Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Wednesday2000

I've had white farmhouse bread with marg and marmite.

I fancy some of those cheap noodles for lunch. I will make it marginally healthier with some stir fried red onion, pepper, peas and carrots. I will have a couple of those Linda Mcc sausages too.

Farway

Bit of a restless night for some unknown reason, which meant I slept in longer than usual, which means I'm now behind where I'd intended.

Not that I'd planned anything at all, just a bit discombobulated "not right" IYSWIM

Anyway, sunny day so all's right with the world [Excluding Westminster:mad:]. However must be colder than it looks, my heating clicked on earlier

Porridge, HM yoghurt & diced apple for breakfast
Made a fresh batch of yoghurt, using a new starter

Before my restless night I thought of doing some sort of roast dinner today, but now CBA, however planning ahead I've taken a YS FR chicken plus Morries YS RM beef casserole out to defrost.

The YS MFO casserole is for today's' dinner
The chicken may become base for roast tomorrow if I CBA

Lunch, no idea, but WHMF's salmon + cuc sarnie sounds tempting as I have all ingredients required. I put vinegar on mine as well

PN, did you get or have Icel*nd card? Just a thought if you spent over £20 it would be worthwhile pre loading £20 on the card to get a £1 bonus. Just a thought, sort of free pizza, or in my case milk

Oh dear, the talk of pink sausages, baked meat paste with crunchy bits, plus stew with boiled fat chewy bits takes me back to childhood:eek: Which is why now I can afford better quality I buy it

PasturesNew

Farway wrote: »

PN, did you get or have Icel*nd card? Just a thought if you spent over £20 it would be worthwhile pre loading £20 on the card to get a £1 bonus. Just a thought, sort of free pizza, or in my case milk

No. It was a one off... I won't be a regular there.
No idea if housemate has/used one though, I know she has moved from where there was one on her doorstep.

As a rule I refuse to participate in card schemes as they're too complex and I shop so few times in any such shop it's never been to my advantage.

unrecordings

PasturesNew wrote: »

Had an earlyish breakfast of 2x toast, 2x scrambled eggs and beans.

Bacon sandwiches here. Smoked, streaky with a couple of Staffordshire oatcakes fried up to clean the pan. Mrs Un announced that after cleaning the toaster it no longer works, which unfortunately means the time has finally come for her to endure me teaching her how to check a fuse. Failing that it's on to the popular Trini Lopez method of WEEE recycling:

"If I had a hammer..." (which I do)

Funnily enough the last toaster died of Staffordshire oatcake inhalation

Farway

PasturesNew wrote: »

No. It was a one off... I won't be a regular there.
No idea if housemate has/used one though, I know she has moved from where there was one on her doorstep.

Must have been her one, you only get delivery if card holder


Lunch was the tinned salmon & cuc sarnie, some of which over spilled into my lap as I ate:(


Managed to get my streaming thingy back working, passwords all changed when I moved ISP, I can understand the router one changing, but beeb iplayer?

caronc

Good evening everyone,

Late on parade as today has disappeared from me as I got engrossed in the club accounts and spent ages solving an anomaly!:) (And trying to resist the temptation to buy a dress in the "Seasalt sale", if it's still available tomorrow I may well buy it:cool:)

Pie & peas unrecordings hope they're proper boiled peas with a splash of malt vinegar with them
whmf & Farway with you 100% that tinned salmon needs vinegar not mayo
Weather wise it's been a day of two halves (both cold) pouring this morning but dry this afternoon, it's to head towards freezing tonight. It's supposed to head to freezing tomorrow night so I think it's time to get my begonias etc. into the greenhouse to over winter.

I decided I fancied something hot for lunch and while having a mooch at my freezer inventory discovered I still had a tub of lentil soup in the freezer. A steaming bowl of that with a slice of bread & butter to dip fair hit the spot.:) Another "winter warmer" for dinner tonight FR pork shoulder steak with a herby veg (onion, celery, leeks, carrot, cauliflower, kohlrabi, mushrooms and baby spuds) & butter bean stew. There will be lots of LOs so dinner tomorrow may well feature the stew again and anything unused after that will either get frozen or turned into soup.

Brambling

Farway wrote: »

Oh dear, the talk of pink sausages, baked meat paste with crunchy bits, plus stew with boiled fat chewy bits takes me back to childhood:eek: Which is why now I can afford better quality I buy it

That's the reason why I do the same Farway .

The cat was a PITA early this morning, no respect for a weekend, I fed and let him out and foolishly went back to bed so woke later feeling that I had slept too much, I went into town to avoid a day doing nothing and it was a little spendy . I brought a long dark green cardi I have been eyeing in F Face for a while which was half price in their sale and on a more boring level a heavy baking tray plus two half size baking trays good for CFO and then in TKM** some glass Pyrex containers with lids and some small containers to take grapes, tomatoes etc for snacks at work, I'm trying to avoid using too much plastic . Plus other bits and pieces :cool:

Whilst in town I popped into M&S food for my sister as she's got a bad cold and as well as picking up her milk and salad bits my nephew forgot I picked us both up a YS chicken £2.50 instead of £7.85 (there will be a lot of chicken on my menu next week ) and then regretted it when I carried it all the mile back to hers, my shoulder is aching still . Annoyingly I left her tomatoes in my bag and will have to drop them round before going out tomorrow.

I didn't have a proper lunch a banana before going into to town and some samples in the farmers market including some lovely Thai curry sauce and rice Dinner was the [STRIKE]heavy[/STRIKE] chicken roasted with jacket potato, roasted asparagus and fennel, braised baby leeks and mixed green beans (I was hungry :EasterBun: ). Plenty of LOs for the next few days

Buy the dress Caronc for Xmas you said their dresses suit you

caronc

Good bargains Brambling , sounds as both you & I will be eating LOs in various guises this week, I could swap you some of your chicken for some of the veg stew to save us both some prep?:cool:

I think I probably will buy the dress, just need to have another look and see if there is anything else I could pop in the basket while I'm at it.;) They do nice "bits" which could be handy for Christmas gifts. I'm laughing as this time last year I owned just one dress (after my post-work dress cull) which I wore to my son's engagement do and now I have six after realising that night just how comfy a dress is especially if they are tunic/shift types I like.:) Might need a new cardi to go with this one though so will have a look o the FF site:cool:.

Brambling

It's a swap Caronc:rotfl: can you catch ?

Didn't know there was a sale, but they're on the edge of the farmers market and the big red sale window caught my eye

I'm still hoping to slim into the only dresses in my wardrobe :cool:

caronc

No I'm rubbish at catching - roll it:rotfl::rotfl: