Cooking for one (Mark Two)

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I'm making Cottage pie on Friday and I'm still awake. As you can tell

Hollyharvey

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'd swap a cat for people's kids any day!

So would I, particularly at the moment. The summer holidays can be a right pain, and they seem to go on for ages

Hollyharvey

Poor_Single_lady wrote: »

I am currently trying to eat everything in my freezer to do a defrost. No flying ants here.

I've got a fridge/freezer with a 50/50 split in the kitchen and a very small chest freezer in the outhouse. Both are pretty much full and always are. I dread to think when they are likely to get defrosted.

PasturesNew

Cold/wet here this morning.

I've a shortage of hot breakfast items ... else I'd be having a cooked breakfast. I've a single, last, piece of bread I defrosted the other day and didn't get through .... so it'll be one piece of toast and some marg.

I've stuff in the freezer that I should just eat. The other weekend, instead of going for a disappointing takeaway, I went to the supermarket and bought some random "similar to takeaway" type items and, of course, pack sizes were larger than required, so I've still got the remainder of those packs. But I think I'll save those as my Friday night "treat".

I've got spuds that need to be eaten, so the easiest meal would be some baked spuds and I can open the cheese I bought from L1dl when it was the Weekend Special nearly 2 weeks ago (I bought four packs). So it'll be that: Spuds and cheese.

Some time in the next week I think I'll make another crustless quiche.... probably sweetcorn as that's lurking in the freezer and my new plan is to deliberately eat lurking freezer items and not to just move them around for a year avoiding them.

moneyistooshorttomention

SquirrelSmall wrote: »

Another midnight invasion from the mystery Bengal who sprayed all over the front of the living quarters.

Didn't have brekkie, lunch was leftovers and cooked fishcakes, new pots and salad (ok I didn't cook the salad) for tea.

Desperately hoping not to be invaded again tonight. Working stupid hours as it is and extra stress from invading felines doesn't really help.

(Confronted the owner this morning. Classic line - "What is a cello?" The darn big expensive thing your cat... etc)

<sigh>

Trying to remember from boat holidaying (years back now....) - but is there an outdoor tap there in the ground anywhere near your boat. So you could fix a hosepipe to it for "spraying" back at the cat if you catch it in the act?

Failing that - I'm trying to remember the name of a kids toy that was advocated to me for moggy visitors of the unwanted variety the other day. It's a water spray gun - of a very powerful/long-ranging variety. I did have a quick google at the time and they don't cost that much and it's possible to buy one from Arg*s for instance (think it's around £15/£20???). I decided not to in the end myself - as I don't think I'll be getting unwanted "presents" left in my garden any longer (now that the cat that I thought was culprit no longer seems to be around).

Hollyharvey

PasturesNew wrote: »

...freezer and my new plan is to deliberately eat lurking freezer items and not to just move them around for a year avoiding them.

I should really do this. I need to start going back to eating what's in there and not putting anything else in until I have defrosted it.

moneyistooshorttomention

Think I'd need to stop growing fruit to stand a chance of ever doing much emptying of my freezer:rotfl:. There'd be a neighbour and a couple of friends that might object to that though - as I give them a lot of surplus too..

Freezers can get very full anyway. I think the only readymade or leftover cooked items I have in there are a packet of filo pastry, a large bag of (home) cooked chickpeas and some pesto. Everything else is "ingredients" basically - butter/bread spread/tofu/milk/various cheeses (all in there at the moment - whilst I'm losing weight and not letting myself have them). That - when my freezer is about 6' tall.

poppystar

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'd swap a cat for people's kids any day!

This is a difficult one - the kids at least do not poo and dig up the garden every time I plant new plants (or at least I don't think its the kids!!):eek: They just throw all their sweet wrappers in!


Scrapings from a jar of nut butter on toast this morning with a little raspberry jam. Need to replenish stocks of both these and the bread today:)

moneyistooshorttomention

I know there's a few others on here that will be interested - so sharing.

I've found a blog with recipe quantities on it that are (vast majority of times) in quantities for 1 or 2 people:T.

Add that the recipes look quick and easy to do - for the CBA factor...

https://thekellydiet.blog

It's a healthy, plant-based blog - but looks tasty (which quite a lot of ones in that genre don't imo).

Slinky

Farway wrote: »

PS welcome Slinky, one advantage of CFO, as you discovered, is doing whatever you want with food, only you to eat it anyway, so what or how it is prepared or served is your choice. Lesson one, eat your salad out of the plastic box you have it stored in

Oh most definitely will be eaten from the box. I'm no great fan of washing up either!

Although we have a dishwasher, we don't put pans or plastics in it so there's usually something in addition to what goes in the machine. When OH is not here I only wash up once a day, usually mid-morning as I can't be arrised in the evening.

Tonight I'll be cooking chilli, but a double portion. Will freeze the second one for next week. I'm trying to cut down on the amount of cooking I do in the week. Monday I had Sunday's leftovers for dinner, last night was an omelete. Tomorrow will be spagless bol (with cauliflower rice instead of pasta), a portion from the freezer I cooked last week. That will get me to Friday when OH comes home and we have fish & chips.


ETA I've just vacced up the flying ants which appeared in our sunroom last night. I quick squirt with the Raid sorted them. We need to get the decorator's caulk out and fill in a little crack along the bottom of the door. There's been a little settlement there and I think that's where they are getting in.