Cooking for one

caronc

I like pitta bread toasted until really crispy and dipped in spicy or cheesy baked beans if that's any help.

Productive day in the garden - thankfully mainly sitting down stuff:) but I'm bushed now so dinner will be an easy option of gammon steak baked with pineapple, corn cob and HM wedges. I enjoyed my lunch today I had crackerbread topped with loads of thinly sliced radishes, peppered beef and coleslaw a nice change from a sarnie or baguette. I also had a couple of apricots that were a tad tart so need to get these out of the fridge to ripen. I had popped them in there as I had plums in the fruit bowl to use up and didn't want them all to be ripe at once.:)

elona

Youngest dd is here for the next day or so and had scrambled egg on toast for breakfast. a salad lunch while out shopping and wanted a light evening meal using up the fresh chicken breast in the fridge.

Used a handful of frozen chopped onion and mixed peppers which I sauteed, added diced chicken, a teaspoon of tarragon, seasoning and cooked for about fifteen minutes. Then added some chicken stock and let it cook down while pasta shapes boiled. Finally added a couple of tablespoons of lower fat creme fraiche, stirred for a few minutes and then added pasta.

It turned out really tasty and made three bowls, one of which will be put in lidded container in the fridge for tomorrow.

Bought a brisket for tomorrow as there will be three of us here. Can be eaten hot or cold with roast potatoes and green veg or with a salad or potato salad. Will offer to give dds some to take home to save them some time.

How about Tilly the trolley?

PasturesNew

If we're going to name our trollies.... I don't want/like Trolley Dolley really ... I need to think of a better name before it gets set in concrete.

Tea ended up as: scrambled eggs (why the f*** didn't I remember poached?), sausages (bought this morning), beans and hash browns (will the packet EVER end? I'd guess there's 6 remaining).

caronc

Elona Your chicken dish sounds lovely was it fresh or dried tarragon? I can only get dried around here and it just won't grow for me....:(

Brisket is one of my favourite cuts either slow roasted or cooked rare in the sous vide. Have you tried salted or pickled brisket it is so lovely sliced thinly in a salad or sandwich? Few butchers seem to sell the salted one nowadays but it was a regular sight when I was wee for butchers to brine their own and would fish the joint out of a barrell. Thankfully the on-line butcher I use makes it and I have one in the freezer but it's a bit big for CFO so need find an excuse to cook it for folk in such a way that there are plenty of leftovers.

candygirl

My Wally trolley is called Mavis :rotfl:

Hollyharvey

PasturesNew wrote: »

If we're going to name our trollies.... I don't want/like Trolley Dolley really ... I need to think of a better name before it gets set in concrete.

Yes, we've got to give our trolleys names, you will have to pick a name before trolley dolley does stick

SunnyGirl

What colour is your trolley PN?

Hollyharvey

PasturesNew wrote: »

Tea ended up as: scrambled eggs (why the f*** didn't I remember poached?), sausages (bought this morning), beans and hash browns (will the packet EVER end? I'd guess there's 6 remaining).

Your tea sounds nice, much better than mine That packet of hash browns does seem to be a bit never ending. Eventually you will get through them though


I had cod in the end with cauliflower, broccoli, new potatoes and I made some parsley sauce, just to make it a bit more appealing really. I didn't fancy veg but it needed to be used up. Tomorrow I am going to make sure that I have something I really fancy.

PasturesNew

SunnyGirl wrote: »

What colour is your trolley PN?

You must understand I didn't "choose" it.... I knew I wanted one and investigated the prices/designs... then I thought I'd wait a bit because of the price. But I put it on my list of things to watch out for at car boots .... and spotted one, so picked it up.

I figured a car boot price to see how it went was best for me to not waste heaps more money buying/choosing one I liked the look of etc if I were never to use it.... but it's turned out to be a joy and a treat to use and own.



So I'd not wish to be lumbered with any name based on this one.

There are so many pretty patterns aren't there.

I'll probably buy myself one I "like" for Xmas... or in the January sales ... or sometime.

(I should say ... it's not tartan. It is a respectable pattern/colour, just not what I'd have chosen if I were paying full price). This one cost me £4.

SunnyGirl

Superb idea trying a decent priced one from a car boot first! Wouldn't it be great if we could do that with more things