Cooking for one (Mark Three)

unrecordings

caronc wrote: »

Hope between you & Mrs Un you get your curry made tonight unrecordings sometimes an extra pair of hands are just what's needed.:)

My good hand wasn't as bad today, so I did the chicken, chillis & peppers & Mrs Un did the tomatoes & onions. All good and I didn't eat too much. Didn't even open the two for £1 poppadums

PasturesNew

I started collecting recipe booklets years ago. Many/most companies used to send you a free recipe booklet if you wrote to them. I probably had 20-30 little booklets like that. Then I bought a few cheap little recipe books that caught my eye in the 1980s. I also subscribed to one of those "fortnightly" series that you separated into sections in a binder, I stopped after 2 years/2 binders or so... still never cooked a single thing from those 30 years on.

I never cooked anything from a recipe. Over the years, during various moves, I've binned most of my recipe books. Still carting the binders about as I keep meaning to look through them + they cost a fortune to have kept buying

Now I just use evernote to grab reminders/ideas... so if I want to make something I load it up and type in something, or a few ingredients and see what results I get... just to pick what I'm going to cook/make up. I never use those recipes to "follow" as I don't cook something specific, just a type of meal/food based around ingredients I've already got.

Does anybody remember the "Dial a Recipe" service you used to get on the telephone ~1980? Like the talking clock it was a simple number you dialled and each day it'd be a different recipe.

unrecordings

PasturesNew wrote: »

Does anybody remember the "Dial a Recipe" service you used to get on the telephone ~1980? Like the talking clock it was a simple number you dialled and each day it'd be a different recipe.

I had to google that, disappointingly didn't find any media files. But did find this:

pattypan4

I also have lots of nice cookery books, all those lovely books about bread and how much can one person eat? I suppose they are coffee table books but I don`t have a coffee table.


Again, fish fingers chips and peas and that will clear a tiny bit more space. Might be my second breakfast because it gave me the expected indigestion yesterday and I need to get it eaten early and move around. I have a soup out to defrost for last meal


Milk is starting to turn and I have spare eggs, scones to be made later to shoehorn into my freezer. I have newer milk for tea. I am waiting for some nice sandwich tins to arrive, I fancy making a real victoria sponge, just jam. It freezes lovely in portions. I will do both roughly at the same time, sponge first as it has a cooler oven temperature

PasturesNew

Yesterday I cooked up the entire remainder of the "wrong chips" I'd bought. "wrong" means that pack/brand/style don't nuke well and I didn't like their individual size I figured, once oven cooked (the bag said they are frying ones), I could just nuke them hot. I had some yesterday with 4 fish fingers. The portion/s left is of that annoying size where it's a bit tight for two portions, but a piggy one portion... I'll go for piggy and get them eaten with a couple of fishcakes.

Freezer now contains: 3 hash browns, 3 fish fingers, 10 fish cakes.

I need to go food shopping again at some point as I'm out of anything bready, have no eggs and am down to the last tin of beans. I might pop into 1cel4nd for some flatbreads and burgers later or tomorrow.... or L1dl, or Mr T. Decisions, decisions...

caronc

Good morning everyone,
Glad you got your curry unrecordings.:)
I love reading cookery books, some are beautifully written and so much more than just a collection of recipes. It's a fairly inexpensive hobby to have compared to many others that folk have.
Frosty again this morning and it's sunny now, it's supposed to be another cold one tonight. I'm not long back home after popping to the post box, on the shady side of the road there were still quite a lot of icy patches and unless the temperature rises considerably I'm not sure they'll go before the frost comes back down.:eek:
Pasta tonight I think either meatballs or pea, spinach & pesto sauce I haven't decided yet. Mini pork pie, a tiger roll and fruit for lunch. It was lovely to have toast for breakfast this morning after my enforced break from it.:)

fred_jackson

My meals don't really change on a day-to-day basis. Every morining it's oats and fruit. For lunch it's a bean salad with boiled new potatoes and for dinner is usually lentils and rice. I try and batch cook/meal prep for 3 days then do a mid-week prep for Thursday and Friday.
This is useful if you're not fussed about eating the same stuff for a few days. I usually have a little fast-food on weekends as I can't be asked to cook lol

Wednesday2000

I don't have any recipe books, I usually just look on Pinterest if I want a recipe.:)

I've randomly had a craving for something I read about a while ago. Venus Williams was mostly raw vegan for a while and she said she likes something she calls an orange creamsicle. It's oranges, banana and some plant milk blended up and kept very cold.

I used frozen banana, the juice of an orange, a tin of mandarin oranges in juice and some almond milk.

It's in the fridge now as I started doing Intermittent Fasting so I can't eat until midday.:cool:

I bought a stir fry yesterday as it was on offer as it has to be eaten by today. Kale, spring onion, broccoli, carrot, red onion, sunflower seeds, red chilli and coriander. I will have that with noodles after my smoothie.

Healthy day today!:T

PasturesNew

I had something vital that'd ended up in storage and it was essential I went to get it, my sibling's only other set of house keys... given to me so she's not the only person in the world with a set and used by me when I'm there too, so critical when I'm there AND ... couldn't admit "there's this 20' container ... 200 miles away ... somewhere in there..."

I pretty much knew where they'd be as I knew where they'd been in my house and I'd have never separated/packed them with "stuff for longer term storage", so I knew I was looking for "one of the 2-3 random bags of cr4p I tipped out from the living room cupboard/drawers and tossed it all into a bag for life at the last minute" - so I also expected those to be clearly visible upon opening the door .... and I was right. Keys secured in my bag I then had a poke around "shopping for bits and pieces" since I was in there.

Found my kitchen/food bag, items I'd not eaten by the move date and brought 2 cans of beans, a couple of packs of noodles and an opened jar of coffee back with me + my cheese grater (in case), my freezer bag sealing clips (been using pegs) and my usual mug.

Sitting here eating curry noodles topped with half the portion of chips from the fridge

Farway

Welcome Fred Jackson. I'm another oats & fruit for breakfast person, nice & easy

Up early and off to hospital, it was so early we could even get in the car park without queuing for ages.

Car parking is a notorious PIA, there are often spaces but access is always bunged up what with ambulances, buses, zebra crossings etc plus with folk not knowing where they are going, and only one entrance / exit

Quick prod & poke, seems I'll live and nothing serious, should sort itself out in a month or two apparently, sort of hang over from my previous op:)

Off to GC after that, hot chocolate + toast & jam as late breakfast
Mooched in Ye Olde Farm Shoppe, loads of stuff I fancied, maybe treat myself for Christmas?

The venison bangers and local blue cheeses had a narrow escape this morning

Lunch I finished off the small lump of YS beef that's been lurking. I cubed it & had with LO HM chutney. Just enough as light lunch

Dinner, has to be the L & P Pukka pie, I may also nuke some frozen mash if I get round to it

unrecordings wrote: »

Went shopping today and got these for the freezer
https://www.iceland.co.uk/p/iceland-luxury-4-aberdeen-angus-quarter-pounders-454g/66934.html#start=1
Now who do I blame for that..?

Not tried them, I don't normally buy shop burgers after some nasty knobbly experiences, but the reviews sound OK, I may just try them when in Ice£and on Thursday