Cooking for one (Mark Two)

moneyistooshorttomention

...and, back onto food, duh! It's been a variety of titbits to eat this afternoon one way or another (all healthy:)) - as I was out socialising.

Dinner.....errrm...well there's some leftover mashed sweet potato with onion in I made yesterday (duh...leftovers again). Hmmm...guess that means some peas with it (always got them in the freezer). Errr....some mixed grain with that (cheat time - virtually ready-done). Errrr...some sauerkraut....

Very "bitty" - but I guess it will do because I CBA and I'm not feeling that bothered about thinking "nice food" at the moment - just meals based around vegetables/grains/etc until I've finished sorting the weight out. It's working gradually. So I'll think "nice food" thoughts again once I'm grabbing such large handfuls of cloth on my clothes that I'm throwing the newer ones away:)

SunnyGirl

Money I generally say what I want and bu66er them At the not very ripe old age of 51 I feel that I'm well on my way to being a cantankerous old so and so

It doesn't help that my parents are from Yorkshire (although you'd never know as they worked hard to eradicate their accents before I was born) so I use a lot of Yorkshireisms in my every day speech that can have people scratching their heads in wonderment! We've also lived in a lot of places in the U.K. with a move every 1-2 years so I've also picked up a bit of all sorts on the way Oh and my maternal grandmother was a Scot married to a Geordie!

PasturesNew

Farway wrote: »

... lidl ... YS Chilli con Carne for one, which is very likely tomorrow's dinner

Ooh you're so lucky! They're the nicest chilli ready meal I've tried to date. Only had two so far, one was a lucky YS and the second was a conscious decision to buy one.


I ended up nuking the rice mix for lunch - and for tea I went for the burger option A quarterpounder cheeseburger, with habanero relish on it and a big bread roll.

A few random favourite choccies have been scoffed....

moneyistooshorttomention

SunnyGirl - you've probably got an advantage on me there - with being more of a "mixture".

Me - I'm pure West Country and you have to go back some generations on one side and probably literally hundreds of years on the other side to find anything else. So there is somewhere I'm obviously "from" - though no-one can ever tell from my voice (which I thought was very neutral until a new friend that is partly from here the other day commented how I was speaking to her with perfect local accent - huh!!????? How'd that happen?).

SunnyGirl

PN Wow! That's some history you've got there. I class myself as being from the bit of Manchester that I currently live in as I've been here since I was 15 but I am a mixed breed for sure I was born in a Derby hospital but was living in Nottingham then onto Epping in Essex by the time I was a year old.

My Dad's mother was French - met and married a Yorkshireman from Leeds and returned with him to raise 5 children of which my Dad was the youngest. I come from a mix of Leeds, France, Newcastle and Glasgow.

As for my children, my husband was from a Manchester born and bred Mum and a Northern Irish father hahaha.

Onto food anyway before I take the thread completely off topic my roast chicken dinner was lovely and I have made chicken and stuffing sandwiches for tomorrow and Sunday at work. There is another shredded portion in the freezer for Caron's pea pasta meal later in the month and the carcass is wrapped ready to give to Mum for stock making. Not bad for a £3 chicken from Iceland The cooking it from frozen was fine as well and it was suitably moist and juicy.

While the oven was on I made a chilli and a bolognese and cooked them in casserole dishes so another 8 meals have gone in the freezer.

I'm having a yen for chocolate spread on toast so some might be eaten for supper.

Farway

PasturesNew wrote: »

Ooh you're so lucky! They're the nicest chilli ready meal I've tried to date, but at ~£1.39 full price it's a step too far financially for me. Only had two so far, one was a lucky YS and the second was a conscious decision to buy one.

Nice to know PN, it's my first one as chillies are not a first choice for me unless YS. If I'd known I would have grabbed the other one in there for you

The breaded cod worked out fine, except it broke in half as I lifted it out of it's plastic coffin, which really made no difference except in looks

Fairly full now, but may [STRIKE]manage[/STRIKE] squeeze in a choc chip bikkie later

Hollyharvey

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

- though no-one can ever tell from my voice (which I thought was very neutral until a new friend that is partly from here the other day commented how I was speaking to her with perfect local accent - huh!!????? How'd that happen?).

Have you been where you live now a long while as your friend thinks that you have a local accent?


People are always asking me where I am from because I don't have any accent (and I certainly don't have a posh one!), but I have moved around a fair bit.

Hollyharvey

PasturesNew wrote: »

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Wow, that's impressive. That must have taken a lot of research on your part. It's something I've often thought of doing but never quite got around to.

Hollyharvey

SunnyGirl wrote: »

Onto food anyway before I take the thread completely off topic my roast chicken dinner was lovely and I have made chicken and stuffing sandwiches for tomorrow and Sunday at work.

Oh dear, I've now got chicken and stuffing sandwich cravings, here we go again .

moneyistooshorttomention

Hollyharvey wrote: »

Have you been where you live now a long while as your friend thinks that you have a local accent?


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Nope - only moved here a couple of years back.

Maybe I'm just a chameleon - my opinions/attitudes/tastes/etc all stay exactly the same regardless of which area of the country I'm in - but my voice just imitates whoever I was talking to last:rotfl: