Cooking for one (Mark Two)

B17c

Thanks HH! I'll screenshot your recipe too!

I'm hungry for a burger now...

Pasta for brekkie again, chicken/broccoli for lunch again, cheeky jam sandwich scoffed in the stockroom again and soup when I got home 30 mins ago. In bed now with a cup of tea

caronc

Hollyharvey wrote: »

Ingredients
Liver (just enough for one meal for me) I use lambs liver.
seasoned flour
Large knob of butter
half to one onion
50 ml lamb/or beef stock
100ml milk
1 clove garlic (I use a bit more but I like it)
2 tablespoons tomato puree (I quite often use a bit more)


Melt the butter and brown the liver then remove.
In the remaining butter fry the oinions slowly until tender.
Stir in the stock, milk, tomato puree and garlic. Bring to the boil stirring continuously.
Add the liver to the saucepan, cover and cook gently for 10 to 15 minutes until the liver is tender.


I quite often trickly some cream or sour cream over it if I have any in, and will usually use a pinch of mixed dried herbs in it as well.





It's a simple quick and easy recipe.

That sounds really tasty thanks Holly

meg72

poppystar wrote: »

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:)

Its kids over cats any time for me one because I really like them and love to hear them playing and two if you do get a problem you can always have a word with parents. Its pointless complaining about cats as they do their own thing where they want. theres nothing their owners can do about it My neighbour has three and shes at work all day my eg plot is now out of bounds to veg due to cat poo and I spend a small fortune on disinfecting my porch the smell is just awful some days.

karcher

meg72 wrote: »

Its kids over cats any time for me one because I really like them and love to hear them playing and two if you do get a problem you can always have a word with parents. Its pointless complaining about cats as they do their own thing where they want. theres nothing their owners can do about it My neighbour has three and shes at work all day my eg plot is now out of bounds to veg due to cat poo and I spend a small fortune on disinfecting my porch the smell is just awful some days.

Blimey have I stumbled upon the wrong thread :eek:

Don't get me started on cat shoite...I don't care if you can't dictate where they go..I do not want their excrement in my garden nor have to stop growing anything (veg or plants) because the local cats want to use my soil/patio/gravel/chippings as a toilet :mad:
......


So anyway, where were we?

Not feeling even vaguely peckish now...No CFO going on here tonight!

:eek:

karcher

No quote but I agree PN.

SunnyGirl

I've had children playing out in my time and cats but I would hope that the children were respectful and polite to others and I know that I never had to deal with any complaints about them. The cats I can't speak for unfortunately.

I have enjoyed listening to the kids on the street playing out over the last few days I must say. Quite a few of them talk to me at the gate when they see me going in and out to the bins.

SquirrelSmall

Lost post.

So, in brief.

Early meeting, no breakfast - substituted this with a handful of minstrels.

Lunch with new starter in "nice" (over priced) restaurant. Burger and chips. What's the deal with brioche instead of a bun? Really?

Back to boat mid afternoon for chores related to pee from errant visitor cat. And various conference calls (I can multi-task).

Then supper courtesy of neighbour of delivery peri peri chicken.

I think I have hit precisely zero out of my 5 or 10 a day.

And Boy Cat has just been retrieved from a spontaneous late night swim. He's skulking in high dudgeon in the engine room.

Please - can I have a quiet weekend when I cook lovely food (like HollyHarvey's Italian Liver) and don't get covered in cat fluff/marina water/other effluent at every turn?

Hollyharvey

PN No quote but totally agree. This is from personal experience.

SunnyGirl

PN They sound bloody little horrors and thats me being polite. I'd have been mortified if mine did any one of those things! Must make your summer quite miserable.

The kids round here are nice, polite and friendly. I'm sure not all of them
are but the ones who live nearby are good.

moneyistooshorttomention

caronc wrote: »

Listen to this and smile https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yN-6PbqAPM :rotfl:

:rotfl:...and it's reassuring that both singer and audience are basically middle-aged (ie not elderly) and the audience all seem to be laughing in recognition. So - maybe it's not <whispers> "old age":eek:

I'm developing a theory that "absent-minded incidents" run in line with how many Sodders one has had in life recently.

A "Sodder" being short for a "sodding thing that shouldn't have happened" - be it utilities mucking-up/health problems/workmen problems/etc/etc.

A "Mega Sodder" is a huge "sodding thing that shouldn't have happened" (such as illness that's incurable or it could be cured but the NHS is refusing to spend money on doing so and you can't afford to pay that bill for them and get it dealt with anyway).

So - my theory is that "absent mindedness" happens when there have been too many Sodders in quick succession (ie the brainpower/'focus destined to be used on one's Life is going on dealing with Sodders instead iyswim). Followed by "distraction activities" to take one's mind off the Sodders whilst waiting for them to be gone. Sodder quotient for the last month = 7 things.

Mind you - I reckon Squirrel Small is racking up the Sodders at the moment too - courtesy of the swimming cats and "spraying cat".