Cooking for one (Mark Three)

caronc

Just heard back from the cleaners they are full at the moment so not taking anyone else on , back to the drawing board...

AstroTurtle

mcculloch29 wrote: »

Rice.. I sometimes use pouches, which I don't mind, because the rice gets mixed in with strong tasting sauces, and I only get basmati, which has a better texture.

Mostly I cook it in my large microwave saucepan, that has a lid. It calls itself a pressure cooker. but it isn't. Much less faff than stovetop rice, leaving the lid on for an hour, etc etc...

I was an Army wife for years, I don't want my home 'march-out clean', though. Just grot-free will do.

I usually get a 5kg tub of rice (Easy to carry) from Costco costs around £8.99 and can last ages!!

caronc

It would take me a long, long time to get through 5KG of rice........

moneyistooshorttomention

caronc wrote: »

Just heard back from the cleaners they are full at the moment so not taking anyone else on , back to the drawing board...

Maybe put a post up on your local Facebook page?

If, in the course of it, you happen to mention about the local cleaners with "full books" - then that may just encourage someone else to start up another cleaning business;) - ie certainly if a lot of other people promptly posted back to say "I'm having problems too".

PasturesNew

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

....r local Facebook page?

....encourage someone else to start up another cleaning business....

I'd not do that - you're opening yourself up to being contacted by all manner of strange persons..... and the last thing you want, too, is to be somebody's "start up client" that's then left hanging as they CBA to do it any more and never said, or dragged their 3 kids with them "cuz itz da holidayz init" ... or somebody who doesn't actually clean, but seems glued to a smartphone....

You want a "proper cleaner", established, reliable, tried/tested by others, if you're not in a position to go faffing about

When employing a cleaner in your home you want to feel you can rely on their timekeeping and that they'll keep coming.

Farway

PasturesNew wrote: »

Are they actually of any use to anybody?
As I see it, they can only clean the open floor bits - and if you take a room 11'x12' and put a sofa, chair, coffee table, wall unit, bit of "handy junk" into that room there's precious little "open floor space" for it to be able to move.

It also won't go under the sofa, or behind it, nor into the corners, nor up the side of/behind any other furniture.

In this room here the robot could only access the strip 4' wide down the middle, from the door to the patio door... dirt/dust scoots to the edges/corners, behind and around furniture.

Have to make sure to drop fag ash in the middle strip then :rotfl:

All this talk of "fish sticks" I've never had them, but are they eaten raw then? As posts seem to imply just open & eat, I always assumed they were sort of fish fingery stuff but dyed pink

I think my cleaning standards would be near the just above dysentery level, despite ex Navy. Had enough of that cleaning & polishing just for the sake of it. I was once kept in the sick bay on light duties just so I could be used as pair of hands for buffing the lino:(

Back to CFO

HM yoghurt & honey for breakfast

Nice sunny day, into town, absolutely nothing in way of YS bargains, except by odd coincidence a pile of Polish red sauce, just as mine ran out last night. I did not replenish

I had a BOGOF coupon on posh pasties from a new bakery shop. I went halves with bloke in the pub, but at £3.48 good job they were BOGOF, even 1.72 is a bit steep I think. I had that pasty for early lunch, very nice and without any mystery "meat" bits in it. Just wish they were cheaper, but getting what is paid for I guess

Because of bigger than normal lunch dinner will be light & easy, maybe tin of sausages & summat, or nuked scrambled eggs on toast. Depends how I feel at the time

Had another bash in the garden, really is Springlike at the moment. Pruned some bushes, including a madly prickly goosegog. Stout gloves required for that one

PasturesNew

Farway wrote: »

All this talk of "fish sticks" I've never had them, but are they eaten raw then? As posts seem to imply just open & eat, I always assumed they were sort of fish fingery stuff but dyed pink

They're called a variety of names, crab sticks or seafood sticks. They're actually surimi fish, in very fine layers, rolled into a stick and the outside painted pink.

When you open the packet each stick is individually wrapped in a tiny piece of very very thin plastic, which you peel off.

You eat them raw, they're probably cooked so not actually raw. But, you just eat them.

How good they taste varies from packet to packet. I tend to head for the 65p/packet ones and they're OK, but, in the past, I've had some super-tasty ones too.....

They're a nifty nibble really .... open the fridge door, scoop out 2-3-4, scoff.... repeat until the pack's gone.

You can't really use them for anything, as such - except to eat as they are on their own, or mix into a marie rose sauce and shove into a sandwich/bap/baguette, or mush up into a sort of pate at a push. I bet most people just scoff them directly from the pack as a snack.

Wednesday2000

PasturesNew wrote: »

I have tried a few over the years, not many because I've never ever had one that's better than my worst ever "cook it yourself" rice ... so I see them as expensive let downs.

The texture's just not right in the pouches I've tried... years ago I tried the big names, in more recent years a few of the budget supermarket ones, always disappointed.

I want to like them, but can't because they're rank.

I will tell you tomorrow when I've tried it!:rotfl:

caronc

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Maybe put a post up on your local Facebook page?

If, in the course of it, you happen to mention about the local cleaners with "full books" - then that may just encourage someone else to start up another cleaning business;) - ie certainly if a lot of other people promptly posted back to say "I'm having problems too".

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'd not do that - you're opening yourself up to being contacted by all manner of strange persons..... and the last thing you want, too, is to be somebody's "start up client" that's then left hanging as they CBA to do it any more and never said, or dragged their 3 kids with them "cuz itz da holidayz init" ... or somebody who doesn't actually clean, but seems glued to a smartphone....

You want a "proper cleaner", established, reliable, tried/tested by others, if you're not in a position to go faffing about

When employing a cleaner in your home you want to feel you can rely on their timekeeping and that they'll keep coming.

I had hoped to go with them and may just wait until they have a space. I'm not adverse though to putting a "shout out" for recommendations o a local FB page. I sourced folk for a number of jobs that way before and people are quick to point out if any names get mentioned to avoid.... I need to have another think though.

caronc

Farway wrote: »

All this talk of "fish sticks" I've never had them, but are they eaten raw then? As posts seem to imply just open & eat, I always assumed they were sort of fish fingery stuff but dyed pink

PN described them well. They aren't the poshest of foods but they make a tasty sarnie:). If you like tinned crab you'd probably like them. They used to be called crab sticks but that got pulled as they aren't made from crab.....