ate cucumber and cheese I'd be "going without" food I wanted/liked, just for the sake of eating the darned thing. And I begrudge the lack of options due to its existence

Farway

PN, now you've given me an idea with my new loaf, cucumber sarnies, I like them. I must check on my LO cuc, could be a soggy mess in fridge by now, they are not the longest lived things are they?


I've progressed dinner, tin of beans now on kitchen top, Pukka pie fully defrosted, spud chipped , skin on, & in cold water

Wednesday2000

I forgot I had mushrooms to use up so I have them in a marinade of tamari, maple syrup and hot sauce and I'm going to have a stir fry instead of the soup.:A