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Cooking for one !!
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Pasta with Spicy Tomato Sauce with Prawns
Heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil in a pan (a thick bottomed one if you have it). Meanwhile take 1/2 pound of tomatoes, put in a bowl and pour freshly boiled water over them. After 1 minute (no more!) pour out the water and skin the tomatoes. The skins should slip off easily especially if the tomatoes are ripe.
Throw 1 crushed clove of garlic and 1/2 chopped chilli into the hot oil and briefly fry. If you have some fresh basil throw some chopped leaves in too. I like my food spicy so I leave the chilli seeds in, incidentally. Throw in the tomatoes (chopped roughly), a handful of pitted black olives (roughly chopped), a squirt of tomato puree, a teaspoon or 2 of capers and a handful of prawns.
Turn the heat down to a low setting, leave the lid off the pan and simmer for about 25 minutes. It should reduce to a lovely gooey sauce, with the consistency of jam. Serve with some pasta and a sprinkling of parmesan.Yeah, whatever. I'm a grown up, I can take it...0 -
Incidentally, my local greengrocers sell off bowls of tomatoes cheap at the end of the day - ideal for home made sauces and the skins slip off really easily because they are nice and ripe.Yeah, whatever. I'm a grown up, I can take it...0
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I recently came up with this when I'd only got odds and ends left. I had a packet (sorry rude word there!) of Sainsbury's pasta in cheese and broccoli sauce, made that up as per the instructions, fried a couple of rashers of chopped up bacon, a few mushrooms, a bit of wrinkly yellow pepper and a few bits of broccoli and cauliflower then stirred them into the cooked pasta, it was lovely.0
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I live on my own, but have found that cooking in largish batches is no more work than cooking for one. So I'll make a big dish and put in the fridge/freezer and it'll last me up to 9 servings.
I'll do a lasagne, fish pie, curry or bolognaise like this. Then eat with roast or steamed vegetables and possibly salad.
For a true "cooking for one" idea, a stir fry is always good.
I love Broccolli and Cauliflower too, so a favourite is cheese sauce on steamed Brocolli/Cauliflower and then cooked in the oven for 30 minutes.
I'm quite proud of myself: I've survived for 2 years now on my own cooking and none of it comes out of packets. TBH you can survive on fruit and vegetables. If I'm really hungry then I eat bread sticks and humous when I get in from work, or make cheese, tomato & cucumber sandwiches.
What do they live on then?(nobody else here cooks at all unless you count fry ups)Happy chappy0 -
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(nobody else here cooks at all unless you count fry ups)
What do they live on then?
Well, fry ups, toast and pizza. (I may have exaggerrated a bit). My landlord does have some tinned new potatoes in his cupboard and is a dab hand at microwaved scrambled eggs and ordering from Dominos. My cooking involving chopping real veg and actual saucepans seems to bemuse them.April Grocery Challenge: £250/£127.530 -
Sad really, since cooking from scratch is cheap and easy enough.Happy chappy0
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Stephen_Leak wrote: »I live on my own too and most of the recipes I post have been scaled down to 2 servings. I usually cook for 2, eat 1 and freeze the other or freeze both.
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I know it's a no-no to mention such things, unless in the appropriate thread, but what beautiful grammar, spelling and punctuation in this post. It made me sigh with pleasure to read it.
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i generally batch cook and freeze but a standby is tomato pasta, cook one portion of pasta and drain. then heat with a knob of butter and a squirt of tomato puree (and optional garlic)... makes a nice creamy sauce!! quick, cheap and lovely!! yum!!Dogs return to eat their vomit, just as fools repeat their foolishness. There is no more hope for a fool than for someone who says, "i am really clever!"0
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Jacket and cheese
Jacket and beans
Jacket and tuna
Jacket and any two of the above with or without coleslaw
Any of the above minus the jacket but with toast!!
Any ideas there?
Not a fan of eggs but get a hen?0 -
Hey,
I do just make a small portion of toad in the hole. But i make double as i don't mind the same two nights running. And it freezes ok too
Glad to help,
PGxx0
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