Cooking for one

PasturesNew

caronc wrote: »

How many sausage rolls :eek: I take it was the wee one's they are so moreish;) I think we've all been suckered by a deal at times it's so frustrating when you realise

Yes, little 'uns. I like the L1dl ones with 5 full-sized ones in the packet, but when I was in there, alongside them were these packs of 10 bite-sized ones and they had a big red "30% off" sticker, so I thought, as they were cheaper, I'd try those and finally decide if bigger is better, or smaller. I'd always thought the bigger ones were better as you get more meat .... and I was right.

I'd intended to eat just 5 as a meal .... and I did.... trouble was, I then had the other 5 just 1.5 hours later

meg72

Anne_Marie wrote: »

It is sweet, great on chips, as well as salads and anything that you can think of!
Have no idea how much it costs in UK or price of pomegranates, but here's a recipe.
http://homecooking.about.com/od/condimentrecipes/r/blcon101.htm
I've kept meaning to make a raspberry vinegar, but never quite got round to it so far. I do citrus vinegars with fruit peel in bog standard vinegar, but that's really for using for cleaning. Smells good though.

PN can't believe that you ate 10 sausage rolls, unless they were the teeny wee bite sized ones! :eek:
It is so annoying when you think you've bought a bargain, and then realise not, am sure we've all been there.

I don't have windowsills inside at all, windows are flush with the walls. Good really as no clutter, as things always collected on them in my last house. I do at times put lettuce, onion and celery bases in small containers of water, they grow again, and have them on the kitchen worktop by the window. I used to buy the living salads from Lidl, but they don't do them here. They were great for one, and just keep on going. I do sprout beans from time to time, as love the crunch in a salad or on a sandwich.

I had hellim (halloumi) and tomato on pitta bread yesterday, so had more today on a toasty with onions....yum, yum. Still got enough for something for tomorrow....maybe soldiers for boiled eggs.

The living salads are good, but at a £1 a time I find them expensive, I buy the seeds for 40p/750 seeds and grow my own, they grow quite easily and I probably get the equivalent of 10 of the ready bought ones over the year.
. I have just sent off for a dwarf tomato plant that was successful last year, 100 seeds for 99p. These will grow quite happily close to a windowand can go outside when the weather gets better.

karcher

Anne_Marie wrote: »

Oh no, don't feel bad....just a decision that hubby and I made to move abroad, and found that Cyprus was the place after many years of searching for the right spot. Didn't think anyone else would be in the slightest bit interested.

Hope that the toast went down well. Love toast and butter, but have to let the toast go cold first, I don't like it all soggy.

Thanks for that and good for you:)

Oh absolutely..must let the toast cool first...soggy toast is just wrong and a waste of bread

meg72

PasturesNew wrote: »

Yes, little 'uns. I like the L1dl ones with 5 full-sized ones in the packet, but when I was in there, alongside them were these packs of 10 bite-sized ones and they had a big red "30% off" sticker, so I thought, as they were cheaper, I'd try those and finally decide if bigger is better, or smaller. I'd always thought the bigger ones were better as you get more meat .... and I was right.

I'd intended to eat just 5 as a meal .... and I did.... trouble was, I then had the other 5 just 1.5 hours later

Lol PN size does count, when it comes to sausage rolls, pies and cream cakes.

PasturesNew

Anne_Marie wrote: »

I always leave space in my freezer for the equivalent of two loaves of bread, assuming there's no bread in there.

When I saw that I just went through to my kitchen as I've got a full loaf and an empty drawer... so I thought I'd see how much space is taken up by a loaf.

Bad photo (poor lighting/energy saving bulbs): https://postimg.org/image/h83d2a5x5/

I have 2.5 drawers.

The loaf is a cheapo Aldi one, so smaller than "branded" sliced loaves. One loaf takes up nearly half of an entire drawer. That's far too much space to waste on "just bread", which is why I try to minimise the bread I freeze. What I'll do with this loaf, tomorrow ... is I'll take out 12 slices to use in the next 3 days, the BBE date - and put those into plastic airtight boxes... and freeze the rest of this loaf, which will be just under half.

PasturesNew

I randomly found a rosemary living salad in a pot, nobody else wanted it and it'd come down to 10-15p or so, about 2 years ago. Twas no more than a twiglet in size.

I thought "I can stick that in the ground and it'll grow" ... only I didn't, it sat for a few weeks in the supermarket tub and I looked at it and thought "I should do that".

One day I felt sorry for it and randomly poked a small hole with a random stick in a random corner of the patio... it wasn't big or deep enough ... but I shoved the rosemary in anyway, then badly scraped a few bits of soil over most of the roots and walked away from it.

Today it's a thick bush, about 18" in height.

Trouble is, a visitor's dog pee'd on it a couple of years ago .... so I don't fancy it

There are also rats around ... and LOADS of slugs ... so, in general, not interested in trying to grow stuff to eat as I'd just not fancy it.

caronc

PasturesNew wrote: »

I randomly found a rosemary living salad in a pot, nobody else wanted it and it'd come down to 10-15p or so, about 2 years ago. Twas no more than a twiglet in size.

I thought "I can stick that in the ground and it'll grow" ... only I didn't, it sat for a few weeks in the supermarket tub and I looked at it and thought "I should do that".

One day I felt sorry for it and randomly poked a small hole with a random stick in a random corner of the patio... it wasn't big or deep enough ... but I shoved the rosemary in anyway, then badly scraped a few bits of soil over most of the roots and walked away from it.

Today it's a thick bush, about 18" in height.

Trouble is, a visitor's dog pee'd on it a couple of years ago .... so I don't fancy it

There are also rats around ... and LOADS of slugs ... so, in general, not interested in trying to grow stuff to eat as I'd just not fancy it.

LOL my rosemary bush is bit like that though in a pot so out of my pooches way (aim), it was a twig from a friend's plant which after planting did nothing for months then like topsy grew and grew and grew. BTW slugs and snails don't like rosemary bushes and unless you live in a drought area the wee will be well gone .........:rotfl:

monnagran

oooh no! Toast has to be hot. You never heard in your Enid Blyton books of people eating cold buttered toast, now did you?

I love the description of food in the old children's books - you know the " lashings of ginger beer," sort of thing.

I often think of Milly-Molly-Mandy and Little- Friend-Susan cooking their jacket potato, scooping the inside out and mashing it with butter. It intrigued me at the time because we didn't do jacket potatoes in our house and I'm not sure that the butter ration would have stretched that far anyway.
I think that I was grown up before I actually got to try it, but I'd never forgotten it

Now having read this thread I am yearning for hot, buttered toast.
Preferably toasted on an open fire by a burning hand wielding a toasting fork. And the toast tasting slightly smokey. Accompanied by a slice or two of cheese toasted on an old enamel plate perched on the same fire.

Somehow toast from the toaster and cheese melted in the microwave doesn't have quite the same appeal.

Sigh.............. I'll drink some more water.

x

karcher

Cyprus but also food related

I was just reminding myself of my one and only visit to Cyprus over 30 years ago. I can't remember where but it was a coastal hotel with hardly any other buildings nearby.

But as to food, I can't remember anything about the food we ate.
Is it similar in style to Greek and Turkish fare?...both places I visited within 4 years of going to Cyprus.

caronc

Anne_Marie wrote: »

Oh no, don't feel bad....just a decision that hubby and I made to move abroad, and found that Cyprus was the place after many years of searching for the right spot. Didn't think anyone else would be in the slightest bit interested.

Lucky you - I love greek/cypriot food <<drooling smiley>> my elder son's partner is from Athens though her family is from Cyprus originally, she is an amazing cook and thet brought me back lots of lovely stuff (most now consumed ) when they were there at Christmas. Her souvlaki and tzatziki are to die for .....