Cooking for one

caronc

Evening everyone,

Been AWOL up to now has spent most of the day at a hospital appointment so CFO will be something easy tonight debating between pie, wedgies and veg or spag bol:)

Farway - glad you contacted M&S it is always giving feedback to companies if things are below par

Nelski/Karcher - shame work colleagues are giving you grief in one shape or form

mcculloch29 - I could just eat right now I love p i s s aladiere but only made it the once I think from a recipe on the BBC. I have the "Paupers Cookbook" but nothing else by her.

kittie - pork belly I always try to have some in the freezer as it is so tasty and versatile. Why are you not buying it again if you like it?

PN - you'll need to get yourself some more Branston to save future disappointments;)

mcculloch29

Nelski/Karcher - sympathies. All things must pass and I hope your situations change.
Farway - woo hoo, result. The only time I've really complained was when a light brown hair dye turned my hair black. I got £15 in vouchers, not really enough if I'd had to use a hairdresser to fix it, but I just looked like Morticia Addams for a couple of months until I could safely re-dye at home.

Caronc - There is a second Paupers' Cookbook (the New). I gave my copy away as a friend was desperate for economical recipes. There was no way she was having my Paupers' Cookbook.
The p i s s aladiere was an absolute joy. Truly. I didn't have olives but did use anchovies plus the olive oil from the tin,
It was also extraordinarily quick to do.

Ingredients the way I did it.
Jocasta's P i s s aladiere
Approx 200g bread dough for a pizza base
1lb white onions, finely sliced
1 tbsp ready chopped garlic or 2-3 cloves fresh garlic, crushed
Tin anchovies in olive oil

Literally a minute to slice the onions in the food processor, Then rather than sauteeing in olive oil I micro'ed the onions to soften them for 7 minutes. Worked perfectly.

I spread the very soft onions and some ready chopped garlic on the bread dough pizza base (uncooked) added the anchovies and drizzled over the fishy, salty olive oil from the tin. I forgot to add pepper but the salt in the olive oil and anchovies made up for it.
15 minutes in a hot oven for me, but mine is very fast, 20 would be best for most.

Variations: Jocasta's recipe included olives. I didn't have any, but vegetarians and vegans could leave out the anchovies and include these, plus some capers, perhaps ..
Caronc and others, the book is available SH on Amazon

caronc

mcculloch29 wrote: »

Nelski/Karcher - sympathies. All things must pass and I hope your situations change.
Farway - woo hoo, result. The only time I've really complained was when a light brown hair dye turned my hair black. I got £15 in vouchers, not really enough if I'd had to use a hairdresser to fix it, but I just looked like Morticia Addams for a couple of months until I could safely re-dye at home.

Caronc - There is a second Paupers' Cookbook (the New). I gave my copy away as a friend was desperate for economical recipes. There was no way she was having my Paupers' Cookbook.
The p i s s aladiere was an absolute joy. Truly. I didn't have olives but did use anchovies plus the olive oil from the tin,
It was also extraordinarily quick to do.

Ingredients the way I did it.
Jocasta's P i s s aladiere
Approx 200g bread dough for a pizza base
1lb white onions, finely sliced
1 tbsp ready chopped garlic or 2-3 cloves fresh garlic, crushed
Tin anchovies in olive oil

Literally a minute to slice the onions in the food processor, Then rather than sauteeing in olive oil I micro'ed the onions to soften them for 7 minutes. Worked perfectly.

I spread the very soft onions and some ready chopped garlic on the bread dough pizza base (uncooked) added the anchovies and drizzled over the fishy, salty olive oil from the tin. I forgot to add pepper but the salt in the olive oil and anchovies made up for it.
15 minutes in a hot oven for me, but mine is very fast, 20 would be best for most.

Variations: Jocasta's recipe included olives. I didn't have any, but vegetarians and vegans could leave out the anchovies and include these, plus some capers, perhaps ..
Caronc and others, the book is available SH on Amazon

Thank you that sounds really good I can see one as part of my Easter Sunday buffet I have anchovies, olives and capers in the cupboard:D

meg72

Had some milk and yoghurt to use up yesterday so dug out my yoghurt maker, not used it for about two years as I went onto slimming world and muller lights instead.

Result now got 7 little pots of homemade yoghurt.

PasturesNew

Use it up time .... again. It always is isn't it!

Breakfast was the final crust of bread from the freezer... topped with chocolate spread as it was there, so easier than scrambling an egg.

For lunch I had to open a new tin of beans (creating leftovers).
Used up the final 2, smallest, baking potatoes, served topped with cheese and baked beans.

Farway

Bit of a dull dampish day outside so no mucking around in the garden today, I was hoping to get some runner bean wigwams up but that will have to wait until tomorrow now

Breakfast was another "free" oatie biscuit, biscuit consumption doubled at Age Concern coffee break

Lunch was a tad healthier mayo with bacon, tom & YS salad leaves from Asda yesterday

Now typing with cup of coffee & two more oatie biscuits, eating them like this is why I do not normally buy them, just too esy to pick at them

Dinner will be the last supper, using last baking spud, with the last M & S salmon fillet baked in tin foil [it's sibling was great BTW], with last of YS mixed salad leaves, fresh tom & cucumber

Followed by last of doughnuts, I did not have one yesterday evening after all. I may[STRIKE] nuke[/STRIKE] warm them up and plop some tinned cold custard on them for a touch of gluttony

That will leave a nearly empty fridge & one left over of half tin of custard going forward

Lidl prowl this morning yielded a YS fish pie, not had one for while and certainly CBA to make one.

Looks like tomorrow meal base is fish pie & custard, which although will finish up in same tum will not be on the plate together

karcher

Afternoon all.

Hope everyone is well.

Just had coleslaw on top of a slice of toast, butter and a cheese triangle ..it filled a gap!

Nelski

karcher wrote: »

Afternoon all.

Hope everyone is well.


Just had coleslaw on top of a slice of toast, butter and a cheese triangle ..it filled a gap!

mmmmm now that sounds like the perfect meal for one :rotfl:

After my horrible day yesterday I cleaned it out today and now have a lovely sparkly house I cant half tell when spring comes and all that winter dirt shows itself...need to do a proper spring clean soon my windows are shameful :D

I had one of my scones for breakfast with strawberry jam no real lunch but I did finish a jar of cockles (odd I know but I love them)

Tonights feast is a freezer raid which produced some 3 bean chilli and I am going to have with some nachos with it I think or maybe a flat bread decisions decisions.

caronc

Afternoon everyone,
Ended up having pie, beans and wedges last night so it was beans and egg on toast for lunch.
Can't say my house is lovely and sparkly but I did sweep and mop the floors so it smells clean anyway - just don't look in the corners:o
I took a chicken leg out of the freezer earlier which I think I'm going to have with jerk spice, roasted veg and a baked sweet potato a combination I really like

caronc

My chicken, roasted veg and baked sweet potato were lovely, however in true CFO land I now have 1/2 a baked sweet potato to use up;) I wish I hadn't used up the beans today and that would be tomorrow's lunch sorted

Nelski - just spotted you had cockles, thought I was one of these rare folk that loved the jars of pickled ones they are so moreish:D