Cooking for one (Mark Two)

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PasturesNew wrote: »

I'd intended to cut it in half once cooked and have half, save half .... but then I thought "No ... just eat it...."

haha, I think it must be the weather and coming up to winter, I think we are programmed to put weight on for winter. I also ate twice as much cake as I intended, boo hoo

caronc

AndyCF wrote: »

Quick thought on carrots: I only really like the taste of the baby carrots although I'll eat others to me they are just not quite as "nice tasting" somehow. A little experiment a while back and said baby carrots seem to taste even 'better' if you chop them up slightly first, either lengthways strips or say half or quarter them into little bits first. hmm. :T

Baby carrots seem to be sweeter than full size ones so perhaps it's the sweetness you are enjoying. If you don't to pay the price of baby carrots you could add a pinch of sugar to the cooking water and see if makes the difference.:)

Brunch ended up being tattie scone, lorne and egg, I do enjoy that as a treat on a Sunday . I'm still undecided re dinner tonight might have a lamb steak (as I've some in the fridge to be frozen) or might not.....:rotfl:

AndyCF

Farway wrote: »

If you fancy a change, and budget can run to it, try organic carrots, unlike some organic veg I can really taste the difference with organic carrots
Plus try roasting carrots if not already tried, I think the larger "donkey" carrots would work best here

Both excellent ideas, I will check to see if M's do them and I'll drop them into my online basket for the next shop.

I know I won't get them locally that's for sure. I asked two places about veg sausage and one just gave me a "blank look" and the other knew what I wanted but said he did not stock it. To be fair these are little 'convenience' places.

caronc wrote: »

Baby carrots seem to be sweeter than full size ones so perhaps it's the sweetness you are enjoying. If you don't to pay the price of baby carrots you could add a pinch of sugar to the cooking water and see if makes the difference.:)

That is a brill quick idea to see what difference it makes, thank you. I do tend to overlook the obvious.

caronc

AndyCF wrote: »

That is a brill quick idea to see what difference it makes, thank you. I do tend to overlook the obvious.

It's worth a try

Ended up with the lamb steaks with roasted spuds, beetroot and broad beans

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I am going to do a veg stir fry today, not really fried, just lightly turned and cooked in a bit of water. Then I will add aminos and some plain beans from a jar.

Breakfast was spelt flakes, assorted berries and a few cacao nibs with almond milk

Last meal will be a small portion of hm soup from the fridge, was nice soup and used several different veg

I have bottled gooseberries to use with a small yogurt and will be making yogurt in a mo, for the week. Various `snacks` available, pistachio kernals, sd bread, date/oat slice

I don`t know what I will be doing today, I need to find something a bit more energetic than reading knitting or spinning. Maybe some allotment weeding, just to get out for a couple of hours. I`ll cycle up

PasturesNew

It'll be Bixies/milk/sugar for breakfast, just to use up some of that milk.
It's also easy

wort

Usual toast for breakfast. Already feeling g hungry though

I'm trying out the slow cooker today, so I prepped everything yesterday, I had a jar of enchilada sauce , that needed using up, so thought I'd bung that in, not sure how it will turn out as when I looked at her instructions, it's more of a pour over sauce that you then add cheese and brown under grill!!!!! I put pots, onion, and carrots , then put the spice on chicken and threw that in.
Only put it on when I got back from seeing dgson off on school trip, so put on auto, see how it is at 4pm.;)
Lunch will be a ham salad sandwich and a yogurt with seeds. I will lift the leek and potato soup out of freezer to take to work tomorrow for lunch.

PasturesNew

wort wrote: »

....sauce .... a pour over sauce ...

I've taken the attitude that "any sauce is a sauce" when it comes to chucking things into the pot. Many sauces are named just as "marketing ploys" and I'm sure if you were in the factory and they also did one for SCs it'd be the same sauce, on the same conveyor belt, that just poured into different jars

There is the chance of a little flavour loss due to the extra cook time - on the other hand it might help the sauce

In short: it's sauce. It's wet and has flavours. In it goes!!



I'm sure it'll be absolutely fine.

I was never a buyer of sauces in the past; I then was "gifted" some from a sibling's cupboard-turn-out, so had some to use (I still have!) and I then picked up a couple of random super-cheapo jars (usually chilli) just "for those lazy days".

The sibling's cupboard-turn-out sauces were all sorts of cook-in, none were "intended for the SC".

What could possibly go wrong? Not a lot when you look at it!

Talking of gifting - I've also never been a buyer of packet mixes - and I was also gifted one of those, it's been sitting here beside me since last night.... when I went through the custard to see what I'd got and dragged it out thinking "You must use that". It's a biryani, intended for chicken - the problem I have with it is I have no chicken and if I were to make it a veggie one I've not got "enough of a good mix of veggies" for it either right now. Moving on from that, I thought I'd make it in the nuke-box... but, as it's a curry/spice mix, I don't wish to use my existing cookware for fear of permanent staining... so I can't open this packet until I've bought a new pyrex dish, a bigger one... a "family sized" dish, of which I currently have precisely zero.

caronc

Good morning everyone,

Good luck with your slow cooker trial run wort, I'm sure the pour over sauce will be fine. You can always thicken it with some cornflour if it thins out a bit.

Well it's certainly milder here today, shame it's horribly wet, grey and miserable.:(

Today's challenge (apart from harassing the Pension folk;)) is to do a meal plan for the next few days and get my eating back on track as it's been a bit sketchy the past couple of days and certainly short on fruit/veg/fibre as my digestive system is beginning to tell me:o

Breakfast was toast and banana, lunch will be a tomato sarnie and clementines and tonight I think I'll have lentil & egg curry and pitta. The curry is in the freezer so just needs heating and a couple of eggs boiled. If I cba in the next hour I might make a quick pot of chicken broth in the pressure cooker and have some of that as well at lunch time.

wort

Thanks both of you, it certainly smells good, I'm just trying to resist lifting the lid and giving it a stir!! I've got I microwave rice so will cook half of that with it, think there's enough for 2 days.

Just ate my sandwich, and decided to have some cheese and onion crisp with it !

It's milder here also though the rain has stopped and it's blowing a hooley!