Cooking for one (Mark Two)

PasturesNew

It's WILD out there... scarey banging noises randomly occur and I sit here and worry "!!!!!! was THAT?"

I had two chocolate biscuits and stuck all six sausage rolls in the freezer

Hollyharvey

Welcome to all of the new posters on the thread :hello:.

I've had a break from all of the 'treat' foods today (well sort of .)


As I had a craving for something lighter than I have been having while I've been away, I steamed some cod and vegetables and had that with a small portion of mashed potato I found in the freezer. Using one piece of cod and the potato from the freezer didn't exactly free up much space in there .

I had scrambled eggs on toast for breakfast. Yet again there is an egg mountain. I think it's a combination of me being in hospital, not being up to cooking when I came home and then going away for New Year. So I think breakfast will be eggs for the next few days.

I've also got a lot of Greek yoghurt that needs using up as well. I took some of them away with me for breakfast but ended up eating toast/Christmas cake/stolen/cheesecake so they have come back with me (well it was New Year ).

I did liberate a mince pie from the freezer and had that warm with a small amount of cream, but that and one chocolate biscuit are the only treat foods that I have had today, so a much better diet that in has been of late.

Hollyharvey

PasturesNew wrote: »

It's WILD out there... scarey banging noises randomly occur and I sit here and worry "!!!!!! was THAT?"

I had two chocolate biscuits and stuck all six sausage rolls in the freezer

It's been really windy here as well. I've already rescued my neighbour's rubbish bin, so that it doesn't roll around outside making a noise all night.

moneyistooshorttomention

Wild weather here today too - quick head popped out the door to check (with the way the weather here has gone from "often very windy by my standards" to "one HECK of a windy").

Whew! Having recently decided to "put my foot down" and insist on some aspects of "The garden I'd decided to have - before I knew it was going to be in a very different area from my own". So I've now got some expensive pots with expensive plants in them and the only concession I'm going to make to this area is being a little "careful" in the choice of style of pots (none that are narrow at the bottom - because of The Wind). Decided not to make any concessions to "The Wind" with either plants or pots and awaiting garden furniture of "my" choice (I'll just have to put a cover over it for much of the year and hope it survives).

Thankfully those pots havent blown over and cracked themselves to smithereens overnight.

Food-wise - finishing up the last of that courgetti with sauce today and this time will have it with spicy potato wedges. Been going through latest cookbook and will have to check just how many ingredients I might be missing from the recipes I decide on and give the local health food store a ring and see if they're open this week. There's things like healthy type brownies in that there cookbook - and that might be one way to deal with that "mouth hunger" to make myself some of them. I know my weaknesses:rotfl: - so I'll make a half quantity - having learnt I'm quite capable of hoicking things like that out of the freezer and eating them pretty much right away...:cool:

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I`m also in the midst of using up mode. I am wanting to clear the two large veg drawers in the fridge for starters. I did some online shopping this week and have found a fairly local organic veg box supplier, I`ll save around £10 a week because they don`t have bells and whistles add-ons, like cakes and bread and fancy yoghurt. I have ordered just one for a try, next week and I want to start with empty space

Breakfast, spelt cereal with walnuts, dried raspberries and shelled hemp seeds.Soon an egg. Later, plate of fruit. Lunch LO root soup with added edamame spaghetti and a nice chunk of my hm ciabatta. Last meal will be white fish and a plate of mixed steamed veg. Sometime, early afternoon, I will enjoy some dark chocolate and one piece of stollen

I came downstairs to sleep last night, the wind is much louder upstairs. Very comfy in my recliner with a cuddly throw, it`s as good as a bed

Need2bthrifty

Morning All,

I hope everyone affected by "Eleanor" is safe and well.

The bolognaise pizza had last night was, lets say......interesting but something I wont be having again . I'd made the bol in the slow cooker ages ago and it was a batch I wasn't particularly happy with but would eat, thankfully there is only one more portion left in the freezer which in a couple of weeks time I will bury in a lasagne.

Good old bangers and mash tonight and I'll make some extra mashed potatoes to top tomorrows planned fish pie.

Haven't decided on lunch yet but I need to go to DIY store and pop into sainsbugs next door for eggs and whatever else I fancy .

Wednesday2000

It was really loud last night. It sounded like things were smashing about. I looked out today and I think it was the door to a shed belonging to my neighbour as it was banging in the wind again today.

I'm back to my usual sleeping pattern so I was up early and I was hungry so I had a cheese and tomato toastie and some lemon and ginger tea.

I'm making Mexican food tonight. Not sure about lunch yet.

MrAPJI

What a night. The howling wind outside was accompanied by the cat howling inside. At about 8am I noticed that the house opposite had lost a number of tiles and part of their chimney pot. I then ventured outside to take a look at my roof and was approached by an elderly neighbour (82). She was in a panick because she believed she had a blocked drain causing problems in the house. The problem being that her telephone was down and she didn't have a mobile phone to call an emergency plumber. So off I went to investigate the problem and found the downstairs sink full of water and not draining away - a blockage. Out came the rods and it took me about 20 mins to clear it - what a mess. I was glad to return home and have a shower. Breakfast was then 3 weetabix as I was starving. I was pleased to help our neighbour though - a really lovely lady. She has insisted that I return for lunch at 1pm for 'Lancashire Hotpot' - what I call 'real' food .

Hope everyone is safe and not suffered any damage.

moneyistooshorttomention

Two queries for the day:

1. I've got some dried porcino mushrooms in (bought for the risotto that never happened...:o). So I'm thinking that, logically, I should be able to blitz them into dried mushroom powder and then add it (in dollops of, say, level teaspoon per time to suitable savoury recipes). I'm guessing that would add another "flavour element" to some recipes. Being as how the way I'm eating these days calls for adding lots of "flavour elements" to the food - the difference between bland and nom nom, then that could be an additional thing to try? Has anyone tried that?

2. I'm feeling a bit stuck as to what else I could use for storing my bread in the freezer. I alternate a bit between the very occasional plastic bag I get given or the local Council's recycling plastic bags for the sourdough loaves I sometimes buy on the one hand. On the other hand - I cut my own homemade loaves into either halves or (if I can be bothered) into slices and then stash it in ziplock bags in the freezer either way.

I know I wash out and re-use these ziplock bags - but they are plastic. Does anyone have any thoughts on storing bread in the freezer in something other than plastic bags please?

Mr_Costcutter

[QUOTE=MrAPJI;73653387 . Out came the rods and it took me about 20 mins to clear it - what a mess.

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You did well to sort the problem, particularly in this grim weather