Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Farway

'morning folks, sunny but cold
I was a bit cold overnight, I think it may be time to locate the extra winter duvet

Nice bowl of warming porridge for breakfast

Today is try & work out how to really use my camera, it has too many menu options for my brain, but searches reveal there is a You tube video on it, so may just settle down later & go through it.

The PDF manual is 350 pages:eek: so no way I'm going to print that off

Yesterday's HM veg soup turned out to be a real bargain for YS 20p. I've got one good portion left, so that's 3 good servings for 20p [+gas]:money:

The YS gammon turned out well using the cast iron pot in oven, cheated on washing up by wrapping in tin foil so no sticking on bits

Lunch will be some of the gammon in a sarnie, either with sliced tom or maybe chutney

Dinner will be LO beef stew + dumplings from Friday, only needs nuking

Today is no CFO but using previous HM CFO food. Ideal really

unrecordings

unrecordings wrote: »

maybe cake for breakfast again...

Sat here with a bowl of cake.
One problem though. I still can't eat it for another 20 minutes until my meds settle

Mrs Un admits to coveting my cake but she's a proper old school vegan so it's safe

unrecordings

Still exceptional after nearly 48 hours...

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Oh Farway I know just how you feel about the cramp in the night, I get it in my toes too. I listen to LBC in the middle of the night, set TV to switch off and picture off, always talking so can drift off. Just made some small Xmas cakes (3 ingredient recipe), 2 in small baked bean cans and 1 in tall can, can cut in half, and with l/o mix put it in a black plastic pudding basin. They have all gone in slow cookers for a while and the cakes will (if they turn out OK) will be Xmas pressies. Am going to sm for a small shop maybe with 17yr old "girlie" from next door, so may have a light lunch there, then back home (turn down Xmas cakes) and later she will help me wrap Xmas gifts, have a take-away - hoping it will be the Jamaican we have been trying to get the last 2 weeks - and then Stricly results and His Dark Materials. A pretty decent Sunday actually.

caronc

Good afternoon everyone,
Glad the cake is maturing sedately unrecordings:)
Brambling you are not alone in the lack of Christmas shopping.:cool: So far I have only bought part of one gift, I do need to get my finger out on that one as it's going to Greece and various food/drink items that have been on SO in recent weeks. As we did last year me, my kids, my sis & my nephew are doing a Secret Santa rather than individual gifts. I know who I've drawn but I'm waiting for them to lodge some ideas.

My gammon is still to be cooked Farway, I'll pop it in the SC in an hour or so. It won't take long as it's only a small piece.
After yesterday's gloom and damp the skies must have cleared overnight and it's frosty and sunny today. The "wonky donkey" calmed down a bit overnight ,enough anyway to let me get the back windows washed though I had to let the hose defrost first. Just the inside of the patio doors to do now and that will be me finished with the bendy stuff for today as I don't want to push it. It's supposed to be properly cold tonight -4C but I've plenty of logs indoors and won't need to bring more in today thankfully.

Lunch will be oatcakes & cheese with veg sticks and tonight it's gammon, mash, cabbage and onion bread sauce. The mash is from the freezer and the gammon will look after itself in the SC so just veg & sauce to prep. I must remember to soak peas overnight to make soup tomorrow. Like you Farway I have a good crop of HM CFO stuff in the freezer just now so I'm trying to do a mix of using some of that and cooking fresh on my meal plan. I've a grocery delivery arriving tomorrow but it's just a few staples plus a stash of SO wine for Christmas as I'm not needing much bar the usual fresh bits and some veg.

Wednesday2000

I had some vegan ham slices in a wholemeal sandwich with some wholegrain mustard for breakfast. I really fancied that type of mustard.:)

I'm about to go for a walk and feed the birds. It feels quite mild today as the sun is out.

caronc

Swift change of plan here as my sis & nephew have invited themselves for dinner. There should just about be enough gammon ......

PasturesNew

Sun's out, nippy due to that. I had an early brekkie of hash browns, sausages, beans, scrambled eggs.

Had to pop to L1dl as I had only 1 teaspoon of coffee left. "In my own home" I'd always have 2-3 jars tucked away, but I'm buying things on an "as needed" basis as much as possible to reduce packing/carrying when I leave here in a month.

From L1dl I walked away with: jar of coffee, pack of flatbreads, bag of sweeties and another bag of hash browns. I see H/B so rarely in the cabinet I'd been rationing myself with the last bag, so I was pleased to spot another there today!

Snacks today: so far 2 kit-kats, matchmakers, sweeties.

Not sure what I'll fancy later. I've a pizza in the freezer I CBA to reheat, also a portion of chips, 2 burgers, 2-3 fishfingers, fishcakes, kebab meat in the freezer; I've noodles, beans, spaghetti blog, spaghetti/sausages, eggs in the cupboard; I've cocktail sausages and cheese in the fridge. No shortage of food. Whatever I eat will come from that list.

unrecordings

Got sausages to eat here. They're already unpacked, separated & in tupperware, so it's easy to freeze the surplus. I was thinking of sausage & mash, but when Mrs Un mentioned she was having baked potato, a cunning plan was hatched. Let's just call it a Lincolnshire Fajita. I'll leave you to guess the rest

PasturesNew

1cel4nd £1 pizza: deep pan, double cheeseburger.
https://www.iceland.co.uk/p/iceland-deep-pan-double-cheeseburger-340g/52956.html

Didn't expect a lot... no frozen pizzas are good are they, what can you expect for £1?

I was surprised. Would definitely buy that one again.

Only "needed" half of it, but ate the lot as it was easier to force-feed myself than to go back to the kitchen, wrap up the remainder and pop it in the fridge

There is not as much cheese as the box photo suggests, but the topping was pretty generous.

800 calories for the whole of that