Cooking for one (Mark Three)

pattypan4

All window coverings are closed on the east side, have been since 9. Its hard to cope with this heat, I am expecting 34 tomorrow.

Breakie was just garden blueberries yoghurt and small scrumptious granola. Strawberries and LO d cream ready for later. Lunch will have to be veggies and defrosted nut roast. I need to use up butter, flour and eggs so have whipped up a double batch of scones. Butter went soft very quickly and eggs are at room temperature, everyything was finished in a jiffy by hand, sifted flour for airyness. I only use a knife to gather the dough, pat down on the board and a bread dough cutter to make rough and very uneven shapes. Took less time than it took my aeropress coffee to cool. In oven now, will freeze today

I will finish eating by 3.30 and have my breakie between 6.30-7am. Gives digestives a good amount of time for r and r
scones are ready and cooling. they look very scrummy

caronc

Good morning everyone,

Glad no blood was shed Brambling;)



It was really stormy here overnight, it's calmer now but still very windy. It's supposed to blow out in a few hours.
My balance is still off and it is an ease gently into the day kind of morning so far. I've only just had breakfast! I cut a slice of the SD loaf and had it with a smidge of pate. I'm pretty pleased wirh the bread, it's slightly denser than previous ones as I upped the proportion of rye and wholemeal flours in the mix but still a really decent crumb/texture and tastes great.:)
I'm probably going to have to pop to my Dad's to try and fix a drawer handle that has come off but apart from that I'm planning a quietish day.
Dinner will either be spaghetti & meatballs or naan bread pizza.

PasturesNew

I never made the syrup loaf for two good reasons, and a few iffy ones:

1/ I CBA to look in the bag on top of my F/F to see if I'd got any bicarb and put it there.
2/ I CBA in general.

To be fair, I already had food overload to plough through.

I think that covers the main points

I've defrosted a crust this morning, toasted it and topped it with beans and cheese.

Freezer now contains just:

1 crust of bread
1 unopened 1.5Kg bag of chips
1 spicy parsnip soup I've been avoiding for months and months and months
6 sausages
2 portions of steak pie.

My perishables dotted around are just: 3 spuds, 1 onion, 1/2 tin of rice pudding in the fridge, 1 large portion of chilli in the fridge.

Today I'll eat the final portion of chilli, although it's a large portion (as I was trying to get through it). Last night I had a portion of that with basmati AND chips. Couldn't move..... well, not for an hour. After an hour I opened a tin of rice pudding and had half of that with some jam.

Wednesday2000

Usual toast for breakfast.

I just went to the shop and bought strawberries, lettuce and cucumber. It's so muggy out there!

I am going to have a salad for lunch. Too hot to have anything else.

Farway

The loaf turned out well, but the ready mix As*a own label always do IME

Noticed just how dry the pots are in the front, and it only chucked it down a couple of days ago. Fed & watered them because of heat forecast way up to 90s so they say, think I'll splash out on cheapo pop in L's tomorrow, I really want fizzy water to mix with squash but they don't sell it, so I use low their fat lemonade

Tin of beans on kitchen top, cheese at the ready, eggs out of fridge, all set for dinner

pattypan4

I only went to the local charity shop, 10 minute amble each way and I was dripping when I came back, have had to change again and no doubt that a loose airy dress is better than linen top and trousers. I am definitely going to continue living in a cave each day, as long as the high temperature continues

CRANKY40

Good afternoon all,

I didn't cook for one over the weekend so I didn't post....it feels like cheating :rotfl: Friday I took the HT to McDonalds for tea to celebrate the end of term/commiserate with his diagnosis of dyscalculia. It's like dyslexia but with numbers. Saturday after work we went to a party at our friends, where all the food was beige and on Sunday we had a more or less the same roast dinner. I don't like mash by the way, but the HT does and it's his best friend's favourite thing. She's been known to choose mash and gravy when we're out and about instead of a cake.

We're back to our separate schedules today. My breakfast was banana on toast, I didn't bother with lunch as I went to work and I've just had pasta salad that I made myself. It has pasta, some leftover chicken from yesterday chopped, 2 bacon medallions chopped, tomatoes from the garden, sweetcorn, petit pois and light mayo. I also gave it a squirt of Nando's perinaise to brighten it up a bit. I made enough for two portions so I have a nice lazy lunch tomorrow - the other half is in a tub in the fridge. Supper will be a mini wrap with sliced beef and a dab of ketchup.

We have to have supper as my trigger for migraines is going too long between meals and unfortunately I seem to have passed this on to the HT.

PN If you really can't face the parsnip soup then get rid of it. Life is too short Cheesy beans on toast is one of our favourite meals by the way.

Brambling I'm glad that you're home safe.

pattypan making scones is on my "to do" list for tomorrow as well as another syrup loaf.

