Cooking for one

moneyistooshorttomention

Best wishes to the "poorlies" on the thread for a speedy recovery.

Personally - I find it always feels more worrying to be ill when on one's own (ie only yourself to rely on). Hopefully you'll both be raring to go again by tomorrow.

Cheering food thought for the day being I've just hauled one of those square squat freezer boxes out of the freezer for some more berries from last years garden produce (ie to put with my morning porridge etc). I've got 7 more boxes still to go and a couple of fair-size freezer bags of rhubarb:)

Followed by the thought ".....and I've got another fruit bush in the garden since last year and hopefully it will start producing this year":).

Now if I could just find some frozen organic edamame beans - as I've not been able to locate any yet:(. Meanwhile - think I'd better experiment with growing my own - then I know they're organic..

katkin

I had a bag of organic frozen edamame in stock, now used up and needing replaced. They were either from M&S or the big Asian supermarket in Glasgow. The See Woo has a vast range of frozen veg I bet it was from there. I'll need to get back there for some supplies soon.

Sorry to hear a few of you have been poorly today. It's an ideal day to get your feet up and recharge, so enjoy some down time girls x

elsiepac

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Now if I could just find some frozen organic edamame beans - as I've not been able to locate any yet:(. Meanwhile - think I'd better experiment with growing my own - then I know they're organic..

They're not organic, but the Yutaka ones do state GM Free if that's any help?

I found you organic ones on Goodness Direct, but they only do the ones in the pods if that's any good - here's the link: https://www.goodnessdirect.co.uk/cgi-local/frameset/detail/331699_Bio_Inside_Organic_Edamame_Beans__300g.html

caronc

Farway wrote: »

Afternoon all, I will also be assuming the mainly slovenly horizontal postion today, down to making very good friends with Mr Shank's white telephone during the night. I finally got up at 1130, and am sat here in dressing gown with head, back & guts ache, like a brave little soldier

No idea what caused it, my meals were frozen fish & chips and banana sandwich

Needless to say no food required or fancied for today, the YS Lidl chilli is now in the freezer

Don't even fancy cup of tea, just some M & S presse that I have knocking around

Bit of a bummer, today's intention was some gardening, but not to be

Hope your system settles soon

Hollyharvey wrote: »

Hopefully taking it easy for the rest of the day now that it has settled a bit will help you. I have a friend who suffers with this as well and I know it can be extremely debilitating. He had to take early retirement because of the way that you never know when an attack will happen.

Thanks - your friend has my sympathies it's a difficult disease to live a full life with

As predicted I spent most of this afternoon in bed - what a waste of a day. However, the weather has been rubbish so I wouldn't have got any gardening done anyway;)

Although my son arrived home a few hours ago I'm CFO tonight as he's off out with his mates, so I've taken a piece of steak out of the freezer and I'll decide later what veg to have with it.:D

mcculloch29

caronc wrote: »

Yes really similar to drop scones or Scotch pancakes - being Scottish I prefer scottish pancakes which are really easy but do need SR flour http://www.scottishrecipes.co.uk/droppedscone.php

Following on from that page linked above I ended up buying Maw Broon's Cookbook for 1p (plus postage) from Am@zon. Prime delivery, so it should be with me tomorrow.

I love The Broons. When my children were younger we always got The Sunday Post as they could read every page of that paper without being subjected to anything unsavoury. I don't always agree with the Post's viewpoint, but it's still a good read.

I was out and about over lunchtime and for most of the afternoon and came home starving and tired. An instant picky tea was called for - pate on extra-crisp Danish toast, ditto Marmite and honey, with an apple, yogurt, and dark choccy digestive. Divine.
Back to proper food tomorrow.

caronc

mcculloch29 wrote: »

Following on from that page linked above I ended up buying Maw Broon's Cookbook for 1p (plus postage) from Am@zon. Prime delivery, so it should be with me tomorrow.

I love The Broons. When my children were younger we always got The Sunday Post as they could read every page of that paper without being subjected to anything unsavoury. I don't always agree with the Post's viewpoint, but it's still a good read.

I was out and about over lunchtime and for most of the afternoon and came home starving and tired. An instant picky tea was called for - pate on extra-crisp Danish toast, ditto Marmite and honey, with an apple, yogurt, and dark choccy digestive. Divine.
Back to proper food tomorrow.

Ah "The Broons" and "Our Wullie" used to get one or the other of the annuals every Christmas, They used alternate which one came out each year. Every kid I knew got one - fond memories. I don't have the Maw Broon cookbook but my pal has and it's pretty decent. This one https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/184934003X/ref=tmm_hrd_used_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&condition=used&qid=&sr= is better though IMHO

moneyistooshorttomention

Tonight's "dinner" - I've got some cauliflower/courgette/bit of a pepper/onion/garlic baking in the oven. Think I'll have it with some hummus and "nice" bread. Have just finished a bit of cheese.

Not quite "back on track/properly on track" re what to eat yet - but I guess thats not too bad.

caronc

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Tonight's "dinner" - I've got some cauliflower/courgette/bit of a pepper/onion/garlic baking in the oven. Think I'll have it with some hummus and "nice" bread. Have just finished a bit of cheese.

Not quite "back on track/properly on track" re what to eat yet - but I guess thats not too bad.

Take it you made your own hummus given the apparent "crisis" in obtaining the bought stuff.....:cool:

PasturesNew

I've pushed the boat out .... I've not had a chinese for years.... the one I'd found locally wasn't that good and it was expensive, so I'd not bothered again - then I was told about one about 2½ miles away that's "good". So I was determined to find out.

No website .... but there were some reviews online where they said the food was rubbish and the staff very rude. But I went anyway ....

OMG the size of the portion!!! S/S chicken balls - you think you know it don't you... chicken, balls. Done. No - not here - full sized, good quality, chicken fillet lengths... each length is about 3-4" long... and you get 8 of them. It's a monster! I made my own plain rice before I went and treated myself to a plain chow mein from the shop; while a good portion, it was edible but wasn't the best I've ever had, I wasn't aware of any onion strips in it and it was made with thin/thread noodles, whereas I prefer regular sized noodles.

All that for £7.90! My previous disappointing encounter with the other chinese would've cost me £9... and the chicken portion in this one was double.

But - there was a "bonus pack" - a huge bag of prawn crackers for free. Enough to serve 4 really.... it's clearly a stack of bags they just hand out per order, not based on what you ordered.... didn't expect those - and I never order them ... but happy to scoff them.

I've eaten half of the chicken balls/sauce/chow mein and rice ... so tomorrow will be the other half. The crackers could take a few days.

In all honesty, one s/s balls with an order of chow mein and an order of rice alone would serve four people!....

I'll definitely be having more of these in the future. Maybe 3-4x a year!

moneyistooshorttomention

caronc wrote: »

Take it you made your own hummus given the apparent "crisis" in obtaining the bought stuff.....:cool:

Ahem....errrrm....nope:rotfl:.

I've got a "scale" here which goes:
1. Soak and boil up dried chickpeas and make it from scratch.
2. Cheat and make it from canned chickpeas.
3. Buy it readymade.

Ideally - I come in at no. 1 on that scale. Better still - and I really think ahead and have a go at making raw hummus (that takes a couple of days or so in preparation).

But - it was option 3 = the readymade variety.:o. My turn on the "naughty stool" today:rotfl: