Cooking for one (Mark Two)

PasturesNew

Had another minor food disaster....

Decided to eat chips, using up the last of the chips - and eat the rest of the beans - and finish off the tiny bit of grated cheese I had.

Everything was going fine until the very last stab of the fork, when I lost control of the bowl I was eating from and the chips/beans/juice fell out of the bowl, all down my top, onto the sofa.....

*sighs* .... some days you're simply not a winner.

caronc

Farway wrote: »

Caron, we seem to take turn abouts on the weather, lovely down here, warm & sunny, not that I have taken advantage of it except planning to get the washing out tomorrow. Exciting times eh?

The baked spud is in the oven, butter is out, just salad to prepare, and I think it will be the cold roast chicken, then I can joint it pack bits for freezing at the same time

I'd maybe rethink the washing it's supposed to be dry here tomorrow.......;)

PasturesNew wrote: »

Had another minor food disaster....

Decided to eat chips, using up the last of the chips - and eat the rest of the beans - and finish off the tiny bit of grated cheese I had.

Everything was going fine until the very last stab of the fork, when I lost control of the bowl I was eating from and the chips/beans/juice fell out of the bowl, all down my top, onto the sofa.....

*sighs* .... some days you're simply not a winner.

Oh no - that's one of my favourite tricks "sigh".....:mad:

I've decided that dinner tonight will be the last of the HM venison burgers. I don't fancy a "bun" so I'm going to cook it in a stack with a flat mushroom and a round courgette sliced. A small baked spud may well get added as well.:)

caronc

Venison burger stack - apologies again not the best photo

PasturesNew

I'm still Food Doomed....

I've just had scrambled eggs on toast. Bread's best before 28th but I found mouldy bits on it once I'd started eating.

Had to cut those bits off and carry on because once you've started eating you can't just start again and cook fresh!

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Its tail wagging dog here again and I blame the sun, made me do all the washing. I also blame sunday visitors, made me bake biscuits and make a large desert after peeling zillions of apples, having taken all codling traces off first

Started ok, decided that I had better eat the muesli that I had soaking all night in the fridge. Didn`t like the flake combo, so tail wagging dog meant that I had to get rid of certain flakes and the box of made up muesli and made fresh with flakes I like. Just oats, spelt and rye, added dried raspberries and cranberries and some top nuts, top for goodness ie macadamia. Decided this morning that I prefer cooking for one and will not ever be making anything I don`t like for myself

boiled egg and spelt toast for late morning and cold pizza as I am now in cba and bits mood

I realise that I am settling into living solo and am happy with it

Farway

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'm still Food Doomed....

I've just had scrambled eggs on toast. Bread's best before 28th but I found mouldy bits on it once I'd started eating.

Had to cut those bits off and carry on because once you've started eating you can't just start again and cook fresh!

I find the sultry weather seems to speed the mould on bread. I now put it in the fridge if it is over a few days old, goes stale sooner but OK for toast

Sun out, washing out and watering done

Popped out to Morries, just could not bear the thought of all the frantic pile trolley high it is Bank Holiday folk. Morries is a bit out of town in opposite direction and thus tends to be steadier pace, plus, snob alert here, not readily accessible by public transport and thus not full of pushchairs & unruly kids

Not that it mattered because I was there early so fairly quite anyway. Searched for Jumbo oats in vain, loads of instant and bog standard, plus 1000 types of muesli, no Jumbo oats to be seen. Are they hiding under another name, or is it just Morries that do not stock them?

So sum total was one Iceberg lettuce, waste of my time & diesel really, especially when the bedding plants and Jumbo oats I wanted were not available.

Lunch was last slices of the LO corned beef, with a tomato, in a couple of rolls

Dinner will be baked spud & salad, with LO cold roast chicken, pimped up as Coronation chicken. Back to the future here

Hollyharvey

Farway wrote: »

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Searched for Jumbo oats in vain, loads of instant and bog standard, plus 1000 types of muesli, no Jumbo oats to be seen. Are they hiding under another name, or is it just Morries that do not stock them?

I don't have a Morries near me. I can get the Quaker's ones in Sainsburys, and Waitrose do the Quaker's. Mornflake and Flahavan's. They are called Jumbo Oats. I've just had a look on Morrison's web site and they have got Mornflake ones on there, so it looks like you were unlucky and the branch near you doesn't stock them

Hollyharvey

Afternoon all,

I've been out and about enjoying the nice weather we are having around here, and have just come home to cook my dinner.

I have just put the chicken breast joint that I bought yesterday in the oven. I had prepared the veg before I went out and there is some some bread sauce and yorkshires in the freezer so I will be able to use those up and create a little more space in the freezer.

I'm not really in the mood for cooking today but really fancy a roast.

I just took a cheese and pickle sandwich out with me for lunch, and had a Greek yoghurt with a banana for breakfast so that was easy.

I hope that you are all more in the mood for CFO today than I am.

Hollyharvey

kittie wrote: »

Decided this morning that I prefer cooking for one and will not ever be making anything I don`t like for myself

Being able to only make things that you like is definitely an advantage to CFO.

Farway

Hollyharvey wrote: »

I don't have a Morries near me. I can get the Quaker's ones in Sainsburys, and Waitrose do the Quaker's. Mornflake and Flahavan's. They are called Jumbo Oats. I've just had a look on Morrison's web site and they have got Mornflake ones on there, so it looks like you were unlucky and the branch near you doesn't stock them

Thanks HH, I have now checked on a price site, oddly enough Waitrose stock Mornflake ones at only a whisker dearer than Asda's own, which are the cheapest around. So Waitrose is where I will get them next time in town, which may even be tomorrow

Dinner was nice again, the HM Coronation chicken was nice, some left over and may well feature lunchtime tomorrow. That YS chick is doing well, 4 meals so far, with two in the freezer