Tomorrow I also want to make some sort of quiche with smoked salmon in. I can't decide if I want asparagus or broccoli in it as well.....watch this space

caronc

Good evening everyone,

PN - sounds as though the soup needs used or ditched. Like me I know you hate waste but in the grand scheme of things considering your moving shortly.....

I've picked and eaten my first tomatoes, two of them were lovely and ripe. They tasted amazing:D:D:D. They were Maskota and the fruits are decent size. Much bigger than the usual types more like a small salad one. There's more of them not far off, along with a Stupice and unknown!! Last year I thought I might have mixed up plants as my supposed Indigo Rose seeds grew red rather purple but I was very careful and the same has happened this year. That said whatever they are produced a very nice tom so I don't mind. I also picked a smallish courgette that had got it's stem broken in overnight wind and needed rescuing. I'll use it in my meatball sauce tonight.
The storm blew out and it turned into a really nice but really warm day. My shorts are on:eek::eek:.
Earlier I did go to my Dad's (not in my shorts :eek::eek::eek:) and thankfully managed to fix the handle. It's not perfect as it was a horrible angle for me but fine for the photos and my son will fix it properly this weekend when he's up home. Tbh CRANKY40 I quite often post when I'm not CFO as mostly I'll be eating stuff I would cook for just me anyway so don't feel you can't if you want to.:)
Lunch when I came back was slice of SD topped with cheese & tinned pineapple with cucumber sticks and radishes on the side. The pineapple was spare from last night and it was a large tin - the last time I ordered tinned pineapple the small tins were on offer at 2 for something. When my delivery came they were out of the small tins and subbed it with 2 large ones. At the moment the remaining 4 rings are in a tub in the fridge but I may well end up freezing some. Spaghetti with meatball & veg in tom sauce for dinner.:)

Brambling

Farway wrote: »

Brambling, thanks for the wave, good job it was yesterday, I see this morning there are goats blocking the road, not kidding:D.

I saw it on the South traffic news this morning when I drove there yesterday there was just the circus in the field at Julians Bridge no goats in sight . To avoid Arundel I drove the more country route home and in one place there is a large sign warning drivers to go slow due to low flying barn owl

Cranky I think that's what my eldest sisters' grandson has I know he has really bad dyslexia letters and numbers I just didn't know the name of it, he wasn't diagnosed until he went to college and found school really difficult. He has run his own hair salon since he was 21 and is really successful but his dad has to do his books and paperwork and a receptionist takes the money for him.

I got back to work to over a 100 emails, it seemed the system issue from Thursday is still occurring, I was glad I missed Friday and was welcomed back with opened arms by my manager as i usually deal with this system and liaise with the two IT teams it's nice to be missed

Lunch was from the freezer a lurking portion of lamb biryani with some spinach thrown in. Dinner some frying steak also from the freezer, I made a skinny sandwich using a sandwich thin and some fried onions .

I popped into the SM for salad stuff I think it will be needed the next couple of days, we drive down to Devon Friday so I'm hoping the heatwave will cool by then

PasturesNew

I dislike food shopping... being in the shop is a challenge, finding what I want, choosing/deciding... but I did try to think differently this morning when I went out.

The news sites tell us it's going to be a scorcher, so I figured bread rolls, eggs, cucumber - so that's sandwiches + a tub of ice cream. I've never been one for buying ice cream as a rule; in summer I'd buy 8-packs of cheapo choc ices for about £1, but 4ldi have discontinued those this year and it's not worth driving further and across a bypass just to get the Sainsbobs version.

I picked up, then put back, an 4ldi £1.19 quiche lorraine (they're nice, for a cheapo one, by the way as I had one the other week). I figured I need to continue to concentrate on eating what I've got and not adding "more main meal items" into the household.

I bought 2 bottles of bleach as it's something I struggle to buy as often as I'd like as it's so cumbersome to buy... but I'll be doing a thorough deep cleaning when I leave, so now's as good a time as any to make sure I have more than plenty in the house, rather than the usual "just enough".

Bought some goodies With "hot weather coming" in mind, I bought:

1 tub Lemon meringue ice cream, 3-pack of blackcurrant trifles
4 oven bottom muffins, 1-pack of YS pikelets (super thin crumpets)
10-pack of eggs, cucumber
2 bottles of bleach, 1 roll of tin foil
2 litres of ginger beer.

I've taken the bbq kebabs out of the freezer; I can cook those up and then stick the cold meat in the fridge either to be nibbled, or served with chips, or as a roll filling.

I could've, but didn't, additionally buy "sweeties", but the trifles/ice cream are "bad enough"

The chilli I cooked last week was finally finished, with a large portion with chips last night. Thought I'd never see the back of that. It was best fresh; the chilled/boxed portions were a bit of a drudge. I also had the 2nd half a tin of rice pudding last night, with jam.