Cooking for one (Mark Two)

wort

Dgson is here so half a roast chicken for tea with potatoes carrot and sprouts, little bit of broccoli left, so will use that. Gravy and Yorkshire. May do a couple of pigs in blankets that I put in freezer at Xmas.
I still have some of the coffee meringue that my dd1 brought me back from Belgium, so that may be afters with cream.
At midnight there will be hotpot and jacket potatoes, there's is always crisp and nibbles until then,

Wishing everyone a peaceful and much happier 2018.X

PasturesNew

karcher wrote: »

.... Indian take away ....how long do you think it will keep safely in the fridge please?

If boxed/fridged within the hour ... 2 hours if you're a bit robust and gung ho and can accept that "could have done that sooner" ....

Bought Saturday. Still OK Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. Eat by Tuesday, Wednesday at a push if you're robust/gung ho.

Or ... just freeze if if you can't eat it by then.

karcher

PasturesNew wrote: »

If boxed/fridged within the hour ... 2 hours if you're a bit robust and gung ho and can accept that "could have done that sooner" ....

Bought Saturday. Still OK Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. Eat by Tuesday, Wednesday at a push if you're robust/gung ho.

Or ... just freeze if if you can't eat it by then.

Thanks PN. I'll have it tomorrow.

I can't freeze it as my freezer is still full.

Despite having last shopped ages ago, I don't seem to have used up much from the freezer.

PasturesNew

It all went a bit unexpected.... as it does when you shuffle through life with no plans or aims ....

I wrote one word on a piece of paper and went out. What was that word? Pizza. Aahh... sounds like a plan.

I figure I need to get a grip on "food I will traditionally eat on NYE and NYD", for now I've no plan, not started a tradition. So pizza "will do".

Off to 4ldi - grabbed a bag of Maris Piper as they're still 29p ... bit manky looking though, grabbed the best I could see and there was still a green one in there and one with two worm holes! But at 29p instead of, say, £1.69 or so .... it'll be fine.

Red stickers! 30% off stickers. Not many.... but I got: a pepperoni pizza (£1.18 instead of £1.69); a pack of 6 sausage rolls (73p instead of £1.05) and a cheese/onion quiche (90p instead of £1.35).

A Winter Spice Soreen tea loaf thingy ... 39p reduced from 69p. Not sure why I got that.

Then it was into £land... I'd like some sweeties - but they didn't have any I really fancied... but I bought a box of Matchmakers anyway (for tonight). Also got two strips of tinsel at 25p/piece in their sale.

So, tonight I have stuff to scoff and nibble. Pizza and matchmakers. I've a bottle of the L1dl version of Schloer too, if I fancy a change from ginger beer.

.... and I've made a chocolate cake, intended for the trifle, but there's way too much for the trifle, so two bits of that might just be side-tracked.

Farway

Welcome Irenadler

Like many, wet & windy here. No reason to go out with fridge full of stuff, so stayed in

Breakfast was one of my HM yoghurts, much improved by another day in the fridge. I know the commercial ones I buy thicken up as time goes by, no reason HM ones shouldn't do the same
Thinking of next batch, I may try UHT milk next time, no need to boil up to kill any bugs, UHT has already had plenty of UH .

Lunch was back to basic, cheese salady sarnie

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Food today - not given much thought again (that does seem to be a common theme for us all on here:rotfl:). Like yesterday - I expect it will include a lot of fruit. Think there could also be one of my fallbacks (ie roasted vegetables).

I am on the same with roasted veg. Spuds, carrots, parsnips, cauli, sprouts and leek. I think that will do me, with last piggy portion of trifle later

I will most likely be in bed and be woken by fireworks
Years back we lived near the top of Portsdown Hill, which overlooks Portsmouth Harbour. It was lovely at midnight, all the ships sirens were sounded as the bongs & fireworks started

PasturesNew

Trifle is as far as it'll go today.

Cake, mandarins, jelly - in the fridge setting.

As I've still half a tin of mandarins to eat - and two slices of cake .... I don't need to complete the trifle today.

I'll cook the pizza in a bit - currently eating the mandarins from the can with a teaspoon. It's all haute cuisine and correct etiquette here!

EDIT: Ooops... recipe fail. I intended to keep back/chop up 4-6 bits of mandarin to toss on the top of the trifle.... only remembered that after I'd finished the tin off. Oh well ... I've got some 30p bars of chocolate in the cupboard I can grate instead.

Storm's rolling in now, temperature's dropped, it's raining nasty big, cold rain. So glad I'm not young enough to think a night out "down the town" wearing a small outfit is a great way to spend the evening.... so glad to be home, with hot coffee, two freshly made chocolate cake slices, 5 packets of crisps, a box of matchmakers and the final Xmas mince pie!

mcculloch29

karcher wrote: »

Question?

I treated myself to an Indian take away last night (instead of tonight because no doubt they will be very busy).

I got a Chicken Madras (sadly not as hot as I'd like) and a Saag Bhaji..I have half of each left which I decided to mix together with the view to eating it tonight.

But I just do not fancy it today so how long do you think it will keep safely in the fridge please?

I reckon 2-3 days, curry spices are natural preservatives and have good antibacterial properties. A curry isn't a good breeding ground for bugs if stored below 5 degrees.

Irenadler

Hello McCulloch

Thank you. It's 31 years for me.... Haven't cooked a 'proper' dinner for 5 months now. It's the salad I find the most difficult. A full lettuce and whole cucumber wither up before I can finish them, even the tomatoes are getting brown spots....

Have to get a grip.

Happy New Year to you and everyone on the thread!:beer:

Irenadler

Hello and thank you Farway too, sorry I don't know how to do a quote yet.....

All the best to you and Happy New Year (apologies if I haven't replied right to everyone)

moneyistooshorttomention

PasturesNew wrote: »

Storm's rolling in now, temperature's dropped, it's raining nasty big, cold rain. So glad I'm not young enough to think a night out "down the town" wearing a small outfit is a great way to spend the evening.... so glad to be home, with hot coffee, two freshly made chocolate cake slices, 5 packets of crisps, a box of matchmakers and the final Xmas mince pie!

One of the advantages of getting older imo is no longer feeling one has to be seen out there "enjoying oneself". Social pressures off/job retired from = I go to what I want when I want and blow anything else that I would have once felt I "should want" - because everyone else seemed to. So with you on that one...

So the wind and cold are out there - and I'm in here in the warm - just been wincing visibly at how cold it must be to live in Norway (though, as a country, it would suit me in some respects) and another travel tv programme lined-up (watching celebrities checking out Thailand) in a minute.

With a full stomach (yep....did the roasted vegetables and halloumi and 'twas eaten with cop-out prepared rice and quinoa and a dollop of tahini sauce). Knowing there's a nice warm bed comfortably 5' wide:) lined-up to go to after that and just off to do some more reading of yet another cookbook I couldnt resist buying (the Engine 2 diet if anyone has heard of it).

I've heard some fireworks starting to go off outside earlier - but shan't be poking my nose out to have a look at any. One of the plus sides of being here is midnight won't produce loadsa fireworks being set off by the Council or any bells ringing. Just quiet....

Happy New Year to all - both old and new...