Cooking for one (Mark Two)

Need2bthrifty

I used to have a toastie machine back in the day and did enjoy the end result but such a faff to clean, I stick to good old under the grill cheese on toast these days.

Pea pasta - dont know whether I will indulge in this. For a while I did find after eating "ordinary" durum wheat pasta that I felt kinda bloated and tried out buckwheat pasta but I'm still trying hard to work my way through the packet, it has to be a good, gutsy pasta sauce to disguise the taste and texture of this one.

Todays meals have been really tasty (though I say so myself)
B - Porridge, cinnamon & raisin stewed apples
L - Cold Meat Salad
D - Cod fillet and green beans in preserved lemon and caper sauce, quinoa patties.
but Friday is the start of my menu week so need to go off and fine tune the rest of my weekly plan.

Farway

PasturesNew wrote: »

Instead, try dry frying it - use a non stick frying pan on a medium heat. You can superfill the toastie and it stays flat/neat. Turn it over using a regular frypan spatula.

Ah, good idea but too late for now

In the end I just had ham on toast with grilled cheese topping, in chef speak this is a deconstructed cheese & ham toastie

Caron, not sure about putting hair remover down the plug hole, the shower tray is not the normal plug hole, there is a metal plate which lifts out , under it is a nylon meshed "bucket". Strong chemicals may dissolve the nylon, far easier [for me] for the cleaner to scrub it

Boiler now serviced, seems the Expansion Vessel had lost it's air during the years, with some [STRIKE]poor[/STRIKE] shoddy servicing chucked in. The air pressure should be checked on servicing, but I guess that is an easy bit to skip if no one watching / checking :mad:

As a result water had lifted the safety relief valve, which in normal operation should never lift, once it has lifted it needs replacing because "stuff" may lodge on the seating and result in more drips. Bo Hoo.

On the brighter side, new valve is in stock & will be fitted on Monday

Good job because fist frost is forecast here on Sunday night

caronc

I love a "proper" toastie with "Breville" sealed edges, my first serious boyfriend's family had one. I'm not sure who I loved more him or the sense of both anticipation and fear incase it blistered the top of your mouth:rotfl:.

caronc

Farway wrote: »

Caron, not sure about putting hair remover down the plug hole, the shower tray is not the normal plug hole, there is a metal plate which lifts out , under it is a nylon meshed "bucket". Strong chemicals may dissolve the nylon, far easier [for me] for the cleaner to scrub it



As a result water had lifted the safety relief valve, which in normal operation should never lift, once it has lifted it needs replacing because "stuff" may lodge on the seating and result in more drips. Bo Hoo.

On the brighter side, new valve is in stock & will be fitted on Monday

Good job because fist frost is forecast here on Sunday night

Yes best not to incase it disolves the mesh :eek::eek:, I'll need to watch out for this when I get my new one. I have lots of hair so consequently lose lots when I wash it. It was a tip my hairdresser gave me and I have to say it does really work.

Farway

caronc wrote: »

I love a "proper" toastie with "Breville" sealed edges, my first serious boyfriend's family had one. I'm not sure who I loved more him or the sense of both anticipation and fear incase it blistered the top of your mouth:rotfl:.

Once those toasties were all the rage, along with chicken N chips in a basket

Now posh chips come in a mini tin bucket

caronc

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Burgers all round today then - as I've just had a black bean burger for dinner tonight (with last of cucumber pickles, some salad, some hawthorn ketchup, some sweet potato chips).

Need2bthrifty wrote: »

D - Cod fillet and green beans in preserved lemon and caper sauce, quinoa patties.
but Friday is the start of my menu week so need to go off and fine tune the rest of my weekly plan.

Both of these sound really scrumptious

Farway

caronc wrote: »

Yes best not to incase it disolves the mesh :eek::eek:, I'll need to watch out for this when I get my new one. I have lots of hair so consequently lose lots when I wash it. It was a tip my hairdresser gave me and I have to say it does really work.

No problem here with hair, it went decades back:o

Need2bthrifty

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Good to keep the birds fed - though in my garden they all turn up and feed themselves.

Just as well to help out a bit - as during the last week first I read an article Bridget Strawbridge (from "Its not easy being green" fame on tv a while back) put up an article on her Facebook page saying we've killed most of the insects since I was born (ie with our chemicals). Then I read an article elsewhere saying we've also killed most of some smaller species of birds too since I was born:mad::mad::(:(:mad::mad:

I have starting to feed the little birds again - gave up a few years ago because of my ignorant next door neighbour feeding the urban seagulls :mad: :mad:, they have moved away and so have the gulls. The difficulty for the small birds these days is getting to the feeders before the starlings and the jackdaws.

karcher

Need2bthrifty wrote: »

Hi Karcher

I adapted it from a courgette souffl! recipe I found basically just to use up some two-tone broccoli (yellow underneath and green on top). The recipe uses 1 large egg separated plus an extra egg white, but I didn't use the extra egg white and it turned out fine maybe not so high.

Place a small roasting with an inch of water in the oven - heat to 200deg.

6oz broccoli - cooked and mashed with a potato masher.
Basic b!chamel sauce -
Melt 40g butter, add a heaped dessertspoon flour add 2floz milk bit by bit when you have a smooth mixture take off the heat, add the mashed broccoli and stir in an egg yolk, 10g of grated cheese (I used cheddar), a grating of nutmeg, pinch of cayenne, salt & pepper to taste.

Whisk the egg white/s and gently fold into the broccoli mixture. Pile into a well buttered 5 inch souffl! dish (I used the smallest sized Pyrex casserole dish) sprinkle over about a dessertspoon of parmesan. Place the dish in the roasting tin containing the hot water and bake for 30-35 mins.

I found it to be a good sized portion but you could add extras crusty/garlic bread, another veg on the side.

Thanks very much

Glad

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'd not heard of pea pasta, so had a quick look for it.

Napolina make it - sold in Sainsbobs £2/250g (£8/Kg) - Morries sell that for £1.75 (£7/Kg). Morries also have their own brand £1.36 (£5.44/Kg).

I won't be trying it, I'm on a Free From Diet.... "Free From Nonsense"

Not against the idea... if served it I'd eat it and probably like it .... but the price is nonsense....

you're right it really annoys me when silly prices are charged for something 'fancy'!!

but I was happy with the boxes I got downpriced to 60p