Cooking for one (Mark Three)

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Went freezer dipping so fetched out a small lump of chicken curry, will have today, 2 very flat mini steaks of spicy beef, had 1 cut in half on a couple of rolls yesterday and the other for today. Made chilli with the left over mince so some of that will be frozen. Made the dough in BM from an Oct 2018 bag of mixed grain , then made into 8 small longish buns and 3 round buns. The round ones eaten, the others in freezer. I did 2 types because I wanted to cook some in big convection oven and the round ones in micro convection, just to see if timing etc was different. Well, they micro came to temp a litle quicker, and although I set both for same timing, the micro was just a little browner on the tops. Basically, if only a few, enough for micro, then will do in that, if larger numbers, will use big oven. Good to know.

pattypan4

I am in my dark cave now, prepped for 34 degrees outside, bought salmon fillet at the co-op and delighted to see it was 2 and not one large but still not as good as me buying in one side of salmon and portioning myself. I just had kimchi, want to keep plodding with it, very nice but I don`t like the heat of chilli so won`t be getting that again. Just salmon with a salmon sauce, cabbage, carrot and fried potato. Cherries sometime and chocolate. Bought 2 light books in the cs yesterday, partof the preps, just sitting reading later

Farway

Phew, Scorchio! It was 70F at 6 this morning.

Lucky you Caron with toms ready, mine are no where near, sort of pale green stage still but I was behind with sowing them, Beast from East etc
I've had water the pots a the back already, they're just wilting in the hilt

L's first thing, nothing worthwhile YS there today, but topped up my cheapo lemonade + Cos on offer

Lunch was cheese & salady sarnie
One salmon fillet out to defrost, to go with a salad tonight.

I'll fry in butter as usual, serve with portion of frozen chips

caronc

Good evening everyone,

I sowed my toms the week after Easter Farway but do find some of Eastern European varieties ripen early compared to others. I read an article a few years back that said they tended to do well in Scotland so got some to try and have grown various ones ever since.:) I picked a couple more today to have with my lunch;).
It's been a warm one here today, very gloomy & windy this morning but brightened up this afternoon. We've a weather warning for thunder storms overnight and my balance is far from amused!! It was too hot to do much so have mainly lurked in the shade and the cooler parts of the house.
It was just as well I fixed the errant drawer handle at my Dad's, as the Estate Agents called this morning around 9ish asking if they could collect keys in the next half hour and take photos today instead of later in the week as the chap was in the area anyway.

Lunch was SD topped with cheese & sliced toms with cucumber sticks and fresh peas. Tonight it's naan bread pizza using some of the HM tom sauce, pepperami, yellow pepper, red onion & mozzarella. If I had remembered earlier I have SD pizza dough still in the freezer but a naan will be just fine:).

Brambling

It was 33 when I left the office at 5.30pm, I was glad I remembered to cover my windscreen as it meant I could touch my steering wheel, where I park my car the afternoon sun comes around the building and hits it. Unfortunately my sun glasses were a little warm and I forgot I left mints in the glovebox from the weekend :eek:

I stayed in the office lunchtime to avoid the heat and make the most of the air conditioning . Lunch was some half price reduced beef from the w*itrose deli counter with a mixed salad. Although it was too hot to cook much tonight I enjoyed standing on the kitchen tiles . I air fried some quorn goujons and had with some purple sprouting broccoli with a little bit of cheddar sprinkled over it. I may have some berries and yogurt for supper

PasturesNew

I ate all four bread rolls yesterday. So now out of bread. As it's going to be hot again today I'll dash to L1dl when it opens and grab a loaf. Might pick up a couple of scotch eggs too, while I'm at it....

Yesterday I had 2 rolls with cucumber/egg; 1 roll with egg; 1 roll with a pile of kebab meat.

I also hit the ice cream 3x, so there's about 1/4-1/3 of the tub gone.
It was the lemon meringue one, £2.49 at 4ldi. Verdict: Nice enough, nicely lemony, bit "sherberty" in a good way - and even some little meringue bits (but also indiscernible). I'll probably not buy it again, but just because I'm not a buyer of ice cream in the main. If I had to buy ice cream in a hurry ... I'd not be against grabbing that one - and if I were feeding others with it I'd probably pick up a pack of meringue nests and crush them or use a nest as a base.

Freezer's not got much "main meal food" in it now... that s0dding soup, that I will probably end up binning; 2 slices of steak pie; 6 sausages. I had thought of making my own scotch eggs with two of those sausages, but CBA


EDIT: Did the L1dl run.... got a loaf.
Then I got a pot of sandwich filler.
Then I spotted a pack of 6 sausage rolls 30% off sticker (UseBy 25th).
Then I got a 6-pack of fizzy pop.
Then I bought jelly babies.

It was jelly babies for breakfast this morning

It's all "hot weather snacky food and drinks".

CRANKY40

Good morning all,

I half cooked for one yesterday - I had toast for breakfast and the rest of the pasta salad for lunch. It was a busy day (first of 3 days off rota at work which is my pattern for the next couple of weeks). I line dried two loads of washing, made cheese scones and syrup loaf (yes another one, the HT loves it), did a bit of gardening and obtained something for the HT in his online game by running round killing robots. There were a lot of robots needed.....

For dinner we shared a ready made pizza bought for the HT really but I was in a CBA mood by dinner time so had a bit of it with some salad. The rest went in the HT (no salad).

Today I had banana on toast for breakfast and I'm making salmon and broccoli quiche for dinner. It's the diet version so it doesn't have pastry. I'm using smoked salmon trimmings because they're cheap and they don't need to look pretty for this. Lunch will probably be fruit.

PN I made the best lemon ice cream ever when I was trying to make a cheesecake for my dairy free friend. It was a vegan recipe and it didn't set so I chucked it into a box and froze it. It may have been a fail as a cheesecake but as an ice cream it was spectacular!

Right...time to shift backside and go and put my running gear on. Have a good day everyone

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I do not like shopping except food shopping although I only go maybe 1 or 2 times a month DO NOT NEED ANY MORE FOOD FOR FREEZERS !!!!!! Have to keep telling myself. Trying to clear some room in freezers as courgettes are starting, not many think 3, and tomatoes are starting to colour, 4 so far but about 40 on plant, cherry ones, so have sorted out recipes ready for glut and will then need freezer space. Made chilli yesterday for l/o mince made previous day so froze half plus half tin toms and ditto chill beans. Took out a sausage shepherds pie to defrost for tomorrow, will have with some of home grown baby potatoes, would have prefered to take some rice from freezer but got the new potatoes. Adding some hg carrots as veg with chilli and chips (4 wk old potatoes to use) tonight.

pattypan4

one protibix, blueberries and almond milk for breakie. I am picking blueberries twice a day right now


some sd for 2nd breakfast, loving my cacao sd, crunchy and cold with some butter


snacks of 2 apricots and kimchi, not together


Have prepped lunch: steamed broad beans, carrot and greens with parsley sauce. Followed by ripe strawberries and cream


Nothing much after that, maybe a scone and an apple mid afternoon


I have unearthed my magimix processor, I cannot tell you how long that has been tucked away out of sight, so I have not used it for ages. I have made a very handy space for it and am keeping it in plain sight from now on. Started with the parsley sauce but I dumped all my home frozen parsley when I moved, so had to use barts and I could not get the lid off so had to sprinkle and sprinkle. Roll on going to my allotment, will be replenishing my parsley pdq


Not been a lazy day but quite productive, made lots of waffles to freeze, fed up of being tempted by cheap biscuits that only make me eat the whole packet because they are addictive once I start munching

caronc

Good morning everyone,

whmf with surplus toms I roast them with garlic & oregano, blitz then rub through a sieve to make passatta which I freeze in small amounts. I takes up much less freezer space than freezing whole ones.
I've no idea if we got the promised thunder during the night, if we did it didn't wake me. However it does feel a bit fresher this morning though it's very overcast. No heatwave for us -temps are forecast for the low 20s which is fine by me:) .
I've some domestic chores to get out of the way and then it will be out into the garden for the rest of the day.
Lunch will be a salad sarnie of some description and for tonight I have a couple of chicken legs marinading in a chinese style bbq sauce. I'm planning for LOs for tomorrow to save cooking as it's forecast to be much warmer here.