Cooking for one (Mark Three)

candygirl

Just had some spicy bean chilli, sprinkled with grated cheese, bloody lush:p
Had my 1st quote for the building work today, not as steep as i'd thought:D

Brambling

At what stage did you realise you had forgotten the cheese Farway :rotfl:

Glad you got good use of your slave for a day Caronc

I'm a bad cat owner . I forgot to open the cat flap this morning and he went out the front door first thing so I didn't realise until I went to shut it just now I did think it strange he didn't come back in this morning. I even questioned why he hadn't touched his food all day :cool: when he dived on to his tea. So not only did I shut him out all day but I went out in the garden when I got home and then shut him in, no wonder he went to bed and sulked oops

I tackled the garden when I got home from work and it won :cool: not only did hay fever make me sniff and wheeze but I've a rash and I'm itching from a reaction to something, just shoot me now I didn't remember to put long sleeves on :doh: It did take me twice as long as it should due to interruptions from neighbours, it's great we all get on but I sometimes think I need a A board at the bottom to the path to say 'yes I'm gardening, please just wave and go way or I'll never finish' . More than usual people about as they were going out to vote and we all had something to say about that :cool: I did get to fuss with a neighbour's cockapoo .

Lunch today was HM chicken noodle soup, not really soup weather but it was a light soup and needed finishing. CBA to cook once I got in from the garden so just beans on toast with a sprinkle of cheese and not the planned stir fry

PN hows the house hunting going? I'm assuming that's why you're eating out

Brambling

candygirl wrote: »

Had my 1st quote for the building work today, not as steep as i'd thought:D

That's good news Candy . Is this for the new kitchen?

PasturesNew

Last night I'd decided to make a chilli today, to start getting through the frozen stuff in the freezer and the tins in the cupboard, I took a trip to 4ldi and grabbed a cheap bag of onions.

I opened the tins cupboard and selected 3-4 or so that I thought might go in it and put them on the worktop with the onions so I didn't forget. I defrosted the meat and a pile of green peppers I'd chopped/frozen 2-3 months ago.

About 6ish I put mince, 3 chopped onions, tin of chickpeas, tin of carrots mashed, tin of plum tomatoes, a tin of mixed beans and some chilli powder into the SC. About an hour later I remembered the green peppers, so quickly nuked those for 1-2 minutes and added those.

I don't expect to be eating that today though, although who can tell... because yesterday I also popped into L1dl and for some peculiar reason picked up their Lamb Rogan Josh (£2.79) with a 30% off sticker on it (-84p). That has a date of tomorrow though, so it could wait. I also got a pack of four onion bhajis from L1dl and a 2-pack of naan bread from 4ldi.

So, this weekend, there'll be an indian curry and lots of chilli meals.

PasturesNew

Brambling wrote: »

PN hows the house hunting going? I'm assuming that's why you're eating out

Not found anywhere to go to yet. Selling, so if I don't find somewhere then I'll be on AirBNB with stuff in storage!

Two viewings yesterday, didn't like/want.
One viewing today which is in the preferred location, but it's a house. I was looking for a 2-bed bungalow, this is a 4 bed/2 bath house. But, with things thin on the ground I'd rather buy that than end up "homeless" and dossing about again (did that before).... fingers crossed, if this is "the one" .... then it'll make life so much easier. It's one I had on my list, ready for viewing if/when mine eventually sold. It was originally on and sold within a week in late February, it suddenly returned to market yesterday afternoon as their buyers had lost their jobs (story I was told).

Of note: the kitchen today has one entire wall that's just a worktop! Not just a worktop, but one base unit further round each of those end corners, so that's about 12-13' of uninterrupted clear flat straight worktop surface! OMG. I'm used to juggling four separate 60cm square pieces (one in each corner) and one 120cm where the microwave is always situated and the remaining empty slot adjacent to that juggles with the SC and the mini grill.... could have them all out in a line and not even notice! And still have acres to prep stuff.

Brambling

PasturesNew wrote: »

It was originally on and sold within a week in late February, it suddenly returned to market yesterday afternoon as their buyers had lost their jobs (story I was told).

I knew someone who was a day away from exchanging on a flat with deposits all ready to send through when the seller was made redundant and decided they couldn't go thought with the move, 6 months later the estate agent phone and said the flat was about to go back on the market were they interested so it does happen. If their buyer dropped out at this late stage they may be open to offers so they won't lose they one they want. There's a reason they say this is one of the most stressful things you can do, just don't be rushed into anything your buyers know you have to find somewhere.

Wednesday2000

I've had a spinach and banana smoothie. I have my GP at 1.30 so might wait until I come back to have something else.

I will see if I get hungry before then.

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Cooked 2 packs sausages in oven yesterday so as dd took me out for lunch, I had 1 sausage batch for my dinner at 6.00 ish, had eaten one while I made batch, yummy, Remainder now in freezer and as I have been eating sort of odd seeming stuff the last few days I have taken the barnsley chop out to have tonight with one of the jacket potatoes I had cooked along with sausages, will freeze the other 2 for lateRon.

PasturesNew

Just stirred my chilli and added another tablespoon of chilli powder

It's tasty

Farway

Up & about to sunshine, now dull but warm
Porridge + use up chopped fresh apple for breakfast, not quite wrinkly but needed to be gone

Brambling, I only realised I'd forgotten to add the cheese to the sarnie as I sliced the sarnie, by which time it was too late to disassemble it all. Actually it was tasty enough without

PN, that kitchen sounds like mine is, long worktop, but I promise you clutter abhors a space and expands to fill it.

My long work top has Actifry, mini oven, kitchen tool thingy, yoghurt maker and at present a cast iron pot hogging the space:o

caronc wrote: »

That's actually not too bad for decent farmed salmon, possibly a bit cheaper if you either buy a side or a whole fish and portion it yourself which is what I tend to do. If you are thinking of buying you should ask them which fishery is their supplier and then have a Google.:)

Thanks, I did look but lost the link to it. It's getting very tempting as the site has 20% discount for May and I may be going over my son's one day next week, and the pick up is only slight detour from motorway on the way.

https://www.farmerschoice.co.uk/fishmongery/salmonfillet

Lunch is set to be a cheese + salad sarnie, with cheese today I hope:D
Dinner, one rump steak defrosted, bashed & marinading, probably with eggs, chips & mushrooms but hey ho, may change


Update, remembered the cheese this lunchtime:j