Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Farway

Beautiful day here, ideal for holiday makers, and my SIL is swimming the Channel today as part of a relay team. started at 0230, they are about halfway across when I last looked, should be over by 5 ish, but if they run late they catch the ebb tide so are unable to fight the tide and have to swim parallel a few miles out & wait for tide to turn, which could add 6 hours on to time
At least sea's calm, warmish 60F, and not much wind
Here's the tracking link https://www.channelswimmingassociation.com/pilots/sea-leopard

Meanwhile I had porridge breakfast
Bunged a ready mix loaf in, it's near Use By date & the yeast looses ooomph. It has turned out looking lovely & ready for lunchtime sarnie, cheese & shallot I think

Quick spin round the garden, checking for windfalls, none, plum check, a couple. They are really nice now, and seem to be ripening sequentially, ideal for one, no glut

Stewed previous windfalls + blackberries, I'll sort the crumble topping later today

YS broccoli & cheese flan out to defrost, it'll be some of that plus salad

Caron, we do seem to be in sync at times. I also had Caesar dressing on last night's salad as a change from salad cream
The boiled eggs sort of worked, except one popped and[STRIKE] spewed [/STRIKE]leaked it's [STRIKE]guts [/STRIKE] contents into the boiling water:mad:. This was despite both being at room temp. I'll try your method next time
It'll probably have on my tombstone, "Nice bloke but he couldn't boil an egg":D

Wednesday2000

OMG, it's so hot out there. i just went for a 30 minute walk. I forgot to bring my water bottle so I had to buy some from the shop.

I just had an ice lolly when I got in.:A

candygirl

Cheesy garlic bread, n salad for tea.Might even chop fresh chillies on top for a change:D

Farway

Update, apple & blackberry crumble made & cooling on the stove top. looks great, juice has seeped onto crumble top, should be nicely soaked in but crispy


Flan yet to be "cooked" reheated, only 30 minutes required so no rush

caronc

Good evening everyone,
Bother re the leaking egg Farway:mad:, I hate when they do that! I hope your SIL's swim went well:). I can swim, my parents insisted I learned, but I hate the water though do love a paddle.:cool: I did make the effort when my kids were babies to take them but it's not something I enjoy, though their Dad loves it and taught them both to swim competently before they were school age.
I didn't get as much done in the garden as I hoped, a combination of the hot day and unhappy balance limited what I managed:( but it was lovely to just sit and enjoy my book outdoors and I treated myself to a dark choc ice from the freezer.:) It's been quite thundery though with odd spots of rain which was all the excuse I needed not to get the weedkiller down! Picked some broadbeans and a kholrabi today, the kholrabi was diced through my lunchtime salad today and I'll have the beans with dinner. My first beefsteak tom is nearly ripe, a Super Marmande, and it's a really decent size too- it's bottom barely fits in the cup of my hand. :eek:I'm looking forward to getting stuck into that:D.

Meal plan for the week has been done and tonight it's an easy CFO option of a piece of quiche from the freezer, baked spud, spinach and broad beans. I've popped a pork steak and a tub of HM chorizio, veg, rice mix in the fridge to defrost for tomorrow.

Brambling

Hope your SIL is finished and recovering Farway, at least the weather was kind today

A warmed day here as well, i popped to town to get some odds and ends before i go away tomorrow (yes i know Dorset has shops ) and bumped into a couple of old work colleagues in M&S food hall so we stood chatting for a while getting in the way of everyone else we probably should have gone for coffee the time we [STRIKE]gossiped [/STRIKE]caught up. I didn't enjoy the mile walk back to my car as it was too hot and I had brought more than i planned (50% sale plus an extra 10% off in Fat Face ) as well as washing capsules etc.

Lunch was late i used us some smoked salmon trimmings i found in the fridge with a bagette and some horseradish and cucumber. as it was after 2pm i'm not that hungry at the moment so have been picking

I'm off early tomorrow to avoid the traffic and will have no internet connection unless i manage to hotspot my tablet to my phone. I'm not sure how long I will be away but i have two weeks off work so it will be until i over dose on family :rotfl:

caronc

I hope you have a lovely time Brambling and at least you have the car if you need to escape! I take some "work" emergency to call you back if needed.;);) There's always this to smile at if you need a bit of light relief from the family https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsyEQk6OQi0 and find some WiFi :)

Brambling

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

in my case i'm taking lashings of gin :beer:

I've haven't told them my colleague has my mobile number and is picking up a piece of work I do at the beginning of the month, and isn't very confidence at doing it :cool:

I love my family but on one day i will be with four of my sisters for lunch :eek: as well as couple of other family members

caronc

Brambling wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:


I love my family but on one day i will be with four of my sisters for lunch :eek: as well as couple of other family members

Lashings of gin and you'll be just fine just don't volunteer to be the designated driver:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:


As I had the oven on for my spud/quiche I filled a tray of about 1kg of toms to roast for passatta, I stuck in a few garlic cloves and sprinkled with oregano. The smell of them wafting through the house is amazing......:D

Farway

Scorcher on the way today, so after porridge breakfast I cracked on watering & dead heading before the heat gets going

My SIL Channel relay made good time, 12 hours 40 minutes, which is good it seems.

He only learnt to swim a few years back when he realised all his children could swim & he couldn't, but he is a bit of a perfectionist [ideal as he's a GP] so nothing short of Channel swim would do once he'd cracked the Bournemouth pier to pier

Next year he hopes to swim Channel solo [plus support boat of course]

Today is Ploughman's lunch day, but may be for dinner not lunch, still full of porridge at the moment to think that far ahead

I know Brambling is off net, but good job she went early, it would be awful melting in traffic today