Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Brambling

caronc wrote: »

I'm partial to a mashed banana and Branston toastie:cool:..

_pale_ but why ??

New CFOs always welcomed Wednesday

We expect you to report back re the ginger curd Farway, not something I've heard of before

I worked from home today as routine mammogram appointment this afternoon, two very organised ladies so in on time . Although i had a [STRIKE]blond[/STRIKE] moment at the car park machine and accidentally paid a £1 for two hours the lady I gave my ticket to as she drove in appreciated it . His lordship appreciated me being home and kept me company all day, only once walking over the keyboard

As I was home lunch was scrambled eggs, I sat on a long conference call this morning fancying them. Dinner will be pasta with the chicken and some random veg from the fridge thrown in. I'll cook extra pasta and make a coronation chicken with it for lunch tomorrow

I'm now think liver, bacon and mash will appear for dinner one night I have some lambs liver in the freezer

caronc

Good evening everyone
'Cos it's nice Brambling - shouldn't be I know but it is. Has to be in a toastie rather than a sandwich though to work:cool:
Sounds as though you are well stocked with "winter warmers" CG , definitely getting to that time of year!
Hope your friend finds OSM board as welcoming as I did Wednesday - who'd have thought that CFO would still be running almost three years later :eek::)
I like the sound of ginger curd Farway, you will need to report back if you buy some. My friend makes excellent lemon curd, I might give her a nudge in that direction .

Shame you didn't manage your SM visit unrecordings, I do like a dish of liver & onions though "dirty hot dogs" sound interesting - lots of sauce, onions and pickles I imagine?



After all the uncertainty barring anything so far unforeseen it looks as though the missives will be exchanged tomorrow and the sale/key handover take place as planned on my Dad's flat this Friday. Just as well I changed my dental appointment!


It is definitely on the parky side here this evening, after finding the bathroom chilly last night at bedtime I've set the heating to come on for a 1/2 hour bedtime. So far 20 mins in the morning to take the edge off has been fine but needs must. Mince and tatties just need there final nuke after I've pinged some frozen runner beans to have with it, then it's chill out in front of the TV for me for a bit before off to bed with a cuppa and a book.

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caronc wrote: »

Shame you didn't manage your SM visit unrecordings, I do like a dish of liver & onions though "dirty hot dogs" sound interesting - lots of sauce, onions and pickles I imagine?

hot dogs in the home, falls into the category of survival food for me

dirty is from a jar (usually of German origin), really dirty would be from a tin, the kind that tend to have a thin layer of jelly floating on the brine. One dog per finger roll, three types of mustard: Polish, English (Colman's) and either maybe some Dijon, or French's or Senap (from Ikea)

PasturesNew

The trouble with hot dogs is there are so many in a tin/jar, typically 8+

If I fancied a hot dog I could fancy pigging out on 2, or really binge eating three... but there's still the rest lurking.

Hot dog roll pack sizes rarely match jar sizes, so you start by trying to get a match on those too (so you don't end up with 2 hot dog rolls leftover).

Then there's the onion aspect. In my own home it's a struggle to get round to eating a whole bag and usually end up having to eat 4-6 meals to "finish the rest of the bag as they're sprouting". Right now I can't even contemplate buying a bag of onions, or a whole new ketchup as I'd struggle to get through a whole ketchup before I have to pack up and leave again... and binning it.

And, having binge eaten so many I'd not fancy another for some months.

So I often think of them when I see them in the shops, but never buy them.

Yesterday I ate:
Breakfast = 2x toast, 2x scrambled eggs
Lunch = 1/2 can spag bol & 2x toast
Tea = 2x 1cel4nd fishcakes (10/£1) in 1 piece of toast, so a fishcake toastie.

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PasturesNew wrote: »

The trouble with hot dogs is there are so many in a tin/jar, typically 8+

I was thinking about this last night - how convenient it was that I had six hot dogs & six rolls. Rolls were from Waitrose (Essential white finger rolls) and the hotdogs were a German brand that seem to have disappeared, also in sixes (oh dear, time to check the recycling). Fried onions - if we're pushing the boat out.

Wednesday2000

I had cereal with almond milk and sliced banana for breakfast. We have the plumber coming in a minute to fix our leaky taps.

Farway

Heating coming on regularly now it's colder, another morning snuggling under duvet waiting for heating to click on. It's in winter time mode so should be in sync after clocks go whichever way this Sunday
I knew the fall back etc rhyme, but years of listening to T Wogan and his + listeners mangling it I've no idea of the truth now:D

Brambling wrote: »

As I was home lunch was scrambled eggs, I sat on a long conference call this morning fancying them. Dinner will be pasta with the chicken and some random veg from the fridge thrown in. I'll cook extra pasta and make a coronation chicken with it for lunch tomorrow

Hooray, that's my lunch problem solved, scrambled eggs on toast:j
Dinner is nearly identical as well, I'd already planned use up chicken bits + pasta, but I chuck in a tin of condensed mushroom soup after pasta is drained, heating through gives nice lazy sauce

I think I may have a tin of mushrooms somewhere, if this proves to be correct I'll bung them in the pot as well

One jar of ginger curd on my list for tomorrow, now I'll need to add replacement soup & tin of mushrooms
I like lemon curd as well, but unfortunately having tried the "better" brands I prefer those, I can taste the difference, and it's not that range either.
Yet another item for PN style "could make them but will never do so"

Hot dog sausages, I'll pass on them, tubes of mystery meat in hot water:eek: The veggie ones my rellies dish up are as gross

PasturesNew

Not being used to how others cook has been a revelation to me with this shared kitchen.

One housemate I went shopping with the other day picked up two boxes of 4-burgers. I didn't buy a box as I was thinking it was a big box to have to have room for in the freezer "for several weeks" until I'd eaten them all. A burger is a serving, isn't it?

Then I saw the housemate cooking.... all four! "OK" I thought, "maybe cooking the lot then popping into the fridge to be future-nuked".

30 minutes later ALL four were served on a plate, topped with about 100g of cheese and side loaded with an entire punnet of mushrooms they'd fried!!!

I was.... staggered.... have any other CFOs EVER eaten a whole 4-box of quarterpounders in one sitting?

I've never had more than one at a time.

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unrecordings wrote: »

...and the hotdogs were a German brand that seem to have disappeared, also in sixes (oh dear, time to check the recycling)

Been googling the brand (Meica, another brand that Waitrose seem to have dropped), but did find this which is just wrong on so many levels:

https://finnmarksauna.com/products/finnish-soapstone-sauna-sausage-hot-dog-cooker-makkaraputki

Farway

PasturesNew wrote: »

I was.... staggered.... have any other CFOs EVER eaten a whole 4-box of quarterpounders in one sitting?

I've never had more than one at a time.

No, if at a BBQ and someone else is cooking I may have 2, but TBH I don't really eat burgers anyway unless I make them, which I rarely do

And now I fancy HM burger:o
If I spot YS 5% mince in I'land tomorrow that'll be on my list

unrecordings wrote: »

Been googling the brand (Meica, another brand that Waitrose seem to have dropped), but did find this which is just wrong on so many levels:
https://finnmarksauna.com/products/finnish-soapstone-sauna-sausage-hot-dog-cooker-makkaraputki?variant=33011767559&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_campaign=Google%20Shopping&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI8rq1sfOx5QIVh8qyCh1x-A8BEAkYESABEgJjL_D_BwE

Those look like they'd soon joining the toasted sarnie maker at back of cupboard.