Cooking for one (Mark Three)

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Took the last few of hm cheese & onion rolls out of freezer and planning to make chickpea and tuna patties today so they will do in rolls or as main meal the next few days. Will have to make more rolls tomorrow or Wed as I do not want to go to shops and I have milk in freezer, they are the only items I really need but anyway, dd will no doubt be coming to visit in next few days so she can pick up some milk for brekkies. Do not want to buy bread !!!!!!!

Farway

Up and about, sunny day ahead, could even sow the last of beetroot, my £1 offer packs arrived Sat and one is multi mixed colour beetroot, could just make it to the pot before winter

Things are going wrong already, minor stuff, my TV would not do anything this morning, just sat there blankly defiant. I applied sure fire fix of turn the shebang off at socket, drink tea & try again. Sorted.:j

Making fresh batch of yoghurt, found my thermometer had broken, it's a glass one, but lives inside a protective plastic tube. Used old style of warm to hand on side of pan measurement.

Should work, baby bath style but not wise to shove elbow in a pan of potential yoghurt;)


Waiting in for a package, which I think should fit leterbox but never sure


Breakfast porridge
Lunch, ham salady sarnie
Dinner, if enough ham LO it'll be ham salad + frozen chips, looks like salad weather again today


Brambling, exciting times with sister + garden. Just for info, Gardener's World on TV next week is about wildlife bee friendly stuff. Time to drag your sister off to RHS Wisley? Take her plastic & camera:D

pattypan4

Its going to be whatever I CBA out of the fridge. I have nuts broad beans and salad and a pile of fresh veg that I wish I had not bought. Very hot in here yet again, airless, although all vents and some windows open. I am floating around in a waistless cotton dress, trying to act slowly. I had to sort a cupboard upstairs and have done that now, so whatever I do the day won`t be wasted, up at 6 anyway. Its the sun into my new house, waiting for window dressings to help bring shade. The plants are loving it, the diffused light and warmth coming through the JL paper blinds. £4 each and its long so can be cut, gives anyone a stop gap if they move

Wednesday2000

I got out of the shower today and put on my bra and then picked up my knickers and I thought there was a piece of fluff on them. It then moved and it was a spider. I nearly screamed the house down.

Thank God I saw it in time before putting them on!:eek::eek::eek:

:rotfl:

I had toast for breakfast and then a filled tortilla wrap for lunch. I'm going to have some cherries in a minute.

Brambling wrote: »

I had a very nice slice of lemon cake .

I love lemon cake!:)

Farway

Post lunch there's still enough ham left for tonight's salad, one problem less. That YS ham was good value in the end, despite initial outlay

Beetroot sown, two large tubs of mixed colours,. I discovered one pack of beans was sow by 2019, no good to me, e mail winged off, can't risk them not germinating next year. I would risk it a YS bargain bucket 20p a packet but they weren't YS 20p


Ordered temperature probe thingy to replace my glass thermometer, could be handy for things like chicken and jam as well, although I've manged decades without

caronc

Good evening everyone,
I'm back to CFO after a hectic but enjoyable couple of days with the kids marred by my younger son losing most of Saturday to food poisoning_pale_ from a takeaway burger he bought on his way home on Friday night. Thankfully he had recovered yesterday and we all had a lovely day before my elder son & his fiancee flew back last night and my younger son left today.
Yesterday we went to a new tapas place in town, I was treated by the kids and the food was good, plenty of choice & freshly cooked although the service was bit clunky - new opening teething problems I think. I was stuffed so never ate again after that yesterday. Breakfast today was my usual toast & very juicy peach most of which splattered over my just put on top!! Later in the morning my younger son prepped a pomegranate - no splatting with a board but he still managed to make a heck of a mess, I'm still finding splatters:eek:. He had some there and then and I had some with my lunch which was a ham, mustard, lettuce & mayo sarnie and cucumber sticks.

The weather has been a bit grotty here today so I pottered about indoors tidying up and then trying to get to grips with my new (to me) phone. It's a decent one which my elder son gave me - long story involving a lost phone & delay in the insurance company replacing it so he got another (better) one and I got the replaced one.:) I've got the essentials on it worked out I think:rotfl::rotfl:. I've told the kids they are just going to have to keep supplying me with phones as if I have to buy one I'll go back to my £20 "mars bar";).
Dinner tonight is one of my favourite "bung-in"s- jerk spiced chicken thigh, sweet potato wedges & roast veg. I'll have a think about a meal plan tomorrow for the rest of the week and must make some HM pesto as my basil plant is massive so pasta & pesto will feature somewhere. I've also a notion for spicy ramen noodles but cba making them tonight.

Brambling

Farway wrote: »

Brambling, exciting times with sister + garden. Just for info, Gardener's World on TV next week is about wildlife bee friendly stuff. Time to drag your sister off to RHS Wisley? Take her plastic & camera:D

Baby steps Farway although I'm going to lure her to a garden near my work to see their sculpture exhibit which is laid out in the gardens :rotfl: I've sent her the details for Gardeners World thank you, I'm sure their information will be more informative than my bees like blue flowers

I imagine you'll be shaking your undergarments out for a while Wednesday :rotfl: could be worst there's no poisonous spiders in the uk :rotfl:

Busy day at work, we're back to spending all day testing system upgrades :wall: :wall: :mad::beer: so I ended up working through lunch at least it was a no spend day :cool: although I missed my walk in the sunshine

I decided against LO chicken laksa for lunch as it's more dinner size portion so made a asparagus, crisped Parma ham and egg salad with a Dijon dressing (using stuff that needed using up)

Dinner was LO rice, coconut & peanut sauce with stir fry veg and the last of the smoked tofu. I just need to work out how to get crispy tofu without using too much oil :think:

PasturesNew

Today I scoffed:

2 bits of toast
A 250g pack of jelly babies
Half a 250g pack of fruit pastilles (that are horrid really)
LARGE portion of chips from the freezer + half a portion of beans that were in the fridge.

It was hot today. I had to go out for an appointment (hence the sweeties overload as I was killing time before my appointment, so wandered into Poundstretcher).

There's always a homeless chap at the car park - it must've been too hot for him today as he wasn't there. I'd popped a can of drink in my bag to hand to him in passing... didn't leave it as I didn't know if/when he'd be back - and I spotted somebody else had left him a bottle of water already.

Wednesday2000

I'm not hungry at the moment, but I will have a slice of wholemeal toast with the rest of the baked beans I opened the other day. Maybe some HP sauce too.:D

Brambling wrote: »

I imagine you'll be shaking your undergarments out for a while Wednesday :rotfl: could be worst there's no poisonous spiders in the uk :rotfl:

That is true!:eek:

PasturesNew

Had an awful night's sleep .... woke up several times, I suspect it was sugar overload. Increasingly I notice that sweeties make me groggy. They weren't even nice ones!

I am not sure where the weather's going today, so choosing food's difficult to predict so far ahead; later on I might get a portion of pie from the freezer if it's less muggy. I've a large portion of mash in the fridge ... and I can open a tin of beans with that.