Cooking for one

caronc

PasturesNew wrote: »

Earlier today, one of my "tax return avoidance techniques" was to randomly wander into the spare room (aka junk room, where everything's just chucked to get it out of sight....) and I picked up my old microwave cook books from the mid 1980s.... I've flicked through and shoved some post-it notes on pages where I might fancy cooking something.

I've had those for 30 years and, to date, not cooked ONE thing from them yet Nice pictures though.

It's amazing what you can find to do that's more important than the looming task:D I don't think my cupboards have ever been so tidy nor my house so clean (even the ironing was up to date) as when Iwas studying a few years ago and an assignment was due I remember my Mum having a few of the microwave cookbooks in the late 1980s, she was of the view having bought one she was going to get her money's worth out of it! I was away from home by then so can't comment on the success or otherwise of what she made from them though I know my Dad loved the "steamed" puddings. What recipes have you chosen to try?

PasturesNew

caronc wrote: »

What recipes have you chosen to try?

I can't remember... I just stuck post-it notes in .... there's nothing really there that I don't know already ... so I was just picking out things I can already do and had forgotten about in recent years... it won't be anything difficult, or with many ingredients.

caronc

PasturesNew wrote: »

I can't remember... I just stuck post-it notes in .... there's nothing really there that I don't know already ... so I was just picking out things I can already do and had forgotten about in recent years... it won't be anything difficult, or with many ingredients.

Good for a bit of inspiration though to revisit things you've enjoyed before:)

monnagran

Oh I love reading cookery books. I can spend a blissful hour or two reading up various scrumptious recipes before I prepare my beans on toast.

karcher

Evening all

HM oven chips, HM coleslaw, bread and butter (for chip butties) and ketchup on the menu tonight.

Very healthy I think you'll all agree

karcher

monnagran wrote: »

Oh I love reading cookery books. I can spend a blissful hour or two reading up various scrumptious recipes before I prepare my beans on toast.

:rotfl::rotfl:

You sound just like me!!

caronc

monnagran wrote: »

Oh I love reading cookery books. I can spend a blissful hour or two reading up various scrumptious recipes before I prepare my beans on toast.

Absolutely I read cookery books like other folk read novels. I'm to admit to having over 120 of them not including the ones on my Kindle and that's after a cull as each of my sons left home:eek: I seldom follow recipes apart from baking (not very good at following instructions LOL ) but use them as a base for what I cook

karcher wrote: »

Evening all

HM oven chips, HM coleslaw, bread and butter (for chip butties) and ketchup on the menu tonight.

Very healthy I think you'll all agree

Think it covers most if not all of the main food groups so what's not to like

caronc

I found a use tonight for my mini Le Cruset casserole it's just right for one portion of mash. I like my sausages cooked in the oven and decided to be MSE and cook all of my dinner in it (apart from the gravy:)) so looked for something to reheat my bit of mash in and who'd of thunk it but it was a perfect size. :DThink it might get a bit more use from now

PasturesNew

monnagran wrote: »

Oh I love reading cookery books. I can spend a blissful hour or two reading up various scrumptious recipes before I prepare my beans on toast.

I do that... it takes hours to find something nice, then you've no time - and don't have the ingredients either ... so beans on toast it is.

karcher wrote: »

HM oven chips, HM coleslaw, bread and butter (for chip butties) and ketchup on the menu tonight.

Very healthy I think you'll all agree

Not really ... pretty poor - you're supposed to eat from all the food groups and I see no sweeties mentioned at all!

PasturesNew

In the dim past, back to those "bottom drawer" days, I collected some recipe books, including the little booklets you used to be able to send off for from people like the British Eggs Association or the Potato Society etc ...

Binned the lot when I had a huge clear out and got rid of 99.9% of all my possessions as I had nothing of value and the cost of putting it all into storage, storing it, then getting it back out again at some random future date when I next had a home was going to be greater than the sum of the value of the tatty goods

Glad I did get rid of them all ... but, if I'd been able to keep them, that would've been nice to occasionally flick through them.

I also had a scrap book I binned, that had recipe clippings from as far back as one from Jackie magazine in the mid 1970s for a veggie scotch egg. Egg, potato, breadcrumbs .... 40 years, still never made one