Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Wednesday2000

fred_jackson wrote: »

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

Sorry, I should have said hello to a new person on here.:)

:wave::hello:

unrecordings

Farway wrote: »

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

I'm having a couple tonight. I'm hoping they're fairly thin, as I hate trying to eat those massive thick burgers that end up everywhere. There will be polish mustard, emmental slices, and potentially some fried mushroom. I used to make ny own burgers, but that's not so easy anymore (and they were always too thick)

Farway

unrecordings wrote: »

I used to make ny own burgers, but that's not so easy anymore (and they were always too thick)

I also make my own if I fancy some, but have never really managed to master the thickness either, mine always swell in the middle despite making a hollow to start with

Many years, and house moves, back I had something like this, which from memory seemed to work but I assume was cast aside due to lack of use

unrecordings

Farway wrote: »

I also make my own if I fancy some, but have never really managed to master the thickness either, mine always swell in the middle despite making a hollow to start with

Many years, and house moves, back I had something like this, which from memory seemed to work but I assume was cast aside due to lack of use

Yep - had one of them, never really worked

PasturesNew

I'd like to go out food shopping.
CBA.

Earlier I nuked the last of the chips I'd cooked yesterday.

I'd like some sweeties.
CBA.

I should go out food shopping shouldn't I.
*sighs*
I'll think about it.

EDIT: Cooked/scoffed two fishcakes while thinking about it, so I'll put it off now until tomorrow

caronc

Double post

caronc

Good evening everyone,

Welcome fred_jackson I'm not keen on eating the same thing for days on end but I know it works for a lot of people.:) Any batch cooking I do tends to get portioned and frozen so I can mix things up a bit.


Yikes PN at least you knew where they were and didn't have to endlessly rumage:).


I like a thick burger and don't mind a bump, my son has a steak press which he swears by for getting an even cook on griddled food. I keep thinking about getting one mainly to hold down chops etc.


I meant to comment earlier re the "dial a recipe" that was a new one on me but my isn't that book very typical looking for that time, I just envision the recipe photographs:cool:. Mind you for the majority of the 1980s I didn't have a home phone as I was living in rented flats and the phonebox at the end of the street sufficed. How did we ever manage lol, the thought horrifies my kids :eek::eek:.
I narrowly avoided getting stung earlier by a half-dead (now fully;)) wasp that landed on my rollator handle, I just noticed it in time.:eek: For once something was slower moving than I am :rotfl::rotfl:.
It's really cold here tonight again and there's already quite a heavy frost coming down. I decided that pasta & meatballs befitted a cold evening and have defrosted some meatballs and a portion of chunky veg & tomato sauce so no real cooking required unless you count boiling some pasta and grating some parmesan:).

candygirl

Had jacket spuds with cheese n a big salad. Also bungee some mixed pickles on it.Yep , I am officially weird :rotfl:

caronc

candygirl wrote: »

Had jacket spuds with cheese n a big salad. Also bungee some mixed pickles on it.Yep , I am officially weird :rotfl:

Nope that's not weird - pickles go with cheese and cheese goes with a baked spud;). If you had stirred a big spoonful of jam through perhaps though then again a chap I went to school with had a cheese & jam sandwich and a packet of pickled onion Monster Munch most days for his lunch so perhaps not :rotfl::rotfl:

PasturesNew

caronc wrote: »

Mind you for the majority of the 1980s I didn't have a home phone as I was living in rented flats and the phonebox at the end of the street sufficed.

I was a bit bored with my job; my boss was mostly so far out of the country it took 2 months to travel there or back ... and I had my own office.... offices have phones