Cooking for one (Mark Three)

caronc

Brambling wrote: »

Caronc I find I can sometimes oversleep and a lie in can leave me out of sorts for the rest of the day, obviously your body needed it

I think must have, I had my usual wakeful periods during the night and had a loo trip around 5am but very unlike me to go back over again like that. Hopefully I'll be bouncing with energy tomorrow.:)

Wednesday2000

I had a bowl of salad with a part baked roll along with a banana and a peach.:)

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Made cauliflower rice yesterday with cumin and paprika etc. enough for 2 days so am having with sausages and some carrots tonight. Had loaf out from freezer yesterday so last of the ham for sarnie for lunch with some salad leaves. Starting to think what to have tomorrow, like to think a day ahead so if I make enough for 2 days (always seem to) I can plan to freeze or eat, usually go out for lunch with dd on Thursday so have to bear in mind.

Farway

Lidl day this morning, still dearth of YS items apart from pre packed mixed leaves which I don't use these days

Fail on getting more PB baguettes, none left, just the small PB rolls which seem a waste of space for me

I did buy some honey Greek style yoghurt, to go with my own strawberries. Should be cream of course but I thought the yoghurt option would also do in my porridge

Good call on the early beans Caron, mine are just in flower but I was late getting them in so to be expected.

Lunch was last of the PB baguettes, with cheese, cuc + tom filling
I'll make a loaf later for tomorrow now the emergency PB baguette route is closed off

One salmon fillet out to defrost, back to old standby for dinner, fried in oil/butter with salad + frozen chips
With my HG strawberries & the honey Greek yoghurt for pud

caronc

Farway wrote: »

Good call on the early beans Caron, mine are just in flower but I was late getting them in so to be expected.

Beans duly picked - all three of them:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:. Must have been an early flower as although there's loads more coming they're a good bit off being ready.


Good evening everyone,

Oomph still not 100% but miles better than yesterday. I've had a productive though very paced day - hoovered, dusted, mopped through and scrubbed the bathroom. Well seen I've a visitor coming tomorrow;). After a cloudy morning it turned sunny mid-afternoon and I make a decent start on dead heading my baskets. I'm surprised how far on many of the plants are for early July, I reckon it will be a short blooming season for the annuals this year and I'll end up with a "flower gap" between my summer stuff and winter pansies being ready.
Lunch was another egg mayo and cucumber sarnie & an apple. The cucumbers are in overdrive - I counted 5 ready or not far off:eek:. I must remember to [STRIKE]off-load[/STRIKE] give my friend some tomorrow. Turnip tops, 3 beans and very spindly pak choi along with the first courgette picked for dinner to have stir fried with some other veg, Jersey Royals and what I hope will be a very tasty FR lamb steak. The pak choi seem to be going from spindly to bolting:( without the thickening out bit in between so will need to get them picked and used quickly .

Brambling

Evening all

Late on parade tonight . Just back from watching a Small Island another National theatre Live screening really enjoyable although a little uncomfortable watching at times, she pulled no punches in writing how black people were treated in the 40s and 50s and the language used against them, Worth going to see if you get an opportunity . The only issue was the seating is so uncomfortable it caused my knee to really ache, luckily there was an interval and empty seats at an end of a row which gave more room

Lunch today was a repeat of yesterday mini quiches and salad I ended up working through lunch to finish an urgent piece of work so escaped at 4pm . Dinner was quick as I had to leave at 6.30pm so jacket potato with tuna mayo and some fruit

My first courgette is almost ready, I'm thinking Friday

Farway

'morning folks, sunny day so I hope to water the pots out the front later

In the meantime, after porridge breakfast I've had to sort out on line banking stuff now they all seem to be changing for security reasons.

Then found I've lost / misplaced the magic code generator thingy, of course it's catch 22, to send a secure message to bank telling them I need another first generate magic code:huh: .

