Cooking for one

karcher

pollysg wrote: »

I have been lurking on this thread since I followed the link from the MSE weekly email.

I didn't know 'we' got a mention in there...I say 'we' but have been MIA rather a lot recently. I still follow the thread daily though:o

caronc

Doom_and_Gloom wrote: »

Ah that's a huge difference to the OH and I. It's, basically, always been cooking for one as different diets.
When we first moved in together the OH would comment how I was unable, for the most part, cook just one portion. It may only be me the food is intended for but it's usually 3+ portions.
The OH goes a different direction for cooking for one. You will usually find him doing stir fry, having package noodles, tin soup/ravioli, Mac and cheese, pizzas etc. Every now and then he'll do home made slow cooked meatballs in sauce in his small slow cooker that does 2-3 portions. He gets bored eating the same thing for days so the way he buys food is different.

It's crazy how different people who cook for one can do things.

I would have had roasted potatoes too. A roast for me isn't a roast without them. Probably because they are a huge bulk of one for me :rotfl: .

That for is the joy of this thread - I love finding out how others manage CFO

karcher wrote: »

I didn't know 'we' got a mention in there...I say 'we' but have been MIA rather a lot recently. I still follow the thread daily though:o

Me neither.... but then I never signed up for the weekly email :eek::o

karcher

caronc wrote: »

That for is the joy of this thread - I love finding out how others manage CFO


Me neither.... but then I never signed up for the weekly email :eek::o

I am signed up, but rarely read past the headliner deals/info

On the CFO front, true to form tonight's healthy feast involves baguette, cheese and maybe a tomato ...you know me, I like a change from the norm :cool:

Hope all my fellow oneskis are keeping (and eating) well

caronc

karcher wrote: »

I am signed up, but rarely read past the headliner deals/info

On the CFO front, true to form tonight's healthy feast involves baguette, cheese and maybe a tomato ...you know me, I like a change from the norm :cool:

Hope all my fellow oneskis are keeping (and eating) well

Absolutely nowt wrong with bread & cheese - food of the gods and one of my go tos. Chuck a wee bit of pickle on my end please :D

caronc

Nothing to do with food but I have a nice, new non-wobbly back step complete with safety rail:D Well done my son the bits only cost £27 but I dread to think what it would have cost to get a joiner in! He's a good lad so I don't mind spoiling him a bit food-wise when he's home - we're both worth it :rotfl::rotfl:

PasturesNew

caronc wrote: »

.... I have a nice, new non-wobbly back step complete with safety rail...

Off topic ... I love reading old newspapers and this morning I was reading one from 1904. A chap was described by a coroner as a "professional marrying man". Coroner because a body had been discovered, his wife's body! Then he'd committed suicide as he'd been "found out".

He turned out to have married seven women they knew of, between 1896 and 1903, not always under his own name.

His first wife had died quite soon after they were married. She had a large trunk. He married wife 5, then married wife 6 just five days later - and murdered wife 6 the following day. He then married wife 7 too.

The trunk was kept at his house - and he kept buying concrete. One of his wives (he was leading a double life with wife 5 and wife7 part-time through the week each) asked him about it at one point and he said he was filling the trunk with the concrete, to eventually create a step to make it easier for him to get into the garden.

In fact, it was wife 6's body he was encasing inside the trunk in concrete!

No joiner required!

PasturesNew

I just had a cheeky cheap choc ice... but it was one of the box I bought over a week ago ... and it might have even been the 1st, if not just the 2nd, of that box of 8.

caronc

PasturesNew wrote: »

Off topic ... I love reading old newspapers and this morning I was reading one from 1904. A chap was described by a coroner as a "professional marrying man". Coroner because a body had been discovered, his wife's body! Then he'd committed suicide as he'd been "found out".

He turned out to have married seven women they knew of, between 1896 and 1903, not always under his own name.

His first wife had died quite soon after they were married. She had a large trunk. He married wife 5, then married wife 6 just five days later - and murdered wife 6 the following day. He then married wife 7 too.

The trunk was kept at his house - and he kept buying concrete. One of his wives (he was leading a double life with wife 5 and wife7 part-time through the week each) asked him about it at one point and he said he was filling the trunk with the concrete, to eventually create a step to make it easier for him to get into the garden.

In fact, it was wife 6's body he was encasing inside the trunk in concrete!

No joiner required!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:I'll be mindful of that if my son suggests I see if I can fit in a suitcase:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I've been banished from the kitchen as apparently I was getting in the way best do what I'm told just in case

PasturesNew

Here's a newspaper cutting of it ... if you think I made it up because "nobody could get away with that for so long... surely"

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS19040514.2.30

caronc

PasturesNew wrote: »

Here's a newspaper cutting of it ... if you think I made it up because "nobody could get away with that for so long... surely"

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TS19040514.2.30

In the days before "media" and computers it was amazing what folk could get away with especially in larger cities. Move a borough and "Bob's your uncle" completely new start.