Cooking for one

PasturesNew

At about 1.30am I had a cheeky crumpet and chocolate spread

No breakfast today, not hungry.

I've still two tomatoes that need using up - it must be night on 2 weeks since I bought them! Trouble is, bread's in the freezer now and it's not great when it's been frozen on its last date (best frozen the day you buy it), so not keen to defrost some to make sandwiches.

I've an unopened pack of pitta.... dated 2 July
Might open that to use those up ... maybe not today though.

I've still spuds I can eat and an open tin of beans (I've usually got an open tin of beans in the fridge to be honest) ... beans are the backbone of quick/easy food for me. On toast, on potatoes, as a side dish to something I've nuked... so versatile

There's the pizza I bought some days ago - although the date on that is the 18th, so no hurry there. As it's Friday and tomorrow's Saturday, that'd be best as either tea tonight or tomorrow. Pizza is a Friday or Saturday special treat item.

Hollyharvey

Today, I shall be having the leftover meatballs from Wednesday that I was going to have yesterday but CBA to make a different sauce. I've just made up an Italian sauce with tomatoes, garlic, basil, oregano, onion and a few more herbs of the dried variety that were hanging about in the cupboard. I threw in some mushrooms that were starting to look a bit dry as well. I will have that on some spaghetti and then grate some cheese over it. It should be ok.


I have frozen the other portion of meatballs and the two portions of the more spicy sauce I made.


Breakfast was toast and a banana.


I'm not sure what to put in a sandwich for lunch yet, meanwhile, a few chocolate digestives should keep hunger at bay


I seem to have lots of small amounts of veg still hanging around. Not enough to freeze. I may make some sort of vegetarian dish to use them up but I'm not sure what yet. I will have to have a think about it later.

gt568

PasturesNew wrote: »

I don't eat out very often, you generally need two people to do that.
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No you don't.

I adore eating out alone, I can savour the meal and not have to be distracted with conversation.

SunnyGirl

Good afternoon. I am having a lovely day reading a thriller book that I'm finding hard to put down so am not doing! Haven't eaten yet but I have just put a tuna pasta bake in the oven made with extra pasta I cooked last night (deliberately for tonight), a chopped onion, handful of frozen sweetcorn, handful of peas, a tin of tuna and a tin of Campbell's condensed mushroom soup all mixed together then put in a casserole dish. A grating of cheese on the top and a sliced tomato and in the oven until brown and bubbly. It isn't gourmet or even particularly full of five a day veg but it was a favourite of mine in the 70's when Mum used to make it so I've resurrected for myself as none of my children liked tuna and I didn't cook it. One of the joys of CFO

I am working this weekend, all next week and the following weekend as normal so felt justified in having a lazy day today.

caronc

Good afternoon everyone,

I've had a very quiet day so far, I'm finding the new meds hard to adjust to and I'm finding they are making me feel very odd for a number of hours after taking them. Thankfully I perk up a bit as the day goes on:) .

My son headed off early this morning to drive to Cardiff to see his brother for a few days, so it's back to CFO for me. He made a lovely dinner for us last night trout with creamed leeks in filo pastry with Ayrshire tatties, spring onions and peas. It's a real faff to make as he had to fillet and skin the trout first but boy is it tasty though definitely not a CFO dish;) .
I have far too much food in my fridge, a combination of guests over the last couple of weeks and the gift of F&V from my friend so I've been trying to use some bits up. Breakfast was toast with banana and the last of the strawberries, lunch the last wedge of stottie, with the last of the bbq'd chicken and the end of a cucumber. Tonight it's LO spuds from last night with a pork chop, a few runner and broad beans and courgette from the garden. I'll pop the chicken carcass with some pot veg in the SC overnight to make stock. There are 3 further portion of the trout in filo in the fridge so I'll get them frozen and also a pack of M&S southern fried chicken portions (bought as they are in the 3 for £10 offer and we were getting chicken & burgers for the bbq). Hopefully once that lot is stashed I'll have a better idea if there is anything needing used up quickly lurking.:D

SunnyGirl

Hope your side effects from your new meds settle soon Caroncxx

Farway

Afternoon, been mucking about doing not a lot really.

Last night's runners with shallot butter, with onions not shallots, was lovely and really easy, def one to make again

I will make it again 'cos I picked 1.6kg of runners yesterday and so have loads in the fridge, I think tomorrow is chutney making day, & all the ingredients are in my cupboards anyway so no extras to buy. Unlike the daft Ainsley only 5 ingredients cook book I thumbed through down Plymouth.

First one I looked at had flatbread, halumi, peppers and the like, yep, always have loads of them in stock, not

Nil breakfast
cake & coffee at volunteer mid morning break
Sausage sarnie & mustard for lunch
Dinner, not sure but getting very CBA and could be another sausage sarnie, or PNs eggs on beans on toast perhaps, they are something I do have in stock

I was going to pick some blackberries & red currants to go with LO ice cream for a pud, but it is now cloudy and a bit windy so they will stay on the bushes for another day

moneyistooshorttomention

SunnyGirl wrote: »

Hope your side effects from your new meds settle soon Caroncxx

Ditto - seconded.

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...and, on another topic, if that thriller book is that unputdownable - what's the title and author please?:)

Not that I feel "settled" enough to read much at the moment - I feel like I'm having to sort out lots of "annoying little things" at the moment and gritting teeth - wondering when on earth life is going to be "settled - and I can just get on with it". Must be optimistic it will be soon.....

caronc

Thanks SunnyG and MTSTM:A, I am tbh finding it a bit wearing, being dizzy is hard going enough without being dizzy and spaced out:(. Still they said it would take a month for the effects of the meds to settle down and I'm not even finished week one so I shouldn't really complain;).

Farway - I still have runner envy, only 3 of mine have been ready so far. I'm hoping not to have too many ready at one time but a few more would have been nice:rotfl:

The housework is still there but I did give my freezer a bit of a tidy. The top shelf of my smaller freezer had turned into a bit of a landslide area if you tried to take anything out. :eek: I remembered I had bought baskets to store my spices etc. once I got that cupboard sorted out (still on the "to-do" list:o) and realised they would fit nicely in the freezer so a bit of re-arranging and hopefully no more stuff will tumble out ......;)

PasturesNew

I ended up having a crumpet/chocolate spread for lunch - and then cooked the pizza for tea and stared at it and thought "might as well eat it all".

I don't usually eat a whole 10" pizza as they are really 2 portions..... but I did today