Cooking for one

Willowx

Just put the topside in, it didn't get cooked yesterday, going to have an orange then do the washing up. Very lazy start to the day.

karcher

PN agree with you about the excess of ingredients. I may have a go just using stuff I have 'in' and see how it goes

Nelski yes please report back how it goes and what, if any, substitutions you make

I can't remember who but I'm sure someone mentioned egg curry/curried eggs? in this thread a while ago. Would that work with Madras sauce?

I've never had them before. Is it just a case of hard boiling a couple of eggs (which I actually have 'in' atm) then heating up and pouring on the sauce?

caronc

Afternoon everyone back from my morning snooze!
Sounds like a fair bit of cooking is going on must be Sunday:)
Karcher don't see why pouring the sauce over a couple of boiled eggs wouldn't work but if you CBA cooking some peas and onions to stir through might give it more texture. One thing I sometimes do is to stir LO curry sauce through a pack of savoury rice as a kind of wanna be biryani
Nelski - enjoy the carrot croquettes and report back they sound interesting:)
moneyistooshorttomention - hope your chickpeas defrost in time.

Despite the toast and pate earlier I'm peckish again - so poached egg and asparagus shortly I think:)

caronc

mcculloch29 wrote: »

My left-over hotpot made it as far as brunch, and oh, it was soo lovely. Sated now, so possibly something light at tea-time. I haven't done drop scones for a while. They were a frequent Sunday tea treat when my children were younger. My daughter never liked them though - about the only thing I make in the cake/baking/flour items that she didn't enjoy.

I'll take any spares wouldn't want to go to waste and best eaten fresh

PasturesNew

karcher wrote: »

I can't remember who but I'm sure someone mentioned egg curry/curried eggs? in this thread a while ago. Would that work with Madras sauce?

I've never had them before. Is it just a case of hard boiling a couple of eggs (which I actually have 'in' atm) then heating up and pouring on the sauce?

Probably me... I eat it a lot.

Just: do your rice (I sometimes do it with a few peas dotted here and there)
Make hard boiled eggs.
Halve the eggs and put them on top of the rice.
Pour a curry sauce over the top. I mostly use the granules to make up a sauce as it's quick.

PasturesNew

I went up the local budget supermarket and walked out with 6 frozen dinners. A box of 3 frozen pizzas, a curry, a sweet/sour, a spag bol. Also a loaf of bread and a pack of crumpets. £5.45 in total.

That's a week's food right there

Already nuked the curry.

meg72

PasturesNew wrote: »

I went up the local budget supermarket and walked out with 6 frozen dinners. A box of 3 frozen pizzas, a curry, a sweet/sour, a spag bol. Also a loaf of bread and a pack of crumpets. £5.45 in total.

That's a week's food right there

Already nuked the curry.

Wow PN that's impressive.

Farway

Afteroon all, had a miss yesterday, busy in the sunshine doing "man things" with the garden, like hacking trees down, I don't have a chain saw which would make it more fun, but jumbo loppers can certainly make quick work of a large overgrown shrub

Back into the kitchen, yesterday I reverted to another YS pie from Asda, with oven chips, it was excellent as a CBA meal

Tonight is a bit more effort, steamed fresh veg [leeks, cauli & brocc were reduced price] with YS roasted bangers from Costcutter, actually not bad for meat content and sort of local [Dorset]

All prepped and just need the gas lighting under them all later

Lunch was a bacon & brown sauce bap, which was not planned but just had to be had, followed by 2 off aforementioned YS sausages in a wholemeal bread sarnie, with bright yellow American mustard from a squeezy bottle which sounds awful but the mustard is not as bad as I thought it may be

No wonder I weighed more yesterday morning than a week ago

karcher

PasturesNew wrote: »

I went up the local budget supermarket and walked out with 6 frozen dinners. A box of 3 frozen pizzas, a curry, a sweet/sour, a spag bol. Also a loaf of bread and a pack of crumpets. £5.45 in total.

That's a week's food right there

Already nuked the curry.

Wow...a bargain

caronc

Farway wrote: »

Afteroon all, had a miss yesterday, busy in the sunshine doing "man things" with the garden, like hacking trees down, I don't have a chain saw which would make it more fun, but jumbo loppers can certainly make quick work of a large overgrown shrub

Back into the kitchen, yesterday I reverted to another YS pie from Asda, with oven chips, it was excellent as a CBA meal

Tonight is a bit more effort, steamed fresh veg [leeks, cauli & brocc were reduced price] with YS roasted bangers from Costcutter, actually not bad for meat content and sort of local [Dorset]

All prepped and just need the gas lighting under them all later

Lunch was a bacon & brown sauce bap, which was not planned but just had to be had, followed by 2 off aforementioned YS sausages in a wholemeal bread sarnie, with bright yellow American mustard from a squeezy bottle which sounds awful but the mustard is not as bad as I thought it may be

No wonder I weighed more yesterday morning than a week ago

Not surprised you CBA after a day of lopping things LOL - still would have worked up an appetite for the pie. :DBacon bap has to be brown sauce for me too:)