Cooking for one

caronc

sitesafe wrote: »

Note to self: don't rub eyes after chopping chillis earlier.


Good evening - just checking in and enjoying the read up.


I've been pretty good today on the food front. Weetabix with bananas and blueberries at breakfast; a brazil and a few almonds and a few prunes as snacks; lunch was a wholemeal wrap with half a sliced avocado, some ys cherry tomatoes, chopped cucumber, and a spoon of natural yogurt, a portion of cooked cold salmon on the side to beef it up. Snacked on a couple of oatcakes (nice but they contain quite a lot of added salt). Also a clementine. Countless cups of tea usual. Supper was a stir fry made from scratch using a carrot thinly sliced/chopped, red onion, garlic, ginger, chilli, ys mushrooms, cabbage and broccoli. When I say from scratch the stir fry sauce itself was from a packet. I usually buy the dried wholewheat noodles from SB but more recently have been buying the branded dry thin noodles as I can snap the right portion sizes off. Oh yes I added one of the ys chicken breasts I bought the other day. Anyway there was enough for two meals which wasn't my intention and I didn't fancy slimy stir fry for supper the next day so ate the lot! I know for next time. The stir fry was as good as when I buy the ready made mixtures. Still have lots of veg so added quite a bit to some left over chicken stock and simmered to make soup for the next few days. I've been lucky this week as my boss is away and had left me some things in the fridge that he was going to throw out otherwise (wish I'd known this before I'd gone shopping though). So all in all a healthyish day and I've learned not to over do it on the stir fry veg!


Thanks everyone for the advice on cooking chickpeas and lentils, definitely something I will put into practice when I buy dried ones.

Sounds lovely and tasty, but yes stir fry is the gift that keeps on giving so hard to just make 1 portion and still use all the bits you want to put in

ETA: I sometimes make noodle soup with leftover stir fry - just add hot stock and heat for a few mins. It's really tasty feels like a change and seems to avoid the reheated stir fry taste IFYSWIM

PasturesNew

I just wolfed a cheeky paste sandwich. Last two slices of bread from the loaf and a little glass jar of paste I picked up somewhere ... not sure where, might've been Home Bargains. Should have used the whole pot really as I've now got some still in the jar but no bread.... so, at some point, I'll no doubt just get a knife and eat whatever's left in the jar by poking a knife in/out.

Couldn't tell you the flavour without checking ... might have been sardine/tomato.

caronc

PasturesNew wrote: »

I just wolfed a cheeky paste sandwich. Last two slices of bread from the loaf and a little glass jar of paste I picked up somewhere ... not sure where, might've been Home Bargains. Should have used the whole pot really as I've now got some still in the jar but no bread.... so, at some point, I'll no doubt just get a knife and eat whatever's left in the jar by poking a knife in/out.

Couldn't tell you the flavour without checking ... might have been sardine/tomato.

I like meat or fish paste on toast or crackers but also good smeared on to a baked tattie or stirred through pasta. Also nice eaten straight out of the jar LOL

mcculloch29

I love Jack Monroe's recipe for creamy salmon pasta with a chilli lemon kick, the best use of a jar of salmon paste ever.
I love paste on toast but this is so good and so quick, relatively speaking that every jar of paste I've bought for months has gone this way. I like Aldi's for preference.

mcculloch29

Isn't it weird... I went to the first page of this thread and there was Shirley Goode. I've explained on other threads how I stopped reading her blog as she was uncharacteristically waspish about Jack Monroe. I wish I hadn't as Shirley's very last post of all mentioned excitedly how Jack Monroe's cousin was involved with Shirley's care.
Synchronicity.
Anyway, Shirley's last recipe for fishcakes is a good one, I had those Wed. evening. Smoked mackerel, not trout, and tinned spuds. They freeze beautifully. http://shirleygoode.blogspot.co.uk/2015_04_01_archive.html

caronc

mcculloch29 wrote: »

I love Jack Monroe's recipe for creamy salmon pasta with a chilli lemon kick, the best use of a jar of salmon paste ever.

mcculloch29 wrote: »

Anyway, Shirley's last recipe for fishcakes is a good one, I had those Wed. evening. Smoked mackerel, not trout, and tinned spuds. They freeze beautifully. http://shirleygoode.blogspot.co.uk/2015_04_01_archive.html

Hi Thanks for these both sound really tasty have added to my bookmarks :A

Nelski

Morning everyone

Managed to blag my way through book club last night with a mix of my cheating audio book and PNs suggested rhetoric :cool: Have a new book now and a whole month to read it in and that does not mean buying the audio. Food at the pub was poor last night sadly ...I just had a big sharing bowl of nachos but for 5.95 there was nothing to it bar a few burned doritos and very unpleasant orange cheese sauce. Could have made some 10 times better for a about a quid but hey ho

mcullough you have reminded me that I have a smoked mackerel fish cake in the freezer so thats come out for tonight with some salad:)

meg72

Nelski wrote: »

Morning everyone

Managed to blag my way through book club last night with a mix of my cheating audio book and PNs suggested rhetoric :cool: Have a new book now and a whole month to read it in and that does not mean buying the audio. Food at the pub was poor last night sadly ...I just had a big sharing bowl of nachos but for 5.95 there was nothing to it bar a few burned doritos and very unpleasant orange cheese sauce. Could have made some 10 times better for a about a quid but hey ho

mcullough you have reminded me that I have a smoked mackerel fish cake in the freezer so thats come out for tonight with some salad:)

Glad you managed to blag it lol. Hope you complained about the food, what a rip off and burned doritos!!! just adds insult to injury.

LameWolf

sitesafe wrote: »

Note to self: don't rub eyes after chopping chillis earlier.

Ouchy! I don't use chillis (can't abide the little beggars) but I've absent-mindedly rubbed my eyes after cutting up onions before, and that was bad enough.
Hope your poor eyes are ok today.

caronc

Afternoon everyone
Nelski - glad your book club went well how annoying about the food:mad:
I'm having a really hungry day - woke up starving which is unusual as normally I can't face anything until later so had some toast. Just had beans on more toast with some grated cheese, a pear and lots of grapes and I'm still munchy. Will have a cuppa and see if that satisfies but think it's just one of those days .....:cool:
Really can't decide what I fancy tonight- not fish as had it the past two nights so maybe pasta mmmm decisions, decisions......:)