Cooking for one (Mark Two)

MrAPJI

Farway wrote: »

Mrapji, I seem to remember way back grapefruit were sprinkled with brown sugar & bunged under the grill and the sugar caramelised. I never had one like that, not a grape fruit fan

You are spot-on I think grapefruit is probably one of those fruits you either love or hate.
Let us know how your yoghurt making goes and what you make of it

Holly, best wishes from me too

caronc

Good evening everyone,
I've had a reasonably productive day, lots of laundry done (I'd forgotten how much four people can generate:eek:) and I've re-did my "budget" spreadsheet to reflect my current circumstances and sorted out all my "virtual pots" I save for various things in for the New Year.
Lunch was soup and salad as planned and tonight we are having cajun spiced salmon, sweet pepper stew and sweet potato wedges. I'm just about to go and get the stew bit sorted out and I need to vac pack what's left of the turkey etc. (thankfully there isn't too much LO to use up in the New Year). Just three of us for dinner as my elder son is on his annual "boys" day out - though unlike previous years when he ended up clubbing until the early hours he's getting picked up at 10pm :eek:.

MrAPJI

Rather you than me caronc - ref the laundry

I've been ploughing through the food I brought back from Suffolk - also added some salad to accompany the quiche and sausage rolls. Never really been a chocolate lover, but have now developed a fetish for chocolate peanuts - will have to watch my fillings lol.

Did a mad thing today as I signed up for a 'Widowers' Breakfast Group'. The group meet on the second Sunday in the month at a hotel function room. A buffet breakfast is served and apparently there is lots of chat, speakers are invited etc. Not sure whether it's really for me, but I will try most things once . I might even just turn up for the breakfast lol

moneyistooshorttomention

Sounds quite a good idea to me Apji - and you get breakfast chucked in. What's not to like - as long as the food is okay?

Mr_Costcutter

MrAPJI wrote: »

Did a mad thing today as I signed up for a 'Widowers' Breakfast Group'. The group meet on the second Sunday in the month at a hotel function room. A buffet breakfast is served and apparently there is lots of chat, speakers are invited etc. Not sure whether it's really for me, but I will try most things once . I might even just turn up for the breakfast lol

I've a friend who attends such a group and he's found it extremely beneficial. Lots of new friendships have been made, but just as important, he meets with people who truly understands what it's like to lose your wife. I hope you gain as much from attending - I'm sure you will
My sincere condolences on your loss and my very best wishes for the future.

karcher

I'm hungry...can someone come and cook me a scrumptious meal please

PasturesNew

Somebody said trifle ... which reminded me I had a trifle.

I've now an empty trifle dish.



Oops. Oh well. I can re-use that to make better trifles than that one turned out to be. It's nice to buy a ready-made trifle ... even if it's a cheap one, but you can't get those DEEEEP layers that trifles really need.

My trifle will have more cakey bits and more custardy bits.

caronc

MrAPJI wrote: »

Did a mad thing today as I signed up for a 'Widowers' Breakfast Group'. The group meet on the second Sunday in the month at a hotel function room. A buffet breakfast is served and apparently there is lots of chat, speakers are invited etc. Not sure whether it's really for me, but I will try most things once . I might even just turn up for the breakfast lol

Only one way to find out

karcher wrote: »

I'm hungry...can someone come and cook me a scrumptious meal please

I'm afraid you're a tad too late though I've some LO pepper stew if you want to bung on some pasta

Welcome to the thread MrCostcutter:)

PasturesNew

I read the trifle box. My rule is: if you buy something naughty, you know it's naughty - so just enjoy it.... THEN read the packet afterwards to check how many calories you wolfed in one go!

It wasn't too shabby really. Box said a serving was 1/4 of the total - and that had ~240 calories in 1/4. I set a mental limit of 1000/day, knowing I'll go over it, but by setting it low I don't go over it so much as if I had a gung-ho attitude and believed that mythical "2000/day for women" which is utter nonsense.... if I stuck rigidly to 2000/day I'd be the size of a planet.

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morning everyone, I`m up and full of energy, one of those annoying larks, once I am awake then I have to jump out of bed. 7 hours sleep, all through, I have tried going up later but still wake up at 5 but then I have to nap in the day. I don`t need one if I go up at 10

Breakfast is porridge, 3 apricots and a spoonful of shelled hemp on top and best of all, that first gorgeous large mug of tea. Lunch will be a meat of some sort and various veg. I`ll have to have a mid morning meal, a toasted cheese sandwich will be nice. I have a plate of small tomatoes on my worktop, not the best quality ie won`t last, so a pasta/celery sauce for last meal plus spelt pasta. In betweeners, fruit, chocolate, one small chunk of spelt to be slowly nibbled and maybe the chocolate fingers that I know are still lurking

yuk, looks like grim weather for most of today, at least my knitting is growing fast and that is the bright side, small pleasures. Its the penny vincenzi book on audible, lovely and not boring like some others. Do a few rows, hop up and get a mug of tea, a few more rows, dust the furniture, a few more rows and make food and that is the day gone, hop by hop