Cooking for one (Mark Three)

candygirl

I love Wensleydale with cranberries , always get it at Xmas

Brambling

caronc wrote: »

Nope that's wrong too - only fruit beside not in cheese for me please (or a slice of uniced fruit cake lol). I'm not a fan of the fruited cheeses but as always with CFO we can please ourselves.:):

Totally agree Caronc I like apple with cheddar, Brie and grapes, blue cheese and pear and have been known to have nectarine with feta salad . But I really don't like fruit in my cheese, I can remember when white Stilton and apricot first became popular. I have a Yorkshire Sis-in-law who would lift the lid of apple pie to add cheese

Lovely sunset Caronc

I'm not CFO again until Sunday morning, lunch was a smoked mackerel salad and dinner a small roast chicken with new potatoes, runner beans and broccoli. It's my sister's birthday tomorrow (and yes she has been called a witch, my nephew believed she had eyes in the back of her head :rotfl:). So we will take her out for lunch tomorrow and maybe around a local garden weather permitting as I'm told the winter colour is worth seeing. Family dinner is planned for Friday if I can work out a menu :think: I have standards to keep up

PasturesNew

As I bought 6 flatbreads yesterday with a BBE date of today, this morning I've already had: 1 f/bread with sausages/scrambled eggs; 1 f/bread with sausages.

Yesterday I also bought two YS Cheese/Onion "Slices" (a flat pasty thing)... so I'll have to eat those today ideally. I've a can of beans open, but I've no chips. I either have to eat the slices alone, or go out and buy some chips so I can have the beans.... while I could eat the slices with just beans it'd just feel a bit disappointing without chips

With my current living arrangements, I think flatbreads will become a staple as it's easy to find/buy things to put into them...

Wednesday2000

I can't remember if I said I'm trying this Time Restricted Eating thing.

It's not even meant to be about what you eat so I'm just eating what I like during the hours of midday and 10pm.:o:D

I felt so hungry from about 11 today so at midday I had an Applewood vegan cheese toastie with some cherry toms and green olives on the side. Packet of ready salted crisps too.:cool:

We are having veggie burgers in buns, wedges and garlic pizza bread for dinner. Chocolate cupcakes afterwards. It is our 26th anniversary of when we first met today.

I'm not sure I will even need a snack this afternoon before that dinner! I might just have a few cups of herbal tea.

Farway wrote: »

Noooooh, that's just wrong:eek:
But thinking about it, I like Wensleydale with blueberries in it, so maybe, just maybe, however I'll not be rushing to try your combo;)

candygirl wrote: »

I love Wensleydale with cranberries , always get it at Xmas

I've never tried blueberries but I have tried cranberries.:)

I can see why people wouldn't like fruit in cheese though. It's like Marmite, I like it but I can see why it puts other people off.

caronc

Good afternoon everyone,

A lovely few days with your sister Brambling, I'm sure you'll come up with a fab menu for the family dinner.
Today didn't get off as I expected, I had just finished getting dressed when my sis appeared in a flap needing a hand to retrieve and unscramble an important document on her laptop. We got there then sat and nattered for over an hour with a cuppa.
Having missed breakfast I had eggs scrambled with toms & mushrooms on toast for lunch. It was only after I had made them I rememered I had beans to use up. I'll have those with dinner tonight which is a portion of sausage, black pudding & parnip bake from the freezer.
Although it was frosty first thing the weather is definitely on the turn, the sunshine has gone and clouds are beginning to build looks as though the rain isn't far off.

Farway

Ooops, sorry folks, my bad, the berries in cheese were cranberries not blueberries:o:o:o:o

I'd forgotten about the apricots in cheese, OK on a cheese board but not something I'd buy

Damp day, no glorious sunrise or sunset here today Caron, I sometimes submit weather pics but not yet had a decent sun rise / set suitable for submission
Being it's near remembrance Day here's one of mine that was used, it's some of the poppies from the display at Tower of London that were touring UK last year, this was in a Napoleonic fort near me

