Cooking for one

caronc

Hi Nelski good to see you back:)
After my last meat order my freezers are fit to burst so I can completely relate LOL:o
I love Masterchef I know some folk find it annoying but I just enjoy it and over the years have picked up some great tips:). I've not watched tonights but it shoud be up in I-Player shortly, I watch most things that way as my concentration ain't great so can stop/start to my heart's content LOL

Nelski

caronc wrote: »

Hi Nelski good to see you back:)
After my last meat order my freezers are fit to burst so I can completely relate LOL:o
I love Masterchef I know some folk find it annoying but I just enjoy it and over the years have picked up some great tips:). I've not watched tonights but it shoud be up in I-Player shortly, I watch most things that way as my concentration ain't great so can stop/start to my heart's content LOL

Oh yes I concur it has many annoying elements :rotfl:... like how John Tarode puts a fork in his mouth from above (very odd ) and worse still Greg wandering about shouting ....I swear hes a bit deaf.:D

On the other hand I love watching what people chose to cook at this early stage then the days when they head to a restaurant. as you say there are lots of tips to pick up then

Willowx

Other half of the Chineseified leftovers today a chocolate gateaux and a lot of cream seem to have found their way into my fridge. It's been one of those weeks and it's only halfway gone.

International stamps have gone up a fair amount, 12p for 10g worldwide and 20g Europe (£1.17 total) and 7p up to 20g worldwide (£1.40). I have several penpals and do enjoy writing actual letters gives me an excuse to use my colourful inks.

Ames

Willowx wrote: »

Other half of the Chineseified leftovers today a chocolate gateaux and a lot of cream seem to have found their way into my fridge. It's been one of those weeks and it's only halfway gone.

International stamps have gone up a fair amount, 12p for 10g worldwide and 20g Europe (£1.17 total) and 7p up to 20g worldwide (£1.40). I have several penpals and do enjoy writing actual letters gives me an excuse to use my colourful inks.

I used to have loads of penpals, I really miss them - in fact I dreamed about them the other night! I lost them all when I had a depressive episode combined with a couple of house moves when I was a student.

PasturesNew

Reading this page is like a stroll through posh-land

For lunch today I had a pizza toastie ... having cooked it though I wished I'd put more cheese in it and doubled up on the filling... oh well. Lots of the /day in there ... if you don't look at quantity/item there were 5 different bits in there!

Mid afternoon finished off the last of the choccie fingers, about 4, but it was the broken/end bits left.

Tea was a last minute CBA moment when I did beans on toast with grated cheese.

That's it for today. I've got a swollen gum and troublesome tooth - I think the entire (back) tooth might have split/cracked from top to root... so not looking forward to seeing what happens in the coming few days

mcculloch29

Oh dear PN. Sympathies.
I guess a dentist's visit isn't an option, or you would have mentioned it.

I was going to say "Not posh-land here" but I mentioned my food processor the other day which might make you say otherwise.
It was sent to me free to review in 2011. My capsule coffee machine was sent to review in 2015, I had a spiraliser arrive the other day (not bad) and a cafetiere in Feb (brilliant, used daily).
I get the coffee machine capsules and my ground coffee from A!di.
Sad to report that the pound shop capsules were not much cop, but ok for a mocha with drinking choc.

I also had a completely useless mincer type thing arrive to review that is supposed to puree food but doesn't.
In six months I can pass it on to a CS.

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I never watched masterchef, think I will now, on iplayer as my attention span in the evening is also short

I love coffee but only have one a day in the morning, so I make sure it is a really good coffee, made from freshly ground beans and with a little frothy milk. I kept my husbands nespresso, it is wrapped up in the shed and comes out when I have family, they can help themselves to whatever capsules they want and don`t get to mess with my lovely coffee machine which I bought as a treat to myself, months after my husband died

No fixed idea what I am going to eat today but will be trying to split into smaller more frequent meals, not eating proteins and carbs together. Had nut-free muesli already and will have a boiled egg later. At some stage this morning, I will be making the veg juice, its a grand way of getting extra veg goodness, on top of the normal veg. Will probably have rice and veg at lunchtime, nuts or sardines later, also got frozen berries and kefir planned as that was very nice. All in all it will be an easy-healthy food day

ps, why is it posh to eat well? I don`t understand that, I have never smoked and hardly ever drink or go on holidays, so I eat the best way I can and consequently am very healthy. I also listen to my body and when it says rest then I rest. I am a scientist and I know what my body needs and I am what I eat. It is a genuine question and seems that eating well should be even more important as a single

elona

I had a DD and SIL stay over as they leave early for the airport and wanted me to cat sit. I looked up a hairy dieters mince plate pie recipe which was supposed to take an hour and a half but took me three hours as I like things to simmer for longer than recipes suggest and it took ages to hand chop all the veg.

They loved it and SIL took a copy of the recipe so they could make it. Two portions are in the freezer and I have a portion for tonight.

There is cooked chicken in the fridge and potatoes and spring onion to use up so might make potato salad with some chicken for lunch.

The alarm did not work properly for DD this morning so instead of leaving for the airport around five fifteen they shot out of here just before six clutching the packet of foil wrapped bacon sandwiches I prepared for them last night.

Need to think of something to make with quite a lot of celery now.

Nelski

kittie wrote: »

ps, why is it posh to eat well? I don`t understand that, I have never smoked and hardly ever drink or go on holidays, so I eat the best way I can and consequently am very healthy. I also listen to my body and when it says rest then I rest. I am a scientist and I know what my body needs and I am what I eat. It is a genuine question and seems that eating well should be even more important as a single

Agree Kittie ...I am one extreme or the other to be honest so one meal may be a Greggs sausage roll at my lowest on the posh scale then the next may be a fillet steak or a nice posh fish pie . The beauty of single is not having to answer to anyone at all;)

I am away again this weekend (getting tired of this now have to admit) so its just food tonight then back sometime late Saturday night so that will be be something picked up on the way. Tonight I want comfort I think so it may involve beans chips and something frozen ...not posh tonight then:rotfl: Wishing I had a pizza in but I dont and wont be buying one for sure

Farway

Ames wrote: »

Faraway - do you bake the salmon from frozen? I always defrost first, and anything that cuts down on faff is welcome!
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I did it from frozen, wrapped in foil with knob of butter, takes a bit longer of course, in fact it took longer than I expected when I checked it was still raw in middle bit, my baked spud was getting quite high up on the carbon scale by time salmon was ready

I think if I had time, and planned ahead, I would defrost first, but it was last minute decision yesterday and needs must

Today is poshland not Poundland

After breakfast, toast & lime marmalade, I had a walk into M & S to see if there were any offers, remembering someone on here mentioned a mix & match 3 for £10 sometimes

In luck, offer was on, and the choices conveniently had two portions in each pack, so 6 main meal items for £1.66ish each, which I think is fine given the quality, and saves me thinking what to eat for the next 6 days

I picked the long use by dates, and tonight is steak, with egg & oven chips, maybe put some mushrooms & tomato on the same griddle as well, plus yet another YS mixed leaf bag from Asda, 46p, see me right for tonight

The other items I picked up on my £10 offer were 2 x salmon fillets and 4 x less than 3% fat beef burgers, so will see how M & S burgers compare to some others I have had along the way

PS Elona "Need to think of something to make with quite a lot of celery now." Try spud and celery soup if you like HM soup, dead easy but does need a blitzer at the end to whizz it