Cooking for one

PasturesNew

I did "the right thing". I opened the freezer and made a quick inventory and decided to use up the frozen pizza base I had + a bunch of other stuff I've chopped/frozen in the past... all pizza-worthy stuff.

On the base I chopped/lobbed chorizo, a whole chilli, red onion, red peppers ... then added oregano, LOADS of tabasco and some grated cheese.

Under the grill .... currently scoffing a pizza that's blowing my head off ... *sniff, sniff* ...

moneyistooshorttomention

'Tis worrying if the power goes off I know.

Last location - I was able to just peer up and down the street to see if anyone else affected/ring enough doorbells that someone would be in and tell me if they were affected too. Followed by "Worst case analysis = loadsa places nearby I'd just go out and eat out at".

Current location - The power has never gone off yet (touches wood....) BUT it doesnt half fluctuate around and I don't think it's my house causing the problem. It had better not be - as I've had the electrics modernised since buying it:cool:. I think it's the high level winds that are so frequent here and the fact the electric cable to my house is hanging there in mid-air (rather than underground as per normal imo).

Where I am now = there aint loadsa places nearby to go and eat out at. There are only a few and many of them are shut if it's an evening and none of them are ones I'd choose "all else being equal" and they cook chips in lard in this area. Meaning the local chippy is out......:cool:.

I can do raw food for a meal or two - if I have notice. Otherwise :eek:.

This morning's shopping included a packet of decent-quality muesli - in case desperation strikes. Reason being - my kitchen is about to be replaced at last and it could be weeks before "normal service resumes".

Oh well - at least I've had notice of this - and I duly saved the website link I was given here. I think I could be doing a lot of nipping to "supermarket-that-isnt-Waitrose:(" and buying readymade hummus/vegetables/ohmegawd the bread they "make" (which is nothing like I'm used to) and has probably got all sorts I don't agree with in it.......

LameWolf

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

I have shrewd suspicions that quite a lot of people married someone other than Mr/Miss Right and probably knew it (consciously or "in their heart of hearts") at the time they married them even.

Ah, I fear that was me, the first time around.:( I took my mother's advice and "took what I could get because the chances of finding anyone else who'd want me were vanishingly small".:( Long story short - 'twas a disaster, and hence I spent the final 5 years CFO (if you could call it "cooking") even though I was married - blighter's favourite trick was hide my food at the back of the fridge with thumping great packs of raw liver stacked in front of it. Off to cry bitter tears now, for 20 wasted years......:(

moneyistooshorttomention

LameWolf wrote: »

Ah, I fear that was me, the first time around.:( I took my mother's advice and "took what I could get because the chances of finding anyone else who'd want me were vanishingly small".:( Long story short - 'twas a disaster, and hence I spent the final 5 years CFO (if you could call it "cooking") even though I was married - blighter's favourite trick was hide my food at the back of the fridge with thumping great packs of raw liver stacked in front of it. Off to cry bitter tears now, for 20 wasted years......:(

Now that thought never struck me - ie a mother advising that:eek:. Mygawd - and my sympathies on that.

I think that's another thing then where my parents were pretty "hands off" and left me to it then:T. I did get comments from my father a few times of "He's not good enough for you" or words to that effect. But - thankfully - never had either of them saying "You cant expect much - so take what you can get":eek:

I had someone I was sorta vaguely friendly with before now that I quizzed rather at one point (ie when they announced they were going to get married). I knew they always intended to get married - to someone or other. They didnt seem to be "in love" from what I could see - and hence I thought it was up to me (as a friend of theirs) to quiz them a bit about it. The reply boiled down = He's the best I can do.:( I watched the fallout over the years subsequently - and I sincerely hope she had the sense to divorce him.

Put it this way = when they become "known" to the police = then boy do you need to divorce them quick and start working out how to avoid anyone like that ever again.:cool:

I'm glad I had the father I did - and just wish he'd been more prominent in my upbringing. He was more along the lines of "You could do better than that.....". about whatever-it-was (job/career or man in life - you name it....).

Doom_and_Gloom

For dinner tonight it will be left over vegetable curry and rice, enough for tomorrow too!

The curry used :
Half a punnet of mushrooms reduced to 18p - 9p.
Broccoli pack 160g reduced to 18p -18p
Green soup mix reduced to 45p - 45p
Red onions reduced 30p - 6p
Sweet potato 59p/kg - 12p
Carrots reduced to 30p - 6p
Sweetcorn £1.09 - 22p
Tin tomato - 25p
Tin chickpeas - 25p
Brown rice - 25p
Spices - 5p
£1.98 by my reckoning for 3 dinners, large dinners at that. So 66p a portion. OH made it for me but he wouldn't eat this, like basically everything I eat.

