Cooking for one

caronc

SunnyGirl wrote: »

Good morning everyone.

IGoing to my Mum's for tea tonight and she is doing a treat of fillet steak, new potatoes and salad followed by a big profiterole pudding affair that she got in Aldi at Christmas and had forgotten about in the freezer until yesterday. I am very much looking forward to it as my budget doesn't run to steak. Ever :rotfl:No cooking as such for me today either.

Hope you have a lovely time I bulk buy my steak in a whole piece - last one was £10 for 2kgs of rump. This gives me 8 steaks plus some trimmings for stiry fries so really economical which is why I have it quite a lot. The Tesco "Boswell Farm" sirloins are really good they are £2,82 but still not a bad price for an odd treat.

Farway wrote: »

Here is an ooooer missus one to snigger over

Blimey that's a big un :rotfl::rotfl:

SunnyGirl wrote: »

I quite like wraps now and again as a quesadilla - put a wrap in a dry non stick frying pan, cover with grated cheese, chopped onion, chillis, leftover meat.... whatever takes your fancy, put another wrap on top and cook until the underneath is browned. Using a plate and spatula turn it over and brown the other side then serve in wedges. I do it now using one wrap cut in half. Yes it's just a different version of cheese on toast but is a bit lighter and not as doughy. Makes a nice change with some soup for a lunch or tea

I like both wraps & pitta love the recipe I used to similiar for the boys with pizza filling

Hello Kittie :hello: hoping you'll soon be enjoying the results of your hard work at your allotment.

Didn't get as much gardening done as I hoped as had to go and have a snooze after the first session and then the rain came:(. Still 24 geraniums potted along with a wee pot of petunias and lobelia:) Was good and did most of my ironing a chore I both hate and find difficult so it tends to get put off.

Lunch ended up being a lettuce, lunch tongue and coleslaw sandwich along with my weekly treat of a small packet of crisps . Tonight I'm having for steak with a mushroom/peppercorn sauce, jersey royal spuds and green beans. They'll be sauce leftover so I will probably defrost a turkey steak as I like that combo.

karcher

caron I must say I do admire your putting together a 'proper' meal in the evening.

As a oneski for many, many years I just a) CBA, b) lack money and c) CBA!

Can't remember the last time I put together a decent meal..I just live off what's there..mainly sandwiches, toast, pizza and more toast. I could probably rustle up something akin to a stir fry with some fridge stuff and frozen veg, but I just CBA. I'm tired, got the Sunday night/work tomorrow blues , and the thought of cooking and having dishes to wash up, more than likely at 7am tomorrow morning, just leaves me cold....so Pizza it is (that'll be another 0/10 day for me)

Hat's off to you though. Enjoy your meal

PasturesNew

karcher wrote: »

Can't remember the last time I put together a decent meal..

I managed something half passable for Xmas Dinner
Then lived with the consequences... leftovers! Learnt some lessons for this year though

This year I'll bang it out quicker and easier, with fewer leftovers....

I had turkey, chestnut stuffing, yorkshires, sausages (without blankets), mashed swede, mashed spuds, carrots, brussels, cauli, peas, roasties, roast parsnips .... probably something else too. This year, fewer veggies!

Photo of serving dishes for side dishes: https://s21.postimg.org/rhogjx9af/Xmas_Dinner.jpg
Awesome cheery spoons!

ediw78h8o

mcculloch29

I find pasta and cheese very useful for CBA meals. I was set for a CBA meal yesterday, then my friend texted me, did I fancy KFC takeaway, her treat?

First KFC for about 20 odd years resulted. It was nowhere near as greasy as I remembered and I enjoyed it.
Today, just nibbly bits and the aforementioned pasta and cheese.

caronc

karcher wrote: »

caron I must say I do admire your putting together a 'proper' meal in the evening.

As a oneski for many, many years I just a) CBA, b) lack money and c) CBA!

