Cooking for one (Mark Two)

Wednesday2000

^ Sometimes you do need a takeaway. Sounds like you enjoyed it PN.:D

I had a smoothie for breakfast and a cup of green tea. I felt very virtuous until I had a packet of crisps, haha.:o

I have half a tin of kidney beans in the fridge and I have some ready cooked quinoa and looked on Pinterest for a recipe. I do that sometimes as you just type in what ingredients you have and then it come up with lots of ideas.

Vegan Quinoa and Kidney Bean Burgers | Lauren Caris Cooks

It looks very easy and I'm going to have it with HM potato wedges instead of a bread bun and have salad and coleslaw too. Yummy!

Well, I hope it will be...:p

Farway

Hollyharvey wrote: »

It was lovely, I really enjoyed it and will make it again.

It was fairly easy:
Mozarella (I used a small ball torn up)
Grated strong cheddar (I just used what I thought when mixed with the mozarella would be enough to stuff the chicken breast).

Mix the cheese together (you could just use cheddar or any cheese really, whatever you fancy or have hanging around).

I then added wholegrain mustard, adding a teaspoon at a time until I was happy with the taste.

Slit the chicken breast and stuff with the cheese/mustard mixture and then I wrapped it in a couple of slices of smoked streaky bacon (could be any bacon that you have in or like). This will keep the filling in the chicken when cooking.

Cook at 180c fan oven (I think that is gas 6) I cooked it for 25 minutes.

Thanks Holly, seems easy enough once I have the bits assembled

Thanks PN & Caron on Yorkie / toad batter methods. I think my first problem is wrong size dish. I only have one size these days, other one cracked & I think it is just too long, more Family size. I will try and find over the next week or so a smaller one

Breakfast was one egg omelette with corned beef, in a sandwich. Sunday brunch sort of

Sunny morning, hung washing out and on to spot of volunteer planting pansies, then onto S/m, waste of time, nothing of any interest at all

Lunch was cheese & chutney sarnie, having had the last of the corned beef at breakfast

Dinner was going to be the toad in the hole but now given dish size problem and likely fail I have changed to bangers & mash, but will make mustard mash, or maybe horseradish mash instead of plain mash. And this time learning from past I will make extra for another day

I am doing the bangers in the oven, with onions, another plus for CFO

Rain on the way so they say, reached Dorchester already and heading here, time to get washing in, at least that's the plants watered in for me

moneyistooshorttomention

Still struggling with trying to "calm down" after family visit - and not been successful with that yet....:(

Lunch was a bottle of beer:o

Am now having late lunch of lots of fruit - errrm....with raw healthy style chocolate chips and double cream. Which will probably be followed by toast (wholemeal home-made organic bread:)).

Made it up the supermarket this morning at last and bought loads and loads of fresh fruit and vegetables.....the tally after a week with "notta lot" of same came to:
1 melon
some frozen cherries
organic kiwi fruit
clementines
organic spinach
bananas
organic lemons

and I've got apples/rhubarb/several types of lettuce/chicory/two types of sorrel/nasturtiums/chives/tomatoes/endive in the garden

and plums/apples/strawberries/assorted berries in the freezer from the garden and a couple of assorted foreign frozen fruit.

Bring on the Vitamin C again.....:rotfl:

Hollyharvey

Afternoon everyone,

It has been a really sunny afternoon here today, so I managed to get out for a while which was nice.

I had Greek yoghurt for breakfast today and a slice of toast with jam. For some reason I fancied something sweet. I'm sure that my portion size of yoghurt is getting bigger, the 500g tubs don't seem to be lasting me as long as they did, and there is never a hurry to use it up because it always has a really long period of time before its use by date when I buy it.

Another tin of tuna opened today, so a tuna mayo and salad sandwich for lunch.

I'm making a salmon parcel for dinner and will have that with some baby potatoes and steamed veg.

I'm in the good position in that I don't have any fresh fruit or veg that needs using up at the moment, which is good because I can eat what I choose rather than what needs using up to avoid waste .

Wednesday2000

I blame PasturesNew as I just ordered an Indian takeaway for dinner.:o:rotfl:

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Made it up the supermarket this morning at last and bought loads and loads of fresh fruit and vegetables.....the tally after a week with "notta lot" of same came to:
1 melon
some frozen cherries
organic kiwi fruit
clementines
organic spinach
bananas
organic lemons

and I've got apples/rhubarb/several types of lettuce/chicory/two types of sorrel/nasturtiums/chives/tomatoes/endive in the garden

and plums/apples/strawberries/assorted berries in the freezer from the garden and a couple of assorted foreign frozen fruit.

Bring on the Vitamin C again.....:rotfl:

Ooh, very healthy.:)

candygirl

Lentil.lasagne again for tea, not really hungry though today .Got tons of stuff in but this needs eating as there's no room in the freezer 😉

Farway

Dinner over, not the epicurean adventure I hoped for, more of did the job:o

Just as well I decided against the toad option, the sausages were frozen ones, bought yonks back on offer. They were OK but the cheapness came through, only 42% meat I noted. Plus took ages, nearly an hour, to cook in oven. I have 4 left in the frozen pack so once gone they will never darken my door again

The mustard mash was also in the OK stable. Really just cheffy mash with mustard. Brown sauce in future for mash

I fancied a pud after but pondered what to have. Then thankfully I remembered a pingable Xmas pud bought when £land was clearing out the Xmas stuff in January

1m 20secs later, nuked and a portion in a bowl with some Greek yoghurt, for healthy heart;)

moneyistooshorttomention

Wednesday2000 wrote: »

Ooh, very healthy.:)

...and I forgot - I also bought sweet potatoes.:rotfl::rotfl:

Right now - that was Stage 1 - getting my act together to buy that lot. I'm working on getting to Stage 2 - of starting to eat that lot:rotfl:

Still feeling sickened (of the emotional - not physical) variety from recent events. Some things bring out the worst in people - or drop the scales totally from one's eyes.

But I've just forced down a glass of rice milk and about to cook up some frozen fish I'd forgotten I'd got - which I don't eat any more, but don't want to waste it - and will try and force myself into some veggies with it of some description (reckon assorted lettuce and some tomatoes don't sound like much trouble).

PasturesNew

I want sausage rolls.
I have no sausage rolls.

I am therefore "stuck" about thinking about anything else to eat as my desire for sausage rolls makes me unable to consider anything else.

No doubt, in a bit, I'll reach the "ravenous" stage, at which point I'll be looking for a scabby horse as I'll be ready to eat anything ....

Farway

PasturesNew wrote: »

I want sausage rolls.
I have no sausage rolls.

I am therefore "stuck" about thinking about anything else to eat as my desire for sausage rolls makes me unable to consider anything else.

No doubt, in a bit, I'll reach the "ravenous" stage, at which point I'll be looking for a scabby horse as I'll be ready to eat anything ....

Shame there is not a YS Xmas pud stowed away for just such an occasion