Cooking for one

PasturesNew

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

You just know how much you rely on a freezer not to have absolutely Repeat Eating all the time and you have a garden when you've managed to jam pack a freezer that's about 6' tall:rotfl:. It was pretty full anyway - but now I've had a glut of strawberries, have currently got a glut of assorted berries and the rhubarb glut is now here too....

It's no surprise my dream home has a utility room as well as a kitchen....:cool:...and then I could have another freezer...:rotfl:. I think there might be a flaw in that somewhere though:cool: - as my dream home would also have a rather larger garden (ie more growing space)...

But with a larger garden you could build an outhouse ... with more freezers!




That s0ddin' chicken stuff I made/ate yesterday needs to be eaten ..... and I liked it, but I'd be happy if I never ate it again ...but I've two s0ddin' portions in the fridge.

I don't want to freeze it, but I might do that ...

All this talk of salad sandwiches, as I bought 2 gem lettuces, I have a LOT of eating to do to get through those .... and I fancy a cheese/salad sandwich for lunch. Then the remainder of that loaf can go in the freezer.

I doubt I'll buy any more lettuce for 10 years .... or maybe ever. 2-4 leaves/year is enough.

karcher

Anne_Marie wrote: »

. I don't like baked beans served with anything other than just toast with butter, although do like some grated cheese over at times. Don't like them on the toast, as it goes soggy. Toast has to be cold before it gets buttered.

Absolutely agree AM...though I do like beans with other stuff..but always 'on the side', never 'on top of'.

I actually really like beans with salad (salad with mayo) and beans with mashed potato.

Food heaven to some is food hell to others and vice versa, but vive la difference I say

Farway

I confess to loving jam, any sort, on bread, or scones, or crumpets, with butter, and I lick the spoon I scoop it out with

But the jam I like is not the 30p a jar stuff, has to be thick & fruity, preferably with some real fruit bits in it, and mostly costs over a quid a jar.

Years ago, back in the 60s, we used to buy black cherry jam, made in then Communist Hungary. They had not then learned evil capitalist tricks of less fruit & more [STRIKE]sugar[/STRIKE] glucose syrup. It was crammed full of black cherries

My jams do not hang around long enought to go mouldy , and I do sometimes make my own

Early bird this morning, rushed out to clear some garden space before the forecast rain started and wet all the plants. False alarm, no rain, now a lovely sunny warm day with windows open and gardening done

Given the early start it was Morries today. They had run out of Mackay's ginger preserve, not surprised at on offer at £1.27, lovely stuff, and I am down to the last spoonful, sobs

However did spot Bramly apple pie £1, I had not gone for that but I do like them and they seem to sell quickly, so I grabbed one of them, and a pot of YS Greek type yoghurt to splodge on it, and yoghurt will come in handy for my gooseberries & red currants.

Like MTSTM I concentrate on fruit not veg in the garden, says he with 6 large tubs of towering runner beans, but fruit I grow is very expensive to buy, like gosseberries / cherries and even humble raspberries / blackberries. I fail on the easiest one of all, rhubarb, it just gives up in my garden for some reason

Nil breakfast due to sudden garden needs, bog standard cheese salady sarnie lunch

Morries yielded a YS mushroom & ale pie, never had one, it is not pastry topping, more cottage pie style with mash topping. Hope it is tasty. I will have it with steamed fresh pointy cabbage on offer from Lidl desert, my one and only to date home grown courgette, broccolli and maybe some frozen peas or green beans.

It would have been baked spud if the YS pie had not turned up

caronc

:hello:Good afternoon everyone,

I was MIA yesterday doing non-CFO things including playing with [STRIKE]bbq[/STRIKE] the thing that shall not be named.;) Fridge is now full of little tubs of various LO bits so easy eating for a few days and picky bits for my son & partner as they are in and out trying to see all their friends while they are up:D.

PasturesNew

Breakfast was cooked.
Lunch was a sandwich.

I've also randomly scoffed 2 choc ices and a rocky bar biscuit.

I froze the chicken I cooked yesterday - and really don't ever fancy eating ever again (but I am forced to) ...

And I've NO idea whatsoever what on earth I could eat for tea/later. Completely stumped. I have food - I simply don't fancy anything I've got

I might end up making an egg/salad cream sandwich as that'll use up two more lettuce leaves - and that leaves me just two bread crusts to freeze! Or that might become a sliced egg/tomato/lettuce sandwich as I've 7 tomatoes too.

