Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Wednesday2000

I just went for a walk to feed the birds. I have run out of bird food so I just gave them some bread.

I bought teabags, sugar and crisps from the shop. I gave up coffee and tea earlier this year but I just fancied a cup of tea the past few days. It's probably because it's colder.

Farway wrote: »

Mooched around Icel4and, sort of mildly looking for veggie sausage rolls, found them but never bought. Reviews read well so maybe next week?

I haven't tried those one yet.:) It's getting to the point where there is so much new vegan stuff it's hard to keep up.:rotfl:

caronc

Good evening everyone,

Yikes re the mixed up lunch and cascading biscuits Brambling:eek::eek:, I hope your day got better as it went on. It's a roe deer so not huge, my son got a front & a back leg. For £20 that will do me very nicely;), I've been busy trying to create space in the fridge so they can go in there overnight!
Smoked haddock yum Farway, you could make some cullen skink with the spare fillet.:)

Baked camembert is so lush CG but I'm not surprised you wanted a sleep afterwards
I'm pretty adept now at doing things one handed as the other is holding my zimmer but I don't think I could manage to chop veg one handed or do much else food prep wise it would be the ready chopped stuff for me all the way! Hope your hand is beginning to be less bothersome PN.
Between one thing and another it's been a busy day, I'm pooped now but need to get my act together and sort out dinner for my son arriving. Thankfully once I've done some prep it's a one pot job. The cake for ""Shaun" is not long out of the oven, it smells great:) but I'm not sure if it has sunk a little or I was bit over zealous in making a dent on the surface to stop it peaking. Assuming it is a cooked as I think it is and doesn't collapse it will be all the same once it's covered in icing which I need to get cracking on with tomorrow.:cool:It will probably be Monday before I post again so hope everyone has a good weekend when it comes.

Brambling

Enjoy the weekend Caronc hopefully Shaun will turn out ok.

Someone has passed me the lurgy it was either my nephew, a work colleague or Caronc :cool: I woke up with a sore throat and the sniffles, I usually only get 1 cold a year however this year I seem to have had more than my fair share. Hopefully it wouldn't come to much, I've stocked up on lemons and upped my preventative inhaler

I'm just back from our local art centre, I saw Hansard which is a NT live screening and was really good just two actors playing a married couple he's a politician, a minister in Maggie's cabinet in 1988. No intervals just the two of them very powerful acting

I got my split pea and ham soup to work today so that was lunch. Dinner was some lamb and aubergine curry from the freezer, I had to go out just after 6.30pm so was glad it was just a ping and go meal. I've picked up a YS brisket from W8itrose precooked just needing 30ish mins in the oven so that will be dinner tomorrow with whatever veg which needs using up

Wednesday2000

My jacket potatoes aren't quite ready so I had a few crackers with vegan cheese. I'm going to have the spuds with salad when they are ready.:cool:

Farway

First frost of the winter this morning, cars & roofs only not grass yet

L's first thing, did buy [STRIKE]bog rolls [/STRIKE]toilet tissue on offer, be silly not to. And even L's has Pukka pies on offer 99p, so two more of the spud & leek variety, long dated so no rush to use up

Lunch was another pair of cheese & tom rolls
Dinner, use up the gammon steak, grilled, with HM chips, fried eggs + some mushrooms I think

caronc wrote: »

Smoked haddock yum Farway, you could make some cullen skink with the spare fillet.:).

The one I had last night was just as I remembered them.

Looked up recipe for the skink, must have found wrong "traditional" recipe, quails eggs, white wine, double cream somehow does not shout traditional Scottish food;)

caronc wrote: »

It's a roe deer so not huge, my son got a front & a back leg.

So it was a hind leg, boom boom:D

PasturesNew

Day 5 of The Hand. It's no worse; it's getting better, but very slowly. I can't use it for most things still, but the extensive bruising is starting to fade.

I can't, say, open a door, or hold a mug, or hold anything at all really, so still muddling through. I can't even type a lot of shortcuts, which I rely on for the majority of my keyboarding.... e.g. I can't type Ctrl-F without that stretch of the fingers hurting.

Not driving, due to hand, but it's 1 mile to the shops/back and even though it's sunny/dry it's nippy, so I've made do with the food I've got as I CBA to go out on a tedious food hunt, alone, in the cold, on foot, feeling sorry for myself

Today I've had a burger with cheese & ketchup between two bits of toast then cut in half .... twice. End of the burgers, still a lot of loaf left.

Freezer now only has hash browns and fish fingers. Cupboard has bread, eggs, beans, tinned spag bol, tinned spaghetti/sausages and 3 packs of dried noodles. Fridge has about 200g of cheese. So I won't starve while I can put something onto toast

I suspect, if it heals OK, I've probably got another 10-14 days of inconvenience to get through.

Main issue: I have no sweeties .... I covet the YS bashed tin that Farway got ....

Brambling

Frost here as well Farway, took a few minutes to clear the car as the temperature was 0c when I left for work. I regretted not wearing a coat and gloves to do it

PN can one of your house mates do a emergency sweetie run for you

The lurgy has set in, i woke with blocked nose and all the trimmings just in time for the weekend :cool:

Lunch was bean and vegetable soup from the freezer and a couple of oranges for vit C

I cooked the brisket I picked up yesterday, there's a lot more box than beef so I'm glad I brought it on offer and YS, only 30 mins in the oven so handy but I don't think I'll buy full price. I cooked red cabbage with cranberries a la Delia (also YS) root veg mash, green beans and tender stem broccoli (feeding my cold ) I cooked new potatoes but didn't need them but they'll do for chips with the LO beef tomorrow. There's lots of LO veg as well.

YS rhubarb and strawberries cooking now, I do like it cold rather than hot so that will do tomorrow

Farway

Sunny but cold, not that it matters as today is a stay in day
I've decided to make a tea loaf, just fancied a taste of cake stodge
Dried fruit soaking in tea as I type and located my lurking mixed spice

Breakfast porridge had diced fresh own apple + HM yoghurt mixed in

Lunch, guessing on cheese & tom rolls, creature of habit & LO YS rolls:)

If I CBA I may make pot of celery soup, I've two LO use up quick small hearts that would be ideal.

If I make it that'll be dinner + YS bread dunked in

Brambling wrote: »

The lurgy has set in, i woke with blocked nose and all the trimmings just in time for the weekend :cool:

Oh dear, hope it clears, at least CFO you can slump & scoff nourishing sweeties if you wish;)

Brambling wrote: »

I cooked the brisket I picked up yesterday, there's a lot more box than beef so I'm glad I brought it on offer and YS, only 30 mins in the oven so handy but I don't think I'll buy full price.

Like so many YS items, not worth full price. I've had items where there was more box than content, and the box was probably tastier

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Going to batch cook some savoury mince to portion up for freezer, can then be used for chilli/bol/curry as and when for when recuperating. Also planning on making a couple of individual bread puddings for myself and neighbour as we are going to have Jamaican take-away tomorrow after wrapping some Xmas gifts and watching His Dark Materials. I was planning last week and asked her if she knew of it and she did not so stayed with me and LOVED it. (17 yrs old). Mentioned it to grandson o pbone, he recently watched original Rear Window so rec. Casablanca and a few others. )25 yrs old).

PasturesNew

Cold/raining here today.

Had breakfast of 2x toast, 2x scrambled eggs, half tin of beans, splash of brown sauce.

CBA to go out for food, will be eating what's in, but wishing I had something different/tasty.... also want sweeties.