Cooking for one (Mark Three)

caronc

Good evening eveyone,
Hope all the recovering poorlies are feeling better tonight.
Snap whmf00001, I also like to have full cupboards/freezers and plenty of choice
A holiday in North Devon sounds just the biz Brambling, a good chance to destress and chill out.:cool:
Glad the jelly set PN:)


Another early awake for me at 4.30am, was still awake at 6am when I feel asleep over my book and snoozed until just before 8am. Overast here and on the cool side but dry- good gardening weather so made the most of it. All my cordon tomatoes (27 of them:eek:) are in their final greenhouse position and I got pots arranged and planted up along the bottom stretch of my flower garden. I'm not sure I'll get much done outdoors tomorrow as I want to get the place clean & tidy for my elder son & his fiancee arriving on Tuesday and prep a sour dough loaf to bake the following day.:) I might get some potting up done later on but nothing too bendy/lifting as my back is protesting again! Over lunch I decided on and placed a grocery order - playing it by ear a bit as I'm not sure what their plans are. I've a notion to make a ricotta and asparagus dish featured in today's Guardian so I've ordered both of those. I reckon it will scale down okay if I end up making it as CFO.

I defrosted a few fish sticks and had them in the last deli roll with lettuce & mayo with a heap of cucumber sticks and radishes for lunch. It was really good. Lovely looking FR chop for dinner tonight with veg & new spuds.

Brambling

I see a lot of tomato sauces in your freezer by the Autumn Caronc :rotfl:

I can relate with the full cupboards WHMF . I was born to older parents who were married during the war and I've inherited my mums need to have a well stocked cupboard :cool: although mine is a lot different from hers . it does mean as Caronc says always plenty of choice . My sister has reminded me should Brexit mean food shortages she has a key :rotfl:

Flubberzing where I had lunch yesterday had a bottle of rhubarb and ginger gin behind the till if it hadn't been lunchtime I would have been tempted

I woke midnight to a smell of smoke in the bedroom :eek: i checked the house first, then stood outside in my dressing gown to check the neighbour's, the worries of a mid terrace :cool: no sign of anything but there was definitely smoke in the air. I shut the bedroom window and eventually went back to sleep listening to the sound of my wheezing it seemed late for a bonfire :huh:

I should of done some gardening today but it was damp out after early rain and on and off drizzling so just indoors pottering. I cooked some chicken noodle soup for lunches and the freezer this afternoon. Brunch was boiled eggs and soldiers and a bowl of berries. I marinated the pork fillet in honey, soy sauce, five spice, sesame oil, ginger, garlic and chilli and stir fried with plenty of veg and served with jasmine rice. Very tasty and LOs which I'll have Tuesday as I wouldn't have much time to cook before going out

caronc

Brambling wrote: »

I see a lot of tomato sauces in your freezer by the Autumn Caronc :rotfl:

Fingers crossed - I aim to make enough passata to last me to next harvest:D. Just need to work on the freezer space :rotfl:
PS - the smell of smoke is always so worrying especially in a mid-terrace, it sounds as though someone has either has very late bbq or thought it best to burn garden rubbish late. Here you're not supposed to light a garden debris bonfire until after dark though most folk do it early evening if the neighbour's washing is in.

Brambling

caronc wrote: »

the smell of smoke is always so worrying especially in a mid-terrace, it sounds as though someone has either has very late bbq or thought it best to burn garden rubbish late. Here you're not supposed to light a garden debris bonfire until after dark though most folk do it early evening if the neighbour's washing is in.

I think here it's no bonfires between 7am and 7pm. There are bungalows with big gardens backing onto the Close so maybe it was one of those? One of life's little mysteries

caronc

Good morning everyone,
Overcast but dry here this morning.
Just off to do "part 1" of my sourdough and then I'll spend some time in the greenhouse.
Egg salad for lunch, probably pasta tonight. Last night's pork chop was lovely, it was quite a big one and I thought I might have LOs but nope managed to scoff the lot!:)

Wednesday2000

I had a cheeky slice of leftover pizza for breakfast along with some fresh fruit, to cancel it out?:rotfl:

I'm making mushrooms and onions marinated in my usual tamari, hot sauce and maple syrup and having it with grilled asparagus and the leftover lentil pasta from yesterday.

