Cooking for one (Mark Two)

Hollyharvey

I just had a banana and then some toast for breakfast this morning. Mainly because the banana was rather brown and either needed eating or turning into something else and I CBA turning it into something else.


Lunch was a tuna mayo sandwich and a muffin. I went up to the park and sat and did some more people watching while I had my lunch.


Dinner will be a chicken breast fillet, steamed veg and new potatoes. I've got quite a few chicken fillets in the freezer and want to start eating them up.

SquirrelSmall

PasturesNew wrote: »

I had a dual system on that - there were two bottles side by side and when one ran out the controller automatically switched to the second one.

It won't have been a posh/expensive system at all, just a "normal type of switch".

I think you're talking about a manifold. I'd need to check how that would fare with the Boat Safety Certificate people, given that boats do move around and they might frown upon an "inline" system.

I'm usually fine with the fairly straightforward bottle switchover, but this is the first time I've had to do it on this boat, and I think the previous owner had the strength of Hercules - no way I could unscrew the thing! Still, I get about 3 months out of a bottle, so not going to be a frequent drama to deal with.

PasturesNew

SquirrelSmall wrote: »

I get about 3 months out of a bottle, so not going to be a frequent drama to deal with.

I only used mine for heating, there was a simple gas fire in the living room. In the winter daytime the ice on the outside would melt, I'd come home from work at the end of the day and go in, then, during the evening, the ice would freeze solid round the door - and in the morning I'd have to kick open the glass door, without smashing it

I used to keep the gas fire on 24/7 on the lowest setting, for 4-6 weeks in the depths of winter and it'd eat one bottle a fortnight.

The van was probably manufactured in about 1970, so it was cold/old style insulation and not like modern builds.

moneyistooshorttomention

Dinner tonight will be - what I'd forgotten I'd got - ie yep...singles leftovers again...

So that chickpeas/onions/carrrots/etc/etc dish I had yesterday and some steamed spinach with squeeze of lime juice. Followed by yet more plums eating up that glut. If still hungry - bought myself a couple of sourdough loaves this afternoon and have got my eye on having a slice or two from one of them.

PM sent back in reply to one I've had - ie don't worry = I'm only planning on getting back to size 14 (ie 1970s size 14). Translation being 2010's size 10 these days.

SquirrelSmall

PasturesNew wrote: »

I only used mine for heating, there was a simple gas fire in the living room.

:eek: Conversely, I only use gas for cooking and hot water. As I use the showers in the marina, this is relatively low usage.

For winter, I have a multi-fuel stove. And an oil-filled radiator, and a space heater. And two cats. (Not to mention the occasional hot flush...)

moneyistooshorttomention

That's it then squirrel - we like cat pictures on here.

Got any of your two?:)

SunnyGirl

Good afternoon all. No storms or even a drop of rain here after all the frantic forecasting on the tv. It does annoy me with all this amber be alert warning thing that they now do for any weather deemed to be fractionally unusual. I'm only 50 bit I'm convinced that when I was younger that the weather was just what it was and no special warnings were put out unless heavy snow, storms or flooding were imminent. Sounding like a miserable old moo now I know :rotfl:

I haven't yet eaten any proper food as I haven't been hungry although a packet of chocolate buttons did manage to fall into my mouth on their own an hour ago. I'm on a day off from work today, back in until Sunday tomorrow, which is probably why I'm dithering about. Not at all like me. I may just make the frittata early and have a supper of cereal or chocolate spread on toast (PN I blame you for this!)

My little kitty, Jessie, is still doing well and eating and mooching in the garden as though nothing has happened. The Beagle, 14 year old Max, has been lovely with her while she had the cone thing on her head and every time she got on the sofa he got off and went and laid in his bed. Cute.

I need to sort the two fish in the fish tank out later too and change the water. My daughter asked me to look after these fish two years ago when she went on holiday and needless to say they never went home :eek: so I have them. I also need to iron at some stage too altriugh I'm not in the mood so could well put it off and find other things to wear for work instead

I can confirm that wrapping salad in tin foil works a treat and celery will stay fresh for about 3 weeks and longer if it's for cooking with :T

Caronc I thought it was my phone last night as every time I logged into MSE then shut the page down it logged me out again. I wondered why I saw a different format for the forum too!

Farway

PasturesNew wrote: »

Storm is raging around me, rain is relentless/flooding the garden. I've ""packed" but no clothes, just bag, money, phone - and got my wellies by the door and the gates unlocked and door unlocked in case I get to be "... the rescued..."

Not you being winched up in the Coastguard helicopter then?

Woken up from my sick bed about 1 ish this morning by huge crash of thunder and followed by a few hours of banging & lightning, settled down to a steady drizzly close type of day, so nil gardening, even if I felt like it

My tum is on the mend slowly, not before I had to do an emergency wash load . As PN says, on your own no one else to do it, just man up and get stuck in.

Despite the weather & tum I felt I needed to get out after the stuck inside bit, picked up some YS bananas in Asda, the YS ones have been a bit rare lately as Asda seems to have got the hang of stock control.

Because I am not really fancying proper food just yet I also bought some cream crackers, not something I normally have in but will be ideal for a light bite

Breakfast was nothing except well needed shower, plus plain water and tum tablet

Lunch was toasted cheese on toast, easy to make and not to spicy, no sauce / chutney added, just neat melted cheese

Dinner, not sure. But following PN rec about Lidl tinned toms I bought a tin last week, and that may well be dinner, on toast, plain and simple food for the moment

SunnyGirl

Faraway Tinned toms and scrambled eggs on toast is my favourite quick and easy meal for dodgy tums. It's also been known to cure hangovers suffered by my offspring at various times!

karcher

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Phhht to the "clean eating" horror story in a newspaper today -

What did it say?

Do you have a link please...not that I do "clean eating", in fact I'm not really sure what it is ...but I'm curious.