Cooking for one

caronc

monnagran wrote: »

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

Get a grip woman LOL and make some toast you could always waft over a candle for that smokey effect :rotfl:

caronc

Soup-wise I ended up making a "sort of" chowder mainly to make a dent in the corn mountain I discovered yesterday. It was real bung it in the pressure cooker job using up some odd bags of bits I had found. Probably never to be repeated LOL but tastes fab:) I reckon there's about 5 portions so will use most for lunches and now I have some freezer space will "flat-freeze" the rest. I really do need to get out more though as the thought of being able to flat-freeze makes me happier than it really should LOL
Now off to [STRIKE]massacre[/STRIKE] neatly slice a chicken breast for my goujons

Anne_Marie_2

caronc wrote: »

Yes will definitely have a bash if I can get my hands on some cheap pomegranates as it sounds just my thing. frozen rasps are great aren't quite often sweeter than the so-called fresh ones in the supermarkets. Your rasberry and onion marmalade sounds lovely, I make the odd chutney but mainly tomato/courgette if I have a garden glut. Glad your dough was rescued:)

Apart from mint and a rather old rosemary bush I can't get herbs to grow outdoors (I'm on the West Coast) think it's a combination of the weather and the salt. Thankfully I've a sunny conservatory with lots of cills so grow chillies and herbs (mainly divided up from supermarket pots) during the sunnier months.

As for the thread rambling surely all the best conversations do Anyway growing herbs sits very well with cooking for one as you can just use what you need rather than having to wade through a big bunch

Will try to remember to let you know how I get on with the frozen rasp vinegar whenever I get round to it.....but not promising that I will remember.

Will look out that recipe for raspberry and onion marmalade....knowing me, it's something I've adapted. I have made various berry and onion ones using either frozen or dried berries. Remind me if I don't get back to you on this please, as my memory is like a sieve.

Can't believe that I had better success at growing herbs outdoors on the north east coast of Scotland on the North Sea! Wow, I am now proud of my old herb garden. :rotfl:

Once you have tasted pomegranate vinegar, you will hate me if you can't get your hands on pomegranates to make more! What's worse is that during the season, I get given pomegranates from friends and even strangers. Actually get given loads of random fruit and veg.

I do give away lemons and mandarins, still waiting for orange and red grapefruit to produce anything of interest. Last year was the first time my olive tree produced a few olives...nothing to write home about, but first year it ever produced anything. Was chuffed to bits, as thought it was fruitless, but what a lovely looking tree. Discovered that the dog loves eating olives that have fallen from the tree, so will have to bear that in mind if there is ever a decent crop.

I agree that threads ramble, as this one surely has. It's a great thread , and thank you for starting it off....surely no one, least yourself, could see it going this way.

Growing herbs (maybe salad leaves and spices too) whether it be in a garden, in pots outside or on the windowsill inside is definitely something to be encouraged for everyone, whether they be single or plural.

caronc

meg72 wrote: »

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.

I love homegrown tomatoes and grow too many probably but it does tend to mean I have enough passatta to last through most of the winter

caronc

Anne_Marie wrote: »

Will try to remember to let you know how I get on with the frozen rasp vinegar whenever I get round to it.....but not promising that I will remember.

Will look out that recipe for raspberry and onion marmalade....knowing me, it's something I've adapted. I have made various berry and onion ones using either frozen or dried berries. Remind me if I don't get back to you on this please, as my memory is like a sieve.

Can't believe that I had better success at growing herbs outdoors on the north east coast of Scotland on the North Sea! Wow, I am now proud of my old herb garden. :rotfl:

Once you have tasted pomegranate vinegar, you will hate me if you can't get your hands on pomegranates to make more! What's worse is that during the season, I get given pomegranates from friends and even strangers. Actually get given loads of random fruit and veg.

I do give away lemons and mandarins, still waiting for orange and red grapefruit to produce anything of interest. Last year was the first time my olive tree produced a few olives...nothing to write home about, but first year it ever produced anything. Was chuffed to bits, as thought it was fruitless, but what a lovely looking tree. Discovered that the dog loves eating olives that have fallen from the tree, so will have to bear that in mind if there is ever a decent crop.

I agree that threads ramble, as this one surely has. It's a great thread , and thank you for starting it off....surely no one, least yourself, could see it going this way.

Growing herbs (maybe salad leaves and spices too) whether it be in a garden, in pots outside or on the windowsill inside is definitely something to be encouraged for everyone, whether they be single or plural.

Yes please do look out the recipe, I'd love to give it a bash. With the North Coast being so much drier than the West I think it's better for herbs and soft leaves than the damp west I actually can't believe how this thread has grown, I'm loving it I thought at the outset I might get one or two replies ..........

PasturesNew

I used to like the annual pomegranate I used to get. No idea what made mum buy the first one, but after that, when she saw them for sale, I'd be offered a pomegranate. I was the only one in the family that ate them.

Very sticky and a lot of faff though ...

Nowadays they're often bigger, but at £1 each I can't be bothered to buy one and get all sticky just to eat it.

caronc

PasturesNew wrote: »

I used to like the annual pomegranate I used to get. No idea what made mum buy the first one, but after that, when she saw them for sale, I'd be offered a pomegranate. I was the only one in the family that ate them.

Very sticky and a lot of faff though ...

Nowadays they're often bigger, but at £1 each I can't be bothered to buy one and get all sticky just to eat it.

Eye brow tweezers - perfect for the job .............:D

meg72

monnagran wrote: »

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

Ohhhhhhhh yessssssss it must be hot lol ours used to get a bit scorched as well. I remember sitting on the rag rug in front of the fire with my brothers. One brother and me each had a toasting fork, the other brother was too young to be allowed so we had to do his. Money was a bit tight so Mum used to get the reduced bread when the baker was closing and slice it up for us. She would ration out the butter, put the jam pot out and leave us to it. We did so enjoy this. Another treat was when she would bake potatoes and onions in the fire and we would fish them out with the coal tongs lol washed of course.

monnagran

OK, forget cooking for one. This is the week in the month when I cook for 70 on Wednesday.

This week I've decided to do gammon,. parsley sauce, potato wedges, peas and tomatoes followed by warm brownies and ice cream.

All is organised and I have made 6 dozen brownies today ready to be warmed through on Wednesday. Would you believe that I find something like this far easier than feeding myself. Left to my own devices I will live on sandwiches.
Weird.

x

monnagran

caronc wrote: »

Eye brow tweezers - perfect for the job .............:D

No. it has to be a pin Unless you stab yourself in the lips several times you haven't fully enjoyed the experience of eating a pomegranate.