Cooking for one (Mark Three)

caronc

Good evening everyone,
"Brendan" continues to rage and it's blooming baltic - I'm not sure the beautiful sky first thing was worth it....
Kitchen drawers have been cleaned out and changed round:D - I wonder how long it will take me to remember that I've moved the cutlery drawer to what is actually a more sensible position in the island and the knives & other random kitchen things are now next to the cooker under where my jars of utensils are.:) Like you unrecordings I seem to have a plethora of stuff - some from my parents and grandparents, some given to me, some bought and some which has drifted in via the kids on a one way trip! I think my oldest items are a carving knife and fork set that were a wedding present of my Grandparent's from 1938 which I still use though the knife blade is getting very thin:cool:. Couldn't find my Gran's "butter curler" though, so unless it's in the loft having never made it back to the kitchen post-renovations (in 2008:eek:) it's gone awo:(l. I did find the matching melon baller so it's a bit of mystery. A bag of junk has been ditched and another full of DIY bits (bar some basics) is in the corner beside the larder unit. This will go to the garage at some point after my younger son has looked through it as I have no idea what most of it is for so not sure if it should be kept or not! None of the squillons of allen keys have been ditched but, as you say Farway, no doubt none will be the correct size for the next time they are needed. :rotfl:

I'm sure you'll work out what works for you in time Finchy and doing some batch cooking is great as it gives a fall back for those CBA moments which I think hit us all from time to time.:)
Nice to see you posting CG:hello:
My laptop arrived late afternoon but I haven't unwrapped it yet as I've been yapping on the phone to the kids and my nephew. My nephew's UCAS application is now fully submitted as we had to wait until his tutor had submitted the reference to press "send". I think we are both very relieved that it's done:j:j.
My lunch ended up being quite late which as just as well as I've not started dinner though as it's a stir fry it shouldn't take that long once I prep the ingredients.The rice is already cooked and frozen so just needs nuked

PasturesNew

Brambling wrote: »

I do heat things like quiche slices in mine, usually quarters straight from the freezer, it keeps the pastry crisp unlike when you use a microwave to reheat it. .... HM scotch eggs and fish fingers. It also saves on putting the oven on for a crispy skin jacket potato, I usually start it in microwave and finish in air fryer.

These would make my list.

Re filo: You're right. Never bought it... rarely had it ... seems too much of a faff for me to ever use.

caronc

PasturesNew wrote: »

For the few pieces of furniture I've had in the past that provided an allen key I've tried to tape that to the underside so I always knew where it was when needed. This does require good tape being to hand immediately, which was often the flaw. I used to keep all those spare bits and paperwork and put them into a ziplock bag and toss them all into a box, so all my "instructions etc" for anything were all together... trouble was, "where" as, in a small place, you tend to end up hiding things "out of sight" and CBA to work out where.

Wish I'd thought of that...:doh:

caronc

PasturesNew wrote: »

When I built my Ottoman bed, I even taped a note on the inside telling me where to start: Lift bed base up, undo nuts and remove the whole lifting frame.

Now if I could rewind 28 1/2 years since I moved here I'd definitely be doing things like that but definitely noted for the future:D.

caronc

Good morning everyone,

The worst of "Brendan" seems to be over though it's still pretty windy and absolutely perishing. No damage here as far as I can see but the trains and roads have been quite badly disrupted. It's get gusty again later but not to the same extent. As it's dry I'll bring in more logs - I like to have a good stash indoors to keep me going if the weather is iffy. "Wonky donkey" is still kicking a bit but less insistently than it has been which is fab.
I hope to get my new laptop up and running today - fingers crossed it goes smoothly.
LO chicken for lunch and eggs someway I think tonight.

dekaspace

Haven't posted in ages, I have about 35 or 40 chicken breasts in freezer from butcher, about 50 pork or beef sausages from butcher, a few packs of haggis balls I got reduced at New Year, 2 boxes of potato waffles, carrots in fridge, onions, pizza bases, 4 frozen pizzas

That is likely 1/4 or 1/3 whats in my freezer as its a massive one but should start eating it

I do also have chips but I stopped cooking them as I was at most cooking them once a month on average so by time I went to cook them the fat was rancid(maybe get an air fryer?)

Wednesday2000

It was quite stormy here last night. It's still wet and miserable here today. One of my cats has to go to the vet as he keeps throwing up. My husband took him.

I am making potato wedges as I still have loads left. I did buy some leeks as I was going to make potato and leek soup too.

Farway

Brendan arrived & still lingering, blowing a gale & peeing down outside


Back to routine now, into L's first thing, still not found the moved YS section, however did get a YS 20p loaf, plus located the mint sauce area for my next lamb chops


Lunch was the remaining half of the pork pie, with mustard
Dinner, ideal weather for the LO savoury mince & dumplings, I'll nuke that for dinner, followed by apple crumble if still peckish

PasturesNew

Today's been:

1/ A baking spud I brought back from my Xmas trip + the last cheese slice that I was gifted from the same trip.
2/ Half a pack of Matchmakers, also gifted from the Xmas trip.
3/ Two flatbreads + 2 cheap fishcakes + splash of hot ketchup.

caronc

Good evening everyone,
Scary house price PN for a "do-er upper":eek:- it would be at least half the price round here and my town is regarded as expensive for the area !!
It's getting windy here which might warm things up a bit it's only been a couple of degrees above freezing here today and with the windchill feeling much colder than that outside.
The new laptop is partially set up but I haven't got things set the way I like them yet so I'm still on my old one. It's nice to have the luxury of not trying to do a desperate retrieve from a broken one and I'll probably use both for a bit until I've got it as I want. It's scarily fast compared to this one.:)
Today has been a "just call me Busby" kind of day (showing my age here:rotfl:) as I spent ages on the phone - two TLC chats with two friends who each have sadly had to have their beloved pooches put to sleep over the past 24 hours:( and a long one with my elder son re a promotion application he's completing. I think my son is still talking to me:rotfl: but he has a lot of work to do before the deadline next Monday....;) I suspect his may be a fraught household over the next week or so as he's working on that and his fiancee has her Viva in a fortnight.:eek: Sometimes it's good to be hundreds of miles away :rotfl::rotfl:.
Comfort food on the menu tonight in the form of sausage, beans, egg, mushrooms and oven chips. A cheeky lurking rasher of streaky may well find it's way onto the baking tray too . Lunch was a toasted muffin topped with LO chicken, grapes and a small mug of HM L&P soup from the freezer, it filled me at the time but for some reason I'm really hungry tonight - I'll blame the weather rather than glutony;). The spare beans will be used for lunch tomorrow.