Cooking for one (Mark Two)

Hollyharvey

SingleSue wrote: »

I don't decorate the house at Christmas, I find it all so depressing and I end up in floods of tears - a reminder of happy times in the past that rather than making me smile, make me just want to cry.

To be honest Sue, this is the reason that I don't. I do find this time of the year particularly difficult and am always glad when we get to January and the schools go back.

PasturesNew

I've no bread, no eggs and it's cold/windy/raining.

So breakfast will be sausages, baked beans, a hash brown.

Lunch will be the final portion of the beef/pineapple curry I made last week.

caronc

Good morning everyone from a very frozen but snow free Ayrshire. It was -6C when I went to bed last night but has "warmed up" overnight to -2C .
I've not ventured out yet but everywhere looks very slippy. Forecast is for sun later and then mist this evening so I think it will warm up a good bit as the day goes on.
Hope those in snowy areas are warm and safe,
I'm not sure about food for today yet, need a few more cuppas before I'm functioning in that department:)

moneyistooshorttomention

Thankfully no snow here either.

Gotta go out in a minute and can't say I feel much like it. I have absolutely no excuse ever - despite the poor bus service here there is a very cheap taxi service locally and so my resolve firms at thinking "Cant say I cant ever - at prices like that - I all too clearly can....:rotfl:"

Need summat food-wise to do for a "Christmas edition" so to say of a regular social thing tomorrow - and I've not got round to looking up what I might make - so guess it's a case of into a supermarket and see if there's some special type cracker things and I could haul out one or two of the cheeses there in that use-up drawer in the freezer to go with them. I am guessing that those soft goats cheese rolls don't crumble to pieces after coming out of freezer - like cheddar cheese does....?

Lunch today - the 2nd of the filled sweet potato flatbreads from yesterday and think it had better be a stirfry tonight.

PasturesNew

Plan A didn't go to plan. Got the sausages and beans out .... no hash brown. I was SURE I had one last one left....must've eaten it!

So no breakfast.

Looks like that curry might be eaten as an early lunch ....

Adding hash browns to the shopping list

Wednesday2000

Breakfast was two cups of tea with two slices of toast with the piri piri houmous on top with some grated carrot as well. Bunch of red grapes.

I'm not sure about any other meals today yet...

poppystar wrote: »

Discovered some lovely 'superseeded" crackers

Where did you get them from? I love crackers.:) I fancy some Ritz ones too now people on here have been talking about them.:D

poppystar

Wednesday2000 wrote: »

Where did you get them from? I love crackers.:) I fancy some Ritz ones too now people on here have been talking about them.:D

They are Nairn ones, got them with my Oc@do order then topped up at H&B as they had buy one get one half price. I don't usually enjoy oat based crackers but these are such a nice taste and claim to be high in protein (but that might just be in comparison to unseeded!). Really nice:)

caronc

I have just managed to have a very random mishap, cut my finger on a cheese triangle wrapper:eek:, I have no idea how I managed that. Think it my be safer to go back to tubs....:rotfl::rotfl:

PN- one of the downsides to CFO is that there is no one else to blame if food goes AWOL;):)

PasturesNew

I had a new idea. Sausage & tomato baguettes.

I didn't really fancy the curry so early. When I went into the kitchen I had half a punnet of cherry tomatoes I bought 2-3 weeks ago and 23 cocktail sausages that need using or freezing (that's half a box). So I packaged up 18 sausages in sets of 6 and popped those into the freezer, leaving 5. I then got 5 cherry tomatoes.

I'd bought a 2-pack of part-baked baguette some months ago, so thought I'd "use that up and get a fresh one in before Xmas", so I've cooked up one of those, then filled both halves with the sausages/tomatoes. I only intended to eat one half of one baguette, but realised there was too much filling for one, so spread it across the two and ate both halves.

So I still have most of a punnet of cherry tomatoes to eat - and now a part-baked baguette that needs cooking. I expect that, tomorrow, I'll have a cheese/tomato baguette and a cheese/pickle one.

elona

Feel a little foolish after going out yesterday to get essentials in case the snow as heavy. There was quite a lot of snow but when I got up this morning the roads and pavements were clear.

Decided to stay in today anyway and coddle myself a bit. Had a roll with sausages for breakfast and there is chicken and veg pasta from yesterday for lunch. I found a couple of courgettes in the fridge so will saute them with the cooked chicken breast, some onions and tomatoes for tonight.

I looked out the address book and cards and will write them out tomorrow when I should be feeling better.

PN

Your sausage and tomato baguette sounds tasty. I just had ketchup on my roll (er two rolls)