Cooking for one (Mark Three)

caronc

PasturesNew wrote: »

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

Sorted , although I was office-based it was open plan and personal phone use was strictly for emergencies only. As a newly promoted "supervisor" I had to lead by example :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Brambling

caronc wrote: »

Sorry (not):rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: but guilty as charged , it does look fab though and she's a beautiful writer. I have "Roast figs, sugar snow" (now out of print I think) *and it is a beautifully readable book with lots of very gorgeous but doable recipes. I've cooked a good few from this so don't think the new one will sit unloved on the shelf especially as I'm fond of an "oven bung it in":D (That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it:p)
*ETA though you can get it for just over a fiver inc delivery secondhand on Abe books, well worth it even if just for the tartiflette recipe;)

:whistle: :whistle: :whistle: I'm blaming you Caronc for why I can't declutter :rotfl:

Hi Fred_Jackson welcome to CFO I tend to repeat breakfast, porridge and fruit during the winter and soup for lunch but try to ring the changes if at all possible for dinner

I've never heard of the dial a recipe before, but we got our phone when I was 17 and no way would we have been allowed to dial a recipe . Calls were timed and we had to put money in the tin

My quick trip to town for present shopping and lunch turned out longer than planned as my sister and I [STRIKE]gossiped too much [/STRIKE].discussed important issues :rotfl: but I managed to sort out her birthday present (gave her money towards her new coat) and we got my other sister her present between us . I picked up a chicken to roast for tomorrow's dinner

Lunch was a full English breakfast which we didn't have until 2ish so I've not eaten dinner just a banana when I got back from Tai Chi as I was still full. My BIL is bringing my sister up tomorrow morning due to train issues so I received my instructions for chocolate biscuits from him. I popped into T express on the way home for them and realised my sister had 'stolen' my handbag when I dropped her home (she hadn't taken hers to tai chi:cool:) so had to go back to hers after my moment of panic that I had left it at the school, I then was over charged for the biscuits and had to go back in, they were £1.14 on offer and I was charged £2.40 :cool:

unrecordings

PasturesNew wrote: »

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.

I do a lot of CBA, sometimes in my condition I can justify it, others I just CBA then suffer (and by suffer, I only mean 'go without')

Had the community nurse round this morning, and could have put a big fat CBA on a shopping trip afterwards, but went out, bought lots of treats & meal options for the next 1/2 week and feel better for it - both mentally & physically.

Had two of these this evening with tesco breadcakes, fried red onion, emmental cheese, cholula hot sauce

https://www.iceland.co.uk/p/iceland-luxury-4-aberdeen-angus-quarter-pounders-454g/66934.html#start=1

Must say, I'm pretty impressed (they do shrink though so choose your breadcake wisely), first frozen burger I've had in maybe 20 years - Mrs Un looks worried - I might look into one of these airfryer thingies

PasturesNew

unrecordings wrote: »

I do a lot of CBA ....
Had two of these this evening with tesco breadcakes, fried red onion, emmental cheese, cholula hot sauce

https://www.iceland.co.uk/p/iceland-luxury-4-aberdeen-angus-quarter-pounders-454g/66934.html#start=1

Must say, I'm pretty impressed (they do shrink though so choose your breadcake wisely), first frozen burger I've had in maybe 20 years - Mrs Un looks worried - I might look into one of these airfryer thingies

Top tip for CBA... you can nuke them, from frozen.

Place one in a bowl/jug/dish, cover (or not, it's not critical).
Nuke 1 min. Turn.
Nuke 1 min. Rest a min or so. Turn.
Nuke 30 secs. Poke/look.
Repeat: Turn, nuke 30 secs, rest until it looks cooked; usually total of 3-4 minutes from start to finish + a bit of 'resting' time half way through.

Drain/not the fat as you go.
Drain to serve.
Scoff.

