Cooking for one (Mark Three)

PasturesNew

Didn't need any more food today, but that didn't stop me knocking up a 3-egg cheese omelette, chips and beans

I used the hob

I do make a good omelette ...

caronc

unrecordings wrote: »

Stollen does tend to lurk doesn't it

Not in my house it doesn't it one of these sweet things I daren't buy until Christmas as I'll eat it:o.
The formal display is over here and there will probably not be much by way of unofficial bangs tonight they'll start with avengence tomorrow.
Pizza is topped with salami, red onion, red pepper and mozzarella, it's smells lovely.:)

Farway

Back into sunshine this morning after yesterday's gales. It was nearly Mary Poppins on the Hard, visions of folk flying up & away, I had to grab the granddaughter at one stage when she was nearly bowled over

All Pirates vanquished, helicopters successfully shot down, rats stomped and they came home with lengths of rope they had made, they loved that, and no doubt the parents will be cursing us as the kids swing the rope around at home:D Karma;)

By the time I was home I CBA to cook anything, so made do with ginger curd sarnie, I'd eaten during the day anyway so I'll not wither away

Breakfast of standard porridge + banana
Made a fresh batch of yoghurt
Lunch, probably cheese + tom sarnie
Dinner, probably one of the Pukka L & P pies, that was planned as last night's but for CBA

unrecordings wrote: »

Stollen does tend to lurk doesn't it

They never lurk here , like Caron, mine hardly makes into the cupboard so it has to safely remain on L's shelf until XCFO week

A nice stroke of luck with free cake PN, sounds like a pleasant place to stay while you look around. I saw the shed on the news as well, and one poor lady died crushed by a tree on her car:(

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4 soups in freezer and 2 for next couple of days lunch. Want to make some chicken meals for freezer and also use the butternut squash and cabbage plus cougettes, all bought before I had operation date so want to use for ready meals and will use bits out of freezers in said meals too. If I have room I would like to do a batch of mash (individual portions) and put in freezer otherwise it will be jkts and chips most days as well as cous cous and rice - not good.

caronc

Good morning everyone,

Sounds like a smashing day out Farway bad weather or not.:)
whmf mash sounds like a good plan and it doesn't take up much room. I shape my portions into flattish rectangles so I can stack them and if I want they to the are easy to pop on top of a shepherds pie etc.

There was quite a lot of heavy rain overnight but it was dry and sunny when I got up. That hasn't last though as it has turned very grey and damp though it's dry just now.
I've a couple of OOD eggs boiling to make egg mayo for lunch and I'm just of to prep a beef, red wine & mushroom stew for the baby slowcooker. There should be enough beef for two portions if I'm not too greedy.;) I'm going to make some mustard, cheese and thyme dumplings to have with it.:)

Wednesday2000

I was so hungry! I just had two vegan burgers in wholemeal rolls with gherkins and ketchup with a bowl of olives and cherry tomatoes.

I read this book on circadian rhythms and I'm going to start eating low carb in the evening. I didn't realise lentils count as carbs!:eek:

I just found a North African recipe, vegan, gluten free and low carb. 1 pot Chickpea SHAKSHUKA. Never heard of it but it looks tasty. I'm going to make that later.:)

I need to go out to buy fresh parsley when I feed the birds later.

Farway

Change of lunch plan, became a fried egg instead of cheese sarnie
Still Pukka L & P pie for dinner so far

PasturesNew

I went out and did a small Round Robin of food shops.

£land: sweeties, 5 packs of doritos
4ld1: 4x baked beans, flatbreads (YS), 10 eggs, brown sauce, shampoo, loo roll.
4sd4: spicy meat pizza, spaghetti, 500g iny macaroni, 4-pack burgers, bag of frozen kebab meat, loaf of bread.

Came home and have had a f/bread with kebab meat, followed by lots of the sweeties

I also picked up a new/cheap keyboard as the other one had a letter that refused to work. Not sure I am getting on with this one; some simple functionality seems to just not work. e.g. Ctrl-C to copy and Ctrl-V to paste don't work... and there's no delete button where I'm used to one for those essential Ctrl-Alt-Del moments. The other delete button on the numpad doesn't work for that function.

I guess I have a bit of fiddling and getting used to it to get it all working "how I like it". It feels a bit funny too. It was the cheapest, costing about £7.

Brambling

Evening all

Back to CFO if I CBA . My BIL arrived just before 10am to pick up my sis and as much as I love her it's good to have the house back to myself and his lordship is happier as he's not sure about visitors staying over unless they're up first and can fill the food bowl :rotfl: luckily he's sleeps through fireworks with barely a ear twitch

At least the weather is better today I think a tree may have come down near me yesterday as my usual cut through was clear yesterday afternoon when we went to the garden centre and when I tried to go back that way an hour or so later the road was closed and during that time it was extremely wet and windy. I thought the firework display at the rugby club behind me would be cancelled last night but had a good view of it from the kitchen window with a G&T and unusually my road wasn't full of cars I'm assuming people thought the footpath shortcut by me would be too muddy to walk this year

I've caught up with the washing and seemed to have had a short nap this afternoon rather than making soup and now cba to do it, the freezer will be raided this week as I'm out most nights so no time to cook soup. It's my other sis birthday tomorrow so pizza e*press for dinner

As I said cba today so lunch was sardines on toast and dinner cheesy beans on toast, followed by cooked apples and blackberries I fear I've eaten too much bread today and will probably regret it later . Oh well back to some kind of routine tomorrow

caronc

Good evening everyone,
I quite often adapt ratatouillle into shakshuska Wednesday though my version isn't vegan as I poach eggs in it but chickpeas sound good too. I like mine quite spicy:).
Keyboard sounds as though it will take a bit of getting used to PN.
It ended up raining on and off this afternoon and it seemed to get dark and cold really early. Just the night for stew and dumplings.:cool: I gave the baby SC another outing and I have to say I really like it though it is definitely quite fast as it only took 4 hours on low for the stewing steak to become tender so I'm pleased I checked it. For once I've managed to get nice thick gravy in a SC:D, I was really disciplined about adding minimal liquid and it's paid off, I've had a sneaky tasty and it's just how I like it. I mixed up the dry ingredients for the cheesy, mustard dumplings earlier so I didn't fall into cba making them mode this evening, just need to mix them and pop them in the switched back on SC now.
I spent a bit of time googling Shaun the Sheep cakes and have a definite plan (in my head if nothing else;)). It's so long since I made the last one I really can't remember how I made the original except that I baked the cake in a pyrex bowl..... I obviously got the recipe from somewhere but don't seem to have kept it so must have been a magazine or could have been online though I doubt it as we had only just got dial up at home then:eek:.
Annoyingly I think I have a sinus infection and my voice went awol again while I was on the phone earlier:mad:, I'll plaster myself liberally with Vick and steam my face over a bowl before bed and hopefully that will ease the pressure. Unfortunately sudafed, sinutab etc. aren't an option for me. If not I'll give it a few days and if it hasn't cleared by then I'll probably need an antibiotic - hopefully not as I'd rather not take them unless really needed. Time will tell ......