Cooking for one (Mark Two)

Farway

Hollyharvey wrote: »

That looks lovely. I must have missed that, was it in this weeks?

Last weeks I think, their organic Duchy one

W/rose newspapers? I had no idea there were such things! Blimey, it's a different world out there.

And free :T TBH not a lot of things in it of use to One-ers, and the ingredients are always exotic, for instance the apple cake "required" free range Black tail hen eggs and organic apples. Like most I just ignore the faff & use what I have. But sometime a gem turns up, with modifications. The apple cake is one, I will make it again someday

Dinner was the Smoked mackerel salad, with HM mash, as nice as I hoped it would be

The Irish apple cake was tasty, although I think I cooked it a bit too long trying to get top browned. I had it with Greek yoghurt, custard would be nice, as would pouring cream. Plenty left for the next few CFO days

Hollyharvey

Farway wrote: »

Last weeks I think, their organic Duchy one

The Irish apple cake was tasty, although I think I cooked it a bit too long trying to get top browned. I had it with Greek yoghurt, custard would be nice, as would pouring cream. Plenty left for the next few CFO days

Found it thanks .

I'm glad it was nice.

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That is one heck of a lovely cake farway. I can`t look, mustn`t look, too easily tempted

Using those `ripe` sweet poatatoes as pancakes worked very well, they were lovely and I have enough for lunch today. Next time I will add ground almonds, not beans, for a change

I really fancy making some pizza tomorrow, it will help me use up frozen tomatoes and mozarella and I can roast and skin a couple of red peppers and use tomato paste. Enough for two days, dough in my mini bm. I think I will also take the minced mutton out of freezer and add some frozen veg like roasted carrots and leeks. I need to keep clearing freezer space, any food going back in will then be classed as a ready meal and used soon

That is two meals today so far and I want to split meals into mini meals, like stewed apple and yoghurt or berries and sojade cream as snacks. Better for my digestion. No idea for last meal, maybe cheese and rye crackers and a cinnamon bun. I have veg juice to drink during the day so no concerns about enough veg

meg72

Was planning a nice roast chicken dinner as got four of the £2.00 M &S chickens but have been invited out for lunch chicken already in oven so wil
decide what to do with it when I come back.

poppystar

meg72 wrote: »

Was planning a nice roast chicken dinner as got four of the £2.00 M &S chickens but have been invited out for lunch chicken already in oven so wil
decide what to do with it when I come back.

I eventually plucked (no pun intended!) enough courage to buy one. It is now scaring me almost as much as if it was still alive, birds not being my favourite creatures even when they are still breathing!

A shameful admission but I have only cooked a whole chicken once before in my life and am very nervous that I won't cook it enough or something.

Also I was hoping to use the remains of it in soup or to add to stir fry or pilaff but everything I look at seems to suggest reheating is highly dangerous. Anyone put my mind at rest on this?


I can cook lots of other things - honest:o

caronc

Good morning everyone,
I've not managed to post for a couple of days - one of those spells where life got in the way of noodling on-line :cool: .
Poppystar - your chicken will be fine reheated just make sure it it is fully reheated and you'll be fine.
My son was up for the weekend and helped me get various things sorted in the house and garden including thankfully the non- fully flushing loo
My salted brisket experiment worked really well - one I'll do again with a larger piece next time as the bit I used was only 700g so just enough to split for some between myself, my son and my Dad who happened to arrive while it was being sliced
My son is now on his way back to Newcastle and I've got a lump of bacon ends in the pressure cooker to make lentil soup, some of which will go round to my sister's as she is recovering from surgery and pretty wabbit.
Last night we had fajitas definitely not something I make when CFO so really enjoyed them.

Today has been the usual toast for breakfast and lunch will be a salted brisket & salad sandwich. Dinner I think will be rump steak.
Apart from some gentle pottering in the garden I've not much planned for the day.

Hollyharvey

Afternoon everyone,

I had an unexpected visitor at 1.00am this morning, my nephew. The taxi queue in town was really long so he thought that as he can walk to mine in under 10 minutes from town he would ask to stay here. On the plus side, I fed him scrambled eggs on toast for breakfast so have now got rid of the extra eggs and I'm back to normal egg stocks .

I have had trouble deciding what to have for dinner today, so have decided on the easy option of cod, steamed veg and new potatoes. I'll make a parsley sauce as well. I've got some skimmed milk I picked up by accident a few days ago and want to use it up. I'll mix it with some of my usual milk so that the sauce isn't too watery.

I think lunch will be a toasted cheese and tomato sandwich. I'm enjoying having toasties instead of normal sandwiches for a change at the moment.

Poppy as Caronc says re-heating cooked chicken is fine, provided you make sure it is heated through properly. I've had those M&S chickens in the past and they are really nice.

Farway

Hollyharvey wrote: »

Poppy as Caronc says re-heating cooked chicken is fine, provided you make sure it is heated through properly. I've had those M&S chickens in the past and they are really nice.

Agree with all about reheating, no problems at all. And if in doubt, just eat it cold, or the CFO CBA version, pick and nibble at at it every time you look in the fridge

Double bonus on yesterday's HM apple cake, I found out it makes an excellent cold breakfast , Sliced some off, as one would for a bread pud. Now I know how easy it is that is one recipe that will be repeated

YS patrol was in Morries this morning, got some YS corned beef slices,only because I am out tomorrow & a packed sarnie lunch is order of the day, the CB will be ideal, go with the YS Ancient seed rolls I bought at the the same time

Not so MSE was the pack of doughnuts, strawberry of course, plus the crystallised ginger, in anticipation of making my own ginger marmalade some time before whatsitsnamemas

Dinner is a deja vu again, last of the smoked mackerel, with salad & new batch of HM mash, wish I had made extra yesterday but didn't

Spot of gardening, very light, just getting ready for Spring, pansies & daffs planted. Be glad I did next March

PasturesNew

Got fed.
Had cake
Forgot apples

Breakfast today was the final pieces of the cake I made the other night, thinking it would be nigh-on-stale, but it wasn't, but as I'd warmed three pieces I had to eat them all....

Lunch has just been a lamb/mint cheeseburger with ketchup in a big roll.

candygirl

Making a chick pea, spinach n potato curry for tea , with veg rice 😁 Will last for a few meals hopefully 🤔