Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Brambling

Wednesday2000 wrote: »

Since my cat had his thyroid out I have stepped on his tail on the staircase and knocked him out of the way when I got up from my desk.:o:o:o

I think there may be something wrong with his hearing/eyesight actually, I have to ask the vet.

He is being very vocal and that happened to my other cat when she got older.

They get in our way and we feel guilty for kicking them . Cats aren't always graceful :cool:

I had a older cat who got very vocal she would stand on the stairs and yowl, so she had some'Older' cat blood tests requiring sedation as she got too stressed with the noise of the clippers luckily there was nothing wrong with her but the little **** stopped yowling straight after the blood test :cool: it's just as well we love them

Wednesday2000

Yes, I do love my pets.:A

I prefer them to 99% of any human beings I have ever known.:rotfl:

I had a sandwich again for breakfast and I have some more soup for lunch.

Farway

'Morning, back again post op, double hernia keyhole. Involved a lot of waiting around but everyone was nice & helpful, except post op waiting to go home, left hand right V hand syndrome
Made it in the end and only slightly sore with lifting compost / digging etc forbidden, luckily this also includes lugging the lawn mower out:D

Had two meals in hospital, LO lukewarm shepherds' pie on Monday post op, actually I enjoyed that having not eaten for over 18 hours. Toast + porridge breakfast then fish in sauce + blobs of mash for lunch

Last night I made a wholemeal loaf, using one of the Asda YS ready mixes. Turned out well, not bad for 38P

Two CBA cheese & onion sarnies, using last of the sliced loaf, for dinner last night

Porridge, banana + HM yoghurt for breakfast this morning
Lunch is going to be a fried egg sarnie using new HM loaf
Dinner, I've defrosted a YS MFO nuke-able black bean & rice

Lovely sunny day, I may try & water my young plants, using the hose on dribble, not lugging 2 gallons of water just yet

caronc

Good morning everyone,

Lovely to see you back Farway and glad all went well.:D No lugging watering cans is not a good idea:eek: but I can't see why a little gentle pottering wouldn't be good!


Yep Brambling taking a risk talking about shorts in May:eek:, think I might have been a bit premature as it's to turn showery and a tad cooler overnight! It's lovely today though so they might make an appearance yet:rotfl:.


There's lots of chorizo, veg, rice mix LO from last night, I ate all of the chicken as it was only a small piece and expected some LO but there's much more than I thought there would be. Mind you there was a 3L pot almost filled to the brim with diced veg before I had added anything else so probably not so surprising! Having some tonight with a couple of poached eggs and I'll freeze the remainder. Bagel with pastrami & cream cheese and salad for lunch assuming the pastrami defrosts in time.:)

Wednesday2000

I haven't been able to get back to sleep (hub on nights at moment) so have got up to have soup and a slice of bread to dunk.

Farway wrote: »

'Morning, back again post op, double hernia keyhole. Involved a lot of waiting around but everyone was nice & helpful, except post op waiting to go home, left hand right V hand syndrome

Good to see you back and well.xx:)

caronc

Good evening everyone,
It has been a glorious day though clouding over a bit now. I've managed the get a tiny patch of mild sunburn just above my wrist where I obviously missed the suncream:o. I managed to get a fair bit of pot shifting/filling done over a couple of sessions today. In between it was lovely to have a siesta in my cooler bedroom:D. I've still about 40 pots of varying sizes to plant up and just hope I have enough plants as it would be shame not to fill them all. I might get some more done tomorrow depending on what the weather does and if I've any oomph left after doing some much needed housework. I have a friend coming over on Friday who I've not caught up with ages and I would like the place to be reasonably clean & tidy. The floors certainly need swept & mopped as I seem to have trailed a fair bit of dust and soil in from the garden:o.

