Cooking for one

PasturesNew

Farway wrote: »

Oh by the way, last night's salmon fillet, duly defrosted and nuked, but it spurted & popped the lid off in the nuker as the steam violently vented. Which left me with a slight salmony nuker. :mad: Lesson learnt there, do not nuke Lidl salmon that does not give microwave cooking as option

Easily solved....

Defrost first... on defrost setting.
Then turn the nuker up to half setting (on an 800 watts oven) ... and do it for X minutes .... however many you previously decided was "about right".

You just need to do it carefully/slowly, not "full blast"

Many foods are best done on half power, gives them time to deflate and/or not get over-agitated.

Farway

PasturesNew wrote: »

Easily solved....

Defrost first... on defrost setting.
Then turn the nuker up to half setting (on an 800 watts oven) ... and do it for X minutes .... however many you previously decided was "about right".

You just need to do it carefully/slowly, not "full blast"

Many foods are best done on half power, gives them time to deflate and/or not get over-agitated.

I actually defrost everything the easy way, take out in morning & leave it out at ambient temperature

Sorry my nuking is alway on full whack, unless the instuctions say otherwise, it saves me thinking too much, and why I normally follow the cooking instructions if they have them.

Bit like my washing machine loading, just bung it all in on Synthetics regardless at 40c. My son when he was home eventually decided to sort & do his own washing after a spell of pink socks and beige shirts

Hollyharvey

PasturesNew wrote: »

Here's a photo of my burger/spud.... it looked better in real life and tasted YUM.

Sizewise, it's a quarter pounder. Mr Sainsbobs or A1di, can't remember offhand. I'd have to look it up

https://s14.postimg.org/uws8a58ld/Burger_Potato_Saladx450.jpg

Notice spurious and random cherry tomatoes lobbed onto the plate, because I need to get through the whole punnet somehow, so I just keep shovelling them wherever I can

Looks good and really tasty,

Hollyharvey

Well today's food has so far been much healthier than yesterdays.


Breakfast was greek yoghurt and mixed summer berries.
Lunch was a tuna salad sandwich and tow ot the remaining three rhubarb and orange shortbread rounds. The third one I had with a cup of tea this afternoon.


Dinner is cod with a parley and creme fraiche sauce and some steamed veg. That will be the last of the veg that I have been trying to use up for about 3 weeks :j. The problem is I now need to have a think about meal planning this evening before buying some more, although I do have plenty of salad bits in at the moment so think that I will use that up Thursday and Friday and then re-stock the fresh fruit and veg on Saturday.


If I have anything else to eat after dinner I think I will just have a banana or a crumpet.

meg72

I was just thinking we seem to have lost a few posters, really miss Nelski and Karcher.

caronc

Evening everyone. :hello:

I think long-running threads always "wax and wane" a bit re membership.

Farway - it was Meg72 not me who bought the greenhouse. I've a couple of the wee ones and agree they need tie onto something. I use fishing line.

Some lovely tasty food on the go today CFOers. My lunch didn't go quite as planned as I got side-tracked after deciding to hoover and mop my downstairs, jobs I find particularly challenging to manage. Before I knew it, it was 3 pm and I was ravenous so lunch was a couple of more crumpets with cold pork loin and the last handful of peapods.:)

The weather perked up late afternoon so my courgettes are in and fingers crossed I get a better crop than last year which was rubbish.

Like a few folk I seem to be short on some things I always like to have in so will rectify that this week and :eek: I'm down to my last 6 loo rolls so must get that sorted as well........

PasturesNew

caronc wrote: »

.... short on some things I always like to have in ..

One of the singlies curses... *sighs*.

You have stuff you like to have in, your "go to" stuff, your comfort stuff, the stuff you usually buy. However, as it's just you eating it by the time you've bought those items you've usually got food overload, so it's difficult to justify buying anything else as you have "all this stuff" to get through!

That's why I specifically have breaks between most things. The only two things I won't run out of are: cheddar and beans.

Everything else has to have a break. The problem with a break is then that you're "all at sea" so to speak as to what to eat because your "go to" items are on a break

caronc

I'd quite happily run out of cheddar and beans and do quite often but must have eggs, milk, tinned tomatoes, spuds, mushrooms, onions and garlic in.:) Mushrooms are by far my favourite "go to" veg and a lot of what I cook includes onions and garlic (I'm not overly keen on the garlic powder/granules though have some for the odd spice mix). I'm of West Coast Scot/Irish mix so spuds are a mainstay and I take milk in my coffee and tea so again an essential. I don't eat masses of dairy products and one of the meds I take can leach the calcium from your system ( I get regular tests) so milk and veg are my main calcium source and so far my levels have been ok. Eggs - always a quick meal there if I'm feeling rubbish and ditto tinned tomatoes are so versatile:)

It would be interesting to know what other folk have as there "must have ins" and what although a staple they don't mind running out of?

karcher

PasturesNew wrote: »

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Didn't enjoy the crisps I bought last week, it was an 41di own brand pack of six, cheese/onion; I think I prefer Walkers, although even they're not the same as they used to be! Ate all six bags though, as you do.

Yep... as I do too!

karcher

meg72 wrote: »

I was just thinking we seem to have lost a few posters, really miss Nelski and Karcher.

Saw this after I posted.

Thank you meg ... that pesky 'life' stuff getting in the way, so not much to say for myself of a positive nature..just doing what a 'oneski' does and dealing with it with a little help from, well 'me'....!