Even when I don't fancy eating the same thing days in a row I do it. I hate waste of food. That and if I don't eat what the OH makes me I'd feel guilty .

PasturesNew

I'm in the "nobody ever asked" camp

I do despise the phrase "leftovers" as I don't think singles have them.

Singles mostly cook what they'll eat, then eat it - no leftovers.

What we have are:
- the 2nd/3rd/4th/5th portions we planned and knew about before starting to cook it.
- food we've still got to cook at some point.

But not "leftovers".

If we walk our empty plate into the kitchen and see another portion sitting in the dish, that's not leftovers - that's the future portion we begrudgingly made because it was easier to cook it all now.... that's our "batch cooking". Not leftovers.

Therefore, most conversations about leftovers are simply inappropriate and irrelevant.

Doom_and_Gloom

I agree with the not left over thing PicturesNew, I really do. I actually asked the OH to cook all that food knowing I'd have to eat it for three days straight as the freezer is full due to the reduced tofu bulk I bought and froze! As soon as I got freezer space it went. I know this is a frustration of many on here.

Nelski

Im in the "shouldn't have stuck with the married one for so long" camp lol oh well prefer being single any day to be honest when I look at some of the relationships my friends have.

moneyistooshorttomention

Nelski wrote: »

Im in the "shouldn't have stuck with the married one for so long" camp lol oh well prefer being single any day to be honest when I look at some of the relationships my friends have.

Ohmegawd - amen to that one.

I see very few relationships where I think "That is what I would like too please" about them. Right now - the first thought that came to mind is one where she tries to "persuade" him that her opinions are his too and he thought of them in the first place:cool: or just "tells him what to do" in effect.

Frankly - just how do you find someone that thinks very much along the same lines as oneself? I've never figured that one out. I'm certain there has to be similar values - a conclusion I've come to over the years and gawdknows that's imo distinctly difficult to find on its own.

Visions of sitting there with the mantra of "Do your bit/pay what you are due to pay - but no more and have that 'set of manners' " in your head in my case
- only to find I'd chosen someone that was useless with money/distinctly dishonest/no manners to speak of/etc/etc - because I "fell in love " with him or "settled":eek:. If someone had turned out to be dishonest or a lout - then I think I would have glued my lips shut the first few times - and then let 'em have it full force if they carried on being that way...

Visions coming to mind of the exact moment I realised it was going nowhere with one of my last boyfriends being when we were on holiday/having a good time (well...sorta) and he picked up his pint of beer and literally threw it over his head. To this day I've not figured out just why he did that - as I'd never heard of anyone doing that. Add the fact I realised I wasnt going to be able to remove the "chip on his shoulder" from the fact that he didnt own his own home and I did and the relationship was a gonner. If he'd "caught up with me" (same as my father did as regards my mother) then I could have understood it - but to stay as he was and throw "chips on the shoulder" at me puzzled me greatly. You can imagine the sort of thing - he spent his money on booze and running a car and complained he didnt have a house. He thinks it's okay for people to lose a house they've spent a lifetime getting (errr - he hasnt got one) and I don't agree (I have spent years getting one) and so it went on....

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Anyways;

lunch today was CBA and I hauled a UFO out of the freezer. It turned out to be a sort of tomato and lentil thing that I grated some cheese over and had some fresh tomatoes with. That was followed by a banana that was going past its best/some homegrown berries of the exotic sort I'd hauled out of my freezer months later (honeyberries?/chuckleberries?) and some Oatly "cream" over it and sorta healthy chocolate sauce. I'm trying to draw a discreet veil over the fact that said frozen berries had a green thick-ish squiggly shape 2" or so long thing of unknown origin in with them - which I strongly suspect is a garden worm of some description that had crawled in with them and emerged when the temperature started dropping in my freezer:eek:

mcculloch29

I married a very good looking older man. It ensured two very good looking children, snag was, he played on his looks and wasn't faithful.
I never played the field.

When my Mum died he replaced me with a very plain looking, motherly woman.
He didn't want a wife, he wanted to play the field, and when he was finally ready to settle down he looked for a mother.
Facially, I look quite a lot like his mother did, so I am sure that's why he married me.

We divorced almost 25 years ago, I've had some lovely bf's since but nobody to settle down with. I'm still good friends with two of them.
DS only moved out 20 months ago, and the novelty of being on my own hasn't worn off yet.