Cooking for one

Willowx

meg72 wrote: »

Yikes how awful hope today s better for you.

Today is going well thankfully, had bacon, poached eggs and bubble and squeak with hollandaise sauce for breakfast seems greasy spoons aren't that greasy these days! Was very nice, I'm off to see the Carole King musical tonight.

mcculloch29

It wasn't cooking for one here either at lunch, as DD and DGC (15 and 14) landed. I am so grateful that they still enjoy visiting me at half term, DGD will be at 6th Form College from September but hopefully this will still continue.
We had Flora Sheddon's flatbreads of 250g flour, 100g yogurt, milk to bind, baking powder & salt as pizza bases, with the topping of tomato puree, sundried tomatoes, torn mozzarella, flaked tuna, anchovies, and grated mature Cheddar, Made four good size chunky bases that made the pizza a meal, I'd switched to tortillas as HM pizza bases from those HM ones made with bread flour but these are much cheaper than bought tortillas and quicker than bread, They make a light lunch substantial.

caronc

meg72 wrote: »

No cooking at all for me today, going to visit my Brother, he used to be a Chef and I always look forward to one of his meals.

Its a beautiful sunny morning here, hope everyone enjoys their day.

Hope you have lovely time:)

Willowx wrote: »

Today is going well thankfully, had bacon, poached eggs and bubble and squeak with hollandaise sauce for breakfast seems greasy spoons aren't that greasy these days! Was very nice, I'm off to see the Carole King musical tonight.

Sounds lushious:)

mcculloch29 wrote: »

It wasn't cooking for one here either at lunch, as DD and DGC (15 and 14) landed. I am so grateful that they still enjoy visiting me at half term, DGD will be at 6th Form College from September but hopefully this will still continue.
We had Flora Sheddon's flatbreads of 250g flour, 100g yogurt, milk to bind, baking powder & salt as pizza bases, with the topping of tomato puree, sundried tomatoes, torn mozzarella, flaked tuna, anchovies, and grated mature Cheddar, Made four good size chunky bases that made the pizza a meal, I'd switched to tortillas as HM pizza bases from those HM ones made with bread flour but these are much cheaper than bought tortillas and quicker than bread, They make a light lunch substantial.

Yes I'm a convert to yoghurt pizza bases too though I just use a mix of yoghurt and SR Flour

PasturesNew

I am the pie master and you will obey me

Well, not quite, but it was pie night again here today
And it'll be pie night for the next 3 nights as it's a biggun.

A GIANT Pukka Pie.... yes, the huge/giant ones.
And, it's better tasting than the individual ones, although doesn't have the suety-style-pudding pastry that the individual ones have.

I shuffled into an Asda I was passing ... and, at first, just saw them and walked on by, but on my second go around .... I stopped .... and looked. £2 for a biggun. Chicken/gravy. So I got it. BBE 4 March, so plenty of time to get through it.

I sliced it into four.

Pie, mash, beans. Win

Usually £3.25 https://groceries.asda.com/product/pies/pukka-pies-chicken-gravy-pie/910001186341

karcher

Just popping in to say hello oners.

I've been feeling decidedly unwell since yesterday and only ate some bread and a bowl of veg last night.

Tonight I am still unwell and I certainly cba to cook but have bought some coleslaw and a fresh baguette so may have that....at times like this it would be nice to have someone to cook for me

Hope you are all ok

caronc

PasturesNew wrote: »

I am the pie master and you will obey me

Well, not quite, but it was pie night again here today
And it'll be pie night for the next 3 nights as it's a biggun.

A GIANT Pukka Pie.... yes, the huge/giant ones.
And, it's better tasting than the individual ones, although doesn't have the suety-style-pudding pastry that the individual ones have.

I shuffled into an Asda I was passing ... and, at first, just saw them and walked on by, but on my second go around .... I stopped .... and looked. £2 for a biggun. Chicken/gravy. So I got it. BBE 4 March, so plenty of time to get through it.

I sliced it into four.

Pie, mash, beans. Win

Usually £3.25 https://groceries.asda.com/product/pies/pukka-pies-chicken-gravy-pie/910001186341

Much as I love a Pukka pie I couldn't eat it (or anything tbh) four days in a row, twice yes but I'd need to freeze the rest. Still as long as you enjoy it that's what matters

PasturesNew

caronc wrote: »

I couldn't eat it (or anything tbh) four days in a row, twice yes but I'd need to freeze the rest.

I've no idea how it'll work out.... but I've got 8 days to get through it, with the option of freezing it if I am not getting through it.

Nelski

Hi onskis :wave:

I was working late last night thanks to Doris so ended up with half a tin of heinz tomato soup and bread with 2 inch thick butter on :j Finished it off today for lunch which I dont usually bother with but for some reason I have the munchies today.

Phil Vickery was making some chicken tikka masala today with above said heinz soup which looked gorgeous and I may have to try. I always have loads of tommy soup in for comfort purposes :cool:

Tonight, because it is Friday, I am have a hollands steak and kidney pudding with extra gravy chips and beans.

Karcher hope you are feeling better soon love bread and coleslaw wont keep you going you need a dripping chip butty :rotfl:

meg wish my bro was a chef that would be so good

caronc glad you enjoyed some precious son time

caronc

Nelski wrote: »

Hi onskis :wave:

I was working late last night thanks to Doris so ended up with half a tin of heinz tomato soup and bread with 2 inch thick butter on :j Finished it off today for lunch which I dont usually bother with but for some reason I have the munchies today.

Phil Vickery was making some chicken tikka masala today with above said heinz soup which looked gorgeous and I may have to try. I always have loads of tommy soup in for comfort purposes :cool:

Tonight, because it is Friday, I am have a hollands steak and kidney pudding with extra gravy chips and beans.

Karcher hope you are feeling better soon love bread and coleslaw wont keep you going you need a dripping chip butty :rotfl:

meg wish my bro was a chef that would be so good

caronc glad you enjoyed some precious son time

Seems like it's pie night then on the onesies front:D
Chicken tikka masala with tomato soup and mango chutney is really rather good- I've a recipe somewhere if you need one as used to make fairly often when the boys were younger

PasturesNew

Nelski wrote: »

.... half a tin of heinz tomato soup and bread with 2 inch thick butter on .... hollands steak and kidney pudding with extra gravy chips and beans.

2/10.

Since yesterday I've been thinking about the 10/day thing - and yesterday I went through the NHS list to pick out the list of stuff I'd eat .... and I do intend to "try" a bit more at some point ...

Just not today.

Today I've had:

- 2 bits of white/sliced 36p loaf and a smear of marg.
- 1/4 pie, 30g instant mash, 1/2 tin of beans.
- a packet of plain crisps (the 5p ones I bought from Lidl the other week, still got 3-4 packs left).

So there's 1/10 right there!

Total cost today was about 75p. And I'm short by 9/10 portions of food.

I've probably had ~800 calories, so there'd be some calorie room to scoff more ... but right now I'm too full to even think about eating anything more.

I was eyeing up the 24p/Smart Price Asda tomato soup earlier and thinking "wonder if that's minging".