Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Brambling

Wednesday2000 wrote: »

I bought some blood oranges from Ocado today.:)

I love blood oranges I must look out for some, although in some SMs they call them blush now :cool:

caronc

Brambling wrote: »

Glad the back is feeling a little better Caronc I was beginning to think we might have to offer a 241 deal with a hit man

I'll give you a shout if the need arises :cool:, I've always been a sucker for a BOGOF :rotfl:
Dinner ended up as one of those "never to be quite repeated but blooming lovely" bung-it-in combinations - end of a bag of tagliatelle, spinach, HM pesto (only one portion left now:(), baby plum toms, mushrooms, peas andmozzarella. Now what exactly how did I make it....:think:

caronc

Wednesday2000 wrote: »

I bought some blood oranges from Ocado today.:)

Oh I love them and the blood grapefruit:)
:eek::eek:I have just remembered I have some what were very hard pears in the bottom drawer of my fridge, suspect they might have gone from granite-like to mush....

purpleybat

Brambling wrote: »

I love blood oranges I must look out for some, although in some SMs they call them blush now :cool:

my lidls mag tells me they're on special in there between 6-12th

Brambling

purpleybat wrote: »

my lidls mag tells me they're on special in there between 6-12th

Thank you . They've just opened a shop in town, I'll have to pop up and look for them :T

Wednesday2000

I had a vegan "ham" sandwich for breakfast, along with a big glass of water.:)

Brambling wrote: »

I love blood oranges I must look out for some, although in some SMs they call them blush now :cool:

Maybe calling them blood oranges is too politically incorrect these days.:rotfl:

caronc wrote: »

Oh I love them and the blood grapefruit:)
:eek::eek:I have just remembered I have some what were very hard pears in the bottom drawer of my fridge, suspect they might have gone from granite-like to mush....

I love blood grapefruits too, yummy. I used to hate the taste of grapefruit when I was younger.

caronc

Good morning everyone,
It was bright and frosty first thing but it's dulled over now. it's supposed to clear again later for more frost tonight. My dwarf daffs are blooming , I do hope they don't get too battered in the storm due this weekend. My rhubarb crown which I thought had died is showing some shoots, maybe I'll actually get some to eat this year!
I'm still impersonating an old crone though it's a tad less painful, I did have high hopes to maybe get some gardening done but reckon that would be foolish. I'll see how it is tomorrow.
Once I've finished my cuppa I'm going to get a pan of scotch broth on the go, I'm thinking a couple of parsley dumplings would go well in a bowlful for dinner tonight. Hard boiled egg again for lunch as I cooked extra yesterday.

PasturesNew

caronc wrote: »

Hard boiled egg again for lunch as I cooked extra yesterday.

I've got a gadget for those... so choose one, or four eggs.
Usually I just do one as that's what I want.... but if I'm doing two I'll use the 4-egg gadget and so have two in the fridge. Usually that'd be in the summer, with egg/cucumber sandwiches in mind, or egg/salad cream.

I do like having the option of just cooking one though, without it being a thought overhead.

1: Nuke, 7 minutes on half power
4: Nuke, 10 minutes on full power.

Although the 4-egg one is a poor design as it's egg shaped, so tricky to get out of the nuker safely/guaranteed every time as you're manhandling something that's got half a mug of boiling water in it, that could easily be "dropped" on your foot. It's big egg-shaped, so the bottom portion, with the water in, is tapered... and it's smooth/round, so just a tricky shape with extraction space/options at a premium.

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caronc

Not a gadget I need PN but handy if you want to nuke boil eggs.
I usually cook at least two as in a pan they take the same amount of time to cook.
Broth mix and stock are being pressure cooked - I best get veg chopping for stage 2:)

Farway

Poridge & a sunny start to the day, dentist first thing, just a check up, passed OK, bit worrying he's now mentioning oiking out a wisdom tooth, apperntly I could catch food in there. Bu66er that, it's worked just fine for about 60 years thank you:eek:

Popped into Morries as it's on way home from dentist, not been in there for a while. I was on a promise of 4000 extra points if spending over £20, reckoned I could do that as I "wanted" some garden plants anyway and now I have some small pansies to sort out in the next few days

As it happens they had beef joints on half price offer, £6 kilo, I bought quite a large one, which I'll pot roast in time for this weekend's storm CIARA.

I may portion the joint up fresh and freeze some, or may not, depends how I feel at the weekend

Plus 2.5K of wonky spuds @ £1, looked fine to me. I've peeled & chipped a couple ready for tonight's dinner

Lunch was cheese & [new] cuc sarnie

Dinner, more of the cheese pud, with wonky spud chips in the AF, + salad . Brambling My AF also has times in minutes & degrees up to 200, but 200 C works for most things I suspect, like nukers & washing machines, just bung them on max;)

Waiting on the arrival of a package, it'll probably fit letter box but ears peeled [not allowed to !!!!! them up on MSE:)] just in case


PS, I see the forum is being "improved" tomorrow, hope it works & I see you all on the other side