Cooking for one (Mark Three)

PasturesNew wrote: »

My chippy cuts them from the sack on site, on demand. No chip suppliers, nothing frozen.

He even makes his own curry sauces, pies and more. Everything there's cooked "from scratch", proper job. He's got a couple of branded items I think, as people like them (e.g. I think he also sells Pukka pies). Bit pricey though for most of his stuff.... good quality food, but not back street chippy prices, even though it's based on a council estate near an industrial estate and near the tip.

Ours aren't frozen, cut fresh daily, hand cut, machine cut, thin cut, fat cut

We supply one restaurant alone with 400 kgs a day, twice as many in the season, they would need a huge area for that many spuds to be delivered and a lot of staff peeling

I only went into the kitchen for a coffee.... came out clutching a big bread roll filled with a salad tomato

I did think about boiling an egg to go in there too, but the effort/time was disproportionate to the difference it'd make.

I "think" this is reassuring news to me - ie willpower levels (or otherwise) when confronted with food....:rotfl:

One benefit of my way of eating is I can't give way to "just eating" - as that's not the sort of food I have in my kitchen. So - genuine hunger in between meals will result in me grabbing something like toast, fruit, a handful of nuts - as that's basically all I have in that can be "just grabbed". Fortunately, that's not the sort of food that "calls my name" just because....

The reassuring (I think) aspect is that when I feel down I sometimes grab an alcoholic drink or two. I argue with myself that it's illogical - that I certainly don't need it and I don't even really want it - but sometimes it seems like the only way to belt "down feelings" quickly round the head. I think my willpower is getting stronger. It's either that or other people are causing less "hassle/downer incidents" (well - I've basically stopped having the local male tradespeople in for a start and that's removed a lot of downer feelings). So with the fact my neighbours-from-hell have been "behaving themselves" pretty much for a while now and I'm very rarely having workmen in - downer moods are a lot less frequent than they were. The reassuring element is thinking "Well I'm not the only one that has these downer moods - and then acts illogically because of them".

I still kick myself mentally at what might now be once or twice a week - where I might have a "downer mood" and head for a drink-or-two. The kicking myself being I don't understand why I'm acting so illogically and telling myself "I should never be so illogical as to act on downer feelings like that".

Roll on better weather - when a response to downer feelings can be something logical, eg "go for a walk" or (in this area) "go for a litter pick". Thankfully - there's been a lot of consciousness raising going on around here since I moved here and was horrified at the amount of litter here - and a noticeable number of people are now picking it up:D

caronc wrote: »

...giant yorkshire ...

I love those. As I make meals I tag them up if they were my favourites and I tagged all my giants last year. The tagging is so I can quickly go back and remind myself of stuff I really enjoyed.

It's easy to have something that gives you a glorious glow - then move on and simply "forget" how great it is when you make it.

Years ago there was a carvery pub across the road from where I worked and 1-2x a month we'd pop over for a bar meal.... one of the bar meals on offer was a giant yorkie filled with items from the carvery section. They served it up, you didn't go get it ... although that'd make a great twist to carvery offerings wouldn't it ... to be given an empty big yorkie that you fill yourself ... although I can see how that could present logistical issues with storage space and anticipating demand at the kitchen management level.