Cooking for one (Mark Two)

poppystar

Mr T cauliflowers at 29p! So then spent another £2 to get the ingredients to turn it into cauliflower cheese. Not that i needed to buy more food really. Why oh why did I get sucked in by the cauliflower?!:o

Farway

Dinner is now nearly certain to be frozen fish & chips plus nuked frozen peas. Quick and easy, one oven tray + nuker

Reading the Waitrose weekend paper I spotted recipe / method for Hasselback potatoes. Looks like an easy and fairly fuss free method, and would look a bit posher than oven chips

Has anyone made these? Waitrose looks identical to this method https://realfood.tesco.com/recipes/hasselback-potatoes.html

Plus I fancied some rock cakes, think it was PN mentioned them, I remember making them with my Mum, not had them since Junior school, one for me to try sometime this weekend I think

caronc

PasturesNew wrote: »

EDIT: I've not eaten anything today ... I'll go into the scoff-a-thon starving I think... "get my money's worth", especially as it's one price and, as you know, some people really tuck in and eat tons more than little me could ever manage. But I do intend to give it all a good thrashing

Enjoy

poppystar wrote: »

Mr T cauliflowers at 29p! So then spent another £2 to get the ingredients to turn it into cauliflower cheese. Not that i needed to buy more food really. Why oh why did I get sucked in by the cauliflower?!:o

Me too , but they are a decent size for 29p so very :money:really

Farway wrote: »

Has anyone made these? Waitrose looks identical to this method https://realfood.tesco.com/recipes/hasselback-potatoes.html

Yes they are lovely - a wee tip (Nigella I think) to avoid cutting right through them pop the spud on a serving/table spoon stops the knife sliding right through them. If you wanted to be especially piggy slivers of cheese and/or ham stuck in the slits is lovely:)

Kittie - I generally don't mind taking things in for nearby neighbours but wary it's when it's folk I don't know. Had a bit of a run in a year or so ago with a chap from the flats across the road (thankfully he's not there now) he basically accused me of trying to filtch his parcel because I hadn't brought it to him...... (Upstairs flat and even then I was struggling with stairs:mad:). My immediate neighbours are lovely so not a chore, I was grateful to folk if they were about to take in parcels when I was working so see it as a pay back:)

I had a surprise visitor this afternoon - or more correctly I could hear what I thought was purring! Next door's cat must of nipped in when I was at the bin (a good hour or so before I saw him) and was settled on the chair on the conservatory looking as though he was very comfy!

Lunch was the remaining scotch egg and I've a pork chop for tonight. Might make a hasselback spud or two:)

moneyistooshorttomention

Duly had a Christmas lunch out with friends.

Well - it was good company and a variety of laughs and swopping news. But I doubt any of us will have a meal there again. I think we were all rather surprised at how cheap it was for the time of year - and then we found out why.

Personally - I'd have rather paid twice as much (as basically I expect to) and had a meal from the 21st century. Fruit crumble came with custard (hello 1970s - waves to that decade). I could tell by the look on the waiters face that my "flat white" coffee wasnt going to be anything remotely like a flat white and might even be instant:eek:

Errrrm....I didnt leave a tip and decided not to bother explaining to them there have been 4 decades of change since a menu like that got done anywhere....and nothing would have been correct to serve at any point over the last 30 years.:cool:. Lives and learns - and I won't be having a meal there again (and it's deemed to be one of the "best" round here....gets cookbooks out and wonders whether to do a pop-up restaurant in my house to show them what food is like in the 21st century.....:cool:).

Oh well - the company was good....if every single aspect of the meal was way outdated and awful. Can I put the time machine back on the shelf now? LOL

PasturesNew

I scoffed... although if it were the Olympics for scoffing I'd have not qualified for the first round

But I did get to the stage where I could hardly swallow another tiny morsel (could barely swallow a small mouth of coke!) ... and wanted to sleep. So I did my best

karcher

caronc wrote: »

Could be worth venturing back into a shop for....;)
Just don't get the chocolate flavoured stuff, it's a step too far! (My friend got a sample of this http://www.hotelchocolat.com/uk/dry-gin.html and let's just say we weren't impressed:eek:)

I don't like the sound of that one bit _pale_

I probably will venture to the shop again. I don't 'have' to though and that was my aim.

