Cooking for one

meg72

Another beautiful day here, just had to come in out of the Sun, a it to hot for me. My garden is quite sheltered and a real suntrap.

Defo cba cooking anything. Have taken cooked roast beef out of freezer and still have some salad left. I`ll open a tin of potatoes and do a potato salad and boil a couple of eggs. That will do need to get back gardening lol.

Hollyharvey

Afternoon everyone,


It is cloudy and cold here again today, I really do need some warmth now, I need to see the sun.


I had scrambled eggs on toast again for breakfast this morning. It is becoming a bit of a habit.
Lunch was a tuna may and sweetcorn sandwich.
Dinner will be a quiche that I got out of the freezer earlier with some more of the Jersey Royals, the rest of the tin of sweetcorn that I opened earlier and some frozen peas. Nice and easy because I have a friend coming around this evening for a drink and a natter.


I did remember to get some crumpets when I was out so that's good. I need to do an online shop sometime today because I am running out of the heavy/bulky items again and the online shop that I use have got quite a few good offers on things that I always buy so now will be a good time to shop.


I hope you are all having a good day.

Farway

Now I'm jealous Meg, you are not allowed sun oop North [Telford counts as oop North from where I sit]

Sun's out here but chilly wind, too chilly to risk my runners still

No breakfast, getting used to that now, not really hungry at that time of day and never really fell for the most important meal, kick start metabolism, guff pushed by cereal producers

I picked up a "free to card holders" Waitrose mag during yesterday's wander, and spotted a tomato confit with herbs recipe in there, which is easy even for me, just halve cherry toms, add herbs & olive oil, bung in oven on gas 2 for 2 hours

Decided to use it and use the own grown & frozen cherry toms from 2014, I freeze then whole BTW. duly deforsted & made, usong my own fresh herbs from garden, but the olive oil was shop bought

It is blooming lovely, will be great on some toast tonight which was my intention for dinner. It would be excellent in pasta as well but I rarely cook pasta these days, always get the quantity wrong and not a fan of it cold, eeewww :eek:

Makes mess of the cooking tray though, looking like a long soaking on draining board coming up

This morning found me in M & S food, and actually found a nice RTC YS ham joint, £2, was £3.30 and that was on a special offer, normal is over 4 quid. It is now in the oven

It will do for lots of meals, perhaps a sarnie tonight after my posh toms on toast?

That is me sorted until Saturday at least

PS lunch was BLT sarnie, all B & L now used up

PasturesNew

Breakfast: Toast/choc spread
Lunch: PIE!!! carrots/green beans/sweetcorn/peas, mash, Bisto
Late Afternoonses: Toast/choc spread.

Hollyharvey

PasturesNew wrote: »

Lunch: PIE!!! carrots/green beans/sweetcorn/peas, mash, Bisto

Do you like the pie? If I recall there were a couple of things in it that you were not sure about.

PasturesNew

Hollyharvey wrote: »

Do you like the pie? If I recall there were a couple of things in it that you were not sure about.

I did like it. At first there was "a taste" that I didn't know/recognise, but by about the 4th mouthful I'd decided it was the pepper (which was all over the top/pastry).

But it was nice.

I'd buy it YS again... not full price as it wasn't that much significantly better than any random other pie I could've bought for the £2.10 I paid for this one.

Bottom line is: it's all about the price ... and things can be nice, just as nice, as other things, so then it's a choice based on price.... and as it wasn't "the best... ever... omg ..." then it just gets lumped under the "it's a nice pie" banner, so judged on price.

caronc

Farway wrote: »

Sun's out here but chilly wind, too chilly to risk my runners still


I picked up a "free to card holders" Waitrose mag during yesterday's wander, and spotted a tomato confit with herbs recipe in there, which is easy even for me, just halve cherry toms, add herbs & olive oil, bung in oven on gas 2 for 2 hours

Decided to use it and use the own grown & frozen cherry toms from 2014, I freeze then whole BTW. duly deforsted & made, usong my own fresh herbs from garden, but the olive oil was shop bought

It is blooming lovely, will be great on some toast tonight which was my intention for dinner. It would be excellent in pasta as well but I rarely cook pasta these days, always get the quantity wrong and not a fan of it cold, eeewww :eek:

I took the risk and planted out my runner, dwarf and broad beans today as the forecast is really good for the next while.:) Of course it's now very windy so I'm hoping they'll be ok:(

Farway - If you want to save oven use your confit toms can be started in the microwave - med heat for 5 to 10 mins depending on how many toms you have. Then pop in the oven for an hour. Another trick is to cover them with foil cook for an hour then switch off the oven and let it cool. They also do well in the slow cooker if you have one. Can you tell I make loads of these each year? I turn them into passatta which tends to last me until the next harvest:D.

Seems like a good few us are in CBA/ use up mode today. My lunch was a very pleasant use up bowl of celery, apple, radish and carrot with a mustardy dressing, the last of the mini vine leaves and a couple of broken "posh" crackers with boursin:). Tonight I've the last portion of chicken casserole I made in Jan defrosting and I'm having that with steamed jersey royals and green beans. I'll steam the casserole to so just a pan and steamer insert to wash up from [STRIKE]cooking[/STRIKE] heating up tonight.:cool:

PN - glad you enjoyed your pie it did sound nice and I would imagine it would be easy enough to tinker with an "ordinary" steak pie to get the same effect.:)

candygirl

It's been really sunny here today too :-D I'm having LO pizza for tea, as cba cooking tonight ;-)

caronc

candygirl wrote: »

It's been really sunny here today too :-D I'm having LO pizza for tea, as cba cooking tonight ;-)

It's so nice to have some decent weather- does fling my cooking (unless we are talking bbq;)) in to CBA mode and my "gardening head" takes over LOL....:)

Only downside is that as usual when the weather is good my shopping bill goes up - these picnicky, salady stuff definitely are more expensive than wintery food I find:(

PasturesNew

caronc wrote: »

....these picnicky, salady stuff definitely are more expensive than wintery food I find

Over the course of the summer, maybe identify the cheap/filling/tasty items to bulk out on. e.g. spud salad and pasta salad are cheaper than chips! Grated cheese looks more/goes further than slices/chunks of cheese.

Salad tomatoes are a lot cheaper than posher cherry tomatoes and nice looking ones

Eggies are cheap Veggie scotch eggs could be cheaper than scotch eggs.

I bought a jar of pickled whole baby beetroot the other week - no idea why, I don't eat beetroot because of my ability to spill it and I'd hate to stain my clothes... so I've avoided it for years just for that!

Bulk out on cheap/easy fillers and go sparingly on the pricey "main bit/focus".