Veggie burger with a salad, gherkins and carrot sticks and salsa for dinner.

flubberyzing

Hi everyone,

I was meant to be working this afternoon, but they cancelled on me, which is a bit frustrating. But hey-ho.
I went to Lidl first thing for the food shopping, spending £13.38. The only thing I got that wasn't on the list was a 4-pack of those Cadburys split-pot mousse things for £1.99. They are a real treat, and I only ever get them if I see them on a good special offer. They are currently about 80p in most shops, if you buy them as individuals.
The rest of the shopping was things for meals... I'm about to have my "cheap week" of "things on toast", which I do once a month to keep my food shop total down.

Breakfast was a bowl of rice crispies. Not my usual fare, but out of yoghurts and bananas.
I think I'll do fried eggs on toast for lunch shortly, then perhaps have a bag of crisps and some fruit just before I need to leave for a 2-hour tutoring session at 4:30. Then I'll have the remains of yesterdays soup and one of the mousses when I'm home from that at about 7:15.

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When I went to SM found huge bag of mushrooms and another of bananas as well as a cauliflower in reduced section so have made some roast cauliflower (in freezer), dried mushrooms (in a jar) chopped up bananas for brekkies(freezer) whole bananas for this week brekkies(fridge) and potential banana curry for freezer. Cauliflower curries (freezer), mushroom and chicken curry currently in SC so about 4 portions for freezer and some retained for lunches etc this week. When SC is free I have a couple of chicken thighs sitting in bag with piri piri seasoning, one for tonight, the other for freezer but always cook 2 at a time. There was also green veggies reduced so they are in fridge to go with meals this week and potatoes. Would love to cook and mash potatoes but am expecting a food delivery Wednesday so am trying to make sure I have enough room for 2 packs chciken and 1 pack of mince which will be split up before freezing. I also bought 2 packs of cheese (1/2 price) so have spent morning grating, again for freezer. Done all the cooking etc whilst watching last episode of Game of Thrones !!!!!!!

caronc

Good evening everyone,

Goodness whm you've been busy, I wish my day had been half as productive.:cool: Apart from watering the plants no gardening has been done as annoyingly neither my back nor balance were entertaining anything even remotely bendy! Decided to listen to my body and not to push so spent most of the afternoon reading or pottering about. I did get the sourdough loaf prepped and it's now in the fridge for it's overnight think. My salad for lunch was lovely but rather large so a smallish meal for me tonight, cba cooking very much, I will have a freezer/fridge/cupboard rake and see what I come up with.

Kids arrive tomorrow assuming they get off of Scaffel Pike:eek:, I probably won't be about much until Monday. I'm looking forward to not being CFO for a few days and hopefully sharing some of the cooking/clearing up:D.

Brambling

You have had a busy day WHMF I've never tried banana curry, not sure about it, but I'll try anything once

Wise move listening to your body Caronc, you don't want to be ill with your visitors

I had a Monday moment and forgot to take my tablets this morning, I remembered half way to work :cool:, not an issue with the thyroid ones as one missed day isn't going to hurt but I did some gardening when I got home from work and regretted not taking the hayfever one :cool: I spent a couple of hours tackling the brambles and weeds coming in from next door's jungle. I'll be glad when the new owners take over but I'm assuming indoors will take priority. A little bit of rain and the weeds have gone mad, I should have done it yesterday between the drizzling :cool: I won't be able to do any the next couple of nights but hope to fill the garden rubbish bin to put out Friday

Lunch was HM chicken noodle soup followed by fruit. Dinner was slightly different than planned due to the gardening I had planned on salad nicoise but cba to cook new potatoes or french beans so had a tuna and egg salad instead, I did coat the tuna with black sesame seeds and opened a tin of olives still very nice

Have a good week with the kids Caronc, some tasty Greek cooking I hope