Can't remember the last time I put together a decent meal..I just live off what's there..mainly sandwiches, toast, pizza and more toast. I could probably rustle up something akin to a stir fry with some fridge stuff and frozen veg, but I just CBA. I'm tired, got the Sunday night/work tomorrow blues , and the thought of cooking and having dishes to wash up, more than likely at 7am tomorrow morning, just leaves me cold....so Pizza it is (that'll be another 0/10 day for me)

Hat's off to you though. Enjoy your meal

Thanks most of what I eat involves either popping stuff in the oven or steaming things. I find that ok spend - wise and easy to do but in fairness I love cooking (and eating) my meal tonight cost much the same as a SM pizza but I enjoyed it more and with not working just now I have time (and rather a lot of freezer space) :cool::)

PasturesNew wrote: »

I managed something half passable for Xmas Dinner
Then lived with the consequences... leftovers! Learnt some lessons for this year though

This year I'll bang it out quicker and easier, with fewer leftovers....

I had turkey, chestnut stuffing, yorkshires, sausages (without blankets), mashed swede, mashed spuds, carrots, brussels, cauli, peas, roasties, roast parsnips .... probably something else too. This year, fewer veggies!

Photo of serving dishes for side dishes: https://s21.postimg.org/rhogjx9af/Xmas_Dinner.jpg
Awesome cheery spoons!

ediw78h8o

Looks fab - personally I love Christmas leftovers never a chore to get through them in the dark, cold, skint months following:)

mcculloch29 wrote: »

I find pasta and cheese very useful for CBA meals. I was set for a CBA meal yesterday, then my friend texted me, did I fancy KFC takeaway, her treat?

First KFC for about 20 odd years resulted. It was nowhere near as greasy as I remembered and I enjoyed it.
Today, just nibbly bits and the aforementioned pasta and cheese.

I seldon have a takeaway but if I do it has to be KFC either chicken portions or a "zinger" burger:D

karcher

I've never had a KFC...I'll add it to my to do list just after pay day

caronc

karcher wrote: »

I've never had a KFC...I'll add it to my to do list just after pay day

Hope you enjoy

Hollyharvey

karcher wrote: »

I've never had a KFC...I'll add it to my to do list just after pay day

I was just working out how long ago it was that I last had one, and I think it was 17 years, so time I had one as well. I did used to like a KFC occasionally.

meg72

Farway wrote: »

All this talk of pittas, I did try some years ago and seemed a complete waste of time to me, like "wraps" when a bog standard sandwich does the job, but each to their own

Another early wake up, but this time took it more slowly, but absolute blank on both inspiration & YS front in both Asda & Waitrose. At least is was a cheap outing, bought nothing except a coffee in the pub

Out local Robert Dyas is closing down, not that I used it but have seen trolleys for sale there, just thought i would mention it even though I have one, unnamed, it is just a trolley, like my car is just a car

No breakfast, I was tempted by the LO jam sponge & custard from yesterday but never fell for it's sticky sweet talk, it will be scoffed tonight though. It was lovely, and glad I bought two now. One in freezer for a CBA time in the future

Lunch was nearly the YS pizza from yesterday, but have marked that down for dinner now with my foraging fail this morning

Lunch was the ever faithful cheese salad sarnie, again

Dinner is the pizza but I will add mushrooms & onions to it, with extra cheese. And a side salad to go with it, using my own radishes pulled this afternoon

Here is an ooooer missus one to snigger over

LOL two for the price of one.

Tiddlywinks

Tiddlywinks reporting in for a sympathy fix...

I fancied continuing my baking experiments earlier with my new best friend - VeganEgg.

Trying for a coffee sponge... mixture in oven, pretty good rise but slightly cracked... I can live with that. Put the two layers on a cooling rack and went to the mixer to get the buttercream off and twirling.

Buttercream great, put into piping bag... looking good, just need to turn the sponge ready to add the cream...

Picked up one half to 'flip' it using a plate and - PLOP - I dropped it. So my cake is now half the size and I have a whole lot of buttercream that doesn't have a home to go to.

Absolutely gutted as I invested blood, sweat and tears on that one... even worse because I'd joked about flipping quesadillas earlier.

Any ideas what to do with the excess buttercream?

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