Cooking for one (Mark Two)

wort

The fridge was empty, so my sister took me shopping. I got a pack of king prawns half price, so cheaper than frozen. So I had a sandwich with them when I got home for lunch. Then had some with garlic mayo and jacket potato, and salad for tea, plus a warm mince pie and cream.
I got carrots and cauliflower but they were back to normal price. Yellow stickers on peppers, lettuce, tomatoes, and kiwis. Stocked up on yogurts and muller rice pots.
So fridge is looking healthy again. I've kept a few prawns out for tomorrow, and put rest in freezer.
Quiz tonight so half bottle of wine, and possibly some crisp!!:beer:

meg72

MrAPJI wrote: »

Haha, what are you ladies like .

Well, I hadn't eaten Lancashire Hotpot in donkey's years and it was delicious. This was followed by egg custard which was generously sprinkled with nutmeg - a bit of a blast from the past. Not a dessert I'm that keen on to be honest, but I felt I had to show willing.

Not sure what I will have to eat later - I've just completed my tax return and rather lost my appetite lol

Farway, you did well picking up all those bargains. Glad that your yogurt has turned out so well.

How lovely I`m sure you made this ladys day not only coming to her rescue but sharing time for a meal with her too. It must have given her great pleasure.

PasturesNew

I've hit the Xmas chocolate biscuits.... 4 of those eaten today, they're very nice

A packet of Xmas crisps scoffed.... still 2 packets left (bought 18).

mcculloch29

I CBA'd to cook, so I did pasta in the microwave - ignore anything that says you can't, you can if your quantity is small enough. Cover with salted boiling water.
Had it with a wee pot of stir-in sauce, boosted with a big glug of tomato ketchup. Lovely, and virtually no effort whatsoever.

PasturesNew

mcculloch29 wrote: »

... ignore anything that says you can't....

I do it all the time. It's the only reason I eat it most of the time as it's quicker/easier to chuck pasta in the nuker than to do rice in there.

I've got a "special container" specifically for the job - which is just 0.5cm too long for my nuker width (annoying, eh!) so I can't use that; I use long/deep plastic dishes I've kept from past frozen steamed meals as they're ideal, perfect size for when I snap spaghetti in half (to make it fit).

caronc

Good morning,
I'm up super early (for me) to see my son & his gf off. Suspect I may head back to bed when they are away!

moneyistooshorttomention

That's that decision made then re the rest of the packet of kale/mango/etc smoothie in my freezer - as I got woken up by acid reflex in the night:(. Not had that for some weeks and hadnt eaten dinner only a short time before going to bed - so am guessing it might be down to the raw kale? Though, having said that - I've done kale salad before now (with the dressing duly massaged very firmly into some raw kale) as per recipe instructions and decided it was nice actually and worth repeating.

Maybe a combination of the kale being both raw and frozen then?

Shall try not to be wasteful and will hoick the fruit part out of that packet first - but guess I'd better throw the vegetable part of the packet away...

That was the porridge part of breakfast just finished - topping today including some plums from a friends garden (duly stewed - as hers are sharper than mine). Think I should have added a bit more honey than I did to them - as the sharpness difference is quite pronounced...

[Deleted User]

Lol, hehe, you know what post I am laughing at :rotfl:

I dug 13 leeks out of the allotment yesterday, was going to chop wash and freeze but have found a recipe for a creamy leek quiche, enough for 6, so will freeze 4 portions. It uses 1.5 lb of chopped leeks, nice big amount

Breakfast, forgot to take more milk out of the freezer, so had to be 2 slices of toast with peanut butter scrapes. Leeks are cooking in butter, glad I prepared those just now, needed lots of washing. Lunch will be leek quiche and veggies which will be steamed together, kale, frozen peas and carrots. Berry and apple bowl is defrosting for a snack with soya cream, although I may well put that soya into the creamy leek filling instead, depends

Not much left from christmas goodies, just a few chocolate peppermint creams, no other sweetie-like anything. I made veg soup last night, got that new book `much more veg`, very nice recipes in there. A bowl of that soup today, will be last meal

I could do with using the blackcurrants faster, I pruned the 4 oldest bushes yesterday, took out a fair bit of wood so will have fewer and larger berries this year but I also have 2 x3 year old ben conan bushes, not pruned yet and I am expecting a fair crop of large berries from those. I think I will remove some frozen blackcurrants from the outside freezer this morning and make simple crumbles, which are always nice. Got to concentrate on trying to empty the small outside chest freezer. I may well be able to move a fair amount of food to the indoors freezer today, spaces are appearing

Mr_Costcutter

MrAPJI wrote: »

Haha, what are you ladies like .

Well, I hadn't eaten Lancashire Hotpot in donkey's years and it was delicious. This was followed by egg custard which was generously sprinkled with nutmeg - a bit of a blast from the past. Not a dessert I'm that keen on to be honest, but I felt I had to show willing.

Not sure what I will have to eat later - I've just completed my tax return and rather lost my appetite lol

Out of interest, are there fixed dates for royalties or not? Must be difficult to keep the tax man happy lol

Mr_Costcutter

meg72 wrote: »

How lovely I`m sure you made this ladys day not only coming to her rescue but sharing time for a meal with her too. It must have given her great pleasure.

A lovely reply Meg.

Sorry, but those of you who have been laughing and poking fun at a chap who has just lost his wife isn't funny, it's extremely
unkind.