Cooking for one (Mark Three)

ToastLady

Nelski, if you have flour, Jamie Oliver posted a recipe for super quick fresh pasta on his current programme on Channel 4. Recipe can be found on Day 1 at https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/category/books/keep-cooking-and-carry-on/

Nelski

ToastLady said:

Nelski, if you have flour, Jamie Oliver posted a recipe for super quick fresh pasta on his current programme on Channel 4. Recipe can be found on Day 1 at https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/category/books/keep-cooking-and-carry-on/

thank you Toastlady but no plain flour for weeks now....I do have some self raising but I'm saving that for some puddings this weekend  cake trumps pasta at a time of crisis hoping stocks come back in soon 

caronc

Good afternoon everyone, 
It struck me earlier in the week that living in a small town seems to make "supportive action" easier as the neighbourhoods are small and folk know their neighbours by sight if nothing else. When lockdown started a local community group quickly set up a scheme to get shopping etc. for those that need it.  A local business made flyers that the pharmacies are distributing with repeat and delivered prescriptions as are paper deliveries and churches to try and make sure no one gets missed. Drs surgeries are also promoting it. It's hoped that coming via known routes might help those who are wary. It seems to be working quite well but nothing is ever perfect. 
Dull and drizzly her but quite mild, I doubt I'll get any gardening done as the wonky donkey is twitching and I irritated it washing my hair earlier:( . So I think basic chores will be the extent of my activities today. My son is on cooking duty tonight which I think will be a freezer raid of some description or a stir fry.

Nelski

have to ask caronc but tell me to mind my own if you like.....what on earth is a wonky donkey?

caronc

Nelski said:

have to ask caronc but tell me to mind my own if you like.....what on earth is a wonky donkey?

It's what I call my vertigo 'cos it makes me feel like a "wonky donkey" lol 

Farway

My shopping has arrived via T*sco & ND, everything I asked for, and other neighbour went for my prescription, but CU at chemist and was not sent for endorsing by Dr. In hand now, luckily not life threatening.

On a brighter note my neighbour popped into T express after chemist & bought me a pack of Hot X buns and an Easter Kit Kat , Nice of him.Which reinforces your comments Caron re smaller towns / areas

It's really hot outside now, sowed more French beans & a few sunflowers to help brighten the place up come summer

Like Brambling, 'cos it's Easter I've taken a large joint out to defrost, mines a FR gammon joint, it'll last all Easter I reckon, the ND T*sco shopping included a lovely cabbage & some fresh broccoli so unless something radically changes it's a roast dinner fro Good Friday

ToastLady

Nelski said:

thank you Toastlady but no plain flour for weeks now....I do have some self raising but I'm saving that for some puddings this weekend  cake trumps pasta at a time of crisis hoping stocks come back in soon 

Ha ha ha, I'm the opposite, savoury trumps cake any time. Flour stocks are getting harder to get where I am too, everybody must be making their own bread as they can't get out.

ToastLady

Just had another thought, about the lack of flour situation. I blitz oats to varying degrees for recipes, and some of it into oat flour. It certainly won't replace bread flour or self raising, but can be used as a substitute in some recipes where flour is required. One of my bread maker recipe calls for 500 g of bread flour, but I always use 400 g and use 100g of oat flour/wholemeal or bran flour, or a combination of the latter. 

candygirl

https://www.thesun.co.uk/fabulous/11347343/stockpiler-mum-bins-food-no-regret/
People like this silly bint, are part of the reason we are struggling to get stuff at the mo !!🤬🤬🤬

greenbee

I can't even begin to say what I think @candygirl. I had a HUGE salad with baba ganoush for lunch followed by a clementine with yogurt. Mid-afternoon kefir with banana and almond butter. Supper was a 'cheat' lasagne using some defrosted ragu (looks like it was a batch that had chicken livers in it), one lasagne sheet (BBE 2016 by the looks of the box...), creme fraiche and grated cheese with yet more salad followed by a lump of cheese and a bit of chocolate. Then out to bang a saucepan at 8pm.