Cooking for one

caronc

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

I've long thought that singles need at least as much kitchen space as families caron - probably more (with all these part-used packets of this/that/the other).

Oh well - food today was leftovers (again!) at lunchtime. This time cauliflower cheese and cold boiled potatoes.

Dinner tonight - a large bowl of mixed green salad with some beansprouts and chopped pepper and tomatoes thrown in. Topped with my latest "throw onto everything savoury" thing of shredded bits of flower from garlic scapes growing in my garden (which I've discovered adds just a hint of garlic taste to things). Topped with some plain yogurt and a handful of nooch (aka nutritional yeast) - for the "cheesy" type taste it has. If I'm still hungry (probably will be) - then I've got an experiment in the kitchen I've just cooked up - ie of rice pudding with various spices and using rice milk (instead of cows milk) and a bit of dried fruit thrown in (ie honeyberries). Awaiting finding out whether I think it's come out too "thin" because of using this different milk or no......:cool:

The scapes themselves are still there growing in my garden - whilst I contemplate what to do with them (as I've never had them before). Think it could be the base for a stirfry perhaps

Garlic scapes yum - make great pesto or lovely grilled/griddled with lots of oil and a bit of chilli:D

moneyistooshorttomention

caronc wrote: »

D&G :eek::eek::eek::rotfl::rotfl:

I think I might have broken my toe I've no idea how but I managed to catch my foot under the runner on my outside rocking chair then proceeded to tilt it forward with my full weight on it :eek: . It all squashed looking but I'm hoping it's just badly bashed. Reckon either way I'm going tp have the most spectatular bruise tomorrow ..... I've got an ice pack on it and rubbed arnica but ouch....

Oooh...ouch!

Worth getting an x-ray taken of it to check it's okay imo.

"Get well soon" as the phrase goes.

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Right - still more strawberries coming up in the garden. Swear they're on the increase year on year - must put out a reminder to myself to pick some more tomorrow (as someone I was talking to today was looking hopeful when I mentioned strawberries - so I guess that looks like a 4th person due to get given some by me).

greenbee

Don't forget the rest, compression (gentle) and elevation Caronc... so if you can tape the toe firmly to the next one so it is supported and doesn't swell, stick a bag of frozen peas over it and lie on the sofa with your feet up, it will help. Then get it checked out tomorrow. Although there's not much that can be done for broken toes.

SunnyGirl

Caronc OOh you poor thing - not nice at all. As Greenbee said there isn't really a 'cure' for broken toes even though they can be painful. Painkillers as needed and Rest, Ice, Compression and Elevation is all that works echoing previous posts.

The cake was spectacular and rainbow hued to boot! The icing was white chocolate, icing sugar and milk mix so extra yummy for someone with a sweet tooth like myself

caronc

Thanks folks unless it doesn't settle I'll not go to A&E. I broke a toe before and they don't do anything for it apart telling you to ice it and take painkillers. I'll pop a flight sock on tonight and prop my foot up on a pillow when I'm in bed.

meg72

SunnyGirl wrote: »

I don't either but I was thinking of the ones that are only about 1" deep. It only sprung to mind as the cake that was made for my son today was 8 layers but they were only thin

I think what you mean is a Victoria sponge tin, you know the kind you use two of to make a sponge. I use one to make my giant yorkie and it works really well. Can get them in poundland but mine were actually 10p on a carboot.

meg72

caronc wrote: »

Thanks folks unless it doesn't settle I'll not go to A&E. I broke a toe before and they don't do anything for it apart telling you to ice it and take painkillers. I'll pop a flight sock on tonight and prop my foot up on a pillow when I'm in bed.

Ouch feel for you love, don't blame you not going to A&E when I broke my big toe they put me in plaster up to my knee, god knows why as it didn't do anything to straiten the bloody toe and is caused a problem for years.

PasturesNew

I'd not had a birthday cake of any sort since I was about 10 - then a couple of years back somebody invited me round to tea for my birthday and they'd bought a little supermarket cake. I didn't expect that!

Being a "one" I've not ever really celebrated my birthday as nobody else was ever bothered I was having one

Years ago mum'd cook a "birthday tea", which just meant the evening meal would be something you'd prefer.... and after I'd moved out it didn't happen. Then 2 weeks later when I went round they asked why I'd not come round for it - I said "because you never said you were doing it". Mum'd cooked something for my tea, I wasn't there, so they'd eaten it ..... I was 3 miles away, at home - you'd have thought they'd have phoned!!

The last "party" I had was when I was 9 or 10 too. Never celebrated 16th, 18th, 21st, 30th, 40th or 50th... or any in between ... as I said, nobody's bothered if I have a birthday.

Hollyharvey

caronc wrote: »

Thanks folks unless it doesn't settle I'll not go to A&E. I broke a toe before and they don't do anything for it apart telling you to ice it and take painkillers. I'll pop a flight sock on tonight and prop my foot up on a pillow when I'm in bed.

Oh no, it sounds painful. I hope that it feels a lot better by the morning, hopefully it will as you will have had it propped up and not put any weight on it.

meg72

PasturesNew wrote: »

I think that until you have a "3 bed house" you don't have the right downstairs .... because you still want/need that space for those things for a "pleasant life" ... but you have to buy a 3-bed to get it all.

I've a 2-up-2-down ... and I'll be extending the ground floor next year and I'll have ALL that required space that you get in a 3-bed. The whole shebang.... downstairs loo/shower (future proofing) and a generous utility for drying clothes indoors, sorting out stuff, hobbies, clearouts and crafts/whatever.


Never in my entire life have I ever hung out at a supermarket for a coffee or to go into the cafe....once I've endured the hell that is "shopping" then queueing/paying, I just want to GTFO of there..... even if it's just to take refuge in the car to unwind before I drive home.



Yes. Finding unfamiliar ingredients on unfamiliar shelves could have really put you off wanting to make anything - so then you'd arrive home frazzled, two ingredients short - and no wish to EVER make that dish in your life after what you've just been through

Interesting description PN two up two down made me think of my Nans house back in the day, it was two up one down back to back in Birmingham inner city. But that's all it was, no kitchen, no bathroom and an outside loo, shared brew house to do the washing, you took it in turns to use it. All cooking was done on a range in the living room, four generations of us were raised in that house and I have some lovely childhood memories of it, lol not least being smacked in the face by my Nannies silk bloomers when you went out the back door to use the Loo.

So while I bemoan the lack of space in my modern one bed tiny bungalow I`m so very grateful that I wasn't one of the 9 children raised by my great grandmother in that house, lol at least Ive got my bed to myself and oh bliss don't have to share a loo or my bathwater. I feel quite spoilt for space now LOL.