Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Brambling

caronc wrote: »

cottage cheese, grated carrots and coarse cut bitter orange marmalade on toast anyone?- nope me neither these days :rotfl::rotfl:)

_pale_ I remember watching my pregnant niece dip banana into piccalilli as my sister and I watched with a horrid fascination. I also have venison envy although I have no room in my freezer at the moment

I don't think I have ever had a pickled walnut :think:

I gave up today and put my heating on when I got in from work as the house felt cold probably not helped by sitting in a cold office, it takes a while to build up heat after the weekend.

Out again tonight this time a play with my sister The Lady Vanishes good old Hitchcock made more enjoyable by 2for1 on opening night tickets with our friends of the venue card :money: although the price of the ice cream was :eek: very nice but I remember why I don't usually bother. My sister said she needed one to stop her coughing :rotfl: Not that she had coughed in the first half :cool:

Lunch was some HM lentil, sweet potato and pepper soup i didn't have any bacon which was in the recipe so add about an inch of chorizo from the freezer which added a lovely favour with a little smoked paprika. Dinner was chicken a la Farways with chips and veg

Wednesday2000

I was watching a YouTube video recently and the woman was saying what vegan stuff you can get from Poundland and Poundstretchers so i was going to go and look there. She said they have a lot of new products around Christmas too.

I haven't been in those shops in years. I used to when I was being more frugal. I should start looking in there again!

This is MSE after all.:money:

Brambling wrote: »

_pale_ I remember watching my pregnant niece dip banana into piccalilli as my sister and I watched with a horrid fascination. I also have venison envy although I have no room in my freezer at the moment

I don't think I have ever had a pickled walnut :think:

I gave up today and put my heating on when I got in from work as the house felt cold probably not helped by sitting in a cold office, it takes a while to build up heat after the weekend.

Out again tonight this time a play with my sister The Lady Vanishes good old Hitchcock made more enjoyable by 2for1 on opening night tickets with our friends of the venue card :money: although the price of the ice cream was :eek: very nice but I remember why I don't usually bother. My sister said she needed one to stop her coughing :rotfl: Not that she had coughed in the first half :cool:

Bananas and piccalilli.:rotfl:

I don't think I have tasted pickled walnuts. either.

I like The Lady Vanishes.:T

Wednesday2000

I'm making soup today. I felt quite cold when I got in yesterday. Time for fleecy sock weather.

I put in veg bouillon, passata, red onion, red pepper, sweetcorn, peas and a carrot. I will blend it up at the end.

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Couple of cooked sausages out plus some caramalised onions, will do with pot + carrot mash and - to be healthy - spinach, all but pot are from freezers.

caronc

Good afternoon everyone,

Snap Wednesday it's soup and warm socks weather here too.:)
Brambling - I can just about see how banana and piccalilli could work as I'm partial to a mashed banana and Branston toastie:cool:.


Earlier my toaster decided it was going to shuffle of this mortal coil with a bang:eek: tripping the circuit as well so not the best start to the day:(. It was just a cheap one and four or five years old so doesn't owe me anything as I toast most days for breakfast. It will be getting replaced with another cheap one as I cba waiting for the cooker grill to heat up.


It's blooming baltic here today, I popped out to the library which is near the sea front and the wind would have cut you in two. Although I well wrapped up and only had to wait a few minutes for my taxi home I was chilled to the bone when I got back in the house.
HM soup and oatcakes for lunch and mince & tatties for dinner tonight.

Farway

Sunny day but cool

Wednesday2000 wrote: »

Time for fleecy sock weather.

I was just thinking that last night, hope I can find them, I know the general area where they should be parked but tidy clothes stacking is not my DNA;)

My airing cupboard is the clothing equivalent of a shed, it's in there somewhere:D

Into L's for a mooch first thing, No YS but did spy & buy walnut cake [I wonder what triggered the walnut button?:o]

Lunch, cheese & opened jar of HM 2011 vintage apple chutney, both in a sarnie

Dinner is last of the LO chicken that looks like chicken and not "bits" + Aunt B's frozen French fries, on offer, + salad, lovely Little gems from L's this morning

The rest of chicken I'll pick over and maybe use with some pasta tomorrow, found a 2011 pack lurking & fancy pasta now having seen PN spag bol mentioned

Local G grocer posted he has "Thursday Cottage" jams etc in, tempting, never had them but always hoping to find a proper home made style one.

Noted there is a ginger curd, never had that & I've already put one on my list:)

candygirl

Wednesday2000 wrote: »

I'm making soup today. I felt quite cold when I got in yesterday. Time for fleecy sock weather.

I put in veg bouillon, passata, red onion, red pepper, sweetcorn, peas and a carrot. I will blend it up at the end.

Sounds delish. I had a cooking day on Sunday, n made batches of leek n potato soup, spicy tomato n lentil soup, n chana masala.Now have half a freezer full of ready meals:D
It's freezing here today too, so am under my heated throw eating cheese on toast :rotfl:

PasturesNew

Farway wrote: »

Noted there is a ginger curd, never had that & I've already put one on my list:)

I'd give that a whirl .... cost/reason depending.
To just "give it a try" it'd have to be £1.
If it were for a bit of a treat recipe, under the right circumstances I could begrudgingly be dragged towards £2.

So now I'm wondering how much it is
A quick Google suggests it's a bit pricey ... which relegates it to the "I could make that" list, which is proven to be the "yes, but you'll never get round to it" list

Wednesday2000

Ooh, my friend from another forum might be joining us soon.

I told her about the MSE forum and how friendly the people are, well, I said to stay away from the politics discussions about Brexit on the Discussion thread. Haha.

Stick with the nice people on OSM.:heart2::kisses3:

candygirl wrote: »

Sounds delish. I had a cooking day on Sunday, n made batches of leek n potato soup, spicy tomato n lentil soup, n chana masala.Now have half a freezer full of ready meals:D
It's freezing here today too, so am under my heated throw eating cheese on toast :rotfl:

Keep warm.xxx:A

unrecordings

Had to eschew the supermarket in favour of staying in & resting, so the fantasy of pan fried salmon on a bed of basmati rice with maybe a few capers has been put on hold. It's dirty hot dogs instead (dirty ie not vegan). Cat got some fresh liver, so now I'm jealous - liver & onions is on the cards this week now (now that is old style recuperation food)