Cooking for one

caronc

katkin wrote: »

However, it would be nice to feel welcomed and not judged. We all have things to add to Old Style, where friendliness has been a marker of the forum's ethos.

Regardless, I'll continue to lurk here as you are an amusing bunch of people with good things to say, which I like reading. I'd just like some reassurance it's ok to post here now and then and feel welcome.

Of course you are:)
Having been single, married, single parent and now an "empty nester", I get the pros and cons to each situation;). Hardest was being a single parent to two teenage boys.......

I started this thread to get the view points of CFO be it from folk who have always done it, folk who have done it before, folk who are in a couple/family but for various reasons are solo cooks and folk like me who are adjusting to after 25+ of family cooking. I like to think that anyone who has something constructive to offer to CFO dilemmas would feel welcome and supported on this thread

I'm not CFO tonight and hoping that son will cook, either way it's pork chop, baked spud and veg

katkin

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Well - from what you say - Katkin you "get it" (ie understand). That's the difference:T

Thank you for the reassurance. It's greatly appreciated. I've spent the majority of my adult life on my own, rearing my kids on my own and being single.

Life is certainly different as part of a couple, for many years when he worked abroad on rigs I was also own my own for weeks at a time and CFO. It's only the past year or so we've been doing the traditional couple thing. He was also a bachelor until he met me, so has plenty of experience of single life too.

Thanks x

katkin

caronc wrote: »

Of course you are:)
Having been single, married, single parent and now an "empty nester", I get the pros and cons to each situation;). Hardest was being a single parent to two teenage boys.......

I started this thread to get the view points of CFO be it from folk who have always done it, folk who have done it before, folk who are in a couple/family but for various reasons are solo cooks and folk like me who are adjusting to after 25+ of family cooking. I like to think that anyone who has something constructive to offer to CFO dilemmas would feel welcome and supported on this thread

I'm not CFO tonight and hoping that son will cook, either way it's pork chop, baked spud and veg

Thank you caronc. I agree that being a single parent when your sons are teenagers is massive hard work. Thank goodness they grow and move on. It sounds like your boys are lovely young men now, mine too. That in itself is worth many pats on the back for us single mums.

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I love the fact that we can talk about it, I admit to being a late understander, life doesn`t stop and it is all about learning, about ourselves and about other people. There should be more of it in the world, it would be a far better place. What they say `live and learn` its oh so true and its about coping with whatever life throws your way and about learning from people who do cope and there is a lot of that on this thread

mcculloch29

I'm currently making Helga's Pirukad, as they are an Estonian high days and holidays speciality, I always make them for Christmas and Easter and often for in between times too.
Link is to another thread where I posted the recipe a couple of years ago. Helga was my Estonian Mum.

Tiddlywinks

katkin wrote: »

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Though I'm finding this thread now quite unwelcoming to us who may once have been single, but aren't now but would like to post. Not of all of us are smug or look down our noses at singles. Not a bit! Some of us know what it's like.

However, it would be nice to feel welcomed and not judged. We all have things to add to Old Style, where friendliness has been a marker of the forum's ethos.

Regardless, I'll continue to lurk here as you are an amusing bunch of people with good things to say, which I like reading. I'd just like some reassurance it's ok to post here now and then and feel welcome.

I agree with you - recent comments by some posters have insinuated that only singles are welcome here.

caronc wrote: »

Of course you are:)
I started this thread to get the view points of CFO be it from folk who have always done it, folk who have done it before, folk who are in a couple/family but for various reasons are solo cooks and folk like me who are adjusting to after 25+ of family cooking. I like to think that anyone who has something constructive to offer to CFO dilemmas would feel welcome and supported on this thread

Thanks Caron - nice to know that all are welcomed by most.

moneyistooshorttomention

kittie wrote: »

I love the fact that we can talk about it, I admit to being a late understander, life doesn`t stop and it is all about learning, about ourselves and about other people. There should be more of it in the world, it would be a far better place. What they say `live and learn` its oh so true and its about coping with whatever life throws your way and about learning from people who do cope and there is a lot of that on this thread

Very true.:T

If there's one thing that's been striking me since I moved to a rather different part of the country it's the fact that probably the vast majority of people anywhere live in their own little bubble. It's come as a bit of a surprise that I can say what I think on some things here that I couldnt do without "ructions" in my own part of the country. In reverse - there's things that are taken for granted in my own part of the country that it's wise not to mention here. I've just come to regard it as two mega size "Bubbles" with some degree of overlapping and that I move between the two.

In Own Bubble most people then think that most other people think and act like they do.

There was some awareness of this before - with parents that are from differing backgrounds and with differing "religious" ideas to each other. I've come to regard that as an advantage as I've got older - watching the two of them having to adapt to a different "bubble" to their own. Hence being aware of the differing "bubbles"....

caronc

mcculloch29 wrote: »

I'm currently making Helga's Pirukad, as they are an Estonian high days and holidays speciality, I always make them for Christmas and Easter and often for in between times too.
Link is to another thread where I posted the recipe a couple of years ago. Helga was my Estonian Mum.

These look wonderful

I'm shattered I'd forgotten how much prep a buffet from scratch is still only bits left to do tomorrow.

Just about to have a late dinner of pork chops, flat mushrooms and baked spud and a very welcome glass of red.

karcher

katkin wrote: »

Thank you for the reassurance. It's greatly appreciated. I've spent the majority of my adult life on my own, rearing my kids on my own and being single.

Life is certainly different as part of a couple, for many years when he worked abroad on rigs I was also own my own for weeks at a time and CFO. It's only the past year or so we've been doing the traditional couple thing. He was also a bachelor until he met me, so has plenty of experience of single life too.

Thanks x

You are very welcome katkin...If you scroll back many, many pages I have said as much before


It's a great thread , it's felt like a safe haven and great to get to know others in the same boat...

PasturesNew

I had a small accident in the kitchen last night, crushed my finger - which will be a bit of a nuisance for a few days.

In consolation, I found myself "sympathy eating" the cold pizza slices late last night using my "good hand".

Today's food will have to involve spud salad and tomatoes (again) ... and so I feel a tomato sandwich will occur - and I still have a scotch egg, so there'll be a scotch egg/spud salad. I also have 3 hard boiled eggs, so I'll defrost some more bread and make egg sandwiches - maybe egg/tomato sandwiches.... and I do need a new bottle of salad cream, but, of course, food shops are shut today, should've remembered that yesterday and gone and bought some.