Friday 26th June - prepping...

 Not the 'armageddon survivalist kind of prepping... just 'heatwave survival' prepping.

After another hot and sticky and restless night, and a other very early 'rise and shine' (hello sun, good morning, do you know what time it is?) I got up and plunged straight into a luke warm shower before I could think too much about the day ahead. Oh yes! That made all the difference! 

By 7am we had finished breakfast - BB is still eating porridge in the mornings but I've switched cold cereal  - and we're relaxing with the First of our three coffees of the day.

By 7.30 I was in full prep mode;

Crustless quiche going in to the air fryer:

And 25 minutes later;

Broccoli prepped and in a microwave pan ready to zap in the microwave, and two fillets of salmon poached for 8 minutes in water with peppercorns, rosemary, bay leaves and a sliver of lemon.

We'll have crustless quiche, broccoli and air fryer frites for lunch today.

 The salmon is for tomorrow with my go-to dressing of equal quantities mayonnaise and Greek yoghurt, some French dressing to taste, and lemon or mint or finely chopped pickled gherkin or something.

I have a pint bottle full of water with a green tea teabag infusing in the fridge... I just keep topping up the bottle more water until the teabag stops working.

We've been eating lunch outside at this little round table;

BB  cleared the erigeron daisies from underneath, while I was meal prepping. They were so pretty, like the ones under the bigger table nearby. But they were full of little black insects, or maybe ants, that kept biting my ankles! Once we finished our coffee he'll remove the others ones... more bitey insects and, regretfully, they are a bit of a trip hazard. It's only 9.30 am, and still relatively cool here.

The sun slowly creeps up the grass towards the house until the only bit of shade at lunchtime is here, and that's gone by 1pm. After then, all the garden is in full sun except under the apple tree at the bottom. 

An early lunch has to be the order of the day!

The afternoons have been hard going... so hot... today we have a site meeting with the architect and the builder, to dot some 'i's' and cross some 't's', with a view to agreeing a start date of 6th July. I reckon that where I'm sitting now should be about where the little table in our new extension will be. Now there's a vision to cling to.

The recipe originally came from the good food website. I like it because it doesn't use cream, which I almost never have in the house. Today's version has more cheese, and no pancetta/bacon, and mixed peppers.