Plans for today (2024)

Our last rental had an old wood fired pizza oven which I could use, but this place is much more a working farm than the old place.

I have the BBQ so that I can cook outside. And I have various camping stoves, but no outdoor oven. 25°C would be a normal cook day here in summer... I tend to avoid the oven, but I have just had some thought. Though because it's a very small airfryer I doubt it would work, but I could move the airfryer to the veranda and cook a 2 person sized quiche in that, maybe. I had planned 2 quiches and then freezing the second. Quiche and salad was to get us heigh the weekend and the hot temps plus a picnic on the coast.

Picnic on the coast yes please! 😂

Reckon you’re right, the air fryer might do the trick 👍 so long as it’s one you can set a lower temp on and perhaps protect the top of the quiche with some foil? Maybe a glug of water in the bottom of the tray to stop it drying it to much?

Interested to know how it works out.
 
Plans today…MrsT had a phone-call appointment with a neurologist, that’s done. Not much else, really, besides work. It’s been days since we had salad, so I’m making that tonight. Probably make a sundried tomato vinaigrette to go with it.
 
Plans for today include making a curry with some beetroot, giving another TOEFL class and writing up some recipes for a cookbook.
I've actually been writing up these recipes (all my chutneys, jams, pickles, hot sauces, etc) for over 3 years... talk about procrastination!
Since I've just acquired a new laptop, I've decided it's time to finish this little project, speak to a friend who's a gastronomy journalist and see whether, who knows, it could be published. Or not!
 
Picnic on the coast yes please! 😂

Reckon you’re right, the air fryer might do the trick 👍 so long as it’s one you can set a lower temp on and perhaps protect the top of the quiche with some foil? Maybe a glug of water in the bottom of the tray to stop it drying it to much?

Interested to know how it works out.
Our airfryer can work as an oven, so it shouldn't dry things out. And given that it has the ability to make yoghurt and dehydrate things as well, there's a pretty good temperature range. The problem is that I don't have the dedicated baking tin for it, so that means using something that will fit into the small space which I think is where I'm going to run into problems. It's a 1-2 person size airfryer (Buy the Philips Premium Airfryer HD9742/93 Airfryer)
 
Our airfryer can work as an oven, so it shouldn't dry things out. And given that it has the ability to make yoghurt and dehydrate things as well, there's a pretty good temperature range. The problem is that I don't have the dedicated baking tin for it, so that means using something that will fit into the small space which I think is where I'm going to run into problems. It's a 1-2 person size airfryer (Buy the Philips Premium Airfryer HD9742/93 Airfryer)

Crikey that’s a posh air fryer! 🥰

I’ve seen some rather nice looking expandable air fryer trays in silicone, they look like those disposable paper ones you make cake with. Have you seen those?
 
Crikey that’s a posh air fryer! 🥰

I’ve seen some rather nice looking expandable air fryer trays in silicone, they look like those disposable paper ones you make cake with. Have you seen those?
We were careful with what we bought. Hence why it is in use so often.
It doubles as a BBQ and an oven. It also acts as a UK grill and an airfryer, it more accurately degreaser! It seems to remove fat from things and does a great job. We've taken to keeping a pot next to it to pour oil into otherwise we smoke the house out. 😆

We like it because it has a 90 second preheat and it's at temperature as well as having a "keep warm" option.

The one we bought my sister back in October can be controlled by a phone app which she loves. (yes we were missing ours that much, her oven didn't work and a few weeks after we left her oven actually blew up and left a dent in the side of her fridge!)
 
We were careful with what we bought. Hence why it is in use so often.
It doubles as a BBQ and an oven. It also acts as a UK grill and an airfryer, it more accurately degreaser! It seems to remove fat from things and does a great job. We've taken to keeping a pot next to it to pour oil into otherwise we smoke the house out. 😆

We like it because it has a 90 second preheat and it's at temperature as well as having a "keep warm" option.

The one we bought my sister back in October can be controlled by a phone app which she loves. (yes we were missing ours that much, her oven didn't work and a few weeks after we left her oven actually blew up and left a dent in the side of her fridge!)
It looks like it’s the dogs wotnots!
Just as well I have my appliances already or that (or whatever the replacement version is) would be heading straight into my shopping basket 😂

ps my sons oven in his uni accommodation last year exploded. He was lucky he wasn’t in the kitchen at the time because the glass front shattered and send shards of glass everywhere including his bedroom through a closed door!

The buildings management just shrugged and put it on a list of jobs that would never be done. Considering the hob also didn’t work and the rent was 10k a year I was pretty miffed!
 
It looks like it’s the dogs wotnots!
Just as well I have my appliances already or that (or whatever the replacement version is) would be heading straight into my shopping basket 😂

ps my sons oven in his uni accommodation last year exploded. He was lucky he wasn’t in the kitchen at the time because the glass front shattered and send shards of glass everywhere including his bedroom through a closed door!
Yeah, my sister and her dog were both in the kitchen when it happened. She was lucky the house didn't burn down. It transpired that her oven had been wired in with the live and earth the wrong way around! (Not by her I'll add, my sister struggles to replace a light bulb. And in not kidding. We replaced both toilet and bathroom pull cord switches whilst we were there. One didn't work at all, and the other had about 5cm of cord left!)

She loves the airfryer we bought her. We spent £100 on it, if that. I know we paid the Aussie equivalent of £140 for ours. They're actually not that expensive, or large. Our's & her's is/are barely larger than our normal sized kettle. We picked hers up reduced with about 35% off it. Clearing end of range.
 
Yeah, my sister and her dog were both in the kitchen when it happened. She was lucky the house didn't burn down. It transpired that her oven had been wired in with the live and earth the wrong way around! (Not by her I'll add, my sister struggles to replace a light bulb. And in not kidding. We replaced both toilet and bathroom pull cord switches whilst we were there. One didn't work at all, and the other had about 5cm of cord left!)

She loves the airfryer we bought her. We spent £100 on it, if that. I know we paid the Aussie equivalent of £140 for ours. They're actually not that expensive, or large. Our's & her's is/are barely larger than our normal sized kettle. We picked hers up reduced with about 35% off it. Clearing end of range.
Bargain!

Funny how some folk just aren't practical at all isn't it.
 
I’ve just left MrsT at the airport, she’s headed to the Caribbean via Florida, gone for two entire weeks, half cruise and half visiting her friend. Sitting in a nearby diner waiting for her plane to take off so I can leave the area.

Stopping for some groceries on the way back home, I don’t know what I’m having tonight, but I’m planning a couple of meals over the few days.

Once I get home, I’ll pick up around the house a bit, and then start in on a series of movies that MrsT probably wouldn’t enjoy.

My main task while she’s gone is to paint the big bedroom - easy to paint, but a lot of furniture to move by myself, and a TV that I put on the wall in 2010 that I have no idea how to get off now.
 
TV that I put on the wall in 2010 that I have no idea how to get off now.
Usually they just lift up and off. It's often just gravity holding it on place.


So, let's lay bets on how many pizzas feature in your meals in the next 2 weeks...
The maximum would be 3 × 14 = 42 but do we count snacks as well?
 
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