Cooking for one

caronc

Good morning everyone,

I had toast with cottage cheese and cherry tomatoes this morning and managed to get tomato seeds over my clean top and a surprisingly large amount of worktop:(. Plan to have the guinea fowl and "not quite" rissotto tonight and lunch will probably be a salad sandwich or similiar.

Anyway weather looks promising so hoping to get some more gardening done this afternoon. I can finally see a difference in the garden which really gives me pleasure.:D

PasturesNew

Hollyharvey wrote: »

It will be good to be able to go to some different and more importantly cheaper shops.

It's definitely an enabler. My mindset has previously been to take the car "in case I buy something big/heavy" - and "to not go as I'd have to walk half a mile to get parked for free and can't/won't carry all the stuff I'd like to have with me".

There were some miniature folding camping stools in £land the other week ... I might stop off and see if they've still got one and see if I think it'd be useful to have... so now I'll be collecting "clutter that could go in the trolley" *rolls eyes*. I will look objectively at that tiny stool... see if I can REALLY see me EVER actually using it to sit down on - or if I'd simply look for a bench/wall I've already got a full-sized folding chair, so don't need "something" as I have "something", but that's bigger so more of a commitment to slide into the trolley when planning any trip out.

Also, walking alone can be a bit odd - people view you differently/suspiciously to when you have, say, a dog or a bicycle with you. I think the trolley will also be that prop that makes me look like "a person with a purpose" instead of "a loner... quick, cross the street".

Hollyharvey

Afternoon all,


It has turned out to be a lovely sunny day here now the sun has broken through the cloud and really warm, really cheery.


The day started with a breakfast of yoghurt and berries. When we get to winter I think you will be constantly seeing me write 'porridge and berries' instead of 'yoghurt and berries' I do find that the price of frozen berries vary considerably, so I think that I will need to keep a close eye on best value over the winter. Frozen berries are ideal when CFO though as you can just get out what you need so there is no waste. I will also forage for blackberries when we get to the season.


My sil and niece have treated me to an early lunch out which was nice. In the end my niece drove and we went out of town to a nice country pub. I had a lovely chicken in tarragon sauce dish served with new potatoes and a selection of veg. We have come back to mine and my SIL and I are going to have a nice Pimm's sitting in the garden while my niece goes shopping in the town. She is going to call into M&S and get us all a cream cake for pudding


It's really nice not to have to worry about cooking today, if I want anything else I will either have a crumpet or some toast this evening.


This now means that I am hoping that the salad bits that I have got hanging around have not gone past being used tomorrow because I really don't want to waste food

Farway

caronc wrote: »

Anyway weather looks promising so hoping to get some more gardening done this afternoon. I can finally see a difference in the garden which really gives me pleasure.:D

Same here with weather, hot sun now and the runners are a bit droopy in the heat despite plenty of water. The last 7 of my Minibele toms to put into the wall baskets later today and that is me finished planting for the year, now just sit back, wait, pick. All looking very green & lush out there now

PN hope the arm eases, is there a sort of trolley elbow? I just trundle mine behind but do oik it, empty, into SM shopping trolleys, but I notice some hang the trolley on the bag hook on the shopping trolley. I think if I did that I would finish up clonking my shins on it.

Usual nil breakfast, especially after a fright on the scales this morning, damn those jam sarnies

Lunch was my promised cheese & HM chutney, the chutney was 2015 vintage and has certainly improved with keeping

Dinner will be very much CBA affair. I have the other half of the M & S apple pie and remains of tin of custard to use up, fed up of seeing it every time I open the fridge

Will pair that up with a cheese salady sarnie. Better have at least some fresh stuff today to assuage the notional guilt

caronc

Farway wrote: »

Same here with weather, hot sun now and the runners are a bit droopy in the heat despite plenty of water. The last 7 of my Minibele toms to put into the wall baskets later today and that is me finished planting for the year, now just sit back, wait, pick. All looking very green & lush out there now

Oh I'm jealous I've still wads of planting to do mainly flowers and salad bits. I hope to get a couple more wall baskets done when it cools down a bit in an hour or so.

