Cooking for one (Mark Three)

flubberyzing

Well, I got to see about 20 minutes of the sunshine today. As for most of it, I was trapped in a (thankfully air-conditioned) room with 11 others, doing my paediatric first aid certificate. And I passed!
There's 6 hours of practical work, then a supposedly 6 hours worth of online training... Well, I knocked that bit out in a little less than 2!

I'd put the slow cooker on at about 8:30 to do a bolognaise. Which seems a strange choice on the hottest day of the year, but I just fancied it! Anyway, dished it up at 6pm, and it was delicious. And the leftovers will be even nicer again when I have them either tomorrow or Monday!

Tomorrow afternoon I'm taking a friend to a fancy stately home/hotel/spa type place for afternoon tea. We've both been before, but not for nearly 5 years, when we went for one of my "big birthdays". That'll be nice. I've been looking forward to it.

I'm just hoping that we won't have to rush off home when we're finished, as it would be nice to have a little stroll in the gardens when we're done.

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Had usual porridge for breakfast, went out and watered pots before sun cam round to the back. My back room where I live is a coldish room, lovely when you come in from sun but soon feels chilly, never mind. Had a mushroom on toast for lunch, used up some fridge veggies in it too, and then mushroom strog for dinner to finish off the mushrooms, it is difficult to keep the rooms as they can go slimey and I do like fresh ones, if I see the paper bags in sm I buy the loose ones as they keep better or I wrap the punnet ones in a muslin cloth. Sat out in heat for about 20 mins, then went out again for same a couple of hours later. Have taken a hm cottage pie out for tonight, ham sarnies for lunch with home grown lettuce for lunch. Made a cocktail fruit tray cake yesterday, have cut up and will freeze a lot in individual portions, hade one last night and it was quite nice, never made this recipe before and should not really eat cake. Am super large old person so shorts, light weight tunic dress ( no bra urggg) but door locked, neighbours cannot easily see over wall and I bought a pretend vine leaf type thing on my wroght?? gate so that is none see through. Seldom get visitors without warning. GREAT.

caronc

Good morning everyone,

Hope you enjoy your day out flubberyzing

Much cooler and fresher here today with temps in the mid teens. What contrast to the past few days!

My first cucumbers are ready to pick, it will be so nice to have a tasty home grown one after the watery supermarket offerings. Lunch will be one of my favourites an egg mayo & cucumber sandwich . Haddock fillet steamed with paprika, lemon & butter for dinner with Jersey Royals, green beans, leeks & savoy cabbage.


It's just started pouring, no excuse now not to get stuck into polishing up the chairs I cleaned yesterday. I may be some time.....

Farway

Cooler day here, not as sticky.

Porridge breakfast, then like whmf0001 I went out watering the pots before the sun got going. The beasties a feasting away I noticed, sawfly on the goosegogs & red currants plus super climbing snails on the climbing beans. Still enough left for me so not a disaster

Lunch is the other PB baguette, with LO corned beef + tom filling

Dinner will follow Brambling example, THTC, maybe open tin of tuna + salad, or just CBA beans on toast. Time will tell

Wednesday2000

I'm eating healthy today so I had a spinach and banana smoothie and then a wholemeal sandwich.

I'm having a veggie burger with new potatoes and salad later.

PasturesNew wrote: »

Q: Why do people who entertain outside always seem to know a "cackler"?

:rotfl:

caronc

Chairs are waxed and drying. I'll start buffing them later. It took me longer than I thought it would so a change of plan for lunch as I didn't want to wait for an egg to cook and cool. Currently scoffing a cheese and coleslaw sarnie with cucumber sticks.

PasturesNew

Today's been breezier. It was overcast, with the odd black cloud overhead, until about lunchtime.

I did a quick dash out for some baccy about 10.30 .... and then took an amble round Sainsbobs; well, not really an amble, more a nonchalant strolling with a bee-line to the doughnuts in mind. Bag of 5, super fluffy, 50p.

Scuttled home clutching my 5 doughnuts - and a "no sugar added" 2 litre bottle of fizzy pop (if you have no added sugar in drinks it means the doughnuts are also calorie free).

Food today has been: 5 doughnuts.

Farway

Dinner decided, CBA cheesy beans on toast + fried eggs topping
A Lidl not a Penguin may feature later

It has been decided off to Wisley tomorrow, so another day of no idea what food will be, with strong possibility of pub lunch if can find a parking spot

PasturesNew wrote: »

Scuttled home clutching my 5 doughnuts - and a "no sugar added" 2 litre bottle of fizzy pop (if you have no added sugar in drinks it means the doughnuts are also calorie free).

Food today has been: 5 doughnuts.

That must also work with burgers & chips as it seems a diet cola always goes with those orders:D

PasturesNew

Farway wrote: »

That must also work with burgers & chips as it seems a diet cola always goes with those orders:D

Yes, ditto pie/chips. I always justify the pie by drinking the diet colas

Mathematically it works.

A can of coke has about 140 calories
A pie is about 500-600 calories
If you have chips and diet coke 4x you've earnt a free pie

Brambling

PasturesNew wrote: »

I can sympathise with that. I was living next to a 9-house development for 9 months in 2016-2017.

This was worst than when they did the new builds 5 years ago as I'm connected to them

Hope you're feeling better today Elona

WHMF my shorts are restricted to home use only :cool:

Definitely a better day today more of a breeze . I woke with a hangover unfortunately not from alcohol but I think from not drinking enough yesterday. It sorted itself out by lunchtime but I've avoided to much bending over so gardening was out today, I've been doing more decluttering and going back over the paperwork to see if I can shred anymore another bag to take to work tomorrow and I've found my car insurance paperwork, missed filed with my bank stuff :cool:

I didn't fancy much food lunchtime so I just finished the melon, mango and papaya. Dinner was just some pasta and pesto. I made some individual veggie crustless quiches which will do for lunches, I got a bit carried away with what I was adding to egg mix so they may be snacks as well