Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Brambling

Farway wrote: »

Is your water meter a smart one? Only asking as I never knew they had them, I guess you are Southern water though?
I hope your small leak is indoors and not something more onerous like your pipe from their meter to your house under your garden / drive etc
Where I used to live it was lead piping, the neighbour had a leak under his garden, which become a pond once he dug down to locate the leak:eek:

According to the man yesterday they have now fitted a smart one (it would have been nice to have been told) , I looked down the hole and it doesn't show a monetary amount it just means it sends a reading to them. The main road near me has had two water leaks recently so I'm hoping that doesn't mean the pipes are getting dodgy :cool:

Glad you enjoyed your Indian Caronc I prefer simple with great food as oppose to looking a million dollars and blah food

As feared my trip to the opticians meant the dreaded drops in my eyes which are still slightly blurry. It seems I have a new floater to add to my collection, this one is a large, clear donut shape one which has torn from the back near the optic nerve, luckily it hasn't torn the retina which is why she did the drops to check. I was good and bit my lip when she kept saying look at my earring as she shone a really bright light into my eyes which were blurred with the drops and no glasses and it was dark, I couldn't see her ear let alone a earring:cool: It seems it's a case of learning to live with it

I forgot I had soup in the fridge, so lunch was boiled eggs, dinner was a YS pulled duck in hoisin sauce in pita bread brought from M&S for 50p I thought I would give it ago at that price but now remember why I don't usually do ready meals but considered I'm still blurry it was a pinged in 2 minutes meal

caronc

Yikes Brambling your opticians visit sounds pretty unpleasant but thankfully it's nothing to overly worry about <<hug>>
Food wise I'd always vote for substance over style - I can think of a good few places locally that concentrate too much on the latter and think they are "high end" but are very much the proverbial "fur coat- no knickers" when it comes to the food:mad:. Yes this was pretty basic but clean & welcoming and very helpful with the "fussy eater" (there's always one in a group:cool:) who ended up really enjoying her meal.

unrecordings

CFO became CFT as Mrs Un made a chilli this evening. Home grown Thai Cayenne chillis, vegan mince (brand unknown, but red/white freezer bag)

Had bacon sandwiches this morning with fried crumpets - in lieu of oatcakes - the staler/the more stale the better. These weren't quite stale enough so it was a bit greasy, but held me in reasonable stead for my morning 'what now' from the NHS. It (the crumpet) got me thinking in a very Baldrick kind of way about a potential 'vegan scallop' using a crumpet as the base then some kind of lemony something or other spread into the crumpet then fried like a scallop

PasturesNew

CBA to type....
Been out... bought crisps, sweets, kit-kats ... pukka pie, peas.
Today: scrambled egg/flatbread; sweets, 2 packs of crisps and a kit-kat.
Pie/chips/peas tomorrow as I was too full from sweeties and crisps to eat that today.

caronc

Good morning everyone,

It was very cold & frosty here when I woke up and the frosty hasn't really shifted yet as it's quite overcast so it's feeling pretty cold out. Not that I've been far just to the bin and back but without a jacket it was perishing.
The chores that didn't get done yesterday are on today's "to do" as for one reason and another I still haven't quite got the place back to rights after last weekend.
There's a couple of spoonfuls of stovies left which on a piece of toast will do nicely for lunch. Dinner is still tbc probably a freezer rake of some description, my current meal plan finished yesterday so I need to have another look at what I've got in and if anything needs using sooner rather than later.

Wednesday2000

I forgot to take the bird food out again so I had to give them some of my loaf of bread I just bought.

I've had wholemeal toast with marg and marmite and a leftover vegan southern fried chicken thing.

I then had some cherry and vanilla ice cream.:)

unrecordings wrote: »

It (the crumpet) got me thinking in a very Baldrick kind of way about a potential 'vegan scallop' using a crumpet as the base then some kind of lemony something or other spread into the crumpet then fried like a scallop

I've made vegan scallops a few times with oyster mushrooms. I don't know why as I have no idea what scallops tasted like. The vegan ones were quite nice as I recall.

Farway

Dull with cold wind today, L's first thing needed spuds, on offer anyway so ideal.

Plus XCFO cheese, also on offer with a sensible BBE dates in 2020

YS bread & veg soup ready prepped mix, both 20p. I'll knock up the soup later & it'll be just right for tomorrow

Lunch was cheese & tom sarnie using some 20p loaf

Dinner, I really fancy easy peasy cheesy beans on toast tonight. I'll pop a couple of fried eggs on top to qualify as a home cooked meal:o

Wednesday2000 wrote: »

I've made vegan scallops a few times with oyster mushrooms. I don't know why as I have no idea what scallops tasted like. The vegan ones were quite nice as I recall.

Another one here who has no idea what scallops taste like, or oysters come to that
Eeeee we were so poor the nearest to shellfish we got was winkles, picked out with Nan's hat pin:)

unrecordings

Farway wrote: »

Another one here who has no idea what scallops taste like, or oysters come to that
Eeeee we were so poor the nearest to shellfish we got was winkles, picked out with Nan's hat pin:)

Same here actually, though I want to try scallops. 'The fish man' used to visit the pub across the road from where I once worked. Of course it was late enough for everyone to be drunk enough to enjoy his wares, some nice (potted shrimp), some less so (crabsticks)

unrecordings

In other news word arrives from the kitchen that those dried poppadums / papad (in fact these with the psycho bunny on the front - https://www.redrickshaw.com/products/lijjat-black-pepper-papad-200g) do not last forever.

Mrs Un has just been forced to throw them out

After over 15 years in the bottom of the breadbin...

PasturesNew

Breakfast: Flatbread containing 2 scrambled eggs & splash of brown sauce.
Nibbles: Kit-kat and jelly babies.

Currently deciding if I should cook the pie/chips/peas for tea.

Popped into L1dl earlier - picked up cocktail sausages, eggs, cheese and sweeties... got home and realised "d4mn, needed coffee"

EDIT: Had the pie, chips, peas. Also had some more sweeties.