Cooking for one

PasturesNew

While awaiting my muffin to toast ... now topped with choccy spread ... I measured my base unit interiors. Four cupboards amounted to a total of 1.8m width.

Anne_Marie_2

Sorry HH. Flipping awful when you have one of those days. Really hope that your mood lifts tomorrow. Absolutely nothing wrong with the occasional binge eating.

Anne_Marie_2

PN, thanks, but think I'd need the worktop raised by about 6 ins. I've got around 6 metres of worktop, and a stupid breakfast bar between the living room and kitchen which has never been used. Going to get rid of that too.

MallyGirl, thanks, that is worthwhile investigating. Here's me moaning and you are 3" taller than me!

moneyistooshorttomention

oh well - lunch today was what could be grabbed quickly.

So - it was strawberries (what else at the moment?:cool:) and frozen banana slices with a mix of Oatly "cream" and yogurt and a couple of slices of sourdough bread.

Dinner - just eating some Norwegian Mountain Bread I made. Having to deal with the typing errors and missed out bits in various different online versions of it. So I've been compiling together the various versions of same recipe:cool: and then chucking out the sugar (as one or two of them did) and made that. Verdict = the jury is out. Will try it a second time - this time in a smaller container (so it's thicker), with a bit more yeast (wasnt sure how to translate 7 grams into teaspoons) and I think I'll probably add a bit of something-sweet-other-than-sugar (molasses maybe). Will form my definitive verdict on it then. Eating it with a chunk of cheddar cheese. Going to have some watermelon in a minute and probably a glass of rice milk.

PasturesNew

Anne_Marie wrote: »

PN, thanks, but think I'd need the worktop raised by about 6 ins.

If the "lift it, shove a plank in, drop top back on" system is doable though .... you could "lift it, shove in a new drawer unit layer, drop top back on"

caronc

Farway wrote: »

Envious now, mine is [just one plant] just flowering. Swapsies runners for courgettes?

I've just picked my first courgette and thank you but no on the runner going by the flowers on batch 1 I think I'll have enough for CFO

Hollyharvey wrote: »

I'm having a real down day and can't be bothered to get any proper meals.

Hope you feel more like it tomorrow:)

PasturesNew wrote: »

Rekitchens .... I really prefer the "stand alone units" of earlier years. All this "fitted" stuff might look nice in photos .... but, over time, it proves to be a pain as you can't improve/replace one part easily ... but require planners, fitters and big cheques to be written.

Back in the day, the only "fixed" items being the sink and the cooker spot it was easier to move things around, get a better cupboard/cabinet or whatever. And take it all with you when you moved if you wished.

What's next? Fitted living rooms?

When I was getting my kitchen rebuilt I would have preferred standalone. I quite fancied one of these type http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1950s-Original-Retro-Kitchen-Dresser-/282533971281 but I abandoned the idea as it was overall going to cost far too much as due to the odd layout/dimension to get a decent looking kitchen was going to cost an absolute fortune and that was after factoring in fitting costs so it was not to be.

My ex is 6ft 5 and our previous kitchen was raised. The units were built on a plinth underneath. I hated it as I never felt comfortable working at it (I'm 5ft 3.5) and wish I had never agreed as I did the vast majority of the cooking :mad:.

Apart from a nice catch up with a colleague I've had a really quiet day. I think the busy weekend caught up with me so it was rest up time this afternoon. I did manage to tidy up my tomato plants but had to give up when the midgies came out in force:(.

Breakfast was toast with cottage cheese, a couple of apricots and a glass of orange juice and lunch was a bowl of salad topped with the last of the raita. The remainder of my birthday cake was sent into the office with my colleague so it got used up. For dinner I had defrosted a piece of steak but I don't think I can CBA cooking it so I think it will be fish and oven chips tonight.:)

PasturesNew

caronc wrote: »

I quite fancied one of these

My nan had one of those.


Today I've had:

1 piece of crust toasted, with marg
Crumpet/choccy spread
Muffin/choccy spread
Crumpet/choccy spread
Last 20 grapes I bought a week ago.

moneyistooshorttomention

Glad to see a 1950s dresser isnt worth as much as I thought actually - judging by that.

Reason being I own one - but have never had it in my possession. It was all agreed as coming with my first house and part of what I'd paid for - and the **** vendor ("peace be upon him - not") waltzed off with it. I found it had gone when I moved in.:mad:

Though actually I've always wanted a nice wood dresser - along with that large pine kitchen table etc. Oh well.....if ever that Lottery win we all hope for comes up (ie the house I'd then move to might have a big enough kitchen to be freestanding).

Little thought for the day for Doom & Gloom - just read in one of the latest vegan magazines that aquafaba doesn't just come from canned chickpeas. The liquid all neutral-coloured beans comes canned in is also aquafaba (so, for instance, cannelini beans). Duly made a mental note of that.

Long conversation with friend on the phone today - and she and her husband are also veering on vegan these days too. She tells me he also had a tendency to grab a chunk of cheese to snack on and is now eating about 25% of what he was of cheese and the weight is just coming off without trying. There's another positive thought for the day for me - now that I'm having a lot less of it than I was.:).

Just as well for a positive thought - to counterbalance earlier today coming across a set of 2 non-stick frying pans with ceramic being the non-stick bit and they have stainless steel bases (rather than aluminium) and are in red. The main downer being £20 for the set - as I've paid out around £60 to replace my frying pan and omelette pan with ones with ceramic non-stick in recently:(. If anyone is interested - the £20 set is marketed as by the Hairy Bikers. Oh well - I'm using a lot less oil to saute things now in my new saucepans I guess. I didnt have to use any at all with my T*sco ready-made frittata thingie the other day and am only using an absolute smidgen of butter to do an omelette in the smaller one. Every little helps....

caronc

PasturesNew wrote: »

My nan had one of those.

So did mine though it was blue & cream with a sort of lacquered finish and pulled out like an old-fashioned writing desk to give a work surface that my Gran used to do all her baking on. My other Gran had a more "modern" kitchen for the time with wall cabinets but had a big bench with a marble inset that was her cooking station with everything stored on shelves underneath. It had been a workman's bench that someone "did up" for them when they got married in 1939 and would probably be worth a fortune now. I'll bet when they sold the house in the early 1980s the new owners ditched it for fitted units

caronc

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Glad to see a 1950s dresser isnt worth as much as I thought actually - judging by that.

Some seem to be much more expensive but yes you could probably get one for a cheap price and refurb it.:)