I decided the "not quite rissotto" probably doesn't need the guinea fowl which was a good excuse to have some of it in a piece of baguette with loads of rocket and cucumber for lunch:D. I'll either have the rest of it later or save it for lunch tomorrow. I've onion, garlic, celery, barley, chicken stock, paprika, thyme and a bayleaf in the slow cooker and will add the peas and asparagus later. I've ordered more asparagus in my shop this week as it must be nearing the end of the season when it will shoot back up in price and I don't buy it. Debating whether to add parmesan or smoked stilton to my concoction I think either would work ok.:) Will taste when it's nearly ready and decide from there. The smoked stilton is lovely but very, very strong too strong for me to have on a cracker but think a little of it will work well in cooked dishes. I'm glad I tried it but wouldn't get that one again.:cool:

mcculloch29

Gosh, that sounds divine, smoked stilton, two of my favourite flavours in one!
Well, my meals today got well and truly derailed. A friend passed on some Bach's Rescue Remedy chewing gum, unwanted.
Now I know why and I wish he'd mentioned it, the laxative effects were better than Ex-Lax. I've seldom been so grateful that I work from home.
I daren't risk solid food for a while, so chicken and beef Oxo drinks are today's 'meals'. I had planned my favourite Jack Monroe peach and chickpea curry too. Oh well...

caronc

mcculloch29 wrote: »

Gosh, that sounds divine, smoked stilton, two of my favourite flavours in one!
Well, my meals today got well and truly derailed. A friend passed on some Bach's Rescue Remedy chewing gum, unwanted.
Now I know why and I wish he'd mentioned it, the laxative effects were better than Ex-Lax. I've seldom been so grateful that I work from home.
I daren't risk solid food for a while, so chicken and beef Oxo drinks are today's 'meals'. I had planned my favourite Jack Monroe peach and chickpea curry too. Oh well...

That's what I thought when I bought it but is a tad too strong for me which was a surprise. Still it has inadvertentedly worked out very economical of a little goes a very long way:)


Hope your poor tummy settles. Was it loaded with sorbitol?- I find even small amounts of it have a rather disasterous effect :eek:

PasturesNew

I took my pet trolley out for a walk today. It's life transforming

I've walked miles! I Google pedometer'd it and that says I did three walks of one mile each, so three miles in total. My little feeties are burning.

I carried with me two rounds of sandwiches. I bought along the way 18 cans of fizzy pop and 10 little scones ... and my favourite choccies. And I trundled all that food/drink aimlessly in a variety of locations. What deep joy this brings. Knowing I can trundle food around, buy things in shops and have somewhere to put them ...

Had a couple of minor mishaps.... first one I forgot I was holding it and let go of the handle - not a problem as there was nothing breakable/spillable, but I did look like a bit of a t1t. Secondly, I ran over a small boy's foot when he was standing perusing coloured pencils in a shop Oops, but no harm done as I'd decanted most of my stuff into the car boot by then, so it was just the weight of one sandwich and the lightweight trolley by then (they weigh but a whisper!).

I ate one round of sandwiches on a clifftop ... and the other made it all the way home again.

Tea was: a tomato sandwich and 2 little scones with a dab of marg on them ... and 3 favourite choccies.

Hollyharvey

PasturesNew wrote: »

I took my pet trolley out for a walk today. It's life transforming

I've walked miles! I Google pedometer'd it and that says I did three walks of one mile each, so three miles in total. My little feeties are burning.

I carried with me two rounds of sandwiches. I bought along the way 18 cans of fizzy pop and 10 little scones ... and my favourite choccies. And I trundled all that food/drink aimlessly in a variety of locations. What deep joy this brings. Knowing I can trundle food around, buy things in shops and have somewhere to put them ...

Had a couple of minor mishaps.... first one I forgot I was holding it and let go of the handle - not a problem as there was nothing breakable/spillable, but I did look like a bit of a t1t. Secondly, I ran over a small boy's foot when he was standing perusing coloured pencils in a shop Oops, but no harm done as I'd decanted most of my stuff into the car boot by then, so it was just the weight of one sandwich and the lightweight trolley by then (they weigh but a whisper!).

I ate one round of sandwiches on a clifftop ... and the other made it all the way home again.

Tea was: a tomato sandwich and 2 little scones with a dab of marg on them ... and 3 favourite choccies.

It sounds like you have had a good day I'm glad that you are enjoying your trolley.
Scones are one of my favourite treats, preferably with lots of jam and cream


I know I shouldn't find it amusing but the thought of you running over that poor boy's foot did make me smile. I'm wondering if there should be some sort of lessons in trolley driving and a test a the end

caronc

Sounds like trolley heaven PN:)

Holly scones are my favourite cake - anyway they come I'm happy

Two more wall baskets filled and planted just 10 to go :eek:
The "not quite rissotto" is smelling lovely I will pop the veg in shortly and let it cook while I tidy up - I seem to have managed not to do any housework today . However, rain is forecast for tomorrow so the main chores can wait....;)