Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Nelski

Yesterdays hoi sin pork was lovely despite my beliefs of an impending flop so you can probably guess what breakfast this morning was Theres still some of the noodles and sauce left so will bung them in the freezer for another chinese fakeaway soonest
May well be another pasta tonight ...celebrating it being in stock now. I have some pretty scabby looking mushrooms in the fridge so thinking a penne bacon and mushroom dish with a salad and some garlic bread. 

Thank you Brambling next week may well be banana loaf week and maybe some lemon drizzle   

candygirl

Hi peeps
Have had egg on toast for brunch,  n it's pizza n salad for tea .Had baked camembert last night,  was so lush 😋

caronc

Good afternoon everyone, 
Another sunny day here but it is much cooler, my son took his lunch into the garden to eat and promptly reappeared to get a fleece!  I've not really been out in as I was a tad unsteady when I got up so I've had a morning of gentle pottering to rebalance which has helped so I might get a bit done outdoors later. Lunch was a salad bowl using up the last of the barbecued chicken and tonight it's mushroom risotto to use up some of the lurking mushrooms. There's a cauli needing used so depending on what the weather does tomorrow I might make a pot of soup with it. I've not sampled the banana loaf yet though my son has and says it's scrumptious, I'll test it later with a cuppa 😀

Wednesday2000

I'm going to make us both veggie sausages and jacket potatoes tonight. I will have peas and gravy with mine. It's meant to be heavy rain here tomorrow. No more sitting out in the garden!

PasturesNew

grrrr... so I went to 4ldi, as there'd be no queue.  In, not too many problems, although that first bit/the bread section's always tough as you're trying to find what you were after.... and there is ALWAYS a staff member stacking breads and ALWAYS another 1-2 customers mulling and thinking and pawing.... I grabbed "anything" in the end, which turned out to be some yellowish coloured flatbreads... no idea what they are, but I figured they'd do.  I just wanted in/grab/go.  

At the till.. bl00dy cashier wanted to have a huge chat about them.  She remarked and asked if they were corn ones... I said "I've no idea, I just grabbed them, never seen them, don't know what they are, never had them before, I just wanted to be in and out".... then she picked up the pack and started pawing it about, on all sides, pulling at it and smoothing it then trying to read the ingredients.... my blood pressure was nearly through the roof.  I HATE HATE HATE people touching my things, my food ... and already have a dislike of those cashiers that make the conveyor move so all your stuff bunches up then they grab some and stack it... when I've very carefully laid it out exactly how I want to pack it.  And here she is, in a "touch driven pandemic" touching my bloody wrappers. 

 

I just got flatbreads, 4x pastes, 4x bars of chocolate, pack of samosas,  

Chippy between here and there looks like he's serving people from the door. I was going to ask on the way back but there were two inconsiderate people at the doorway glued to their phones; one blocking the doorway and leaning against the frame, the other one blocking the doorway with their legs and sitting on the low inside windowsill... and, as I'm short, I'd have struggled to get noticed enough to stand back 2m and holler inside to the man frying chips.  People are so unaware of their surroundings .... I'd ban phones in public if I made the laws. 

Brambling

Evening all 🙂 I'm happy to chat to the cashier I just don't like it when they go through my items discussing each one and advising where I could have made better choices 🙄 but that's few and far between 

Nelski I feel like a dealer, telling you where to get hold of a white powdered substance 😁 lemon drizzle is my favourite and my nephew makes a fantastic one, he's tells me he hasn't withheld anything from the recipe but his always taste better than my sister or mine

Lunch was chicken and cottage cheese salad, I buy the cottage cheese to make crustless quiches but didn't fancy them, the fat free one is a bit bland so I added a dollop of sweet chilli sauce.  Dinner was LO roast pork and vegetables and I found some mash potatoes in the freezer to go with it a nice and easy ping meal.  I've one portion of pork left I may follow Nelski example with pork and noodles and whatever sauce which can be made from the jars and bottles in the cupboard

Nelski

Morning all

I've always hated the way Aldi and Lidl shove you and your purchases through the checkout as fast as possible I'm happier when they go at the speed you are packing your bags and if that involves some chat thats fine too. I miss human contact so much at the moment so a bit of banter would be nice. There was a guy on the checkouts at Asda near me that I swear I knew more about his love life and eating habits than some of my friends  Thanks to isolation now the only contact is a wave and a smile from the delivery guy once a week. I love being a solo I really do but I didn't realise how much time in a normal day you do spend chatting and laughing with strangers. 

Anyway food today will be minimum effort I quite fancy some cheese and beans on toast for brunch then some sausage casserole from the the freezer for dinner with some baby potatoes 

Brambling I always think cakes cooked by others taste better  

PasturesNew

Just looked at that packet of what I thought were flatbreads from 4ldi, they're not.  They're a new product (they say, but I often find products labelled as new that I've been buying for ages in these shops).  

What I've got is: Flat  Buns, with chipotle chilli.  Eh?   I guess they're round bread rolls that are flat and sort of yellowish.

85p from memory. Oh well.  They're good enough. It's food.  Might even like them   They'd be better with food I've not got... bet they're nice with a burger say.... I'll probably spread some paste on a couple later. 

No chips today - it's raining and I want to have a good chip eating experience, with the car door open.  I don't want to eat chips in the car in the rain with the windows steaming up.  

Farway

Rain here as well. PN, chips in the rain with car windows steamed up is like being on some of my holidays

I'm with you PN on hate gabbing at the checkout, just scan & go if you don't mind.

I think the conveyor bunching in L's was a German import, seems over there they bung it back in the trolley then go to the shelf and pack their bags, UK is of course very different.

"My" L is now UK style, pack as you go, but when it opened they had some Germans transferred over and they hated it, we are so unmanageable and independent, won't put our trolley in the "right" place next to them for instance [anti theft I assume]

I anticipated today's weather, so removed a YS Feb 2019 L's diced lean diced beef for overnight defrosting

After breakfast it was prepping a beef stew affair, using the cast iron pot. It's in oven on very low gas and smelling delicious even at this early stage

I'll pop some dumplings in this afternoon, and with more rain on the way I think a nice big plate of stew & dumplings will be ideal for dinner

Lunch, the very last of the LO beef, with mustard in a sarnie

With all the cup a soup talk I just had to go and make a tomato & veg one, with croutons & pasta rings. Very nice

Wednesday2000

Nelski said:

I didn't realise how much time in a normal day you do spend chatting and laughing with strangers. 

Yes, that is true!