In the end, after numerous going in on line circles, I had to 'phone the bank, luckily I use one that has UK based humans at the end of the line and the code thingy is "In the post"

Last night's HG strawberries were OK, the honey Greek yoghurt from L's was lovely, I had lot LO so some into this morning's porridge

I made quick white loaf last night, so sampled a quick slice with jam later that evening, excellent

I just couldn't think of any thing I CBA to make for dinner, C & O pie did briefly cross my mind, then decided a L's YS 20p large pizza I had frozen is similar really, so that's out defrosting for dinner

Lunch will be some of the new loaf cheese & salady sarnie

Wednesday2000

I had a bowl of HM lentil soup for breakfast. I made it yesterday and accidentally tipped a lot of cayenne pepper in there.:eek: Luckily it came out fine and not too spicy at all.

I had two peaches as well.

I'm having baked beans, roasted chickpeas, mushrooms, tomatoes, and toast for lunch.:A

PasturesNew

Farway wrote: »

Luckily I've a just past BBE pack of PB baguettes ....

I've kept those up to 2-3 months after the date. They don't go off, you just find the vacuum starts getting a bit tight.... but they're fine to eat still! Just so you know not to be too worried about dates on those in the future. I'd say 1-2+ months is achievable.

Farway wrote: »

All good until i rather foolishly fancied a glass of cola, Idiot, £2.75:mad:

It's why I try to give all pubs a wide berth.... those pipe/syrup mixes are rarely "spot on" - and £2.75 is horrendous! The trouble with pubs is they have to have their prices hung up by law.... but it's in tiny writing tucked behind the bar, so you can't see prices from the door/window, or even online. If anybody ever says "pop in for a drink?" they rarely mean one, they mean "let's camp out here, I love alcohol, we'll stay for 3 drinks". Although I've got my mate trained for "you buy yours/I'll buy mine" it's still awkward ekeing out one drink while she's knocking back the whole bottle of wine she bought.

Just popping in, if one were to go the whole "3 drinks" hog would be nigh on £9 - and for what? A bit of a wet your whistle? Could've gone to the supermarket, bought a six pack of branded tins for £2 and sat out in a park/in public cheaper... and had drinks to take home

PasturesNew

Farway wrote: »

Then found I've lost / misplaced the magic code generator thingy, of course it's catch 22, to send a secure message to bank telling them I need another first generate magic code:huh: .

In the end, after numerous going in on line circles, I had to 'phone the bank, luckily I use one that has UK based humans at the end of the line and the code thingy is "In the post"

I've always 2-3 of those kicking around.. I believe that any one will do, from any bank.... allegedly. But I keep all those I've been sent "in case".

I'm just back from the bank... I'd invented a mythical figure of how much money I've got in one particular bank. I'd put money in there 12 years ago, I'd bought some small cash ISAs there the first 3-4 years or so, then stopped.... I thought I'd "emptied" the current account when I bought this house, so my buying spreadsheet had been guessing at how much those ISAs were worth (bought/abandoned, so not moving them around to get the best deal as that's all far too confusing).

It appears that: if you don't use an account for 18 months it becomes "dormant" on their system. Cue lots of faffing about if you get to that stage... so I'd always just left it in the "must get round to" pile of things I could do one day.

But then it got worse. I went to the bank to say "this account, here's my ID, this is me, let's get this sorted" - only to be told my current account had been closed "as that's the law" and they can't tell me what was in there, it's all now gone into a Govt black glory hole of money.... so now I need to go through to formally apply for MY money, from an account I didn't close.....

I bet lots of old people's money will disappear as relatives dealing with their stuff get thwarted trying to know what's what and resurrect any accounts people had money sitting in... because that's what you were lead to believe: Put money in the bank, when you need money you go and get it. Not so now, it appears! If you leave it in there, it's gone, account closed - and you have to go through some kind of rigmarole to get YOUR money back!!

On the plus side.... my ISAs were still present/intact and the savings account (all £75 of it). And they totted up the ISAs and I had £3k more than I'd completely guessed at, so that makes my buying budget just a little less critical and worrying....

Hate banks. Never understand them. Username, magical security thing, little code box, now we've changed and you have to submit 2 secret answers, then the login changes and you need a secret answer and a box ... and stick the card in - and log in online... and ... give up. And you can't phone as you still can't answer the questions they'd ask you

I am going to go back to ONE account.... ONE .... the rest will go under the mattress