Cooking for one (Mark Three)

spirit

Going slightly off topic.

I'm hoping to go away for a week in late May. I didn't get a holiday at all last year due to house moving and renovating.

Anyone got any ideas where to go? I just want a bit of Sun on a fly n flop holiday. Last holiday to Cyprus was booked via bookingdotcom, then I bought the flight separately. Not sure if it worked out too much cheaper! It's the single supplement that does for us isn't it!

I'd be flying from Manchester.

moneyistooshorttomention

Change of plan for dinner tonight - mushroom dish postponed till tomorrow.

Tried out a recipe for banana oat cookies this afternoon - just 50/50 bananas and porridge oats. Not too bad - after I'd bashed it around in my food processor (rather than mashing together - as she said) and then cooked it twice as long. Will be adding something like sultanas or raisins too if I do it again.

So dinner tonight a CBA one - sweet potato wedges scattered with garlic salt and onion salt, sauted tomatoes, olives and more of "Nutty Parm" (ie parmesan equivalent) and precisely one drink with it.

Has got suspicion (amounting to virtual certainty) that super-healthy eating means one's body literally won't accept more than one drink per day and that's your limit. Just as well I guess.....:cool:

Giving the local grapevine a source of laughs in an area like this - where they're clearly getting the idea of "one drink and that's it for Money these days" and then proceeding to tell me just how much one of my two nfh drinks:beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::beer::rotfl:. By the sound of it - no wonder my nfh are behaving themselves these days - too out of it to do otherwise:rotfl::D

spirit

MrAPJI wrote: »

How about Lake Garda? Not too far to fly - beautiful scenery- and a wonderful climate . Jump on and off the boats to visit all the wonderful towns with their own unique character. The holiday could be as lazy or enegetic as you wished it to be

Thanks mrapji, not been there before so will investigate.

caronc

Good evening everyone,
I've never done a solo holiday so can't help I'm afraid!

Cheese in soup is just one of these fab combos- wish I thought to add some to my lunchtime bowl, it would have went really well.

The weather today has been drizzly/wet but much milder though it's due to head back towards freezing overnight. I don't think Spring has sprung quite yet.

I spent most of the afternoon listening to loudish music as my tinnitus was having a party and I find it helps my brain distract from it so was having a good singalong. One of the plus points of CFO is there is nobody about to comment on your vocals.....(or lack of them :rotfl::rotfl:).

Just need to chop some veg for dinner so will get the knife wielded shortly

bouicca21

Spirit if you find somewhere cheapish with sun and scenery, let us know. Could do with ideas.

spirit

bouicca21 wrote: »

Spirit if you find somewhere cheapish with sun and scenery, let us know. Could do with ideas.

Will do. A woman at work strongly recommends Croatia. Will ask her whereabouts tomorrow. Her pics look lovely.

caronc

Really enjoyed my stir fry tonight not sure why I don't have these more often, they were regularly on the menu when the boys were at home...

mcculloch29

Thanks for your good wishes, they did the trick, and my appetite is back, tummy more settled, less acidic. I just put together a lot of nibbles for tea, as a dear friend took me to A!di, I can shop on my own, but oh, it was nice to put stuff in my trolley without doing weight/bulk calculations.
A!di do chicken and duck sushi now, oh gosh, they are nice, sorry veggies and vegans.
They do do a veggie sushi too.
I treated myself to a few bits, more Brie, pate to go on the Danish toast, A!di's version of Seriously Strong cheddar spread. Plus some coffee sachets. Things to spur an appetite on without upsetting a tummy too much.
My friend has a 40 mile round trip and is on a night shift (she's an RGN) tonight. How blessed I am to have someone like that as a pal.
She left with some goodies that I had been sent to review that were surplus to requirements once reviewed. Snag is there is a mandatory 6 mo. wait before one can dispose, but hey-ho. A lovely dress sent to review last summer has made it out of the door for her younger daughter for this summer. She has a lovely figure and will look knockout in it.

Going to have a riffle through my Kickstarter copy of Jack Monroe's book to see what appeals. Failing that, it's Nanny Ogg's Cookbook. (I am a Terry Pratchett fan.)

moneyistooshorttomention

McCulloch - Jack Monroe is in an up phase at the moment - so back turning out recipes again. Complete with spitting feathers - as some Conservative official is currently saying "You can all manage to eat on £10 per week - Jack Monroe does it"

- whilst carefully ignoring the fact that the ingredients she used have about doubled in price since on the one hand or the fact that the vast majority of us aren't prepared to try and eat continuously in as "basic" a way and she's got a very small appetite compared to most of us.

That was "an episode that was always going to happen" - ie someone somewhere saying that it's possible to eat so cheaply - and ignoring things like it's done as a very short-term thing (ie restricting one's diet to basics only), done by shopping around like mad (which most of us aren't going to do one way or another), done by buying yellow-stickered items etc etc etc.

I've been waiting for a while to see just which Conservative politico or DWP official (mis)used her books/the cheapie eat for a £1 a day blogs/etc........I think that's been on the cards for a while...

Wednesday2000

I have only had a few glasses of water and a cup of black coffee so far today.

I read in the health book yesterday that we should be trying to get 20 mins in daylight in the morning so I just spent about an hour scrubbing my patio with a broom and white vinegar!:D

It looks a bit cleaner out there so I might have breakfast out there tomorrow morning. I will have to wear my jacket if it gets colder!:p

I'm not sure what to have, I know I have lots of yummy stuff coming in the shopping but that is about 4 today.

I have some spinach and berries in the fridge so I might have a smoothie with added banana.

Maybe toast with PB after. I'm not sure if I like the PB without oil, it tastes a bit weird, well, not the taste, the texture.