Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Wednesday2000

I had warm water with lemon and then a bowl of cereal with soya milk.

I'm having some green tea in a minute. I'm having it cold as it is warm here again today.

PasturesNew

I've never needed to own a dining table/chairs, so not got one. Wouldn't have room for one even if a free one turned up by magic. By the time you've got a 3 seater sofa in the room that's pretty much it. Here, if one wanted a dining table, a folding one in the kitchen, or a round/bistro one, would do.

My kitchen's 8'x12', living room's 11'x12'. There's a hallway/loo between the two "getting in the way", which I find to be an annoying layout as I seem to spend my life walking round that bend and through two doors just to put the kettle on... then back .... then back... then back. Open plan would work better for me, or at least adjacent spaces.

With rooms, it's not just size, but where the doors/windows/radiators are that muck things up. I can only put the sofa against one of two (opposite) walls. The third has the entrance door slap bang in the middle. The 4th is patio doors, which can't be blocked.

My nan used to get 16 of us in her living room on Xmas Day! Couldn't see the carpet with the table out.

pattypan4

here we go, more days of waiting in and he has not arrived yet, drat. He is very good at his job and is a nice young man, I will just have to bite the waiting bullet. To be fair he said the week of the 23rd. Sigh, I have appointments from next monday. I paid half promptly, probably it will help that I am a good payer, hoping he needs the money

Farway

Very close today, it was 69F at 0630 this morning indoors. And forecast for week ahead is even hotter. Salad ahoy

Porridge for breakfast
Staying in today, expecting a couple of packages which should fit letterbox but could need signing for so not taking chances on that,
made a half halfhearted start on clearing the glory hole where shelves collapsed, then back playing up so co codamol and that's it for a bit

Struggling with understanding my new camera, seems to have a mind of it's own. Probably Russian interference;)

I've a salmon fillet out to defrost for dinner, salad I think with this weather
Lunch, cheese & salad sarnie again

pattypan4 wrote: »

I think outdoor uk straberries are going to be poor this year farway, too much water, they will big and full of water, commercial farmers will be spraying with lots of fungicide. Punters in the supermarkets will think they look wonderful, until they taste them. Not for me this year

Not too much water down here but I take your point. Luckily my own strawbs are looking good this year. I rarely buy strawbs because of the disappointment, only grown commercially for eye appeal these days, no doubt there are exceptions. We used to go to PYO in the strawberry fields, now long since bricked over:(

Brambling

pattypan4 wrote: »

here we go, more days of waiting in and he has not arrived yet, drat. He is very good at his job and is a nice young man, I will just have to bite the waiting bullet. To be fair he said the week of the 23rd. Sigh, I have appointments from next monday. I paid half promptly, probably it will help that I am a good payer, hoping he needs the money

Can you call him and ask him to confirm what time he's coming

I will admit to getting a little twitchy earlier the electrician said he would drop his daughter at school which is five minutes away and would be here anytime after 8.15 if that was ok and didn't turn up until 9am, I was concerned as I had rearranged from last week :cool:

The advantage of working from home today is we are having major issues with one of our systems and the manager is dealing with the fall out and the system developers I did think of asking the electrician to switch off the circuit the router is connected to so I was off line :rotfl:

Farway I had windows and backdoor opened by 7.30am this morning as it was so warm but it's clouding over now, they have forecast thunder storms for later and then a mini heat wave

Prawn salad for lunch today already prepared and put in a container last night :cool: I may boil some new potatoes to go with it I've taken some YS feather steak out of the freezer and will do a stir fry later as I've a good variety of veg to use

Farway

Lunch change of plan, it was cheese & piccalilli sarnie instead

My packages arrived OK, plus phone call about my specs, collect them on Wednesday.At least it'll be a different day from my usual YS mooching

Only "work" now is frozen chips in Actifry + salmon fillet fry in butter for salad dinner

Last of trifle out and ready for later

Brambling

Farway wrote: »

Last of trifle out and ready for later

:silenced:

elona

I have just had a delivery from Morrisons which included a couple of cream cakes which I have just scoffed with a cup of tea.

I am still waiting for a refund of £50 approx from Sainsbobs as I ordered a delivery for the 25th of May. They phoned me the morning of delivery to say they could not deliver and suggested I go to the White Rose Centre to pick up six or seven heavy and bulky carrier bags. I am a widow and a pensioner and do not drive so it would mean a three hour round trip and four buses. Surprisingly I declined that brilliant idea! I cancelled and asked for a refund and was told it was on its way over two weeks ago. It is a month now and they still have my money so just glad it has not tipped me into an overdraft or anything. I have just sent a message on facebook detailing what has happened and how disappointed I am having been a foolishly loyal customer for twenty years so that might gee them up. My daughters have been furious on my behalf and have been muttering about an elderly widow having been taken advantage of so I mentioned that in my facebook post. It might shame them into action.

On the bright side I have been impressed by Morrisons.

flubberyzing

pattypan4 wrote: »

I think outdoor uk straberries are going to be poor this year farway, too much water, they will big and full of water, commercial farmers will be spraying with lots of fungicide. Punters in the supermarkets will think they look wonderful, until they taste them. Not for me this year

Well, I've just polished off the last portion of the large punnet I picked yesterday, and they were delicious. Just as good as any I've had previously.
This is in Northamptonshire.

caronc

Good evening everyone,

I was in town this morning and noticed the green grocers had local strawberries in. I resisted as I've quite a bit of soft fruit in the fridge to use up but will get some soon.
It was horribly muggy overnight and this morning but a corker of a thunderstorm just after lunch has cleared the air a good bit thankfully.
I'm indulging in a G&T as I was given a present of a rather lovely bottle of gin and wanted to try it. It's gorgeous:D. On a "school night" too:o - just as well I'm retired:rotfl::rotfl:. Up here drinks tend to come in twos - a legacy from when guys would head to the pub for a "half and a half" (a 1/2 pint of beer & a single whisky) but I'll stick to just one and not have the "second half";).
Ham salad crusty roll for lunch and steak dinner tonight:)