Cooking for one (Mark Two)

PasturesNew

I polished off the final two sausage rolls, as a breakfast .... and just had a late lunch of beans on toast with the last bit of cheese as I had 10 grams of cheese that needed using up, so thought I'd sprinkle that over the beans

Living the high life!

Sausages/mash later probably.

Farway

Blimey, I think the wind now comes directly from Moscow, it was bitter when I went out this morning, despite the sun. Should've had porridge to make me glow like I was from Chernobyl, but I skipped breakfast

Nothing YS to tempt in Lild, but did get Christmas pre packed beetroot, dated until well into 2018, and a pint of UHT milk. I never have UHT milk but just thinking should I be stuck in over winter at least won't have to struggle out just for milk, and if not used and I at last manage to perfect making a nice rice pud it can go in that

Lunch was back to cheese salad sarnie time

Dinner will be the now defrosted chilli con carne

AndyCF wrote: »

I think I should of just grabbed a pack of frozen LM's sausages (instead of dogs) as last time I tried them they were quite nice and they "look" like they are cooked even when they are still frozen.

Compared to a different supermarkets 'own brand' veg-burgers which (to be fair a few years ago now) came out of a normal oven both greyish and a bit horrible.
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LM veg sausages are the only ones I like, and if you have never tried, her veg pies are also excellnt

I have tried all types of veggie burger, they just do not do it for me, having said that I am off burgers generally at the moment

kittie, appetite changes, mine has done the same, which is why I have to make an effort to eat some fresh veg, and do try and eat salad, even if it is only tomato / lettuce / cuc type

AndyCF

PasturesNew wrote: »

Living the high life!

No harm in that

PasturesNew wrote: »

Sausages/mash later probably.

That does lead me onto a slightly odd thought, the times I've done sausage + mash but its occurred to me why not 'add something' to the mash too, even if its just a sprinkle of peas or sweetcorn or something hmm. Another idea.

Farway wrote: »

LM veg sausages are the only ones I like, and if you have never tried, her veg pies are also excellnt

I have tried all types of veggie burger, they just do not do it for me, having said that I am off burgers generally at the moment

kittie, appetite changes, mine has done the same, which is why I have to make an effort to eat some fresh veg, and do try and eat salad, even if it is only tomato / lettuce / cuc type

It has been a while and I'd have to micro them although it seems quite sensible to do this with those. I did read on one site someone ate them once they were defrosted ( :eek: ) which sounds a step too far and not a brilliant idea. I'd want them hot

I have heard mixed results about the pies although it may of been another brand, same as the sausage rolls. I will however take a look at the LM pie and a few other brands too. I think its what I'd call "The Marmite Effect" in that it may be a love/hate thing perhaps, but then again people tend to write neg reviews more than positive as if its good not many will say so compared to not good.

No idea on food for later I think I'll have to try to run down a few bits for next weeks order so I have a sensible match of items. That may mean I have to have soup and / or potato's tonight with some sweetcorn, then again none of those options are bad news.

moneyistooshorttomention

Right now I'm doing a slowcooker recipe I saw on "A Girl Called Jack" blog - cheapie (well....add in those organic price premiums:cool:) one of onions/canned tomatoes/canned lentils/tomato sauce (trans. tomato puree)/garlic/salt and pepper she didnt mention and it's supposed to all be luscious courtesy of the long cooking.

Time will tell. Will probably get a couple of potatoes baking up in the oven in a minute to be baked potatoes to go with it.

PasturesNew

I've a "fear" of lentils. I remember as a child mum'd cook some orange ones and make a "broth" with a salty ham ... in the pressure cooker. Not for me! I don't like salty ham foods.... or briney looking liquid.

So I was put off lentils.

As a CFO I can't "try" them else that'd generate a lot of waste if I despised them and spat out the first mouthful

It has felt bitterly cold all day today - I've had the heating on!! And still I can't feel my feet.

caronc

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Right now I'm doing a slowcooker recipe I saw on "A Girl Called Jack" blog - cheapie (well....add in those organic price premiums:cool:) one of onions/canned tomatoes/canned lentils/tomato sauce (trans. tomato puree)/garlic/salt and pepper she didnt mention and it's supposed to all be luscious courtesy of the long cooking.

Time will tell. Will probably get a couple of potatoes baking up in the oven in a minute to be baked potatoes to go with it.

oh that sounds tasty

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've a "fear" of lentils. I remember as a child mum'd cook some orange ones and make a "broth" with a salty ham ... in the pressure cooker. Not for me! I don't like salty ham foods.... or briney looking liquid.

So I was put off lentils.

As a CFO I can't "try" them else that'd generate a lot of waste if I despised them and spat out the first mouthful

It has felt bitterly cold all day today - I've had the heating on!! And still I can't feel my feet.

My slow cooker is currently full of your worst nightmare, lentil soup made with a ham hock :cool::eek:

moneyistooshorttomention

Errrm...well it aint orange lentils. Twas brown (or possibly green?) pre-cooked lentils in that can.

It's smelling quite nice right now - courtesy of the garlic in it (though she specified 6 cloves garlic - for 2 helpings!!!!!! - and so I amended it to one fat clove of garlic).

It IS particularly cold today - yep...in gloves weather for sure. Been re-arranging bedroom today to be that bit more "cosy". I can now have extra "soft" lighting controllable from sitting in bed and better able to do the "soft music thing" controlled from my bed. Guess that's my definition of trying to "cosy up" a bit for winter....

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Farway, good to know that it happens to others, a smaller appetite certainly keeps the mind focused ie on eating the right foods, so I chucked yesterdays soup away, all of it and also the extra potato that I had baked. There was potato in the soup and most times it would have been nice but I could not have faced the gloop today, no point beating myself up about it, it would just have been staring at me, a great big bowl of it.

I had cold rataouille with feta, sounds gross but was actually very tasty because of the herbs. I only had 1/4 of my ready meal at lunchtime, picked out the turkey chunk and the pancetta and the beans. lol I still downed my 85% chocolate though. Its been a good day foodwise in all honesty. I think I prefer this to scoffing all those crisps

moneyistooshorttomention

Verdict on that slowcooker recipe I've just done - it's certainly garlick-y all right (that's with one fat clove of garlic - rather than the 6 cloves she said).

But - it was actually quite tasty - after that 1 hour on high and then musta been about 3 hours on low. Eaten with a bit of bread in the event (as CBA to do baked potatoes). In my case - I threw a bit of nutritional yeast over the top of it (in lieu of grated cheese).

Not bad for basically cheap ingredients....

caronc

Glad the recipe worked money, I can't say I'm adverse to [STRIKE]vampire-repelling-quantities[/STRIKE] a bit of garlic in dishes:).

The soup is cooling and will get stuck back on for a couple of hours tomorrow to finish off.

I managed to wrestle with Henry and get the floors mopped but my word my balance was protesting so the units remain unwiped and I had to slope off for a lie down this afternoon to settle things down. Still reasonable progress has been made this and I'm finding the re-arranged kitchen much better for me to work in:). Tomorrow apart from cleaning the bathroom and giving the lounge a quick tidy I don't plan to do much so I'm not completely wabbit by the time folk arrive. I haven't seen "the girls" for a few months so I'm sure we will have lots to catch up on.

I'm still swithering re dinner though I think sausage, mushrooms, gravy and root veg mash might hit the spot. I was thinking curry from the freezer earlier but have decided I don't really fancy that. We are back to sleety rain with flecks of snow here so I think the comfort of something with gravy beckons.