Cooking for one

caronc

Hollyharvey wrote: »

^ Hmm, I clearly still have more work to do on learning to quote from posts. I promise I will get there in the end!

Nope you're doing fine :)

PasturesNew

Hollyharvey wrote: »

I'm lucky, I can walk to the town centre in 10 minutes so there are no parking charges, and it can be nice to just have a wander and then I am able to walk back home through the large park. It was a lovely sunny, if cold morning so it made for a nice hour or so out.

I could walk to town in 20 minutes ... but there's nothing to do there except walk into shops and either buy things, or look at things you can't buy ... so what's the point?



Town here's not "a big town", that's 8 miles away ... and just has more places you could spend money if you had any.


And the weather's been cool/overcast/threatening all weekend, so how do you dress for that? I struggle to work out what to wear most of the time.... I really need to carry a shopping trolley round with me full of alternative shoes/tops/etc in case the weather changes

I get no joy from walking anywhere - what are you going to do when you get there? All that's left is to come home again .... and it'll change to be colder/hotter, wetter/drier - whatever outfit you thought you'd need when you left the house is an entirely different outfit to what you realise you needed 1.5 hours later when you're a long way from home.

caronc

PasturesNew wrote: »

I could walk to town in 20 minutes ... but there's nothing to do there except walk into shops and either buy things, or look at things you can't buy ... so what's the point?



Town here's not "a big town", that's 8 miles away ... and just has more places you could spend money if you had any.


And the weather's been cool/overcast/threatening all weekend, so how do you dress for that? I struggle to work out what to wear most of the time.... I really need to carry a shopping trolley round with me full of alternative shoes/tops/etc in case the weather changes

I get no joy from walking anywhere - what are you going to do when you get there? All that's left is to come home again .... and it'll change to be colder/hotter, wetter/drier - whatever outfit you thought you'd need when you left the house is an entirely different outfit to what you realise you needed 1.5 hours later when you're a long way from home.

One of the things I really miss not being able to do is "going for a walk", I used to love just a general stroll/ramble especially if was no particular purpose Layers and a wee knapsack covered most eventualities needed on the weather front.....;)

meg72

Hollyharvey wrote: »

I'm lucky, I can walk to the town centre in 10 minutes so there are no parking charges, and it can be nice to just have a wander and then I am able to walk back home through the large park. It was a lovely sunny, if cold morning so it made for a nice hour or so out.

I'm lucky too, 10 min walk takes me to the town centre and a really beautiful park with a lake I like to take a flask of coffee, a sarnie and something for the Ducks, can happily sit for an hour or so feeding the ducks and people watching. Then if I time it right can have a mooch in Asda for the reduced n the way back.

caronc

meg72 wrote: »

I'm lucky too, 10 min walk takes me to the town centre and a really beautiful park with a lake I like to take a flask of coffee, a sarnie and something for the Ducks, can happily sit for an hour or so feeding the ducks and people watching. Then if I time it right can have a mooch in Asda for the reduced n the way back.

Sounds pretty perfect can't beat a bit of "people watching" add in ducks and all is well in the world......:D

mcculloch29

Well, what my mind had planned - hm fishcakes, wedges and carrot salad - wasn't actually what my body fancied, it turned out.
What it did fancy was lots and lots of fresh crunchy carrot salad, so as I was making that anyway, I just made three times the quantity. I really enjoyed it and as I made it with reduced fat mayonnaise it's also quite a low calorie meal.

I am lucky enough to have a very fast and efficient food processor, so that got the large quantity of salad grated in a very short time

caronc

mcculloch29 wrote: »

Well, what my mind had planned - hm fishcakes, wedges and carrot salad - wasn't actually what my body fancied, it turned out.
What it did fancy was lots and lots of fresh crunchy carrot salad, so as I was making that anyway, I just made three times the quantity. I really enjoyed it and as I made it with reduced fat mayonnaise it's also quite a low calorie meal.

I am lucky enough to have a very fast and efficient food processor, so that got the large quantity of salad grated in a very short time

I love salads with carrots and made one yesterday with carrots, celery, apple and peanuts in a dressing made of orange juice, olive oil, a little mayo, chopped red chilli and some parsley. Unfortunately most of it got eaten.......

candygirl

caronc wrote: »

I love salads with carrots and made one yesterday with carrots, celery, apple and peanuts in a dressing made of orange juice, olive oil, a little mayo, chopped red chilli and some parsley. Unfortunately most of it got eaten.......

That sounds yummy. Will have to try it xx

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sounds lovely caronc, I might make similar today plus I did order a small amount of salad leaves in my organic delivery but that was on friday so they`ll either be eaten today or they`ll go on the compost. I have also got spring greens that I haven`t started, depends if they have started yellowing or not. I don`t have any compost qualms as it all goes back into my allotment veg

A small bowl of crispy rice and vanilla soya to start the day at 6.30 and have just eaten two scrambled eggs in butter with a crumbled cheese slice.

I found a rump steak in my freezer yesterday, its destiny is my lunch today, that plus salad. I have loads of hm soup not started on it yet, broad bean carrot and mint, frozen beans as the new ones will be ready in a few weeks. I`m going to have to face facts and freeze a couple of portions of that soup, I`ll never get through it in three days. I might use a portion to cook rice in tomorrow, maybe

I don`t know what for my last meal, maybe soup and goats cheese on a cracker. Its a bit of a battle not to waste food from the fridge. No organic orders this week, its going to be a make-do week, I have to get myself and the fridge sorted

PasturesNew

Breakfast today meant digging into the freezer to remove the last 2 slices + 2 crusts of frozen bread. Used two crusts for toast and added half a tin of beans, the last egg scrambled and 7 cocktail sausages. Squirt of brown sauce