Cooking for one

Tiddlywinks

caronc wrote: »

Not a product I've used but it seems to pop up quite a bit in vegan recipes.:D

It's a relatively new concoction made from algae and not to be confused with Vegg which is something to add into baking but not used on its own..... never had that much success with Vegg and still can't get cakes to rise as well as when real eggs are used.

mcculloch29

Today's tea was another perennial favourite, a tortilla pizza. I had stopped using tortillas and used flatbreads instead as very quick pizza bases , but spinach tortillas were reduced in A!di and I fancied giving them a try.
Lots of topping to make up for the thin tortilla. The way a pizza should be, most of the time. LO cheese, salami and mushrooms. Very waste saving and ideal for one.

PasturesNew

mcculloch29 wrote: »

... tortilla pizza.....

I got as far as opening the bread bin and getting the pack out ... before curling my lip and shoving it back in the bread bin.

I just don't seem to like them... but I do have to use them up. I just seem to always find them a bit tough to eat (could just be my teeth)..... as pizza bases they should be better than as wraps, but as wraps I find it almost impossible to actually bite through them without mouth-wrestling them.

This current pack will probably be my last ever.... unless by some miracle I find some that aren't impossible to eat.

I'd like to like them ... they can be stuffed and baked, which'd make a great easy meal ... if only they were physically edible.

Tiddlywinks

I can't put off temptation any longer... off to make a bread and butter pudding.

Had a peanut butter and jam sandwich for brunch so I expect I'll nod off late this evening from all the sugar .

Really, really fancy a cauliflower cheese as well... I think I might have to follow up on that too.

Good job I'm wearing my big pants today :rotfl:.

Livelongandprosper

PasturesNew wrote: »

I got as far as opening the bread bin and getting the pack out ... before curling my lip and shoving it back in the bread bin.

I just don't seem to like them... but I do have to use them up. I just seem to always find them a bit tough to eat (could just be my teeth)..... as pizza bases they should be better than as wraps, but as wraps I find it almost impossible to actually bite through them without mouth-wrestling them.

This current pack will probably be my last ever.... unless by some miracle I find some that aren't impossible to eat.

I'd like to like them ... they can be stuffed and baked, which'd make a great easy meal ... if only they were physically edible.

There's a flat bread sold in my local Tesco. I'm pretty certain it's an Italian bread, unfortunately I can't remember the name or find it online ( perhaps someone else knows?). They aren't cheap, over a £1 for 4, but omg, they are so lovely, light, fluffy and not at all chewy needing to be ripped apart. If I spot them today I'll make note of the name

PasturesNew

It's curry/rice for me today. I ate one portion yesterday and then divided the rest into three boxes. Each box contains about 7 lumps of meat, but there's not a great deal of sauce there to be honest.... so toying with the idea of dividing one of the boxes between the other two, giving two bigger portions .... but then there's a lot of meat.

What I SHOULD have done .... was only cook 2/3rds of the (large) pack of chicken as the meat/sauce ratio's all wrong.... but I feared the "leftover" portion and having to face either freezing it or thinking of something to do with it so I chucked it all in regardless.

Livelongandprosper

Share it out. A large meat portion will be more filling, and tide you over for one of your carb only days

PasturesNew

Livelongandprosper wrote: »

Share it out. A large meat portion will be more filling, and tide you over for one of your carb only days

Too late now. I opened the fridge and looked at one and thought "not really enough sauce ....." but decided to cook one portion anyway. So now I've two portions in the fridge it's impractical to join those together.... so I'll just eat them how I've boxed them up.



Had this 2nd portion with rice/peas.

So that's 2/10 today as the curry had all those peppers lobbed at it.

caronc

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

It's a relatively new concoction made from algae and not to be confused with Vegg which is something to add into baking but not used on its own..... never had that much success with Vegg and still can't get cakes to rise as well as when real eggs are used.

Yep it was Vegg I was thinking of.:)

mcculloch29 wrote: »

Today's tea was another perennial favourite, a tortilla pizza. I had stopped using tortillas and used flatbreads instead as very quick pizza bases , but spinach tortillas were reduced in A!di and I fancied giving them a try.
Lots of topping to make up for the thin tortilla. The way a pizza should be, most of the time. LO cheese, salami and mushrooms. Very waste saving and ideal for one.

I used to make these for the kids when they had pals over but popped a tortilla on the top to make a sort of sandwich cooking both sides. They always went down well.

PasturesNew wrote: »

so toying with the idea of dividing one of the boxes between the other two, giving two bigger portions .... but then there's a lot of meat.

You could fish the meat out of one and use in a sandwich or two then split the sauce between the other ones:)

That's me back to CFO as far as I know for the next few weeks. Ended up with pasta last night rather than pizza and tonight I'm having a piece of steak. I'm goingto make some peppercorn sauce. They'll be too much of that so I've taken a haggis stuffed chicken breast out to have with it tomorrow.:)

Farway

Afternoon folks

Up early again after waking about 6ish. Nice sunny day, washing out blowing in the breeze, very eco friendly & MSE plus a chance to get more gardening done.

With the early start had slice of toast & butter, was going to slather on marmalade but a spot of mindfulness, caught from remarks on here, crept in and decided I did not really "need" the marmalade on it. Have I been radicalised by t'internet?

The shops were not open, Sunday of course, so went healthy and had couple of mile walk, just circular walking & gawping at the wild flowers & hedgerows

Finished up mooching round Asda, nothing of interest, but bought a block of cheese "just in case"

Used same cheese as part of bake yourself baguette, filled with cheese & salad. Still using the cut & come again salad leaves bought about a fortnight back on offer at 25p. Good value there, and some left for tomorrow's LO baguette

Tonight will be the veg lasagne I bought last weekend, today is it's last BBE day, actually it will be fine and enough for me after the bulging baguette, and fulfils all PN's criteria about meals for one. No thinking required, peel of wrappings, bung in oven, eat it 25 minutes later, chuck disgusting mucky container in the bin. Job done and just a fork / spoon for the dishwasher