Cooking for one

Willowx

The sage derby with jacket and beans was very nice indeed, will have to have again soon.

Nelski

meg72 wrote: »

Re age lol I decided life begins at 70 so this year I am a 2 year old.

lol liking your style meg... based on life beginning at 40 that makes me 12 which is a very stressful age if I remember correctly :eek:

mcculloch29

So far the only poster that's older than me is Meg, though we appear to be closely grouped. I'm 58, 59 in May.

Food - as posted elsewhere:
I had the other half of the poitrine d'agneau au chou from Shirley Goode, that I made the other week. It was heavenly. The fat from the lamb really flavoured the cabbage and the skin crisped up even more. I genuinely would rather have had that than steak and salad.

caronc

meg72 wrote: »

Re age lol I decided life begins at 70 so this year I am a 2 year old.

Great way of thinking

Nelski wrote: »

lol liking your style meg... based on life beginning at 40 that makes me 12 which is a very stressful age if I remember correctly :eek:

I really wouldn't want to be between 10 & 15 again was horrible

mcculloch29 wrote: »

So far the only poster that's older than me is Meg, though we appear to be closely grouped. I'm 58, 59 in May.

Food - as posted elsewhere:
I had the other half of the poitrine d'agneau au chou from Shirley Goode, that I made the other week. It was heavenly. The fat from the lamb really flavoured the cabbage and the skin crisped up even more. I genuinely would rather have had that than steak and salad.

I so wish my Tesco online did breast of lamb it's so good - have you tried doing it Mongolian style like this http://cookingthebooks.typepad.com/cooking_the_books/2008/11/mongolian-crispy-lamb.html it's really, really tasty:D

caronc

Willowx wrote: »

The sage derby with jacket and beans was very nice indeed, will have to have again soon.

I think sage is a herb I probably don't use enough of - glad you enjoyed:D

karcher

A bad head, sore throat and hacking cough is keeping me awake so I've been googling cake :cool:

More specifically, Microwave carrot cake and found this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/carrotcake_84164

Quite tempted to make it now

I've never ever made a cake in the microwave.(in fact I haven't made a cake in over 20 years)....but I feel the above recipe calls for some custard, cream or cream cheese icing type stuff!

ETA: Carrot Cake because then it would count as 1 of my 10 a day ..which at last count was only 2!!!!

PasturesNew

karcher wrote: »

A bad head, sore throat and hacking cough is keeping me awake so I've been googling cake :cool:

More specifically, Microwave carrot cake and found this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/carrotcake_84164

Quite tempted to make it now

I do one like that, but half the size and not using a processor of course.

I start with one egg ... and that dictates the other ingredients quantities. Also, it halves the cooking time ... and if you use leftover carrots you can shave a bit more off that time.

But I don't make it often because .... as we've already discovered ... if I make it I have to eat it ... and usually do within 5 minutes

karcher

No food processor here either PN.

You're the expert on calories ...How many in that little lot :cool:

Oh and I too would eat it the minute it was cooked enough

Doom_and_Gloom

PasturesNew wrote: »

I count calories... I just had a quick tot up of my cake ... and it's at least 1000. If I did it accurately it'd probably nudge closer to 1100 though.

OMG ... and I'd had the pie earlier, although that was just 350.

I've had about 2200 calories today. I'd better stop now ... and cut back tomorrow.

Forget 10/day ... it'll make us all fat.

Lol I'm the opposite. 10+ a day is how I keep from beeing fat. I've had around 1600 calories today (my BMR is around 200 less than this so not bad for weight management for me as I'm not overly active). I fill up on low calorie vegetables and fruits.
I could easily eat that in chips/crisps, vegan ice cream, peanut butter and the like and still be starving . I have been wanting chips for days though. May get OH to get sweet potatoes tomorrow and do me sweet potato fries/wedges, if you coat them in a little oil with polenta and smoked paprika they are very nice.

PasturesNew

karcher wrote: »

No food processor here either PN.

You're the expert on calories ...How many in that little lot :cool:

Oh and I too would eat it the minute it was cooked enough

It's about twice the quantities I cooked earlier ... so close to 2000 for yours.

Halve it if you must.

Use a jug/fork and you can mix that up by hand in WELL under 1 minute... seriously, I'm rubbish/weak/pathetic and I did mine ever so quick.