Cooking for one

LameWolf

caronc wrote: »

That sounds just the ticket for a winter's night is your soup a specific recipe if so could you share or a see what's lurking job?
I'm neither a sandal-wearing nor toe-ringed hippy does a penchant for desert-type boots count? (and my hair's quite long and I like lentils and grow stuff LOL :-)

I'd happily wear desert boots, but my feet wouldn't thank me for it.

The potato'n'pasta soup started out as a recipe in a book called Soup Kitchen, that Mr LW bought for me, but I've tweaked it to suit us.

This nets us four small bowls (ie two each, - I don't have any decent sized soup bowls so we use pudding bowls) but if you're prepared to halve a tin of chopped tomatoes and use the rest for something else, you could easily halve the recipe to feed one person.

Chuck a good lump of butter into the bottom of a saucepan.
Dice an onion, fry it lightly in the butter til it's soft. (If you have some garlic kicking about, you can add that too, if you wish. The original recipe said add chilli too, but I hate the stuff, so don't use it.)
Add a tin of chopped tomatoes and a veggie stock cube (stock cube is optional; I quite often forget).
Add a large-ish potato, cut into slices.
Add 1 litre of boiling water.
Bring back to the boil, simmer til the potato is cooked through.
Wuzz (technical term ) the whole lot in the food processor and return it to the saucepan.
Add two fistfuls of pasta fusilli (or similar).
Simmer til the pasta is al dente.
Season to taste and serve - we have HM wholemeal bread with ours.

monnagran wrote: »

I suppose we all have our weird ways which make absolute sense to us but horrify anyone who observes them.

You are so right! My mother would be aghast at some of the things I do - not all to do with food/cooking, either! :rotfl:

Tiddlywinks

PasturesNew wrote: »

Amazon pantry's not on my radar ... I'm more of a "randomly decide I need bread, so will walk to Lidl to get a 24p loaf ... and maybe some sausage rolls" type. £2.99 for delivery, on my budget, just doesn't stack up, that's 2-3 days of food! For £2.99 I could really treat myself :O

I will investigate it ... had no idea there were "bargains". I assumed that there'd be a delivery charge and most things would be RRP priced.

I use it as a 'speculate to accumulate'.... invest in bulk buying upfront that then saves me buying individually down the line.

Yesterday I got a huge box stuffed full of cat food, soup, dried goods and.... Morrisons bacon rashers (like Frazzles) and sherbet Dib Dabs :rotfl:. I also bought four items that were on the list where if you bought them, they gave free delivery.... as I needed those bits and they are the same price as I'd have paid anyway in town, I'm quids in and didn't have the trudge.

Look out for the vouchers too - they're on the site and change regularly.

The items tend to be the same price as in Morrisons so the offers vary just like in the real shops.

Can you tell I'm a fan?

Tiddlywinks

meg72 wrote: »

This cant be right surely?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00HWFUESE?psc=1

You're looking at the wrong bit....

Select Amazon Pantry from the drop down menu and leave the search box blank.... then you'll be taken to the Pantry home page.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=srs%3D5782660031%26search-alias%3Dpantry&field-keywords=

Here're the tinned toms:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_3_8?url=srs%3D5782660031%26search-alias%3Dpantry&field-keywords=tinned+tomatoes&sprefix=Tomatoes%2Cpantry%2C133&crid=BLU6YRT2V23U

PasturesNew

LameWolf wrote: »

I don't have any decent sized soup bowls so we use pudding bowls

I know little of bowls ... I didn't know there was a difference.

In our house a bowl's a bowl... what size do you want?

Here I've a big "pasta bowl" the label said; I've two straight sided bowls probably 5" across; I've two bowls with sloped sides and a lipped edge; I've two low/wide bowls with curved edges bought at the 99p shop.

They're just "bowls" to me

I see my position as: "Lucky to have a choice!"

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

You're looking at the wrong bit....

I looked at that, it says "For Amazon Prime members only".
What's that about then, can you only use pantry if you've got prime - or was that just a coincidence?
What's going on?

PasturesNew

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

I use it as a 'speculate to accumulate'.... invest in bulk buying upfront that then saves me buying individually down the line.

Yesterday I got a huge box stuffed full of cat food, soup, dried goods and.... Morrisons bacon rashers (like Frazzles) and sherbet Dib Dabs :rotfl:. I also bought four items that were on the list where if you bought them, they gave free delivery.... as I needed those bits and they are the same price as I'd have paid anyway in town, I'm quids in and didn't have the trudge.

