Cooking for one (Mark Three)

PasturesNew

Last night: Pukka Chicken/Mushroom, what can I say.....

They have always been my pie of choice. The lovely flakey pastry top would be sliced off and eaten... then I'd dip chips into the pie case until all the filling had gone. That finally left just the whole/outer/empty pie base case which was a nice stodgy/soft pastry, almost part-suet-like.

They have changed!!

Pastry: different, "harder", not flakey
Insides: Chicken was a bit "funny". First piece was almost gristle-like.
Sauce: Still tastes the same, it is a lovely flavour.
Base pastry: different, no longer moist/stodgy.

Used to be 10/10
Now 4/10.

Bye bye Pukka.....

Breakfast this morning: hash browns, sausages, beans, scrambled eggs, splash of brown saude.

More sweeties have been scoffed: A few mint matchmakers, an orange kit-kat and some fizzy jellies.

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Got a couple of ready cooked sausages out of freezer and will have sausage sarnies for lunch, also got a pack of Asda chicken fahita ( ) out so will cook that maybe for dinner, mainly because its a large box and I need some room in freezer.

caronc

Good afternoon everyone,
Cake for lunch too unrecordings or are you being good and letting Mrs Un have a slice?;)
PN - I had a pukka chicken pie not so long ago and completely agree they've changed them.:mad:
It was frosty here first thing but it's grey, damp & bitterly cold here now. I had to go into town and I think I must have picked the most exposed spot in the area to wait for my taxi home. Although I didn't have to wait long my face was numb by the time it arrived my face was numb. While I was near it I popped into the fishmongers, after our discussions yesterday I was sorely tempted to buy some scallops but resisted (though now I'm home wish I hadn't) and settled for some cod and salmon. I'll use a piece of the cod tonight and freeze the rest. I had hoped to get some clams but they didn't have any apparently Friday is a good day for them which I'll need to remember. Must be "gammon weekend" Farway as I've a joint lurking in the fridge that I must portion and freeze before it goes OOD. I already have a small joint in the freezer from a large one I split up so I'll get it out so I can cook it tomorrow, if I remember correctly it was a particularly salty piece I'll soak it overnight to get rid of some it. HM pea and ham soup will be getting made this week.:)
Tonight I'm just going to steam some of the cod in a parcel with butter, parsley and lemon, there's mash in the freezer (I think) and I'll nuke some green & broad beans. Lunch is a BLT wrap as there's one lonely wrap left and an open pack of bacon in fridge needing used up.

PasturesNew

BONUS CAKE!!

Just opened my door and sat outside it was a little bun/cake, topped with some buttercream and five jelly tots. Obviously from the LL.

Not sure if everybody else had cake/I missed it and one was left for me... or if I was singled out to receive cake. There are six of us lodging here; I saw one go out (could've returned/can't always tell), there was no cake by her door....

It was nice though

unrecordings

caronc wrote: »

Cake for lunch too unrecordings or are you being good and letting Mrs Un have a slice?;)

Mrs Un is vegan so this was a real treat.

Cheese & ham toasties for lunch - not quite figured out the correct mustard yet. Polish is too fruity, English (Colman's) maybe a little too strong, might have to go back to some form of Dijon

Farway

The HM veg soup turned out "just right", rest blitzed for dinner
I followed lunch with a crisp sarnie:)

YS gammon in oven, I'm trying it in L's cast iron red pot.

Normally I SC but thought the oven would make the kitchen toasty at same time, it's cold & dull outside

Oh, shame about the Pukka chick pie PN, I loved the veggie L & P one but I do not normally buy Pukka meat pies, always wary of chewy knobbly bits in most meat pies:eek:

However a free cake is a silver ling at least, plus "More sweeties have been scoffed: A few mint matchmakers, an orange kit-kat" sounds like XCFO has arrived early

Caron, now I'm thinking pea & ham soup. I've got dried peas somewhere, I've had them so long they maybe left over from the war by my Nan:D

PasturesNew

Just opened a pack of crisps and realised I'd forgotten to tell you ...

I walked into Home Bargains the other day and, for no good reason, picked up a multipack of W's crisps, "Brussels Haters" my grabbed pack said.
https://www.ocado.com/products/walkers-crispmas-sprout-haters-25g-x-435197011

I only bought them as they were six packs for 99p.

It turns out they are worth buying. Would recommend them; certainly better than, say, the Cheese/Onion.

Glazed Ham tasted like smokey bacon; cheese/cranberry taste cheesy and nice; turkey/stuffing tasted nice (can't recall what they tasted of, probably chicken). The flavours are subtle, not overpowering.

caronc

Good evening

PasturesNew wrote: »

BONUS CAKE!!

Just opened my door and sat outside it was a little bun/cake, topped with some buttercream and five jelly tots. Obviously from the LL.

Not sure if everybody else had cake/I missed it and one was left for me... or if I was singled out to receive cake. There are six of us lodging here; I saw one go out (could've returned/can't always tell), there was no cake by her door....

It was nice though

I'll bet it was

unrecordings wrote: »

Mrs Un is vegan so this was a real treat.

You are being spoiled - best make sure you don't let go stale

Farway wrote: »

Caron, now I'm thinking pea & ham soup. I've got dried peas somewhere, I've had them so long they maybe left over from the war by my Nan:D

Might need another 1/2 hours cooking then :rotfl::rotfl:. Mine are mere babes by comparison though will I suspect be well past their BBE date as I never bought any last winter as I discovered I had a few packs hiding in the larder cupboard:cool:.



I can't say I fancy the cheese & cranberry crisps PN but I'd happily scoff the others. My house is accidently crisp-free just now apart from a large bag of tortilla chips LO from last weekend, I'm try to resist opening them as once they're opened I know I'll just be greedy with them.....:o


After my trip out this morning my oomph went awol this afternoon, the "wonky donkey" is definitely rumbling in the background.:( I'll watch what I'm doing for a couple of days and hopefully it will settle back down as I have a dental appointment on Wednesday that I don't want to put off as I've already had to rearrange it twice! My sis popped round for a cuppa just about 6pm and had to scrape the car before she left, she lives in a sheltered cul-de-sac which always seems to get the frost first in the area. It's supposed to not be quite as cold overnight but I'm not convinced.
Dinner just needs assembling rather than prepping and won't take long to cook, then it's sofa, a bit of TV and an early night for me:).

Brambling

Best do as the donkey tells you Caronc hopefully a quiet couple of days will lock him back in the stable

Mmm cake, there's one slice of tea loaf in the freezer (I checked) but I'm trying to avoid. I hope Unrecordings that if it's to WI standards in has raspberry jam in the centre . My dad always made one every week usually with home made plum jam. I remember the week the cat took a bite as it was cooling, dad wasn't throwing it away:cool: so we weren't allowed to eat any by mum and he ate the lot :rotfl:

I decided I didn't need anything in town today [STRIKE](we won't mention the lack of Christmas shopping in the Brambling household [/STRIKE]) so pottered at home and in the garden to make the most of a dry mild day. I have caught up with The Team recorded last night as I deal with sub titles better when I'm not tired

Lunch was some quorn goujons in a pita with some raw spinach. Dinner a very nice rump steak (they always taste better reduced and this one was from the W8itrose meat counter via the freezer ) jacket potato, onions, mushrooms and grilled tomatoes with a Chimichurri sauce

unrecordings

I believe the cake has the correct jam. If memory serves these things go stale in quite a sedate fashion, unlike modern cakes. I'd have some now, but had home made curry for tea - maybe cake for breakfast again...