Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Farway

Dull old weather day here, would suit a stew except I feel a bit stuffed and I should have something a bit lighter today, so I've taken a salmon fillet out to defrost

Porridge breakfast as usual
Lunch, I've got a tiny bit of beef left, not enough for a full sarnie but may make half one, and maybe cheese & cuc for the other half?

Dinner, once the salmon's defrosted it'll be fried in butter / olive oil and served with salad + frozen skinny use up fries. I'll be glad once they are gone, which reminds me to get some decent fat chips in

Wednesday2000 wrote: »

Why do people even bother to have pets if they don't take care of them properly?! Infuriates me.

I've wondered that, but it provides a good income for my daughter's dog walking business, plus she does cat visiting.

caronc

Good morning everyone,
Poor wee kitty stuck outside for all that time:mad:, I'm not surprised he's trying to adopt you Brambling.
My neighbours were away for New Year and came back yesterday their cat has been by to inspect that nothing has changed while he was in the cattery. He came in like whirlwind run about the kitchen and living room then left no doubt to visit his next haunt:cool:.
Wet and windy here today, I'm not planning on doing much as the "wonky donkey" was twitching during the night:( though after a lie in seems to have settled a bit now. It's been a busy couple of weeks so I'm hoping it's just having a protest and not wanting a full outing. My sis is popping over for a cuppa later but apart from that I'm for a quiet day.
Egg on toast for lunch and a chicken, cauli, sweet potato & red onion tray bake for dinner tonight.

caronc

Good evening everyone,
It's a quiet wee thread today!
Egg on toast for lunch was replaced with assorted LO Christmas cheese on crackers with baby toms & grapes as I got sidetracked with my nephew's uni application stuff and suddenly it was nearly 2pm and I was ravenous. My sis popped round as planned for a cuppa but apart from that I've been pretty lazy as my balance is decidedly on the iffy side of steady. Nest door's cat returned for a proper visit aka a snooze on my couch he kept looking at the stove as if to say "are you not going to light it for me?" :rotfl::rotfl:

Veg just needs quickly prepped for dinner then it's bung it in the oven and leave it to it. I've the new "Dracula" series to watch on catch up so will watch some of that to see if it's any good and I think an early night beckons. Tomorrow wobbly or not I need to do my New Year finances and wodge the large gammon into the freezer. It will either go in fairly easily or a lot of tetris and muttering will be needed, I'm keeping my fingers crossed it's the former:).

Brambling

Evening all

I hope the donkey has been subdued Caronc my nephews used to have a book called something like Seven Supper Tom? about a cat that would visit all the houses in the street for supper I think your neighbours cat is similarly inclined . My last cat was known as Fat Cat and had a note on her vet records to say she was fed by neighbours so the vet wouldn't nag me, helped that my other cat was a 'perfect' size, she was football shape and my nephews were convinced she would do a Winnie the Pooh in the cat flap one day :rotfl:

No rain here just the same grey dull day as Farway . I did some cooking this morning otherwise just some pottering and catching up on some TV. I avoided the kitten today although I did feel guilty as it sat patio watching me through the kitchen window when I cooked :cool:

I made some Glamorgan sausages this morning and some potato and cauliflower croquettes both were baked not fried and LOs froze. I'm not sure if I CBA to make the croquettes again or at least using that recipe as it involved making cauliflower rice, than squeezing the water out.... they were nice but :think: I also made rice and vegetable stuffed pepper, portobello mushrooms and beef tomatoes which will do me for lunches and made use of the oven when it was on :money:

Lunch was the sausages and croquettes with some LO green beans and dinner was a repeat of last night, chicken and LO vegetables pinged.

Brambling

Crossed posts Caronc I tried to watch the new Dracula but not my cup of tea but then horror books are also about the only kind I don't read (I blame James Herbert the Rats when I was 14 :eek:) I caught up on Wist the BBC4 Norwegian police drama but find subtitles easier during the day than evenings when it's on

unrecordings

Couple of hours in the garden then hot dogs (thanks to whomever recommended Herta - very nice) then finished off a tub of olives, some (not very nice) cherry tomatoes, got through a bit more cheese, and as Mrs Un was making herself parsnip soup, cadged a nice big carrot

caronc

Oh I do like a good Scandi drama - must look that one up thanks I don't mind subtitles in the evening.:D
Horror, though not the very gory stuff, is a guilty pleasure. I got a taste for it when I "borrowed" my Mum's copy of John Saul's "Suffer the Children" (she would have been "horrified":rotfl:as I was only 12 or 13...) and that got me hooked.

I feel your pain with the croquettes after my one and only (and I've no intention of changing that:cool:) attempt at making the Spanish type with thick bechamel sauce where I realised after much faffing that I had mixed up steps and should have partially froze before shaping/coating then chilled and not the other way round:mad:. They did taste good but a second attempt is firmly off my "to do":D.

Next door's cat seldom scrounges food, although he's a big lad he's lean and seems more than happy enough just to find somewhere comfy to snooze.

caronc

unrecordings wrote: »

Couple of hours in the garden then hot dogs (thanks to whomever recommended Herta - very nice) then finished off a tub of olives, some (not very nice) cherry tomatoes, got through a bit more cheese, and as Mrs Un was making herself parsnip soup, cadged a nice big carrot

I always have to peel an extra carrot munch if I'm prepping them:)

Brambling

caronc wrote: »

Oh I do like a good Scandi drama - must look that one up thanks I don't mind subtitles in the evening.:D
Horror, though not the very gory stuff, is a guilty pleasure. I got a taste for it when I "borrowed" my Mum's copy of John Saul's "Suffer the Children" (she would have been "horrified":rotfl:as I was only 12 or 13...) and that got me hooked.

I've checked and it's called Wisting. I use to read Dennis Wheatley in my teens but haven't read him since

unrecordings

caronc wrote: »

I always have to peel an extra carrot munch if I'm prepping them:)

I'm terrible (or rather good, depending your viewpoint) at grazing while cooking.