Cooking for one (Mark Two)

karcher

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'm starving; it's raining .... and I really fancy a big hot pie with lashings of mash and gravy...... that means going out and buying a family sized pie .... but I'm tempted to do that.

Go for it PN

monnagran

It's really not the weather for salad is it? Never mind, that's what I had so that's what I ate. I've almost used up a small gammon joint I bought in Aldi a couple of weeks ago. It has been brilliant, cost about £3 and has been so versatile, I've had it with salads, hot with eggs, in an omelette, in a quiche and there is just enough left for a sandwich. I must have had at least 8 meals from it.
Now I fancy something sweet and am fighting an urge to attack a Vienetta that I know is lurking in the freezer.

Maybe if I clean my teeth.............

monnagran

I have just lost a post. It was interesting, erudite and side-splittingly hilarious. Pity no-one saw it.

PN the only sheds for the uber rich that I can think of are either in Sandbanks or Mudeford Sandbank. Mudeford SB was where we spent all our holidays as children. No rich folk around then. After the war it was the only place that the hard-up hoi poloi, us, could afford.


Oh dear. The missing post has mysteriously reappeared and my lies have been exposed.
Sigh.....sackcloth time again.

Farway

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'm starving; it's raining .... and I really fancy a big hot pie with lashings of mash and gravy...... that means going out and buying a family sized pie .... but I'm tempted to do that.

Go on, grab the tin opener and attack the forever FB pie you have skulking around

Promised rain now here, glad I got out & about earlier

Think it will be LO cold pizza but now going for carb overload and having it with Actifry chips, and it's time for another sos roll with a cuppa I think

PasturesNew

monnagran wrote: »

Sandbanks ... SB

I have actually lived at the first (don't live there/nothing there!).
I am now living near the 2nd.
This wasn't my first choice of where to live, but I didn't have the luxury of continually waiting as many months were passing while I "waited" for my preferred spot about 12 miles away, but nothing came up I liked/could afford so I just "bought a house/what's for sale this week".

PasturesNew

Farway wrote: »

Go on, grab the tin opener and attack the forever FB pie you have skulking around

I bought two, different ones; I was disappointed by the first, which is why the 2nd one is now in the cupboard mentally labelled as "last resort".

I'm torn... pie ... or just have another burger

Looking at this rain ...I think I'll just have spuds/cheese/beans....

Doom_and_Gloom

I've raided the fridge and have decided on vegetable rice and lentils done in the rice cooker.
So onion, broccoli, celery, pepper, courgette and cabbage all cut up. Have rice and lentils in the rice cooker. All I have to do is add water and the veg into the rice cooker later and turn it on. If I have room I will add peas and sweetcorn or some frozen mixed veg. Near the end of cooking I'll add spinach.
Will serve with a garlic herb marinade that works well as a sauce.

Hollyharvey

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'm starving; it's raining .... and I really fancy a big hot pie with lashings of mash and gravy...... that means going out and buying a family sized pie .... but I'm tempted to do that.

Do it! It sounds lovely just what you need in that sort of weather.

Farway

PasturesNew wrote: »

I bought two, different ones; I was disappointed by the first, which is why the 2nd one is now in the cupboard mentally labelled as "last resort".

I'm torn... pie ... or just have another burger

Ah, the FB pie will have added bonus of a "free" flan / whatever tin

caronc

monnagran wrote: »

It's really bad here too. As we are only a stone's throw from the beach we get it straight off the sea.
I don't mind it. I'm tucked up in a warm bed and feel very cosy. It helps that we don't have any large trees near the house. I remember the 1987 hurricane all too clearly when we lost all our windows in the front of the house, the cars in the drive and the electricity for about 10 days. People just a couple of miles away had no water for about 2 weeks!
Don't want that again.

I worked in London in 1987 (lived in Clapham), and was travelling to Scotland that Friday evening. The weather was pretty wild and it turned out I was on one of the last trains out of Euston. I had no idea things were so bad until my Mum woke me the next day having caught it on the news. Much frantic phoning later established the house I lived in had no water and had had a narrow miss when a tree came down across the front path but my work place was badly damaged so I got an impromptu holiday

Doom_and_Gloom wrote: »

I've raided the fridge and have decided on vegetable rice and lentils done in the rice cooker.
So onion, broccoli, celery, pepper, courgette and cabbage all cut up. Have rice and lentils in the rice cooker. All I have to do is add water and the veg into the rice cooker later and turn it on. If I have room I will add peas and sweetcorn or some frozen mixed veg. Near the end of cooking I'll add spinach.
Will serve with a garlic herb marinade that works well as a sauce.

That sounds really tasty and I bet LOs would make great soup:)

It's been windy here too today (around 25mph) and it's now pouring. My Dad popped by earlier and I made us Welsh Rarebit :Dfor lunch with some of the LO white sauce lurking in the fridge, I must portion and freeze the rest later. Tonight I'm having a turkey steak marinaded with garlic, oregano and lemon with some roasted veg and probably sweet potato wedges.