Cooking for one (Mark Two)

wort

Mr ap - I have a girl at work whose hubby left her in similar circs, and when she goes on about it, I have to zone out, as screaming in my head , would come out of my mouth!! I realise they are hurt, but to moan to people who have just lost the love of their life, is just a bit insensitive! !!!!

PasturesNew

wort wrote: »

Does anyone have any tips on cooking parsnips , I always seem to burn them!!

Cooking how?

I've steamed fat rounds in the steamer (could use any lidded microwave dish with a tiny bit of water in)... just do 2-3 minutes at a time and check/turn, depending how many you're looking at 5-6 minutes or so.

Then .... they're done as parsnips when you decide they are ... or....

Roast: from there, put into oil or spray with oil or do whatever you usually do .... and into the oven to roast - they don't actually take that long ... 10-15 minutes or so, so I'd be checking/turning after 5 minutes, then keep an eye on them.

If you're burning food it's for one of two reasons: In too long .... or too high a temperature. They don't take nearly as long as, say, roast spuds, so would need to go in after those.

MrAPJI

When I lost my wife, this guy was there for me. Last night I felt that it was my turn to help him

PasturesNew

I just knocked up a couple of chocolate crispies
They're in the fridge chilling/setting.

I should actually make some "proper food" ..so I'll go with Plan A and finally get round to that breakfast I mentioned earlier ... toasted bread roll, baked beans, scrambled eggs. Splash of the brown stuff and a black coffee.

EDIT: Breakfast is now being eaten

Farway

I was another "early doors" in Morries. Mainly for my cooker hood light bulb. Found them no problem, but I bought a LED look alike instead. Now fitted and glad I did, no excuse for burnt offerings now

There were not too many in at that time but some shoppers could've done with fork lift trucks with the amount they had

I also bought a loaf, "just in case", sorry PN, and emergency purchase of 2 Quorn roast thingies for DD Xmas lunch, none in her local shops. Horrible things IMO, but that is the trouble with vegetarians, some mean it and do not eat salmon. DS & DGS in this particular case

Pigs in blankets, like others I always knew them as sausages wrapped in bacon. For me PIBs were always real sausages, not sausage meat, wrapped in pastry, normally puff. Eaten as one would a pasty etc, not as a side to a meal or on cocktail sticks

Two more mince pies have gone
Bacon, lettuce & tom sarnie for lunch
Dinner is planned as the last Lild de-luxe chestnut mushroom & brie Wellington, with frozen chips I expect. Give me more freezer space should I need it for all next week's ex Christmas YS bargains

moneyistooshorttomention

PasturesNew wrote: »

Bit cheeky!

Yeah, but she's still out there ... and so she might be back.
Bit "cruel" to be whining about that when looking at it from your perspective.

I bet it was a choice between getting drunk with him or just shouting "Get a grip" ....

I don't think it would be wise for Mr Apji's friend to "have any hopes" of the wife coming back.

I recall years back how a friend of mine (who I had always assumed was happily married - and I think she had too....) found that her husband left her for another woman. It also came totally out of the blue. She hadnt had the foggiest idea he'd been having an affair.

She went to pieces at the time and gave in her notice at work and "ran for it" back to her home area. Fortunately - management was persuaded not to accept her resignation (on the grounds she'd probably/almost certainly done so on the spur of the moment and would retract it when she "cooled down"). She did "cool down" after a while and came back to work:).

Many years later and she's back in her home area again (this time more thought out and planned) and got a nice guy in her life she's been with for a while now:)

I don't suppose the friend was quite "thinking straight" to come to Mr Apji in some ways in the circumstances - but good friends are "there for each other" and share their respective problems/upsets.

Hope you're feeling more sober now MrApji..

Hollyharvey

I would like some random things from the shops but they are so busy, so I'm not going to bother.

I had some porridge for breakfast this morning with some mixed berries from the freezer (like Farway, I'm trying to make space for the y/s post Christmas offerings next week ). Having said that, a friend went shopping this morning and couldn't get mince pies, stollen, any of the Christmas desserts in four different supermarkets and had trouble finding a suitable turkey crown. So it may be that there won't be much about this year .

Lunch was a tuna mayo sandwich. I thought I would open a tin for sandwiches today and tomorrow because it will be turkey sandwiches from Monday onwards.

Dinner is a ready meal Shepherd's pie. I'm not in the mood for cooking anything, so will have that with some steamed veg.

MrAPJI

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Hope you're feeling more sober now MrApji..

Only had 2 glasses of wine and the rest was consumed by my friend:). I've lost 2 stone in weight and that's probably why I woke up with that headache. Feel much better now thanks and just had another piece of the xmas cake brought yesterday.

PN, I had an aunt who used to have a cottage near the sea and when I was a child we used to go and stay. There were always chocolate crispie cakes on the menu. She would pack a picnic hamper full of goodies and we would sit on the beach and devour them. I think the sea air increased our need for food x 3

PasturesNew

I will delete this, so as to not 'continue' a sensitive subject.

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

... wife coming back....

I didn't mean that.
I mis-communicate, quite often. I say something meaning one thing - and it's received as something else ... and I got it wrong again

To be blunt ... what I meant was: Yes, but she's still living ... out there somewhere ... alive ... so it'd be hard to achieve any level of empathy! But I was trying to be discrete... only when you're ASD that's a real struggle to achieve

PasturesNew

Hollyharvey wrote: »

I would like some random things from the shops but they are so busy, so I'm not going to bother.

I've been the same ... to get to a shop I'd like to be at is a 15 mile round trip and I hate the thought of doing that just for random things/more choice etc... especially as I went there about a week ago and it took me 20 minutes to exit the car park!

I stick to L1dl & 4ldi as they're a stone's throw.... I'll typically walk to one and could walk to the other... and if I didn't like what I saw (crowds) I'd not be inconvenienced if I turned tail and headed home and tried again later.


Actually, I've just popped out for a random item - and, as 4ldi was next door, popped in there, not expecting to get anything... I came away with 3 small cartons of orange juice (3 for 40p) in case I cook anything that needs orange ... and a tin of chunky beef soup (57p) for the "meals in a tin" corner of the shelf for some random point in the next year or so when I CBA.