Usual porridge breakfast, then into town
Ic£and for the 50p offers, bought the hot dog rolls & ketchup only, the baking spuds were a bit small IMO
Never found the burgers but I didn't look very hard, I bloke shop, I get fed up quite quickly if it is not under my nose so I'll do without

However in A$da they also had bakers, 4 for 50p, and decent sized spuds this time, so bought a pack of them, plus found my dinner, another YS pie:o

More pies from W8rose, the Pukka L & P ones with long dates while on offer, I'll freeze if not used

Lunch was two of the HD rolls, with cheese & tom
Diner will be the YS steak pie, with nuked frozen mash & maybe peas. It's good weather for pie & mash as it's quite cold now

unrecordings

In Waitrose today and the YS cabinet was a cornucopia of delights, unfortunately all not compatible with my plans, and in my world you can only have so much frozen mince or pork loin steaks. So I didn't get anything apart from a nice bit bit of salmon from the fish counter. I'l be having that pan fried with a baked potato or two. Capers might still make an appearance.

PasturesNew

I popped into Mr T earlier, not to buy anything, but to try to have another look... it's chaotic in there

Anyway .... the Mr T range of cheapo meals caught my eye, they do the 14p noodles.... they have some frozen ready meals at 65p. Toad in the Hole (photo on box showed 4 sausages), 2 cheese omelettes, mac cheese... and there were more/others. I also spotted 2 chicken kievs at 88p.

If you go to the Mr T website and search for hearty there's a lot of cheapo things.... ideal cheap CBA bits and bobs.

Worth pawing through online to make a short list to look for next time one's in there.

caronc

Good evening everyone,
That's a stunning photo Farway :T:T

unrecordings wrote: »

.....in my world you can only have so much frozen mince ...

In Scotland there's no such thing as "too much mince" :rotfl::rotfl:

PasturesNew wrote: »

I popped into Mr T earlier, not to buy anything, but to try to have another look... it's chaotic in there

Anyway .... the Mr T range of cheapo meals caught my eye, they do the 14p noodles.... they have some frozen ready meals at 65p. Toad in the Hole (photo on box showed 4 sausages), 2 cheese omelettes, mac cheese... and there were more/others. I also spotted 2 chicken kievs at 88p.

If you go to the Mr T website and search for hearty there's a lot of cheapo things.... ideal cheap CBA bits and bobs.

Worth pawing through online to make a short list to look for next time one's in there.

I've had the frozen lasagne from that range and as far as these things go it's just fine, certainly just as good if not better than many more expensive RMs and not all pasta either.;) I have an "emergency" one in my freezer. The chilled breaded pollock is just fine - whole fillets rather than reconstructed.



The rain arrived mid-afternoon which was a shame, if it had held for a few hours the guisers would have got to do their rounds dry. I'd imagine there's lots of soggy kids ready to head home for a hot bath & bed, it's always pretty much over here before 8pm.
I thought earlier I was developing the lurgy:( as I felt decidedly shivery this afternoon to the extent I popped the CH on as I couldn't get warm. That, a hot drink and a couple of paracetomel seemed to have done the trick but I wouldn't say I felt 100% but I'm not sure if I had just got chilled or if it is something time will no doubt tell but I'm glad dinner is just a reheat job as I definitely cba cooking.

Brambling

Lovely photo Farway

Hopefully whatever is lurking will be gone by morning Caronc, at least if you're feeling under par you have some HM RMs in the freezer

I'm being a kind sister and letting my sister watch Eastenders and I'm biting my tongue which is more than she does if I'm watching something she doesn't like :cool: I don't watch any soaps so recognise about 2 characters

Weather here today was lovely so we went to a local listed garden only 10 min drive away. It recently reopened with new owners after being sold and closed 2010. Even through it had a hallowe'en event it was lovely and quite walking around their lakes, no deer in the deer park but we did visit the wallabies they have a lot of white in their collection. I'm thinking of getting a year pass as it's the same price as 5 visits and is close enough to go for a couple of hours walk around beautiful gardens

Lunch was a toasted Brie, bacon and cranberry sandwich and I was good and just stole a bite of each sister's pie they had for dessert

Dinner was chicken salad and a cheeky glass of red after all it's my sister's birthday and no work tomorrow.