Look out for the vouchers too - they're on the site and change regularly.

The items tend to be the same price as in Morrisons so the offers vary just like in the real shops.

Can you tell I'm a fan?

I am somebody of simple culinary tastes and few needs.
No cat reduces a need to shop....
Sherbet Dib Dabs ... now I want one, not had one for 45+ years I bet! I remember having them as a child.

My shopping tends to be dictated by "the basics" and then actually realising that I need to eat that lot before it goes off, so few opportunities to buy much else/different...

With no food whatsoever, say, I'd walk into L*dl or A1d1 and get:
One loaf, 24p; 15 eggs, £1; 4 cans of beans £2.
£2.24 and there you have it .... a loaf that needs using up and enough eggs and beans to have scrambled eggs and beans for 5 days running... leaving 10 slices of bread and plenty of beans, so that's 5 lots of beans on toast.

Other top choices that have dominated (until I discovered the green bags really work) is a cheap bag of spuds and some cheap cheddar... which would dictate that I need to eat cheesy mash lots of times in the next week ... and I'd already have those beans in.

Then, a lot of the time, it's "repeat the above as you've run out of things now".

meg72

PasturesNew wrote: »

I know little of bowls ... I didn't know there was a difference.

In our house a bowl's a bowl... what size do you want?

Here I've a big "pasta bowl" the label said; I've two straight sided bowls probably 5" across; I've two bowls with sloped sides and a lipped edge; I've two low/wide bowls with curved edges bought at the 99p shop.

They're just "bowls" to me

I see my position as: "Lucky to have a choice!"


I looked at that, it says "For Amazon Prime members only".
What's that about then, can you only use pantry if you've got prime - or was that just a coincidence?
What's going on?

Yes its for Prime members only, offering free 30 day trial then 7,99 per month.

caronc

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

Anybody here use the Maggi liquid seasoning?

I'd recommend them for an easy way to add an extra 'something' to any savoury dish really.

When I'm having a lazy day this means even cardboard would have some flavour .

https://www.amazon.co.uk/MAGGI-Maggi-Liquid-Seasoning-100ml/dp/B014G3C0TA/ref=sr_1_1_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1484828809&sr=8-1&keywords=maggi+seasoning+sauce

They do a hot one too:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Maggi-Hot-Liquid-Seasoning-119g/dp/B0152XPCPW/ref=sr_1_4_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1484828889&sr=8-4&keywords=maggi+seasoning+sauce

The Maggi seasoning is very good as are the stock cubes - a little goes a long way. I didn't know they did a hot one I have a bottle in cupboard it last indefinitely but have to watch as the MSG in it can aggravate my health condition. Is useful though where worcestershire of Henderson might change the overall flavour of the dish

PasturesNew

meg72 wrote: »

Yes its for Prime members only, offering free 30 day trial then 7,99 per month.

Blimey £8/month without even being fed!


This will explain further why Pantry's not been on my radar.

Farway

meg72 wrote: »

Yes its for Prime members only, offering free 30 day trial then 7,99 per month.

nearly 8 squid? That's over a months worth of FB slurry pies :D

Tonight is either left over banger casserole or bangers & instant mash with perhaps couple of fried eggs bunged on top

Know how to push the boat out heare at Farway Towers

caronc

Thanks for the recipe LW sounds exactly like my kind of dish.

Neither Amazon pantry nor Ocado deliver in my area but I have bought foodstuffs as a one off from Amazon. I use a lot of paprika and like the Spanish stuff that comes in wee tins. Managed to get some at a good price as an add on with other things I was buying so no delivery charge. Much cheaper than a holiday or paying European delivery costs.

Nelski I quite like tinned mackerel in fishcakes especially the ones you get with mustardy or spicy sauce. Doesn't solve the problem of having to freeze the spare ones though

Interesting to see the discussion re shopping habits - at the moment I'd be up the proverbial creek without online deliveries. No Aldi or Lidl close by so not missing out there but miss a browse in the RTC section. That said it does make me a bit more disciplined (not a big bit mind you) in what I buy as less chance of just chucking stuff in if it catches your eye. The minimum order price can be a pain but a fortnightly shop for me, the pooch and household stuff generally avoids that.

PN - intrigued how you cook a pasty in a toaster is it a toaster oven or the usual 2 or 4 slot job? If I used my wee cheap one I'd have to scrape it out in chunks and I'm not sure it would be anything but cremated on the outside and cold in the middle:)