Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Wednesday2000

Yikes, stood on the scale today, oh dear.:rotfl:

I had two Quorn nuggets for breakfast with some water. I am going to have some fruit as well.

I think I will make a batch of soup later for the next few lunches.

Brambling wrote: »

The lunch was worth the earache but I needed a little hush when trying to form fill . We've known each other for nearly 30 years but she still doesn't get that I have no interest in tennis and it seems it's the French open :cool: I didn't mind it on in the background but [STRIKE]didn't want[/STRIKE] couldn't dissect the match or how Tsitsipas was playing :cool:

People sitting next to us at the weekend were talking about the French Open. I do watch Wimbledon, but not much else in the way of tennis.:D

Farway

Bit cooler & dull this morning

Usual breakfast but staying in as a package may arrive, new camera to play with, it's free to me, used some of my thousands of Shop & Scan points accrued over the years. Not something I'd buy for real money but I can't get real folding money out so goods it has to be

Lunch will be last of the B & last of the L in a BLT sarnie

Last night's chick salad was ideal, I think it's rinse & repeat for tonight, if the lettuce stretches that far from lunch. PN, the nuked stuffing worked well, I used an old MFO black plastic dish, so virtue signalling saving whales and polar bears;)

Brambling wrote: »

I didn't think you had enough sun up there for topless sunbathing :rotfl::rotfl: and what about the midgets :eek:

Could midgets get up there with their short legs? :D

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I also like to make a little stuffing now and then, some from the packet into a container, boiling (or hot tap water) to just cover stir and leave it to soak up, can add more liquid later. I do it usually in plenty of time but I also put dried pasta inro a bowl, hot water over it and leave that. It soaks up and then when I am starting meal I just need to add more liquid if necessary and bung in micro to heat up. Can add cube for flavour if you want to.

caronc

Brambling wrote: »

........ and what about the midgets :eek:

Aw you've gotta love predictive text:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:


Good morning everyone,

It's still pretty windy out and it was fierce during the night so I'm glad I took baskets etc. down yesterday . I shan't be straying far until it calms down as I'm still pretty wonky on my feet today.
My turkey stew tasted great but it made loads due to all the veg I added. I cooked extra spuds so plan to have it again tonight and to make soup with the surplus veg & sauce which will cover a couple of lunches.

Brambling

caronc wrote: »

Aw you've gotta love predictive text:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

The joys of using a tablet :rotfl:

Wednesday2000

I'm still feeling rough after eating and drinking so much at the weekend.

I just went for a brisk 45 minute walk. My face is all red.:o:p

I saw the geese have goslings. I'm going to order some wild bird food in the shopping.:A

I'm making a healthy soup, stock cube, 2 white onions, five carrots, a potato and a courgette. I will throw in some frozen spinach at the end.

caronc

Soup being made here too Wednesday, LO veg/sauce from the turkey stew + stock + a tin of butter beans. A quick whizz and it should be good to go.
I've a portion of the stew for dinner and I've popped one in the freezer. Lunch will be some of the soup with a slice of toast topped with brie & onion chutney.:)

Brambling

I mistakenly popped into W*itrose lunchtime for some milk and on offer cat food and was led astray by the half price [STRIKE]YS [/STRIKE] red label reduced items on their fish counter, I don't really need to add to my freezer but did pick up tuna, undyed smoked haddock and two jumbo cod fish fingers. I walked away before I could buy anything else but they also had monk fish, salmon, skate and halibut all reduced to half price as well. At the till I joined a discussion about gin with the customer in front and the check out operator I learnt two things

1 - the Sipsmith Lemon Drizzle Gin which is on offer is worth buying but dangerous as really nice and doesn't taste like it's alcohol
2 - how to make chocolate orange vodka in the dishwasher :eek: I'm not sure about chocolate vodka and whether that could be a waste of both the vodka and chocolate orange, but liked the sound of a recipe which started 'drink enough of the vodka to fit in the chocolate orange' :rotfl:
We parted company with the suggestion we may all meet up at the local AA meeting :beer:

Lunch was unfortunately dry LO chicken, flat bread and salad followed by a pear

Dinner will be something and LO chicken. I was given some LO new potatoes yesterday so may turn them into chips and have chicken and chips and veg.

flubberyzing

Released from work at lunch time today, when I'd been expecting to stay all day. I'd just sat down in the staffroom with my lunchbox, and checked my phone for texts, and there was one from my agency with the change of plan... The school hadn't thought to tell me, despite having spoken with my agency on the phone not 40 minutes previously... Grrr.

Still, never mind. I had quite a few errands to run on the way home, so I was quite glad in a way to get them done. Boots for their big box of 400mg ibuprofen, then Poundland next door for hayfever tablets and batteries.
Then through town to Lidl for the bulk of the food shop, then next door to Aldi to get potatoes and nectarines from their Super6 deal.
Then drove again to the garden centre to get a plant pot (came home from the fete yesterday with 2 new plants, but all my current empty pots are too small!). I just got one, to see if it fits, and if all good, I'll pop back in tomorrow for a second one.
THEN a quick dive into Waitrose to post a letter!

I'd left work about 12:20, and it was 1:45 when I got home! I was knackered! I think it's all the getting in and out of the car that does me in, strangely. Plus keeping your sequence of activities in your head. But I got everything done!

On another topic... Weighed myself this morning... I had a revelation over the weekend, that I'm just starting to get a bit porkier than I'd like... Well, I very rarely weigh myself, but it gave me a shock! I'm the heaviest I've been in probably 4 years. So... Diet time for me! I knew I'd been going a bit overboard on the pizzas and treats in recent months, but still!

Wednesday2000

I was still hungry after my soup so I made a lentil dhal with cauliflower rice. I had a small bowl and will eat the rest for dinner.