Cooking for one

Farway

Sun has at last popped out. I was out potting things up this morning and my fingers were getting very chilly. Thanks heavens for fleece around my runners, needed some around the pinkies

I am also of the "must get out & do something" persuasion, but not today, the weather promise was warm and sunny, lies & more lies, so decided to get on with the outstanding garden bits & bobs, nearly at the sit back & watch it grow stage now, but not quite yet

I had a banana for breakfast, but HollyH's porridge + cream one would have been more tasty, at least it was not the LO half cold pizza from yesterday, that delight is reserved for dinner tonight, but may change my mind and have ham / eggs / chips, depends, may even have them both The CBA meter is near max at the moment

Lunch was mini YS pizza bought yesterday, bit more ham & cheese added and in the oven it went, really easy & lazy lunch, and no left overs from a mini one

The YS Asda deep pan 3 cheese veg pizza I bought yesterday fits into the "alright at the YS price I paid" category, as did the Smart Price YS mini pizza.

Looking at what I have eaten over last few days it seems to have all been on offer of some sort, even the bananas were knocked down to 20p. Not complaining and not feeling hard done by either, and just remembered even the runner bean seeds were at clearance price last year :money:
I never really liked wine, drank it for toasting and the like, preferred beer / cider and rum. Not all in the same glass though. All of which is now in the past due to health and nothing else or I would be in the pub instead of mooching round Asda

PasturesNew

Hollyharvey wrote: »

Did you enjoy yourself though?

Not especially
But I was doing that magical thing other people call "getting out".

So if asked "what've you been doing?" ..... (which won't happen as I don't know anybody) ... I can say "Oh, I went out ... and ..."

PasturesNew

I went out again, a flying visit/mooch round A1di.... and Puntland

Bought all manner of things I shouldn't have (chocolate trifles, bag of chocolates).

But I did buy some random food that worked with some stuff I had, so I could chuck it all into a bowl and say "Ah, tea!"

So I've just eaten: a scotch egg + some cherry tomatoes + some small/whole pickled beetroot + grated cheddar + a boiled egg + a packet of crisps + a buttered bread roll.

mcculloch29

I know what you mean about every outing resulting in a spend. I should ride my trike for exercise most days but I can't really pop in on my friends who live locally 2 or 3 times a week.
I may try shuttling smaller amounts of unwanted articles down to the charity shops locally. I also have some recently published "as new" books that the local library will hopefully be happy to receive.

candygirl

I took DGS to Maccy ds today, at his request. Got him a happy meal, n me a veggie burger meal, but the bun tasted of pure sugar I hate that place anyway
His Mum, my DD is moving house, so gave me a bag of just otd veg, so that's me sorted for this week

caronc

Good evening everyone,
Glorious sunshine this afternoon so spent in the garden, did a little gardening then had a cuppa and a natter with my sister.:D

mcculloch29 - I meant to say the chinese strainer you recommended to me arrived yesterday it's fab just what I needed.:A

I made the mistake of buying a pack of the bite sized pork pies and a bag of pea pods. I must stop digging into them

Lunch was the LO chicken with a bowl of salad and the last of a batch of HM salad dressing my son made at Easter!:cool:

I've a pork chop out for later which I'm going to griddle and have with steamed charlotte potatoes, asparagus and a mushroom/mustard sauce. Definitely my kind of CFO dinner not much by way of prep or clearing up and looks/tastes as though you've made a bit of an effort. The remaining wine from Friday will be enjoyed or else it really will spoil;)

candygirl

Any chance of the salad dressing recipe Caronc x

caronc

candygirl wrote: »

Any chance of the salad dressing recipe Caronc x

Of course:)
My son made it but used the following - a couple of tablespoons of sunflower oil, a couple of tablespoons of olive oil, a garlic clove, 1 generous teaspoon of wholegrain mustard, 1 tablespoon of mayonnaise, 2 tablespoons of white wine vinegar and a pinch of sugar. Rub a cut garlic clove around your bowl, use a deepish bowl as you want to whisk it really hard. Remove garlic, pop in the rest of the ingredients and whisk until it is really thick - if you have a mini processor it works well in that. Store in a jar, it will keep for a couple of months but will need the odd stir if it starts to separate. It works with most oils but avoid a strong tasting olive oil, it's fine with just sunflower oil.

Doom_and_Gloom

Sorry about my absence; I'm still alive. Just spent the last few days catching up. Sorry for those going through a hard time, I really hope that things pick up.

Breakfast was nutra-brex with almond milk that I soak over night.
Lunch was at work so fruit (3 portions) with a home made cashew nakd bar.
I had a huge pot of coffee when I got home, so tired when I finish a Sunday shift, and the last of the punet of blueberries I had as a snack.
Dinner, well yesterday I put the last kilo of those cheap potatoes from Lidl in my rice cooker, yes seriously I still had/have them left

. I had 250g yesterday and 250g today. I had that with the second portion of vegetable curry, the other half of an avocado and the last of a saladix bag. Bet you can't work out what I had yesterday for dinner .

I'm planning on shepherdless pie tomorrow for dinner to use up the rest of the potatoes, mashed with skin still as didn't peel them and can't be bothered to try to get the skin off them. I am getting sick of potatoes now! Hoping that having them as part of my favourite dish will help.

PasturesNew

Doom_and_Gloom wrote: »

I am getting sick of potatoes now!

I know that one! I bought those salad spuds from L1dl.... trouble was, A1di had run a similar promotion for a bigger bag of slightly larger/different spuds the week before and I'd bought those TOO!!

So I had two bags to kill.... and when you're sick of them you have to then feed yourself nothing but the thing you hate most in order to use it up and see the back of it !

Then... with something as common as spuds.... next time you're in the shops you think "should I get some spuds...? I'm out ...."

They are handy/good, just not in vast quantities.