Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Farway

PasturesNew said:

Currently loving my choice to get jam/bread as making a quick jam sandwich is so easy. Loving those noodles, which is a good job as I bought 12 pots and was a bit concerned I might not've liked them. Bananas are also a welcome food in my current situation of "stay in room/eat food that doesn't need cooking and has 0/minimum washing up and mess" 

Jam sandwiches are real comfort & go to food. I had a lemon curd one yesterday which is sort of jam, and as it was posh curd high in lemon content it was "good for me "

Thanks for link, nearest is bit too far to make it worth the time & effort

Into town this morning after porridge breakfast, absolutely chucking it down by the time I arrived. Luckily I found YS mushrooms in the greengrocer, just in time for dinner

Nothing else around, highlight of the trip was £1 packet of pea seeds [Wilko] + some blood, fish & bone fertiliser. Easily pleased, I've decided on some fresh peas this year, not something one can readily buy at sensible prices  & quality.

Lunch was another fried egg sarnie

Dinner will be a frittata, using LO boiled spuds and the YS mushrooms, with some salad on the side to improve on my green food for the week

Brambling

I'm not one for jam sandwiches but jam on thick hot buttered white toast is a real comfort food  

I laid in bed during the night listening to torrential rain and decided as i was up early to go to work to miss the worst of the traffic, I avoided my usual route as it floods but the way i went  had a fair bit of ground water as well, I'm hoping that as the worst of the rain seems to have stopped 2ish that it won't be too bad to drive home in.  

I  popped to W8itrose lunch time to get out of the office before i brained someone with my laptop and picked up my weekend vegetables, i was fancying cauliflower    I just need to work out what to go with it, plenty of stuff in the freezer to choose from.  My plans for going to Chichester on Saturday have been put on hold due to the threat of Dennis so i will cook a roast one day, I just need to decide on whether to take out the small vension joint, the large FR pork chop or the half leg of lamb as after Caronc mentioning it the other week i'm thinking shepherds pie with the LO lamb.  I'll see where the mood takes me when i open the freezer tomorrow .

Lunch was late after 2.30pm following a 3 hour 'lose the will to live' meeting and was just some rice and vegetables, i was thinking of having smoked cod for tea (not sure with what) but seeing as lunch was late i may rethink, i have eggs and picked up some YS mushrooms lunchtime    so it may be a omelette if i want something lighter than the cod

caronc

I only really like jam on toast, scotch pancakes or a cream scone. When I was wee my mum used to laugh as I'd just have bread and butter if she was making jam sarnies.
I've just had a close and painful encounter with a cat's claw on the back of my hand trying to calm a violent through the glass skirmish between my sister's cat and my neighbour's one. I should of left them to it! Now it's stopped bleeding I'm going to have an almighty bruise! I'm not holding it against him I should have thought before I acted

candygirl

I love jam on toast, with cheese on top
Yep I know I'm weird lol.
Not had tea yet, but think it's gonna be cheese n crackers,  as not really hungry .

Wednesday2000

I have some English muffins and bagels in the fridge, now I'm thinking they would be nice toasted with some marg and jam. I'm going to buy some later. I always buy raspberry jam for some reason.

I just had a vegan sausage roll with a cup of tea. It's nice and bright here again. It is all meant to change tomorrow!

caronc

Good afternoon everyone, 
It's back to wild & windy here. My nephew is getting home today, I'm making one of his favourites for dinner - a pasta bake that is basically macaroni cheese topped with mince ragu, béchamel sauce and parmesan. We'll have it with garlic bread and salad. It makes quite a lot so there may well be LOs, then again possibly not as the two lads can demolish huge portions! 

Farway

Usual L's mooch first thing, only YS was 20p six pack of white rolls, so grabbed them. My main aim was the weekend offer of posh dark choc & posh butter cookies plus offer of 2.5k of Maris Piper 99p.

Success all round, however once through checkout & at receipt checking stage I spotted the offer choc & cookies had rung up full price. Lo & behold same for the bloke in front of me, It was early doors, a young girl assistant, looked about 10 but assume was over 18 sorted us out promptly. But my luck improved once I returned my trolley, the trolley in front had an unclaimed 200g bar of nut choc left in it by previous user, jackpot especially as free choc is also calorie free

Brambling said:

 i have eggs and picked up some YS mushrooms lunchtime    so it may be a omelette if i want something lighter than the cod

Snap, Must be YS mushroom time

candygirl said:

I love jam on toast, with cheese on top
Yep I know I'm weird lol.

That is just not right

Wednesday2000 said:

I have some English muffins and bagels in the fridge, now I'm thinking they would be nice toasted with some marg and jam. I'm going to buy some later. I always buy raspberry jam for some reason.

Set me thinking, I've got some crumpets in the freezer I always but strawberry jam, probably for same reason as your raspberry

Lunch was couple of the YS rolls, with cheese & cuc innards

Dinner, I've  a few stale slices so it's use up time, cheesy beans on toast with couple of fried eggs topping

PasturesNew

I had an all you can eat breakfast this morning.... 4 sausages, 3 fried eggs, 1 tinned tomato, lashings of baked beans, 2 hash browns, big scoop of potato/bacon/cheese hash, a breakfast Yorkshire/gravy and 1 slice of toast/marg.  Still full. 
£4.99/Toby. 

Brambling

Definitely looks like you got good value for your money PN 

good news that your nephew's home Caronc   

🤗 it's Friday- it's been a long week   at least Dennis means I've an excuse to hibernate at the weekend 😴

lunch was not the vegetable and bean soup as advertised on the container but a very nice chicken and vegetable one   I may make it again on Sunday, it was one I spent more time on than usual, chopping the veg in small dice etc.  I enjoyed the fish and colcannon I had out last week so dinner tonight was the smoked cod I didn't cook last night with colcannon made with leeks and Cavolo Nero, runner beans and tender stem broccoli (with a generous dollop of butter in the mash 😁 ). I meant to cut the fish into two before freezer but forgot, it was a lovely chunky piece of cod, from the W8itrose fish counter (brought reduced of course    ) there's enough left for lunch tomorrow, I poached it in milk in the microwave just need to get rid of the smell  now 🐟

PasturesNew

Just been outside, wind's getting up out there!  Fences bashing, wind's whistling. 
Meant to buy something essential today (baccy) ... forgot... need to get up early and dash out for it ideally .... CBA to go out right now and get it, maybe I should though (in my nightie though).

Belly's still groaning from the huge breakfast!