I have enough to see my through till January so if I decide to have a mooch to the supermarket one day after work, then so be it

I would like to get some cream crackers and if I do go, I might treat myself to some Smoked Salmon..oh and a nice bottle of red wine to accompany my cheese

I love red wine but it doesn't like me but I would really enjoy some with my cheese and crackers.

So maybe a trip to the shop sometime next week, but not the end of the world if I don't

Hollyharvey

karcher wrote: »

I probably will venture to the shop again. I don't 'have' to though and that was my aim.

I would like to get some cream crackers and if I do go, I might treat myself to some Smoked Salmon..oh and a nice bottle of red wine to accompany my cheese

I love red wine but it doesn't like me but I would really enjoy some with my cheese and crackers.

Like you I don't have to go to the shops again until the bit between Xmas and New Year when I will probably need some bread and milk. A friend is getting the veg and salad bits I want when she gets hers on Friday.

But...another one here who has got the cheese but forgotten the cream crackers and I would like some smoked salmon as well although I may wait and treat myself to some for New Years Eve/day.

I gave up on red wine when I was in my late twenties, I always found that I got terrible hangovers even if I only had one glass. Shame though, because I did always prefer it to white, especially with good cheese.

caronc

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Errrrm....I didnt leave a tip and decided not to bother explaining to them there have been 4 decades of change since a menu like that got done anywhere....and nothing would have been correct to serve at any point over the last 30 years.:cool:. Lives and learns - and I won't be having a meal there again (and it's deemed to be one of the "best" round here....gets cookbooks out and wonders whether to do a pop-up restaurant in my house to show them what food is like in the 21st century.....:cool:).

Oh well - the company was good....if every single aspect of the meal was way outdated and awful. Can I put the time machine back on the shelf now? LOL[/QUOTE]
Personally I want custard with crumble but nice to have a choice;). It sounds like one of our locals- that said they are always quite busy and definitely aiming for the elderly has they also do a "home delivery/ready meal service" which apparently is quite decent if you like really traditional West of Scotland fare.

PasturesNew wrote: »

I scoffed... although if it were the Olympics for scoffing I'd have not qualified for the first round

But I did get to the stage where I could hardly swallow another tiny morsel (could barely swallow a small mouth of coke!) ... and wanted to sleep. So I did my best

Sounds like you did it justice PN:)

Karcher/Holly - you have cheese but no cream crackers!!! Get yourselves to a shop before they turn into complete bedlam:rotfl::rotfl: As for smoked salmon - I'll pop on my "smug smiley" hat and say mine is safely stashed in the freezer :cool:

Today seems to have disappeared and needless to say no wrapping has occurred My pork chop was delicious and I had it with a baked spud and various veg as the notion to make cauliflower cheese wore off. I really need to shake myself out of cba mode before my son arrives home tomorrow [STRIKE]laden with dirty laundry and spare "stuff" from moving [/STRIKE] full of Christmas cheer;)

PasturesNew

OMG ... I slept. Still full .... and groggy.

It was good to try that place, but I'd never rush to go again, it "wasn't all that"....

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I had to give myself a slap on the wrist just now, its all too easy to panic, have I got enough bread, enough butter blah blah? I can`t believe me, no need to panic but it was that smoked salmon chat that did it, what if I couldn`t have a smoked salmon sandwich because I haven`t got nice sliced bread, so I went to bed intending to drive about 18 miles just to get bread for the freezer. Oh woe is me, I almost got swept along with all those christmas adverts on telly. I don`t need all those mountains of extravaganza. My freezer is not going to empty itself and never will if I keep adding to it :cool:

I have one more thin slice of beautiful but exhorbitant priced beef and lovely bread, albeit slightly firmer than the first day. Last meal sorted. Leek and potato soup will be made this morning, I have all the ingredients and anyway it is a soothing soup and maybe I will make a little stir fry as I have a red pepper and some versatile savoy cabbage. Added proteins today will be fermented tofu and some nuts for break

I can`t think of anything else, except I am staying put. If it was 9 degrees I would go cycling even though the lanes are disgustingly muddy. I might go up and down the stairs several times for exercise and jump up and down in the shape of stars