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A "bung it together" dinner here tonight. LO pasta from last night with peas & corn, crispy chicken burger thing and a splodge of sweet chilli sauce. Wasn't pretty to look at but tasted better than it looked , really CBA cooking tonight but wanted a hot meal that wasn't "something on toast":)
A very little planting done this afternoon but at least it was something:)0 -
moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »For dinner - I just tried out a recipe for a crepe made of chickpea flour (translation - made it myself by grinding dried chickpeas in my Vitamix) with spinach/water/garlic and had it with a filling of sauted mushrooms. Drizzled tahini dressing over the top and served with tomatoes. End verdict - well I ate it, but shan't be making it again.
Today's dinner is tofu vegetable fajitas. This will open a pack of wraps I have. Tomorrow will likely be chickpea 'tuna' wraps due to this.I am a vegan woman. My OH is a lovely omni guy0 -
A "bung it together" dinner here tonight. LO pasta from last night with peas & corn, crispy chicken burger thing and a splodge of sweet chilli sauce. Wasn't pretty to look at but tasted better than it looked , really CBA cooking tonight but wanted a hot meal that wasn't "something on toast":)0
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Hollyharvey wrote: »That actually sounds really nice to me. I love sweet chilli sauce.0
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I've never seen pasta as something desirable. I like mac/cheese and don't mind spagbol, but I'd never choose to pay to eat pasta if I were eating out as I just see it as "a cheap plate filler" and nothing to get excited about.
I usually just whip up enough for one; that's one good thing about it - keeps in the cupboard all year round and you can whip up a portion for one in under 5 minutes.
On a menu, I'd feel "cheated" if I had to choose pasta I'd want "proper food".0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »I've never seen pasta as something desirable. I like mac/cheese and don't mind spagbol, but I'd never choose to pay to eat pasta if I were eating out as I just see it as "a cheap plate filler" and nothing to get excited about.
I usually just whip up enough for one; that's one good thing about it - keeps in the cupboard all year round and you can whip up a portion for one in under 5 minutes.
On a menu, I'd feel "cheated" if I had to choose pasta I'd want "proper food".
Tend to agree with you unless it is a set lunch menu which is what we tend to go for when I'll take chicken milanese if it is one of the options or I might have some kind of pasta with italian sausage in the starter size otherwise
Lovely and sunny here and I'm not CFO for a couple of days as my younger son is coming up. No idea what the meal plans are possibly BBQ or fish"n"chips:D. Breakfast was toast & banana and a handful of strawberries.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »I've never seen pasta as something desirable. I like mac/cheese and don't mind spagbol, but I'd never choose to pay to eat pasta if I were eating out as I just see it as "a cheap plate filler" and nothing to get excited about.
I usually just whip up enough for one; that's one good thing about it - keeps in the cupboard all year round and you can whip up a portion for one in under 5 minutes.
On a menu, I'd feel "cheated" if I had to choose pasta I'd want "proper food".0 -
£11.95 for macaroni cheese :eek:, that's steep. It's £5.95 in our local italian and I think that's dear:(
Lunch was a wodge of stottie cake stuffed with tomato and salad cream and some radishes from the garden:).
We are definitely bbqing tonight - it is so seldom that the combination of good weather and not CFO collide that it's a shame not too. My son has just headed to the trout fishery so hopefully some fresh fish on the menu and he'll nip to M&S foodhall on the way back for other bits.;):D0 -
Afternoon everyone,
I had a Greek yoghurt and a banana for breakfast this morning. It had to be quick as I had a hospital appointment.
Lunch was a BBQ chicken sandwich. I popped into M & S when I got off the bus on the way back home, and managed to get a packet of the ready cooked BBQ chicken y/s and thought that would make a nice change for lunch.
Dinner is going to be spaghetti and meatballs. I have made up my favourite sauce for meatballs, which is a tomato based sauce with onions, garlic, chilli, basil and balsamic vinegar, I make it with quite a bit of chilli and the balsamic seems to add something to it. I have noticed it's not quite so nice if I forget to put the balsamic in. I'm looking forward to that when I'm hungry. It will make a nice change. There will be leftovers though, 2 portions I will either eat it again tomorrow and freeze 1 portion or freeze the 2 extra portions. I think I will freeze the sauce and meatballs separate though so that I can always make up a different sauce.
I need to make some cakes tomorrow for pudding. Meanwhile I found the last remaining crumble in the freezer (unlabelled so it is either apple or apple/blackberry or rhubarb, it will be a nice surprise0 -
£11.95 for macaroni cheese, that's steep. It's £5.95 in our local italian and I think that's dear
I'd find it very strange and exciting to find food as cheap as £5.95 these days without a really good long research session.
I just googled "macaroni cheese" and then my town name - first two results showed it priced on menus at £9.95 or part of a 3-course £25 meal (pre-ordered and for a minimum group of 10). There was a "caff" that sells it at £5.25 to be fair though.
I decided that tea would be baked spud (nuked) topped with cheese and the final 1/3rd of the tin of beans I opened 2-4 days ago.
Half way through cooking that the weather went from cool/overcast to hot/sunny .... which was annoying .... but it's now gone cool/overcast again, so, on balance, I probably did right.
I had to use up more of the spuds I bought ... and the beans needed using up - and I know I'll be buying more cheese at the weekend, so don't have to "go easy and think about how it's used".0
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