Friends fear she's cooking tomatoes again

 Oh man, I misjudged this week. All this pre-autumn feeling made me discount any concept of late summer weather and everything I planned to cook involved the oven. I had jacket potatoes on the menu, 'sakes. So there has been a certain amount of replanning in practice, especially early in the week. 

This, for instance, is a sweetcorn relish with tomatoes, on toast. There was no roasting involved, just a hurried stovetop bodge of butter, spring onions, cooking down tomatoes, adding the corn. Nice, and just about bearable as my indoor temperature hit 28 degrees here.

Then there were rice-stuffed tomatoes with spuds, which I've made before here. I put these in the oven during a morning meeting, to have at warmish room temperature later (but not all that much later, early dinners strike again), before heading out to the theatre. These are still magnificently useful as a regular recipe, but the uneven tomato size was a pain.

And then something green, thank goodness. A Clair Thompson recipe from Home Cookery Year requiring pak choi, lightly fried, in a salad alongside carrots in lime, with frizzled sesame tofu and tasty dressing (soy, honey, lime, chilli sauce, garlic, sesame seeds). I could probably have done without extra carbs with this but did some buckwheat noodles on impulse... and so many noodles. I'm going to be eating the leftovers for ages.

It is a... visually challenging dish. But tastes good.

And you can hide the noodles under the pak choi and the tofu. This is dredged in sesame seeds and cornflour before frizzling. *Hand may have slipped adding sesame seeds to the dressing, hence the sludge in the middle.)

Proud to say I still have the odd #ArchivedIngredients going. Honestly, who uses cornflour that much?

Meanwhile, Kate's inability to look ahead with any confidence is 100% shared by me. I've put up blackberry dark rum for the winter, and I thought about doing prunes in muscat (Diana Henry recipe I've meant to try for ages, and I just got her old book on preserving for supercheap on Kindle so I have it to hand) - the idea partly being I get delicious boozy prunes, but also as an option for Christmas gifts. Just as I've almost relaxed back into visiting the office once a weekish, work has started asking what we want to do for Christmas in fact. I have absolutely no idea... Will gatherings inside feel sensible? Does all my family actually want to meet up?