Cooking for one (Mark Two)

karcher

Hollyharvey wrote: »

Is this because you are more into cheese and savoury treats rather than sweet, or that you didn't buy anything sweet when you went shopping because you were concentrating on getting in and out of the shops?

You could always brave the shops tomorrow or Sunday for some sweet things if you fancy something.

Much as I do enjoy nice cheese a lot and have a few different ones in for the Christmas period I do have a sweet tooth, and love cake, desserts, biscuits and chocolate. In fact anything sweet .

You are right HH, smoked salmon and cheese are my treats:)

I did buy one bar of xmas chocolate but have eaten it all:o

However I do love a proper Box of Chocolates, but I always think of them as something that is given as a gift rather than buying them for myself iyswim.

PasturesNew

My Xmas is stuck in the 60s. Growing up we had a typical 60s Xmas. In the early 70s we dropped the things that nobody ate (cake, yule log and Xmas pudding).... and then it never changed.

As two unmarried daughters every year we'd go to our parents' house for Xmas and have the same Xmas.

I simply don't know any different.

I see others having Xmasses and treats that are entirely alien to me - and there's so much stuff one COULD have ... but if you've never had it you don't know if you'd like it or not. So you can't try it. And I've no burning ambition to have anything that I've seen because most of it is "over-priced, over-hyped stuff" ... so I stick with what I know

Farway

All this talk of trifles. I do make one most years, but not this year. But only because I had a M & S strawberry one last week, as part of 2 dine for a tenner offer. And it was gorgeous. OK as part of a deal, but blooming expensive treat otherwise. If you find one reduced don't hesitate to grab it

My LO omelette thingy was OK, not quite as nice as I anticipated, but at least a bit more fridge space

I may have cream crackers and cheese later. I have 2 x jumbo cheddar blocks.
I did get two small other cheeses in when I was in the Farm Shop a week or so back but will save them for next week, because DD always has loads and I am there on Christmas day and would hate to disappoint her;)

PS just seen PN post, I used to have smoked salmon & cream cheese, with a Bucks Fizz for breakfast Christmas day, but no longer do that, appetite has changed, plus booze no longer allowed

PasturesNew

We used to have a Birds Strawberry Trifle every Xmas. I begged, for years and years, for us to have the chocolate one, or the sherry one - but was denied. We had the strawberry trifle, because that's what we had

I've yearned for a chocolate trifle for 30+ years and never got round to having one.... it seems so piggy as you do have to get the full sized one to get "the full experience". Individual pots simply aren't the same experience.

AndyCF

I've never seen the chocolate one, only the strawberry and raspberry ones. They are OK but I found they seem to take a bit too much messing about to make, but I guess that may be me.

I have cheated a bit, I've obtained both a small frozen Apple Crumble and an Apple Pie, both contain custard. I have had these about 3 years or so ago and they were quite reasonable. 1 or 2 min in the microwave and its ready. They are tiny though, smaller than the usual 'pot sized' affair you get for puddings and things and they are rectangular, about 2 inches by 5 inches and about 3/4 in deep.

Have also obtained a cheap very small (twin pack) Christmas pudding too, not a brand I've heard of but that could be me as I did not have one last year (or a great deal else) due to other issues. , I was not actually looking for said pudding either I just happened to notice it on the shelves while looking at various crackers (which I did not buy)

moneyistooshorttomention

karcher wrote: »

I carried on eating...a cream cheese and crisp sandwich followed the huge amount I mentioned earlier.

I've been pondering if I'm the only person who has nothing in the way of christmas sweet stuff in the house.

No chocolate, mince pies, christmas cake, trifle, biscuits or as said chocolate?

I do have some small pots of natural yogurt which was BB 16th December though :rotfl:

Nope - I havent got any sweet stuff (Christmas or otherwise) in the house.

I know my limitations in that respect and hence very rarely do. Once in a blue moon I'll take it into my head to make "summat sweet" or treat myself to a "little something sweet" whilst out. So last sweet thing I had was a week ago - a (disastrous) pudding as part of (disastrous) meal out with friends. Good company - shame about the food - and none of us will be going back to that place again for a meal. But it is pretty widely known that places to eat out at are pretty dire round here:( - there's a couple that "will do" for lunch and that's as far as it goes.

Back to the "Think positive = I've not got much option but to turn into a good cook myself".

karcher

PasturesNew wrote: »

My Xmas is stuck in the 60s. Growing up we had a typical 60s Xmas. In the early 70s we dropped the things that nobody ate (cake, yule log and Xmas pudding).... and then it never changed.

As two unmarried daughters every year we'd go to our parents' house for Xmas and have the same Xmas.

I simply don't know any different.

I see others having Xmasses and treats that are entirely alien to me - and there's so much stuff one COULD have ... but if you've never had it you don't know if you'd like it or not. So you can't try it. And I've no burning ambition to have anything that I've seen because most of it is "over-priced, over-hyped stuff" ... so I stick with what I know

My childhood xmas was always the same food wise..just the usual xmas dinner stuff (turkey, pots, stuffing, veg) and it carried on that way all my life when spending the day with family.

It has only changed during recent years which I have spent alone. I don't cook a xmas dinner for one, but just have what I fancy (some years a posh pizza, others a curry and always cheese :cool:).

PasturesNew

It looks like Birds stopped selling the chocolate trifle.

http://www.i-can.co.uk/images/gallery_image-84.jpg

I noticed a couple of years back that Morrisons stopped selling instant chocolate custard sachets too... maybe people went off chocolate custard as black forest fell out of fashion.

I know this will sound "a bit weird" .... but I think the reason I want to buy one is they come in see through packaging - and I don't have any glassware, so no glass trifle bowl so I could see the end results. Buying a dish ideal for trifles is on my "search in £land perpetually until I find it one day" list .... they've not had any to date.

PasturesNew

I was watching Back in Time for Christmas on the telly earlier - the Robshaw family experience Xmas through the years. Tonight they did the 70s, 80s and 90s. I think they said it was the 80s when pigs in blankets started appearing in Xmas dinners, but it might've been the 90s. They're something we never had; I am not a fan of bacon though.

caronc

PasturesNew wrote: »

I was watching Back in Time for Christmas on the telly earlier - the Robshaw family experience Xmas through the years. Tonight they did the 70s, 80s and 90s. I think they said it was the 80s when pigs in blankets started appearing in Xmas dinners, but it might've been the 90s. They're something we never had; I am not a fan of bacon though.

I don't know if I agree with that we always had "kiltie sausages" (aka Pigs in Blankets) always homemade when I was growing up in the 70s and so did everyone I knew, though maybe at that point it was just a Scottish thing:cool:.

Left to my own devices I wouldn't buy sweet stuff for Christmas apart from a few mince pies but lots of my family do like it and no doubt I'll eat some;). As for cheese, nuts and smoked salmon now you're talking needless to say there is far more of the savoury than sweet bits in as I'm hoping for a few lovely LOs to brighten up January:)