Cooking for one (Mark Two)

PasturesNew

Farway wrote: »

... rice pud & custard skin....

I used to ask for the skins on these at school dinners. The dinner ladies would take the huge metal trays out and plonk them on the worktop, then they'd scrape the skin to one end/corner as most people didn't like it. I'd get there, they'd serve me my portion, then I'd say "can I have a bit of skin?" and they'd willingly give it up! Saved it going in the bin.

But I couldn't ask first else it'd have become "part of my portion" instead of "extras" .. and I was one of the "going back for seconds and thirds when possible" type of person at school dinners

I guess with foibles, there are some things you are totally grossed out about, whereas some similar seeming items are welcomed!

caronc

Good evening everyone,
I'm not keen on the skin on hot milky drinks, it gives me the squirms but love it on rice pudding, custard etc. My mum used to be the opposite and when she made us hot drinks would pinch the skin with relish:). What I can't stomach though is an egg whisked into hot milk as a drink, when I was wee I was felled with gastric flu and ended up in hospital with dehydration (apparently I was really unwell but I just remember the needles....), this was given as a "build up" drink which had to be taken or else I couldn't get home. It was truly vile, once I got home our GP decided that this should be continued for a week or so much to my horror, with the threat I'd be re-admitted if I didn't comply. I think it's where some of my food texture foibles come from;)
On the subject of soup, I've just had give my Dad a ticking off after he's given himself a dicky tum eating soup that he made on Sunday and he has left sitting on the stovetop ever since. I keep having to remind him that yes while when I was growing up soup was never put in the fridge at this time of year but a) it got used in 24 hours (there was 5 of us) and b) we didn't have central heating and the kitchen was baltic:eek:.

I had hoped to get tomorrow's stew started this afternoon but I got sidetracked trying to sort a new bank account for the voluntary group I support. Talk about convoluted.....

I'm sticking with chicken wings tonight along with a flat mushroom , tomato and wedges. I'll cook the sausages for the stew as I like to add them cooked to the beef towards the end so the skins don't go slimy and I've roasted most of the grease out of them:)

Hollyharvey

kittie wrote: »

omg I HATED that hot milk with skin on the top, I never had coffee with hot milk since, not ever, not since the 50s. I cannot drink neat milk now because of it and that is why I cannot drink normal milk over crispy cereal

I'm the same as you and PN on this one. My mum always had 'milky coffee' and I remember trying it once, and there was this horrible thick skin, I haven't been anywhere near coffee with hot milk ever since, or hot chocolate made with milk either, although I will drink the instant stuff now and again.

Same with the breakfast cereals. That is a hang up from what PN describes about the cream on the top of the milk. Sometimes it would get left out in the sun all day and mum wouldn't realise, and we would end up with it on our cereal. By the time I was about 8 I had stopped eating breakfast cereal.
<shudders thinking about it>

moneyistooshorttomention

Farway wrote: »

I had to look up gomasio, seems is is similar to furikake

Not quite farway - its sesame seeds and salt mixture. As in - used in macrobiotic cooking (which I've only had a very brief flirtation with) but that's a bit I adopted and occasionally use.

moneyistooshorttomention

Re milky coffee - there was a spell (years back - when I was still drinking instant coffee) where my usual breakfast was two slices of toast and a mug of milky coffee.

.....and then I moved onto drinking real coffee only and that breakfast went out the window and usual breakfast is now porridge made with milk/with fruit and seeds on top and then 2 slices of toast with mug of real coffee.

caronc

Oh how I miss proper strong coffee in the morning, even decent decaff beans aren't the same, but it sends my Meniere's haywire so it's no-no.

moneyistooshorttomention

Not having watched that programme - I'd hazard a guess with that tv programme that just a few episodes involved the same contestants and the contestants were conned by the tv company that they could make some personal specifications and these would be abided by.

If so - I'd feel rather annoyed if I were that contestant - as I'd know I'd been "set up" for a fall by the tv company deliberately - in order to make "good tv".

Must say - I long since decided that, if anyone ever offered me the chance to be on tv I'd just refuse - as I've read too many cases of people being set up to look bad by a tv company looking to make a more tv-worthy programme. That's before I start wondering just how much the tv company is paying them to be on the programme and the answer is probably "Too little - maybe nothing at all".

I recall reading on MSE recently that Elona (a well-known poster on MSE and that has a thrifty blog - she's MeanQueen and blog is Life After Money) was on a tv programme about her thrifty ways and got paid nothing at all for doing it and they wouldnt even let her keep the food she'd been demonstrating on the tv (despite promising her that she would be able to keep it). She didnt seem too bothered about it all - but, basically, they used her.

Wednesday2000

I had porridge and fruit for breakfast. I keep meaning to have porridge a few times a week as I read recently that it is better than statins for high cholesterol. Not that my cholesterol is particularly high, but it can't hurt.:D

I'm making a tofu scramble for lunch with baked beans and grilled tomatoes. That is actually for both of us, not just for me.:)

caronc wrote: »

Oh how I miss proper strong coffee in the morning, even decent decaff beans aren't the same, but it sends my Meniere's haywire so it's no-no.

I don't drink coffee anymore as I think it makes me get vertigo. I don't know why.

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I`m sitting drinking a strong real coffee, best time of the day for me as I am at my most energetic in the morning and as soon as the ground looks drier then I will get that exercise done, just via a cycle ride but so lovely, gets me slightly puffed several times and I get to be amongst widlife and rushes

Porridge and those dried fruits this morning. Later ratatouille, left out to get to room temperature, as that is nicest and yummy mouth watering roll- mops. Last of the soup later and some sd spelt toast and mid afternoon, the most gorgeous satisfying treat of hm choc cake, berry compote and soya cream, eaten very slowly with a teaspoon. I love that cake and will be playing around with the sugar content, I already reduced it by half, it has 2 eggs in the recipe, milk and very healthy cacao and not that much flour

I`ve been reviving my sd starter over the last 12 hours, going back to making my own bread, by hand and via the oven for now but will be experimenting with the bm over the next few weeks. Using the stop/start button to make sure the rise is right. Spelt collapses if risen too long. The sd starter needs a bit of extra body to raise spelt, so I added rye, OO and spelt. Ran out of strong white but that is on purpose as spelt is far better for me. It will take another two days to become energetic enough to climb out of the container. Reason for doing this is the sheer cost and small size of organic sd spelt loaf, bought this week. £3.29 for 400g and contains enhancers as well as organic spelt and sd. My equivalent weight spelt loaf will cost 88p plus a small bit for the sd and the oven heat which will be multi used anyway, so should cost about £1 max and it will be completely organic too. Being spelt, it flops when rising, so I cannot use my peel but will use a tin in a hot cloche. I am excited, reckon I will get a stunning looking loaf

caronc

Wednesday2000 wrote: »

I don't drink coffee anymore as I think it makes me get vertigo. I don't know why.

It's the caffeine, it affects the pressure in your ears and also certain receptors in your brain which can trigger vertigo, it was the first thing I had to drop when I developed meniere's disease.

I'm trying to organised for my offspring arriving so lunch is a roll and the last of the lentil soup:). I need to get my finger out and start tonight's stew, it'll be going in the pressure cooker as it's too late to slow cook it!