Cooking for one (Mark Two)

Wednesday2000

I made a tofu scramble with a slice of toast for breakfast and had it with a cup of warm water with lemon instead of my usual tea.

Lunch will be a sandwich from a cafe and then I'm going to make a veggie Shepherd's pie or lentil soup for dinner tonight.

I'm going to be walking around outside today so I want to have something warm for dinner when I get in.:)

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caronc wrote: »

They may be lacking in amino acids but homegrown broad beans IMHO are one of the best summer crops so tasty and fresh. :)I grow as many as I can each year:)

yes they are productive and tasty but, for me, not value for space. I only have six 8 x 4 raised beds for veg these days and can grow better food/nutrient value in my rotations

PasturesNew

I wish I'd not thought to make a nut roast Xmas Day, but now I've started and got so many ingredients in I'm locked into it.

Lessons for next year: Do it, but do it early and freeze it 1-2 months ahead Or do an easier/different/cheaper recipe. When you want 1 tablespoon of parsley ... something you've never bought/used before .... and you spend 67p on a living pot of it ...it's just daft. And nuts aren't cheap are they!

I've changed a lot of the ingredients as it is, I'm only cooking half the quantity .... but the time/effort/thought is disproportionate to the end result.

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did my cycle ride with lower gears and slower, so I was not breathing hard in this much colder weather

So an about face wrt my lunch, an all in one pan, leek and potato soup, edamame pasta and finely shredded cabbage. I will cook for 8 minutes and then slake with full cream milk to a nice consistency. Sun is out and is making for an uplifting day but the lanes are grotty, really filthy. Glad I have mudguards

Nice afternoon planned as I have done the exercise, knitting and another dvd. They are going out as soon as I have watched them, unless classics or very funny

Farway

Lovely sunny day here, today was getting more stuff in before the crowds really start

First stop was Lild. mainly for the offer veg at 29p, sprouts, parsnips and spuds gathered in. Plus a stollen just had to get one, dreaming of it with custard ever since I saw it mentioned on here

I left the celery storks [sic] that were on offer. I know we were on about pay peanuts get monkeys, but that sign, at least a foot square was a professionally printed one, not hand scrawled, I doubt the originator was on NMW, and how many people's hands had it passed through? Publicity dept, proof readers, printers, the person who stuck it up in store

Rant over

Next stop was Morries, just on the off chance, more veg on offer, mix & match, 3 for a quid. Yet more spuds, 2.5Kg, plus a red cabbage & some leeks

And reinforced the look out in shops lesson, again. I only had these three items, check out, wanted £1.80:eek:
Queried by me at the till and was told the red cabbage was not part of the offer, and that was the fob off until shown the cabbage sporting it's huge 50p sticker :mad:

At least my trip produced what I needed, and demonstrated yet again we need to be alert this Christmas

For lunch I made sardine pate, dead easy, cribbed from a W/rose recipe card, on toast

Dinner is set to be a Lld's chilli con carne, or will be if it defrosts in time

I am toying with idea of Christmas CFO this weekend now I have the veg in, and I am out Christmas day. We shall see

PasturesNew

Went out with my list.... didn't find much that was on it.

Got my "Xmas choccy biscuits", there's another box on the list which are "for best" which I might/not bother to get.

Picked up a random chocolate shapes mould £land.... sucked in there I think.... one would've been enough, but I now have two .... which means I now have to get chocolate and make shapes ... and I'm now wondering if the shapes are "a bit small".... oh well.

I fancied sausage rolls, but deliberately came home and had jacket spud, beans and cheese in an attempt to use up some more of those 2.5Kg of spuds I bought the other day.

The shops are full of things I'm not looking for .... yet nothing on my list.

Leaving turkey/veg until Sunday probably.

AndyCF

Similar here just a few random bits purchased, still on the lookout for some turkey sausages although I will ask the local butcher about that when I venture that way (its in the opposite direction) as a first step, as its only me I only need a couple anyway.

I decided to grab one of those FB 'microwave' small pie's actually too, as despite the reviews being a bit 'marmite love/hate' in nature speaking to someone who had tried them and said they were reasonable so from the 'horse's mouth' so to speak, it was enough for me to grab one while they were at a sensible price to at least make my own mind up. Steak/Kidney but its a 400g not a 200g one, they did not have any of the really small ones. Mind you its only about the same size as one of those 'microwave sponge cakes in a pot'

A very cursory glance for a similar 'replacement plate' did not yield anything, interestingly enough in the local 'bargain' place and the local 'b+m' there were no individual normal plates only 'dinner sets' , I would of stretched to say a 'pack of 4' plates but not a complete '16 piece' dinner set, far too much for what I need really. As there's no immediate rush I will patiently search on and off until something turns up.

PasturesNew

I know it's too late to mention, but I looked in £land at the FB meatballs and they do have the gravy ones in the "2 for £1" offer.

I keep an eye out in £land for plates... I bought one last Xmas and it's been a whole year before I've bought a second as I didn't like the others they've had in the meantime. I went into another £land today and they had a STACK of the ones where my local £land had only had one the other day. Bizarrely, the old/small £land is right in town and is always FULL of people and VERY well stocked... I live closer to the "slightly out of town, on a small retail park" branch and there's barely anybody in there ever and they don't stock their shelves so well at all.

Tea_Pea_Dee

Farway, as you can see it is not a spelling mistake. It is to entice little Johhny and Jane to eat their vegetables. All the 39p fun size packs are "punned" to the max. No monkeys or peanuts were harmed whilst thinking up these wondrous ideas :cool:

moneyistooshorttomention

Oh shucks...but I know what Farway means - as I'm inclined to wince at typing/typesetting errors myself.

Cue for me sitting there in the week in Specsavers reading the smallest print on the thing they handed me and asking if the printing error in that was a "deliberate error" to see if people really could read it:rotfl:

EDIT; Mea culpa today - as I spelt edamame wrongly up thread. Whoops!