Cooking for one

meg72

caronc wrote: »

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

My house is nowhere near clean and sparkly, we had some really nice sunny days and I will never do housework when the garden calls
lol. Theres so much to do this time of year and I love my garden, the house must make do with a flick and a promise and meals are a quick graze in the fridge.

I just think there will be so many rainy days when I can do housework and there is only me to see the dust.

[Deleted User]

pi-ss aladiere sounds lovely, tasty and filling

kefir and frozen berries is getting me through the day in a healthy fashion. I find it is getting rid of my afternoon sweet tooth, all well and good. So easy to make the kefir, I do it every evening, takes a few minutes and I store it for the next day in a lock n lock in the fridge

I have eggs and halloumi to use up, also celery, tomato, cucumber and alfalfa sprouts. Its asking to be made into a salad, ok, I don`t have to think about that meal. I also need to make a soup as I feel a cba day coming on wrt food. Its already put togther, one package of pre-sauteed shallot(onion)/garlic/olive oil, I had shallots and garlic to use up from the allotment, I make a big load of it and freeze in small packets, very worth it for cba days. That plus a head of brocolli, left over fennel and parsley, marigold stock powder and water. Done and will be good for three days

Yes that sun does show windows up. I need to do mine but I`ll probably wait for the next rain shower or it`ll be a waste of time, or the shower after that or maybe I`ll wait for visitors. I can live with it. My house is clean and sparkly after de-cluttering, made a world of difference and takes no time now. I still have plenty of time for the allotment, the garden and cycling but key was to de-clutter

Nelski

Cooking for eleven here today....book club day

Cheating with Costco pizzas and some salad stuff but will probably chuck in some spuds and nachos too to bulk it out. One of the girls brings her homemade cupcakes which she sells as a business so they are pretty amazing...makes any food I do fade into insignificance lol

Bound to be loads left although I will try to convince everyone to eat lots.

As for spending more time in the garden than the house well me too but mine involves a glass of wine and a good book. I have a man who makes it look nice once a fortnight so that I can sit and enjoy it :cool: as a bonus he is very easy on the eye worth every penny just to watch him work :rotfl: (sorry that was very sexist)

Have a good day everyone and if you are passing the north west there will be a good amount of pizza available:)

elona

Nelski

You can't live on cupcakes so don't do yourself down. I bet people appreciate proper food more than the fancy stuff if they were honest.

My volunteering at the library starts this afternoon so will probably make myself a late brunch of bacon,egg,beans and toast to keep me going till 6p.m or later.

Not sure if a dd might pop in tonight to be fed so have two chicken breasts defrosting and some potato salad in the fridge.

Realised I have half a large cucumber to use up so might make a yoghurt and cucumber dip . Also some baby carrots are looking old so might add them to diced beef tomorrow and make a stew that can be used to have with mash as a topping and some can be frozen.

In colder weather I could just make a soup but now it takes a bit more thought to use things up.

mcculloch29

I bought Miguel Barclay's One Pound Meals and fancy trying something from that. His costings are one pound's worth of ingredients equals a meal for one person. Not quite in the Jack Monroe, Jocasta Innes or Shirley Goode class.
(A thought, the three best economy food writers are/were all female.)

Although some years ago I had a book to review by Tamasin Day-Lewis which purported to be economical and was an absolute joke. I wasn't alone in my opinion.

Farway

Nelski wrote: »

As for spending more time in the garden than the house well me too but mine involves a glass of wine and a good book. I have a man who makes it look nice once a fortnight so that I can sit and enjoy it :cool: as a bonus he is very easy on the eye worth every penny just to watch him work :rotfl: (sorry that was very sexist)

Me to ref garden / house time, but in my case I have ladies "wot do" and my house is sparkly [no idea on eye appeal, they "do" when I am out] and I am in garden if sun out, runner bean wigwams up now, beans in, just sit back and wait until summer

Back to food that I have not grown, breakfast was toast and marmalade, lunch was more toast, with cheese and slices of tom grilled on top

Dinner is my Lidl YS de luxe fish pie, it is deluxe because it contains a "medley of king prawns" as well as salmon, and the topping also has ciabatta breadcrumbs, posh stuff

In keeping with the cheffy blurb I will be serving it with a rainbow of steamed fresh broccolli, carrot & parsnip

And to cheapen it all I will pour granule ready mix cheese sauce on the veg

Today's YS from Asda was a small cauli and punnet of strawberries, strawbs for later today, could plop the LO tinned custard on them maybe

The cauli will become a cauli cheese tomorrow I think, it is about the right size for one meal, and I found [STRIKE]about a thousand [/STRIKE] lots of packets of cheese sauce in the come in handy cupboard

PasturesNew

I've decided my life has no room for couscous.

I'm not against it, but I've decided it's got no place in my life. I've had some over recent years and was "gifted" some OOD packs somebody'd bought and wouldn't get round to using - and, as I've had them a year myself, decided to open one and use them up. Trouble is, one pack "serves two" so I've only served half a pack.... still seven halves to go then, PLUS the 500 gram bag of plain cous cous I picked up from a supermarket for god knows what reason....

It's just unsatisfying .... so therefore pointless.

Lunch today was: the last burger bun from the freezer + a cheese triangle.

Tea today was: half a pack of spicy couscous, 2 hard boiled eggs, some instant curry sauce.

PasturesNew

mcculloch29 wrote: »

... Miguel Barclay...

The trouble with him is .... he's "just playing at it" ... for some free PR etc.

He posted a 'recipe' once that was some grated potato/onion formed into a cake shape, a single portion - that you put into the oven and bake for 25 minutes ... then you add an egg on top and put it back in the oven to finish - so another 20-25 minutes. The cost of cooking that in an electric oven is greater than the cost of the food... and who would wait ONE HOUR for what is basically a hash brown topped with a poached egg?

It's all airy fairy .... by people who don't have to "Live" it.

caronc

Evening everyone,
Not much CFO today as I think Monday caught up with me and I have been a [STRIKE]totally lazy lump[/STRIKE] lady of leisure;) Just about to haul a portion of ragu from the freezer to have with spaghetti. This where batch cooking really works for me otherwise I'd end up just eating junk on days when I'm below par:)

beluga

I seem to always be looking out for reduced items or using things up! Went shopping with family today and was very conscious of not being able to afford things It'd be nice to buy what I fancy rather than what's the cheapest now and again. Ah well, feeling sorry for myself won't help!
I've made a batch of stir fried pork and veg, a tomato and bacon pasta sauce and a courgette lasagne to freeze / eat over the next few days.