Cooking for one

caronc

Evening everyone,
I actually managed to do a bit of "proper" gardening this afternoon, only 1/2 an hour but if I can do that most days that would be great:D.
Lunch was a random but tasty combo of a wee portion of cous cous from the freezer, stuffed vine leaves, boiled egg, tomato, cucumber and radish;)
I've had a noodle in the veg drawer and I've a courgette needing using so will cook that with onions, toms and mushrooms later to have with spaghetti:)

Hollyharvey

Evening everyone,


I've spent a nice day with a friend having a wander around the town. I didn't buy anything but she picked up a few things that her son will need to take to university when he starts later this year. Then we went for a sandwich and coffee in a nice little caf! that we always go to when we meet. I treated myself to a nice smoked salmon and cream cheese sandwich today, one of the more expensive options but I just had a real fancy for that.


For breakfast today I had overnight oats with some blackberries.


I have just had my dinner of beef goulash which I got out of the freezer this morning, so that was a ping and ding job, and had this with some steamed veg and Jersey Royals. I'm full up now so I don't think that I will have any pud this evening.


I remembered to buy bread on the way home but there weren't any crumpets on the shelf so I will have to get some tomorrow.


Talking of tomorrow, I have just been trying to decide whether to get some lightly dusted cod out of the freezer for tomorrow and have it with some chips and peas for a change or whether to wait until I pop into Waitrose first thing in the morning and see if they have anything that I fancy ys. They always seem to have a lot of ys ready meals first thing on a Wednesday so I may decide to do that, I'll have to have a think.


canronc - I'm glad you managed to get some gardening done, I always find it is such a lovely feeling when I can manage to do something that I enjoy. It can be difficult when health problems prevent you from doing things.

caronc

Hollyharvey wrote: »

Evening everyone,


I've spent a nice day with a friend having a wander around the town. I didn't buy anything but she picked up a few things that her son will need to take to university when he starts later this year. Then we went for a sandwich and coffee in a nice little caf! that we always go to when we meet. I treated myself to a nice smoked salmon and cream cheese sandwich today, one of the more expensive options but I just had a real fancy for that.


For breakfast today I had overnight oats with some blackberries.


I have just had my dinner of beef goulash which I got out of the freezer this morning, so that was a ping and ding job, and had this with some steamed veg and Jersey Royals. I'm full up now so I don't think that I will have any pud this evening.


I remembered to buy bread on the way home but there weren't any crumpets on the shelf so I will have to get some tomorrow.


Talking of tomorrow, I have just been trying to decide whether to get some lightly dusted cod out of the freezer for tomorrow and have it with some chips and peas for a change or whether to wait until I pop into Waitrose first thing in the morning and see if they have anything that I fancy ys. They always seem to have a lot of ys ready meals first thing on a Wednesday so I may decide to do that, I'll have to have a think.


canronc - I'm glad you managed to get some gardening done, I always find it is such a lovely feeling when I can manage to do something that I enjoy. It can be difficult when health problems prevent you from doing things.

Thanks Holly
I get very, very frustrated by my limitations :mad:but will get my veg garden going this year .....:D
Sounds as though you had a lovely day.
Personally I'd wait to see what you can get YS that you fancy, if nothing fish either doesn't take long to defrost or will be fine cooked from frozen:D

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Can I just pas on a toast tip, I read about it 2 nights ago. I make my own bread, usually sourdough and I always leave it at least a full 24 hours to slice and freeze, it carries on cooking inside. When I was young we were told time and again not to eat freshly cooked bread as it can give a sore tum. The book I was reading is a bread book called `crust` by Bertinet. He made a very good point, one I had not thought about. ie soft moist bread in the toaster. It cooks on the surface but not very well and is the same as new bread inside ie affects the tum. These days everyone has a freezer and much toast is not really cooked properly. He said to let bread dry first, I did last night and the toast slice was so much better. I often toast straight from frozen, never again. All I did was get one slice out and left it exposed to the air all day

No idea about food today, I need to use up my veg as a fresh few are coming this morning. Almost there, only got celery, carrots, ginger, an inch of fennel and a red onion left. Think I will take a small bit of stir fry turkey out the freezer and its obviously got to be a stir fry meal. Oh good, talked myself into it. Just one other meal to think about, maybe I will make a small soup with whatever is left, just enough for two days

caronc, I am so glad you managed some gardening, 1/2 an hour is a good amount, its uplifting, makes you feel positive about life
and holly, what can I say, you are blossoming

PasturesNew

Hollyharvey wrote: »

.... lightly dusted cod ...

