Cooking for one

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caronc wrote: »

I dry out stale morning rolls on my radiators (wrapped in a tea towel) then blitz until very fine. I find this brill for HM burgers or sausages or coating fish etc.

I'll use any odd bits of bread blitzed up into breadcrumbs - when I'm being virtuous enough. I try to just save them up in a ziplock bag in my freezer and blitz all the bits at once when I have enough.

After that - my usual use for them is to saute them in a little butter for a couple of minutes and then mix with nuts and/or seeds and use to top stewed or canned fruit as a sort of apple/etc charlotte type pudding.

moneyistooshorttomention

elona wrote: »

I have a neighbour who uses the same gardening lady I do and seems to come over to talk to her for quite a while every time she is at the front.

I wouldn't mind but my garden is in a much worse state and really needs her at the moment.

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Maybe the way to deal with that is to do what I do if I even spot neighbours approaching them or when they've done so and just started obviously having a bit of "chit chat" - I find an excuse to go over to my workmen looking a bit "firm and meaningful" and haul them off to have a quick look at an aspect of my current job/next job I have in mind for them or whatever.??

If all else fails - a strategic offer of a drink to the workman perhaps?

But usually just heading in their vicinity with a firm/meaningful look on face is enough to stop any just "chit chat" going on in its tracks and they get back on track.

EDIT; Just remembering what they were like in the early days of owning my first house though. My father did a lot of DIY work for me on that one and I would usually be off at work whilst he was doing so. My father is too polite for his own good sometimes - and it took a while for me to find out that the neighbour one side would try and grab him just for a chat and the one the other side would try and get him to do DIY bits for her (for nothing!!!!). When I realised - I told my father it was up to him - but I hadnt encouraged the neighbours to do that and I was finding it annoying - as he was spending so much time doing my house anyway and I didnt like them burdening him like this.

caronc

Good morning everyone,

Congratulations on the weightloss Elona:cool:

After pouring rain earlier the sun is shining so might get a noodle in the garden and try and loosen up the aches from yesterday

Breakfast was toast and banana and small piece of rather runny camembert , lunch will be poached duck eggs followed by strawberries and blackberries. I've courgettes needing used so will roast them tonight with some baby toms, mushrooms and peppers and will either have a gammon or turkey steak with them. Last night's fish pie was tasty enough, I'd buy it again for a stand by but a bit lacking in the fish department.......

elona

Just had a late breakfast - two small slices of white bread and one egg made into french toast and two rindless bacon rashers with a cup of coffee.

Managed to turn my superking mattress around so top end is now bottom end. The last time I tried to actually turn the thing over properly I ended up on the floor on top of it :eek: so will wait for family to be around to do that next time.

Will fit some shopping round gardening lady and know I need fruit, veg, milk, eggs with a pizza base mix to use for low calorie pastry.
Still don't know who is coming round when but suppose it will sort itself out.

Farway

Now got the sub woofers sorted, that is soundbar ones, not low life dogs BTW and can hear TV, time will tell when next mumbling film come on

No breakfast, was not hungry and time sort of ran away, and only one choc bickie mid morning at Age Concern, just wasting away here, I wish

Lunch was more HM mush pate, I think I made too much using up the manky mushrooms, with hindsight I perhaps should have put it in two or more tubs and frozen some, too late now. If I were up to it and CBA a beef Wellington would solve the pate overload, it willgradually go

Dinner not sure, Lidl provided a YS beef chillli & rice for one, again, but think I may go for fsh & chips from freezer, not had F & C for a week or so, and it is a bit chilly out so oven on for fish heating should warm the place up

candygirl

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

Now you see I feel the same about aubergines - they always seem slimy to me... don't know why.

I hate aubergines too, n sweetcorn, yuk

caronc

Good afternoon everyone,

I had a lovely lunch of poached duck eggs on toast and unusually for me I had a pud afterwards. I had some blackberries my friend brought on Monday that needed using up but they were a bit tart so I sprinkled a little sugar on them and had with a splosh of cream:). The cream actually went out of date on 23/04/17 but hadn't been opened and was absolutely fine to eat.:)

Tonight I'm for a gammon steak baked in foil with pineapple with roasted courgettes, mushrooms and baby toms. I might pot a couple of baby spuds in as well.

candygirl

My next door neighbour is absolutely man mad, so I have to pre warn any workmen, or they would get man handled :rotfl: Sad thing is, she doesn't realise they're all takin the p*** out of her :rotfl:
I'm having my garden completely redone soon, n going away at the same time, but will.warn the lads first

PasturesNew

Farway wrote: »

....Lidl provided a YS beef chillli & rice for one....

I tried their "new brand name" one about a month ago, it's rather tasty! I look every time now for a YS, but never in luck.

PasturesNew

Today it's been choccies throughout the day.

Lunch was the reduced mac cheese I bought, with a tin of tomatoes and a splash of brown sauce.

Tea was an Iceland fishcake in the last of the bread rolls, with a splash of ketchup.

Got 1/10 there.

I've got milk with tomorrow's date on it, so I'll need to either knock up a quiche thing (with or without pastry) .... or have Lidl weetabix to finish it off.

I'm kind of thinking of leaving the house tomorrow as there are a number of things I could string together 30 miles away .... but I bet it rains .... and none of them is THAT exciting at all and all can wait.

There's the launch of a lifeboat and traipsing round a church to look for an 180 year old gravestone that might still exist.... my GGGGGG-grandfather's, brother's son's/son's wife/child gravestone. So, not exactly up there as a "must visit/really important family tree find".