Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Brambling

Congratulations on the weight loss FireFox unless it means you've been ill, or am I just jealous of someone sleeping

Farway I've reached the age where my Shortsightedness is getting better (the first time since I was 13 :cool:) and my longsightedness is getting worst, which has worked out very expensive the last couple of years :eek: as I can't buy cheap glasses on line.

Caronc I get told I'm too independent and should ask for help more, I get the feeling you could be the same? Not wanting to allow the table to beat you :think:

Food wise it's been a fishy day . Lunch was a smoked trout and egg salad. I filleted a mackerel and panned fried it for dinner and made a version of a tapenade (chopped parsley, olives, capers, anchovies, gerkin and red wine vinegar) with French beans, edamame beans and tender stem broccoli. The tapenade cut through the mackerel richness

caronc

Brambling wrote: »

Caronc I get told I'm too independent and should ask for help more, I get the feeling you could be the same? Not wanting to allow the table to beat you :think:

Guilty as charged......:rotfl:
Your dinner sounds scrumptious:D

Brambling

caronc wrote: »

Your dinner sounds scrumptious:D

It was . And as the veg was all LOs it was a quick dinner chopping the tapenade ingredients whilst the fish cooked. Mackerel are a easy fish to fillet

caronc

Brambling wrote: »

Mackerel are a easy fish to fillet

They are indeed:) some like sole I find a tad more tricky:eek:

Brambling

caronc wrote: »

They are indeed:) some like sole I find a tad more tricky:eek:

I must admit I do try to avoid filleting flat fish, it comes under the umbrella of things I know what to do and can do it but cba to do it most of the time

caronc

Brambling wrote: »

I must admit I do try to avoid filleting flat fish, it comes under the umbrella of things I know what to do and can do it but cba to do it most of the time

Ditto- as far as I'm concerned I can if I have to, but that's what fishmongers and weans are for:rotfl:

joedenise

The best way is to cook the fish on the bone and then eat it off the bone, flesh comes off easily.

Denise

Fire_Fox

Threw together a blue cheese and green veg soup (broccoli/ spinach/ leek/ celery/ garlic/ spices/ Greek yogurt/ YS stilton/ chermoula). 100% frozen vegetables needing minimal cooking, so retained its emerald colour. :cool: Had half of the soup for lunch.

Then went to the indoor market for long green peppers and cauliflower: came home with long red peppers, long orange peppers and British strawberries!

To use up the last of the frozen peppers, threw together a Mediterranean tomato soup (canned toms/ long red pepper/ red onion/ garlic/ sundried tomato paste/ black olive pesto/ harissa paste/ Greek yogurt/ Greek feta/ YS green pesto). Had half of the soup for supper: delish.

Food waste: Two red onions (stock rotation fail)..

Thanks Brambling and Caronc. Your fishy day sounds tasty and healthy, not always easy bedfellows!

flubberyzing

Good morning!

I haven't been on for a couple of days, as I've been busy with school and tutoring.
Wednesday I was asked to go and help out on a school trip with a unit of Autistic primary school children. I was asked to join the class of youngest children, who are mostly all non-verbal. It was an adventure, that's for sure!
I worked all day yesterday as well. In the same special needs unit, but with the older children.

Today I've got the morning off, and I'm working in the unit again this afternoon. I think I know which class I'm with, but I shall check. Then I'm meeting a new child for tutoring. It's a little Reception child, so we're only going to do 30 minutes. That's at 5:30, but it seems silly to go home for an hour, to the other side of town, and then out again. So I thought I'd take my book to the Sainsburys caf! and have a coffee and a toastie.
Then I've got another tutoring session 7-8:15. It makes Friday a long day, and I have to be clever with my meals.

I've just had an egg and banana for breakfast, and will have a coffee in a bit.
It'll have to be an early lunch, probably around 11:15, as I'm needed at work from about 12:20 to support the children having their lunch from 12:30.

My plan until then is to try and finish the Kathy Reichs book I'm reading. It's the first one I've ever read of hers, and although I've heard good things about her work, I'm not loving the book. I'm 3/4 of the way through now, and really... not a lot has happened. I don't want to abandon it, because I've invested a lot in it up to this point, but I'm hoping it's going to race to a dramatic conclusion!

caronc

Good morning everyone,

I really enjoyed the earlier Kathy Reichs books but less so her later ones.
Weather seems the same as yesterday- gloomy and damp but forecast to remain dry. Now I don't have to hang about for the table being delivered I want to get some bits done in the garden. (Any excuse to ignore a pile of ironing will do:rotfl:)
Soup & a bagel again for lunch as groceries aren't arriving until later so still have no bread. I should really get a sourdough underway I'll sort that out over the next few days.
Spaghetti and meatballs for dinner, I've not had this for a while so I'm looking forward to it.:D