Anne_Marie_2

Farway - Mackays factory used to be just along the road from me, and they had a factory shop which was opened on a Friday I think. They have moved to Arbroath now, and have a shop which is opened on a daily basis. Haven't actually been, but parents pop in now and then to get factory seconds. So, if you are ever in that area, you should go and stock up at vastly reduced prices, so I am told.
Have you tried making your own ginger preserve? Imagine it would be quite easy to do, and you can adapt by looking at the ingreds on the Mackays jar.

I've just got borders here, no garden as such, everywhere else is tiled thank goodness. I'm not a keen gardener at all, but I do like it looking nice. Gardener comes every 2-3 months to trim the hedge and maybe give the fruit trees a little trim. The hedge will be coming down in time, as I want a fence up, but finances are not allowing for that just now, so the hedge will stay for a bit longer. Once the hedge is down, I can then plant around the borders, so long as it is low maintenance. Herbs are always good, and generally do rather well here, but also some nice smelling things perhaps tobacco plants/jasmine/lilies. Anyway, all in the future.

Food wise, was the same, fruit salad and yoghurt for lunch, followed by veg salad with boiled egg and grated cheese, then more fruit salad with cream this time. Still got enough for another day or two, by which time I will be sick to death of it all.

Still as hot as heck, although no idea what temp it reached, as I went for a nap this afternoon, but was 38C in the shade around 10 a.m. Supposed to come down a bit this week, whole of Cyprus will be praying that is the case. Must be absolute hell living inland.

Caronc - hope that you had fun with family and the thing that must not be named. Also hope that you feel a little better. At least having the family around will cheer you up a bit.

PasturesNew

I worked out I wanted burger/chips - but I was too lazy to achieve that. Also, too tight, as the chippy's £1.50 and if I'd got a bag from the shop I'd have got the same weight for 30p.

So it was sandwich time. Squirted salad cream on the last two slices of bread (froze the crusts), 2 gem lettuce leaves on one of the slices, then chopped up a tomato, boiled/sliced an egg and added a tiny bit of grated cheese.

I wish I'd had crisps too .... so I might have a bag of crisps later.

It was a scorcher of a day, neighbour had lots of people over for a BBQ ... and then turfed the kids out into the car park to annoy (me) everybody for 5+ hours.... so I had to shut my windows.

Anne_Marie_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

It was a scorcher of a day, neighbour had lots of people over for a BBQ ... and then turfed the kids out into the car park to annoy (me) everybody for 5+ hours.... so I had to shut my windows.

Feel free to send the little besoms over here....they will fry in the heat. :rotfl: No "word that cannot be mentioned" required. Am sure you could cook your dinner on the patio tiles. :eek:
(Purely tongue in cheek of course, wouldn't really want to harm the little darlings.)

caronc

[QUOTE=Anne_Marie;72780499
Caronc - hope that you had fun with family and the thing that must not be named. Also hope that you feel a little better. At least having the family around will cheer you up a bit.[/QUOTE]

Thank you - yes despite now having a very sore ear I enjoyed it, the banter was hysterical;). My nephew brought his ever so quiet girlfriend for her first dinner with us. Poor love she looked like a startled rabbit for the first hour and then couldn't stop laughing at the dynamics between the three boys. My son's partner is Greek and I think her family gatherings are pretty chaotic too so she just slotted right in :rotfl:

Food today has been patchy so far toast & HM hummous (I don't know why I don't make this more as it is so much nicer than even the expensive shop bought, costs pennies, a skoosh to make if you have any sort of blender, keeps well (and freezes) and I know exactly what's gone into it! I did make it once in a carvan with only bowl a fork & sieve which worked well but I like mine quite smooth and it is a pain to rub it through the sieve:eek:. Mid-afternoon I had a couple of LO slices of "sort of" sourdough with pate and tonight I have the place to myself so I'm going to have LO bbq'd steak and salad and maybe a baked spud. I was pleased that there were enough salad leaves ready in the garden to give a really decent bowlful. It's a hot & spicy mix so just made a simple oil/red wine vinegar dressing to go with it. There is quiet a bit of dressing left but I'll pop it in a jar and it will last for ages.

Farway- Re jam I'm not a great eater of this but agree Mackays is good. If you see any of their chutneys I recommend them. Great in a cheese sarnie:D

caronc

PS - the[STRIKE] bbq[/STRIKE] the thing that shall not be named has been cleaned out, it's cover popped back on and stashed back in it's corner where you can't really see it ;):rotfl::rotfl: