Cooking for one (Mark Three)

elona

DD came down last night to set up my new tv, broadband and phone package which was sweet of her. I still feel a bit feverish and have a rattling cough which kept me up most of the night so plan to spend today in a dressing gown , having a cool shower and just resting.

A grocery delivery is due around seven tonight so I don't need to go out but middle dd and fiance are planning a family barbecue and youngest DD is coming over to stay with them tonight. Not sure if I should try to drag myself over there but would feel awful if any of them caught this from me so will see how I feel later.

Planning porridge for breakfast and something like soup for lunch which should soothe my throat and have ordered stuff that is easy to prepare like chicken, sausages, cold meat, veg and eggs.

pattypan4

my neighbour has similar to you Elona, seems to b doing the rounds, hope it disappears soon and you feel better

I am another who has been out to the shops and is back, this heat and I are not getting on. It`s already 25 in the coolest part of the house, the hall and outside must be at least 28 already. I am expecting 30 out today. Quite a few like me, scurrying to the shops and quickly back home. Visitor in a few days for a few days, it will be very much whatever I have in with a few tasty bits and salad stuff, which I will go and buy next week. I have some stuff to lift and move, I`ll see if she really means those offers to help

Yoghurt, gooseberries and little granola first, later half a red sweet grapefruit. Soon a matcha tea and then coffee with top of the milk. Lunch some quinoa burger things that I saw in the freezer and any veg I can dredge up, I found a sweet potato, fennel and have spinach in the freezer. I also `found` 3 summer puddings in the freezer, will have one and a dollop of hm ice cream.

I am deep in the throes of revitalising my sd mojo, have written out precedures and recipes and laminated them, now on the freezer door. Can be complicated but all is going well, I will have a large chocolate sd loaf by late tonight

PasturesNew

I never have visitors, I can sit here in my pants (or without) all day when it gets too hot. Nobody to dress up for, be smart for, or wait on

CFO every meal

I made two rounds of cucumber/egg sandwiches and two rounds of sausage/egg sandwiches. Popped those in the fridge .... and already eaten one round.

caronc

Good morning everyone,

Hope you feel better soon elona <<hugs>>
A complete change in the weather here this morning overcast & showery and we have a weather warning for thunderstorms. It is a bit cooler but still feels very muggy.
Nipped out while it was dry earlier and did a few bits in the garden including repotting a very pot bound mint plant.
If the rain stays I'll starting cleaning up the table and chairs I took from my Dad's. They are in good condition just needing a scrub and a bit of tlc.
Scotch egg and salad for lunch and after ending up with LO pasta last night, dinner tonight will probably be kiev or chicken wings, oven chips, corn cob and coleslaw.

Wednesday2000

Scorchio here too! It's meant to get to 31 this afternoon.

I think I will have a shower now and pop out to the shops as I want to watch the women's football this afternoon.

pattypan4

PN, I rarely have visitors and always lock the front door, I could do what you do to keep cool, hehe all the blinds are down anyway
Last stage of sd, I forgot how messy it is but I will persist with making them, just worked out timings and the last one will be out the oven at 7, just in time for me to go to the allotment. I am hoping with everything crossed that the transplants from april are still alive after the good soakings recently. Better take containers for goosegogs
I knew it would be cba food the rest of the day, Saurkraout and tomato after 2 hm currant buns. Summer pud is out defrosting and a bit of seet potato and 2 quinoa burgers are in the remoska. Topsy turvey today, just about managed to clear the washing up

Farway

Roasted down the Dockyard for Armed Forces Day, some of them must have been melting in their uniforms. Nice to see Council volunteers handing out water to the veterans on parade. Even the Pipes & Drums had their jackets off & were in shirt sleeves

The day went well, cup of tea in cafe before start, then after the parades etc went into shopping outlet nearby, into Pret a M, it was awful, so noisy, and my baguette was stale as well.

Money back on that, into the Cornish Pasty shop next door, much better luck, one large take ways pasty filled me nicely for lunch

Then home. Think I'll just have PB baguette, slightly OOD, with maybe corned beef & tom filling

Here's one pic from the Dockyard, it's a huge statue of the couple the couple in Times Square on VJ day with HMS Victory in background. click for larger

caronc

Good evening everyone,
Sounds like a very enjoyable day Farway despite the dodgy baguette.:)

It's hard when you have small gardens and good weather, not to want to get out and enjoy the weather and have folk round, but it does impact on the neighbours. As you say PN if they are generally good neighbours and it's not too often, it's just one of the down sides of modern housing. I live in a terrace with long but narrowish gardens, thankfully the way they are built they are fairly private as the houses have jutting out kitchens as in the good weather we all spend a lot of time outside.
I certainly wouldn't have won any prizes for satorial elegance if anyone had come to the door this afternoon as I was in bleach/paint splattered yoga pants and an ancient t-shirt with my hair scraped back:eek:. Definitely a more "bag lady" than "cat walk" look.:rotfl:I am changed now into something mariginally more presentable and have brushed my hair .:D

As we got the promised thunderstorm & rain I cracked on with the chairs and oh my poor hands, arms & shoulders as it took me a good four hours to get rid of many, many years of polish build up, general grime and tiny paint splatters. Tomorrow I'll gently sand a few dings & scratches before getting in about them with the Briwax. Manky cloths are in the wash and I've just poured (I feel well-deserved) glass of red:cool:.

Brambling

Hope you're feeling better Elona

PN the builders next door have been working all day 10-7 drilling, hammering and using what sounds like an electric saw :cool: I don't envy them working in this heat but I wished they had taken the day off :cool:

Farway I haven't seen the Victory in a lot of years 1985

Just for the record I've been sitting in shorts and not just my pants . Too hot for me as a fair skinned well built lady of a certain age, so I've been hiding indoors with the curtains closed, unfortunately it hits the front of my house in the afternoon so heats my bedroom for the night. I know i shouldn't complain and tomorrow it's back to a more normal temperature . I sorted through my summer clothes this afternoon looking for Tee shirts that aren't too big or too small I have a well stocked supply of them :eek: i rinsed them to refresh them and hopefully avoid too much ironing as well as 3 linen shirts which now fit

Foods definitely been cba or THTC (too hot to cook) lunch was a turkey breast steak breadcrumbed and airfried with salad. Dinner was the LO salmon and avocado salad followed by a big bowl of melon, mango and papaya

caronc

Oh I hate a hot bedroom, thankfully although mine is at the (warm) rear of my house the way my kitchen/conservatory is built means it only has a small, shaded window so doesn't get too warm. It doesn't get that cold in the winter either though unlike the front of my house. When I had my pooch, in warm weather he would frequently be found lying on the (tiled) north-facing bathroom floor as it is always a cool (aka baltic in the winter;)) room, it was a pain if you wanted to use the loo as he wasn't for moving.:rotfl::rotfl:.

I always think, but never get round to, that I should buy a kaftan for those days when it's hot and you don't want to wear very much but don't want to be found half naked should the unexpected occur:eek:.