Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Brambling

How annoying about the lock Caronc and really bad timing, some companies take the p*** on emergency call out costs. A couple of weeks before I moved I arranged with the buyer and her builder to come around one lunchtime, when I got home they were sitting in the car laughing as my kitten chewed a large hole in the lounge net curtain (NB never get a kitten just before moving :eek:) luckily she was happy for me not to replace it.

I don't remember ginger sponge at school just chocolate sponge and pink custard . We rarely had shop brought cake at home and I didn't like the Macvities ginger one which my sister would chose if we did

Why can I never find shortbread in my car? I've only seem the Scottie dog shape ones in the shops down here

Work was busy today with very little to show for it at the end other than a lot of talking :cool: Rain stopped me walking lunchtime and I ended up with only enough time to grab my lentil and sweet potato soup before going back into a meeting. We didn't get out until after 6pm so I was late home tonight. Just tomorrow and then I'm off for a week, my sister is coming up for a few days from Wednesday and I've too much holiday left, I will still have to carry over a week to next year

By the time I filled up with petrol and put the rubbish out when I got home I was hungry and cba to cook so dinner was boiled a couple of eggs and made soldiers

caronc

Don't they just Brambling - £60 compared to £200+ really preying on folk being desperate!
Lol re the kitten & the net curtain :rotfl:- just before I last moved my then pooch had an op on his tail which he managed to rip open and caused a blood splatter on the lounge wall.:eek: It cleaned but was still noticeable - our buyers were fine about though I could have done without the "decor isn't to our taste anyway" comment - we thought it was lovely:cool:

candygirl

unrecordings wrote: »

Oh no, that's like a reverse aloo gobi - I suddenly feel very hungryi

Love aloo gobi, n will soon be eating it for pence in Goa:j

unrecordings

unrecordings wrote: »

I was going to look today as it seemed strange that Waitrose also (according to their website) had stopped stocking Bisto vegetarian/vegan gravy granules - so hopefully that's them just being rubbish. Hopefully the Meica are still on offer. As for the salmon, rice & capers, I realise I've still half a pack of 'fresh' cappelletti Which I'm paranoid is going to go furry (as they tend to these days). I only opened it on Tuesday and it needs to be eaten today or Saturday...

Ah a late update. I ended up with one of those disappointing' I don't think we got everything' shops. No Meica, in fact a near forensic google search revealed only Ocado seem to do them now. Bisto was a similar mystery, although there is an alternative Bisto flavour which is now apparently accidentally vegan. Usually this time of year there's an empty shelf in Waitrose that mere moments earlier contained a handful of essential mince pies, that were vegan. This year the essential mince pies are no longer vegan and by maybe some coincidence there was a huge full, barely touched display of them. And they've abandoned the yellow sticker chiller. At least the Slovenian red was still on offer (Puklavec - actually I think the white is Slovenian, the red is next door)

unrecordings

candygirl wrote: »

Love aloo gobi, n will soon be eating it for pence in Goa:j

Envious. Nearly ended up there once. Considering the cameraman surrendered his film to Indian customs rendering the entire endeavour futile, I'm glad I didn't go

Curry house at the top of the road does a nice potato aloo gobi, so I'm content with that and I count my blessings

Brambling

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No Meica, in fact a near forensic google search revealed only Ocado seem to do them now.)

Maybe that's why they were on offer (£1.40 I think) because they are going to stop selling them in W8itrose

Caronc my buyer wanted me to let her builder in so he could quote to redecorate the whole flat :cool:

PasturesNew

Yesterday was unusual, I had:

1/ 3 chicken strips & chips that'd been cooked/cooled - nuked these for 'breakfast'
2/ 4 chicken strips & chips for lunch
3/ 4 cold chicken strips cooked/cooled earlier.

Today's breakfast was:
1 toasted crust, ½ tin of beans, 2 scrambled eggs, splash of brown sauce.

Wednesday2000

I just had a toasted panini with vegan ham and marg.

I have two bowls of HM leftover soup to eat today!:D

I bought some beetroot, potato and carrot tikkis (like onion bhajis) from Waitrose while they were on offer.

PasturesNew wrote: »

Now you mention it, we had a ginger sponge.

It was about 2" or more high and you were served with a square block of it - and instead of regular/yellow custard it was served with an off-white hot sauce, maybe vanilla custard?

Yes, sounds familiar!

caronc

Good afternoon everyone,

I'm feeling both and as the house sale went through this morning. My Dad's passing feels very final now but I'm glad that the sale is completed.
It is so cold here today, just a few degrees and feeling much colder in the wind, it was absolutely baltic when I had to pop out earlier. I think the stoe will be getting lit late afternoon rather than in the evening.
Apart from a bin run and topping up the indoor log stack I've no plans to venture back out.

Having not managed to get a bacon butty yesterday that's lunch today sorted out:). Dinner tonight is turkey, veg and chick pea curry. I'm cheating and using a bought jar of sauce which is lurking in the cupboard but will add extra garlic & ginger as the bought ones never seem to have enough of those in them for my taste. I'll either have it with pitta or there's a portion of pilau rice in the freezer LO from the takeaway I had with my son a few weeks ago. There will be LO turkey which is destined for the freezer to boost the range of HM ready meals already in there. I'm down to just various "casseroley" things and prefer to have a bit more variety in my stash.:)

unrecordings

I'm in a panini mood - the toaster died, so we've dusted off (quite literally) the old breville. Slight problem, Waitrose panini are vegan but rubbish, Tesco panini are not vegan but really nice. Then there's spillage...