MiamMiam Musings

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Welcome to MiamMiam Musings, or – I'm fed up with being confined!

Not sure how this will go but for the moment I'm winging it.

I don't mind my own company but, as is always the way, when it's enforced it's a different kettle of fish – you know what I mean – you decide to give up cheese or chocolate and immediately you crave whichever is your guilty pleasure.

Here are my musings to date … I'm sick of food – having to queue to buy it and then to cook it – every day, it's enough to send a person doolally tap (translated - “to lose one's mind from boredom”).

For me it's one shopping trip each week – M&S Food and then Waitrose. M&S is great at 8.30a.m on a Wednesday – Waitrose thereafter sometimes good, sometimes not.

I've gone back to basics and actually it works. I write my menu for the week and then paper clip it to my wall calendar – a glance in passing each morning tells me if I need to pull anything from the freezer or for that matter any prep that's required. The point being it's done, dusted and organised then move on!

From my wall menu I make my weekly shopping list – for once I pay attention – I've no intention of going out more than once so it's worth a few extra minutes and checking the store cupboard. Here's my menu for this week :

Prawn and smoked salmon salad – my “salad” is

a mixed bag of cabbage, carrot, lettuce, pepper and sweetcorn -

baby silverskin onions, beetroot, boiled eggs, grated cheese, tomatoes and

part-baked sourdough bread (and butter of course)

Lamb fillet, already cooked, from the freezer

Parrots – leftover carrots and parsnips, mashed and seasoned

Sautéed cooked, baked potatoes

butter beans

Redcurrant jelly

Ham hock

poached egg

Seasoned potato wedges

The ham hock came from the Waitrose shop this morning – not been able

to get it for ages – one pack for tonight, the other into the freezer!

Sweet and sour chicken

Rice with vegetables – frozen from M&S

Slob night – Croque Monsieur – minus

meat for me with a side of fries

beetroot relish

Chicken pie – made from slow cooked chicken

already in the freezer and a mushroom sauce, again the base

is in the freezer – haven't decided yet whether it'll

be a pastry top or a sliced baked potato version

Prawn curry with

rice and flat breads

At the bottom of my menu for the week I've written three ideas for next week – if I don't write stuff down I'll forget – if I decide to cook something else who cares!

At this moment in time I'd kill for fast food – in particular a veggie burger from McDonald's or, the best, a Mexican Bean Burger from Burger King. At a push I'd even settle for Fish and Chips – it has come to this. Believe me when I say I'll be at one or the other when they re-open. In the meantime I'm treating myself to a pizza – that I haven't had to make!

Now for my “rant of the week”.

I know we've all suffered with “loo roll gate” and “who stole all the tinned food” not to mention “where did all the flour go” - thankfully the Supermarkets have now taken some control, after making a shedload of even more profit – I digress – here comes the rant.

It's confession time - since I was a teenager I've loved salad cream and always put it on chips – once a slob … it was years before I discovered that the Belgians invented it – with posh mayo of course! I had salad cream on my list last week – imagine my surprise, she says light heartedly, to find the entire shelf empty in Waitrose. To say I was “cross” puts it mildly.

All was not lost … I've had deliveries from Derbyshire and Southport – needless to say I have enough salad cream to sink a battle ship with a great lifespan. It gives me great pleasure that I will not be lining Waitrose's pockets any more than I need to since now I have my own personal salad cream supply.

I feel so much better for that!

That's the end of my musing for this week but before I go a reminder – check your store cupboard, your fridge and your freezer – you'll have forgotten what's in your freezer already – then decide on your menu and then make your list! Not forgetting a bottle of your favourite tipple – a person has to have a treat!

I hope my musing has made you smile, stay safe and well.

With love xxx