Minted lamb burgers, Mediterranean veg, roast potatoes; chocolate pudding and ice cream

A quick post tonight, because, at half past seven, I’m already almost tired enough to fall asleep where I’m sitting, and my lower extremities are simultaneously painful and feeling like they don’t belong to me. I intended to have another do nothing day today, and mostly managed it, only paying the window cleaner from mum’s online bank account (with mum sitting beside me watching, of course), emptying the bedroom bin and taking the contents to the outside bin, anonymising and throwing out some medification boxes¹, checking what food we have in the big freezer² (which is down a couple of steps, and steps are still a bit of a struggle for me), cooking a two course dinner, and reminding mum more times than I can count that her lunch appointment is at 12pm tomorrow.

Dinner tonight was deliberately easy, being all frozen things that could be put on a baking tray, in the oven, and just left until everything was hot. Including my thumb, the victim of that old and vicious pair of oven gloves that I apparently didn’t push far enough to the back of the cupboard.

The Mediterranean veg, from Iceland, is very good, with a nice range of veg (including whole cloves of garlic, which were actually delicious with the roast potatoes), the lamb burgers (quarter pounders, also from Iceland), had a good minty scent and flavour, and were properly meaty. The roast potatoes were the same ones we had yesterday: mum said she didn’t want any, so I cooked enough for both of us (I do learn, eventually) and of course she ate them with enthusiasm.

Then we had chocolate pudding, made to my own recipe – consider it part of the pre-cookbook testing process, as I left it in the oven too long at too high a heat and cooked away most of the sauce, although it still tasted delicious – with Tesco Finest vanilla ice cream, which you can tell is fancy because it has little black dots in it. And because it tastes really nice.

There are no photos of the pudding, and only that one of the garlic clove for the main course, because I either forgot to take them or, in my weary, spoonless state, accidentally deleted the ones I’d taken. Oops.

There are some spoons in the headline image, but sadly not ones I can make use of, so that’s me done for today. Bye. 👋

1. When you take 12 different medications each day, some of which are, by law, only dispensed in sufficient quantities to last 28 days, you quickly end up with a lot of boxes. ↩︎
2. We have a standard size under-counter freezer in the kitchen (referred to as “the small freezer” or, on mum’s bad days, “the really cold thing” (as opposed to “the cold thing”, which obviously is the fridge), and a slightly bigger freezer in the attached garage which is “the big freezer’. Not exactly thrilling information, I know, but if I mention either of the freezers in future posts you will now know what I mean. ↩︎