I stripped my bed earlier and washed the bedding, I've just had to re-wash the sheet as in attempting to rescue a stuck bee I managed to pull it off the rack and stand all over it with my dirty gardening shoes:mad:, I did manage to get the bee out though I'm sure it couldn't care less about my laundry. :rotfl:
Easy dinner tonight, I just need to heat a portion of the rice/veg mix and poach an egg, minimal washing up too:D.

flubberyzing

Evening all,

It's been a fairly busy week of work this week, and I was tired when I got up. But I'm now trying to commit to being available/willing to work every day until the summer holidays, as I'm not sure what my income will be during that time. So if I can build up a little reserve, that would be good.

PN, sorry the walkers were disappointing! They are usually a reliable brand! I've currently been enjoying the new Hoops Puffed range, which they do in a beef flavour. Having a packet or 2 a day, which is naughty. But when a new range comes out, that I find I enjoy, there's no guarantee of it sticking around for long, so I like to make the most of it!
Strangely, I can easily go months between having a bag of crisps, then suddenly I'm back on them again, and having a packet every day!

Dinner this evening was the 4th and final day of the roast chicken leftovers. It was a Lidl garlic and herb roast in the bag jobby. And gotta say, the meat was as nice, or nicer, than the very similar one I did from Waitrose for Christmas, which was almost twice the cost. It's done 4 meals. Well... 3 good-sized portions, and one that looked good, but was actually mostly bone in disguise. Still even with potato on the side, and some veg, it came out at very close to a pound a portion, which I thought was good for a "meat and veg" meal.

caronc

Hope you are being MSE and making stock from the carcass;):), I do love how a whole chicken stretches into many meals.:)

Fire_Fox

Playing catch-up ....

Saturday: Ate the last third of the Moroccan chermoula sea bream.

Sunday: Had one of the YS ready meals - 'Deluxe' moussaka - and a huge bowl of fruit and Greek yogurt.

Bolognese sauce (soffrito/ beef mince/ canned tomatoes/ sundried tomato paste/ black olive pesto/ red wine/ stock pot/ herbs/ garlic) went in the fast-slow cooker. :T

Monday: Two bowls of a quick chilli con carne (bolognese sauce/ spicy kidney beans/ long peppers/ green chilli) with YS organic spinach and Greek yogurt. Another huge bowl of fruit and Greek yogurt.

Tuesday: Two bowls of bolognese sauce with chestnut mushrooms and Grana padano cheese.

Cobbled together a Keralan coconut curry from bits and bats (jar sauce/ mini peppers/ broccoli/ banana shallots/ chick peas/ ginger/ garlic/ green chilli). Eaten with a couple of hard-boiled eggs and a few jumbo prawns from the freezer.

Yellow sticker: Organic kiwi fruits, tub of ricotta.

Food waste: Half a yellow apple, third of a can of chick peas.

Suffering from too much meat, too much fruit [STRIKE]and too much wine[/STRIKE] recently I think. Craving rich/ stodgy things despite the warmer weather: bolognese, sausages, now a cheesy pie! Thinking of having a bash at making spanakopita in a few days.

Brambling

Evening all

I love spanakopita Firefox I like to make in triangles and freeze raw, they cook from frozen in the air fryer

Glad the op went well Farway, just remember to do as your told and take it easy . No heavy lifting

Work has reached the :wall: :mad: :wall: :mad: stage for us all we are trying to test a major system upgrade but so far have found nearly 400 defects, obviously the developers aren't testing before handing it over to us, it's really frustrating and has involved being shut in a meeting room for six hours a day all month swearing and eating biscuits :cool: even my colleague who doesn't swear uttered a damn today :rotfl:

Lunch was another large chicken and egg salad, eaten at my desk as we're trying to catch up on the usual day to day stuff which still needs to be done, it looked lovely and sunny from the window . I going to have a walk tomorrow as I'm getting a little stir crazy and need to stretch my legs and get some fresh air .

Dinner was late for me 9pm so was lazy quorn goujons in a wrap with salad