Call me a dirty home owner ... but I struggle to dust the furniture - I'm not going to start dusting my food!

caronc wrote: »

.... tasty combo of a wee portion ...

Thank goodness I'm not coming to tea... wee stays in the bathroom in my house

PasturesNew

I've eaten nothing today - I've been tidying things around and sorting things out ... a lot of which was simply moving things I've kept "in case" from one container to another because the 2nd container seemed a better way to store it....

Four empty small boxes went from the house into the shed. One old/broken monitor in a box that stopped working 7 years ago and was kept "in case it does actually still work" will be put into the car later to be dropped off at the tip next time I'm passing.

I've also wiped/washed/cleaned the interior wall of the understairs cupboard.

Things are, on the whole, clearer and more "organised" - and some other "piles of random things" are closer to the spot where they will eventually be kept/stored when I work out where they'll go and in which sort of container.

For lunch later I'll be having the second corned beef crispbake + the last of the spuds I boiled yesterday + .... not sure, it needs something but I'm out of beans unless I go out and buy some.

I'm currently out of: eggs, spuds, beans, milk, frozen chips, muffins, crumpets. So there goes about 90% of my "back up plan" food stuffs.

Hollyharvey

PasturesNew wrote: »

Call me a dirty home owner ... but I struggle to dust the furniture - I'm not going to start dusting my food!

I think that is a good one, I found that really amusing :rotfl:

meg72

caronc wrote: »

Thanks Holly
I get very, very frustrated by my limitations :mad:but will get my veg garden going this year .....:D
Sounds as though you had a lovely day.
Personally I'd wait to see what you can get YS that you fancy, if nothing fish either doesn't take long to defrost or will be fine cooked from frozen:D

Hugs,it is frustrating when you cant do what you want and what you used to. I do love gardening and I so miss my allotment. I am currently trying to fit the maximum plants and veggies into a very tiny space. with minimum effort.

Its gorgeous here today but my arthritis is playing up, cant stand or long, cant bend BUT I can sit on my bum in the Sun and do miniature containers, this on is in a very tiny cup and saucer. No effort needed and gives me my gardening fix lol.

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oh my goodness meg, absolutely lovely. Clever clogs

I changed my food mind, having been chilled on the allotment, chilled as in cold. That turkey stir fry is now stove top cooking as a nice tasty casserole, with real stock and served with wg rice. I have made enough for tomorrow

PN, organized? haha, I bet you are really an organized soul, just want to come across as dis-organized, hence the banter

Farway

PasturesNew wrote: »

Chips!

I've never had it either ... it all looks a bit "complex"

Agree on the Hunter's chicken complexity, which is one reason I would never make it, but gave the ready made one a go

Result is it was OK, not one I will rush to buy or queue for, but if going at cheapskate YS rate one may find itself in my fridge again

It was going to be chips & beans with the other half today, but then found muggins here had forgotten to use the boiled new spuds I did for yesterday's dinner, found them in the pan whilst putting stuff in dishwasher

Thus dinner today is cold LO Hunter chicken, LO cold spuds, ponced up as spud salad with blob of mayo, plus YS mixed salad leaves from Asda morning mooch, thus healthy chicken salad, probably full of veg & vitamins

Nil breakfast, BLT for lunch and dinner as above

Bit too blowy & chilly for any gardening, need to plant out last of my runners, plus I have an offer of more runner plants so may really be sick of runners by August

PS Meg, clever clogs x 2