Cooking for one (Mark Two)

Farway

meg72 wrote: »

Another dismal grey wet morning. So pleased I`ve made my pot of beef stew as I`m going to be busy making Damson Jam with 3kg donated Damsons just a bit worried I am not going to have enough jars. I use the small mint sauce or mustard jars. Just a nice size for singles. Might have to post on our Free food site to see if anyone has some to spare.

I've got loads of jars, shame too far way, I just could use a pot of damson jam to add to my HM jam hoard

The day turned out misty & drizzly, but travelling most of the time so no big problem

Lunch in the end was in a pub near Newbury. The other options I looked at earlier were not ideal when actually eyeballed, either too cramped, full of kids or people in trackies with caps back to front

The food was great, saying just a brisket sandwich does not do it justice. Very tasty, certainly nothing I could achieve, thick freshly cut white bread, stuffed to bursting with moist brisket. And a small portion of chips with bit of salad. Plenty for me at lunchtime

caronc

Good afternoon everyone,

Farway - a brisket sandwich one of my favourite I'm hoping my salt brisket turns out ok and I can get my gnashers around a similiar doorstep in a week or so:D.

The defrosted barley rissotto had some more veg, chicken stock, chicken scraps and a smidge of LO leek & parsley sauce added to it and I have to say it made a really tasty (never to be replicated) pot of soup to the extent I had a second bowl at lunchtime:o.

Tonight I making HM pizza using dough from the freezer, tomato sauce made using lovely homegrown marmande tomatoes, some salami , mozzarella cheese, a few olives and fresh basil. I was chatting to my son in Cardiff and he was making pizza and it gave me a real notion for one:D

PasturesNew

kittie wrote: »

Would have cost £5 for 8 abel and cole organic buns

Blimey ... that's 5 days' food!

I've no idea what Abel and Cole is ... never heard of them. I think we can rest assured I won't ever be buying anything of theirs

4ldi sell their "luxury" ones at 4 for 99p, which won a Good Housekeeping award in 2016 for their Taste Test among supermarkets.

I have a gazillion things I COULD cook/make... but I CBA, so won't. No idea what I'll eat later... for now I've kept myself going by scoffing the "favourite choccies" I bought yesterday evening... whole bag's gone now

PasturesNew

Decided to go for it. Made up the Yorkie mix. Can't find the old pie tin I was going to use, so going to make two separate yorkies instead, just because there's more mix than would be right for one tin - but as I'm using rectangular pie dishes I've no idea how that'll turn out. Also, cooking these in the tiny oven.

Mix is now resting in the fridge and I've skinned/sliced the spuds and am half way through making mash. Once the mash is ready I'll put the Yorkies into the oven, with sausages.

Then serve the lot with beans as I've a tin open.

Dinner should be served by 6.15 at the latest.

EDIT: Ended up serving it at 6.10 .... just one of the two Yorkies I made, then I realised I should also eat the 2nd one, so I did

Farway

After the large lunch it was a no cook or thought involved dinner / supper / snack of cheese on toast with glop of HM chutney x 2

Followed by patisserie custard creme things YS from yesterday x 3

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yes about £1 dearer for 4 than waitrose but far nicer and better for health but my own are very much nicer again, ate one yesterday and froze 7. I use A&C when I need to or fancy some nice organic food, their brown cow yoghurts are to die for. I know it is all genuine organic and the cows are not indoors in a barn, like yeo. I`m not going to change a habit of a lifetime, especially living in an area where I see the tractors and sprayers trundling over the fields all through summer. I pay a lot more for my flours too all mail order from specialists, all stoneground in the old way but in the scheme of things, eating my way is very cheap for one, especially when I bake my own

muesli and blackcurrants soaked in hm hemp milk overnight

later a bowl of assorted veg as I still have allotment carrots, cabbage and green beans and I am getting an A&C delivery this morning with a few veg that I don`t grow. I`ll have that with mackerel. After will be raspberries and hm ice cream, it turned out very yummy and soft enough to scoop, its a recipe that I have put into my special book. All organic with a vanilla pod. Reminds me that I need to go and pick again, they ripen every day, about 200g every day for weeks now and weeks to go. I love melted frozen raspberries, when the juice runs out

Later, a container of the ratatouille that I made, with grated parmesan on top. I have two pizza bases to use, must remember for tomorrow, think I will cut each in half and freeze, takes the pressure off. Got mozarella coming today and am going to slice and freeze in portions, hope it works

Farway

Thanks Kittie, I often toyed with thoughts of getting A & C box delivered, but struggle to see me using it all before it goes manky, or finding pounds of kale in it that I would never use up. Plus unlike you I prefer organic for the same reasons as you, but [STRIKE]sometimes[/STRIKE] often CBA to search it out

Of to a funeral in a bit, seems more funerals attended than weddings lately, must be age thing:( No idea if it will be followed by tea & cake or whatever, so lunch is ?????

Dinner is also ?????

PS it was porridge for breakfast

PasturesNew

Last night I took two biscuits from the packet ... and appear to have only eaten one. I don't have lights on here, so, in the dark, I'd overlooked the fact the 2nd one was still on the side table.

This morning it was a little bit soft, but I still ate it. We'll call that breakfast

caronc

Good afternoon everyone,

I'd love to get a veg box delivered. A local grower used to do a great one and it was fab at getting the boys to try new veg you didn't usually see in the supermarkets. Unfortunately they only do wholesale/trade now:( and A&C etc. don't deliver here!

Breakfast was toast with sliced tomatoes, my tomato crop is really getting going now:), lunch some of the soup I made yesterday and dinner with be LO pizza toppings from last night with pasta or gnocchi or I might use up a small naan from the freezer and make another pizza I'm not sure yet:cool:.

Hollyharvey

Afternoon everyone,

I've decided to dig a lightly dusted haddock fillet out of the freezer for dinner tonight. It won't make much of a gap in there but I have a craving for fish, chips and baked beans, so this is a bit more healthy than battered fish . I've also got half a tin of baked beans needing using up.

I'm just about to have a cheese salad sandwich and then head out for a walk around the park as it's a lovely sunny afternoon here.

I also need to replenish my crumpet stocks while out. I had the last one with scrambled eggs this morning for breakfast.

I don't seem to be creating too many things that need to go in the freezer these days which is good.