Some/most brands don't look appetising at this point, but they taste the same and if it's in a bread roll or covered in cheese, you'd never be able to tell. They do colour/go brown and shrink down to burger shape/size, you just don't get that browned grilled/fried effect on the outside.

When adding cheese I keep on top of draining the bowl of fat (you end up with 2-4 tablespoons) ... and I pop the cheese on for the final 2x30 second blasts.

pattypan4

I am having an a*** over head day today. Did not like getting heartburn hours after eating oven chips and fishfingers yesterday, so I have eaten fish fingers, chips and peas for breakfast because I know I will be moving a lot this morning. Thats the last of the fish fingers, I regret but the powdery greasy chips LO are going into the bin. I know now for definite that I cannot tolerate chips or greasy crumbs, I suppose all the better anyway, not having these heart hurting trans fats

Big minestrone later, full of veg and it is nice

PasturesNew

Quickly returning to hotdogs... those near to 1cel4nd might like to know they have these in this week's offers.

50p items include a tin of 8 hotdogs and a 6-pack of hot dog rolls. Also ketchup 50p (annoying as I spent more than that last week on ketchup!).

Baking spuds - 4-packs - 50p.

https://www.iceland.co.uk/7-day-deal

caronc

Good morning everyone,
I think we can all relate to cba mine struck last night when I decided I cba cooking pasta and nuked some HM mash from the freezer to have with the meatballs and sauce. It ended up a good call as it was blooming lovely and made a nice change.:) Though going by the weird dreams I had overnight I might have been a tad heavy-handed with the cheese.:eek::eek:
Frosty again this morning but bright & sunny, it's to freeze again tonight before getting a bit milder but wet over coming days. I'd much rather have the frost than the rain.

Remaining mini pork pie with fruit again for lunch and I've a chicken thigh defrosting for tonight which I'll roast with various veg. I'll marinate the chicken & veg in some harissa spice, lemon juice , garlic and oil for a few hours so it should be tasty:).

Farway

Yesterday dinner, was the L & P Pukka pie, a triumph, I would buy again, probably will tomorrow as on offer for a £1 in lot of places

Caron, the weird dream, could be frozen mash related;) I used that last night and most odd dreams, in the Dockyard working on ???? with a car that folded flat so could park it easily at the Dr's:D
I guess the last part arose from Hospital parking

Usual porridge / chopped pear / yoghurt breakfast

On subject of CBA, today is one of them, I've run out of ready to use bread, I've got PB baguettes & a bread mix so could easily solve the problem
However I CBA and I have cereal I'm fed up looking at, so lunch could be cereal, maybe the free grotty granola, with sliced fruit & last of the L's yoghurt

Dinner however is a lovely FR pork chop, defrosting on the draining board, with use up Cornish spuds + use up salad

PasturesNew wrote: »

Quickly returning to hotdogs... those near to 1cel4nd might like to know they have these in this week's offers.

50p items include a tin of 8 hotdogs and a 6-pack of hot dog rolls. Also ketchup 50p (annoying as I spent more than that last week on ketchup!).

Baking spuds - 4-packs - 50p.

https://www.iceland.co.uk/7-day-deal

Ta for this PN, I'm in there tomorrow, so 3 out of 4 may be in my basket, stand-fast the hot dogs

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Whats the recipe today Jim? on the radio, used to ring up from work donkeys years ago. One recipe was for sweetbreads, I went to local cake shop to buy some - new bride - and the ladies had a right royal laugh before they explained what they were. Have not bought recipe books since about 1975, the ones I had then were enough and since tinternet I just ind online or on sites like this one thanks.

unrecordings

PasturesNew wrote: »

Quickly returning to hotdogs...

I'm on a bit of a hotdog mission as Meica seems to have disappeared from everywhere apart from Ocado. The alternatives are either short shelf life or the nasty 'contains a minimum 9% chicken flobble that we found in the bin'. Wikinger seem to have popped up, but their's is the nasty stuff. I found the Meica distributor, going to pop them an email when I have the time