Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Brambling

For those prices I think you've been looking at Sandbanks facebook pages PN  If people aren't prepared to pay the prices they wouldn't keep selling them personally as a CFO i don't usually do takeaways so i'm not going to start now but a lot of people are just carrying on with their once a week takeaway and without the business a lot of restaurants will go under.  My fish and chips on Friday will be a couple of pounds more than from the chippy and I think a couple of pounds less than the pub usually sells them for if you sit in and as a birthday treat I'll not turn it down    limited menu fish and chips, scampi and chips or sausage and chips you order on line and pick up at an agreed time, they only sell a set number and only on a Friday.  I know my niece was delighted that their usual Indian restaurant for birthday treats started to do deliveries in time for her son's 13th birthday and it was the same price as before, it meant he could have something for his birthday and they cater for him being a coeliac 

Farway one of the best cream teas I've had is a farm just outside Bridport (3 mile round trip walk from my sisters caravan) they only have a garden cafe and make their own strawberry jam to go with their HM scones one tea is big enough for us to buy a extra drink and share as the 2 scones are large and made daily, in fact I've had to wait for a batch to cool down from the oven here's lots of birds to watch.  We walk across the fields if you drive it's a single farm track a mile up from a small country lane so really peaceful  and the dog is welcomed and knows the way    Unfortunately I don't think I'll get down there this year 

The pub we are getting the F&C from is doing afternoon teas hampers for collection tomorrow but are delivering them to the self isolating people in their village £10 per person which included the cream tea,  sandwiches, quiche, scotch egg (All sold out according to their facebook page I'm not getting one but I know of someone who is having one delivered to a elderly parent who is SI) 

Lunch was a couple of slices of the proper bacon brought from the farm shop with scrambled egg.  Dinner will be beef stir fry with rice, I took out some feather steak from the freezer and it's end of week use up the odds and sods of veg 

PasturesNew

I had chips  

But I chose a poor setting.... last time I drove 1/4 mile and pulled up alongside some grass on a residential street to eat them (but that'd look a bit 'odd' to those living there wondering what on earth I was doing eating chips in my car there).  Today I just pulled over the road from the chippy and forward 50' under the shade of a tree....  and sat chomping chips watching some right odd things going on; I think the first was a drugs deal/meetup but they struggled to find each other.... the second one I saw was definitely a drugs deal.  

I wanted a loaf and jam, so went to a big Asda, but the queue to get in was massive, so it wasn't worth it just for a loaf and jam... so I went to a Mr T.  Bought 24 cans of fizzy pop, a loaf, 3 pots of paste, a punnet of tomatoes, a tin of peas and a 5-pack of doritos. I used to get Doritos from £1land for £1, but last time I went in there they had none.  I've really been fancying some.   Got back to the car and realised I already/still had a 24 pack of fizzy pop from the last time I "stocked up".  I leave things in the boot until I want them if I CBA lugging them in or don't have the room for them. 

What I hate in the shops is the one way system that means you either have to break it... or take 2 hours to buy 1 item.  In short, you go in - and somebody's in front of you... and they're choosing and mulling, for 2-3 minutes.... and you can't pass so you have to wait. As you're waiting, somebody comes from the other end, against the one way, poncing and bouncing about like nothing's happening... it's 90% young men doing that.   

You also don't want every aisle, so you're going along the end and spot the aisle you want, but it's one way the other way, so you have to go up the next aisle, except there's a large couple of people with a huge trolley ... choosing and pontificating..... and you're only there to get down the aisle, to turn and get into the first aisle.  

I gave up in the end, I wanted a few bits more, but couldn't bear it any londer. 

candygirl

Evening all, n a belated Happy Birthday to BRAMBLING xx
Had toast n jam for brekky, n a cheese n onion bake on a bun with salad for tea .Was lush 😍
I tried doing popcorn in the air fryer, it didn't pop! So tried it in a pan, n the same thing .Very odd, as I always used to make it no probs 🤔
PN what a salubrious  spot to savour your chips 😁😁😁😉

Brambling

Candy why have never thought of popcorn in the air fryer? 🤔 I haven't done any for a while but use to use the microwave and then stir in marmite- must check and see if I have any 🙂

i don't tend to visit the larger SM at the moment, I've used Sainsbobs once in 7 weeks, only the T Expresses have one way systems and it's not very logical, most people just use their common sense when needing to pass people, I always turn to face the shelves and shuffle sideways so not to face the persons and I've watch people do the same.  It's all very civilised in the South East  

i found a black black bean sauce packet in the cupboard which I very rarely buy so dinner was beef in black bean sauce with jasmine rice 

PasturesNew

VE Day. With the food I've got here, the best I can muster up will be a salmon paste & cucumber sandwich   My parents were never 'interested' very much in VE Day.  For dad, he had been under German occupation, while England tried to 'starve out' the Germans (who kept the food they did get, thus starving the islanders) so they still didn't have any food yet just because the War had ended, they still had Germans up the road to ship off-  Their Liberation Day date is tomorrow. Mum lived in an area where all the local battalion/lads were all prisoners of war in Japan and VJ Day isn't for another few months (15 August).  Many people in that area just had a cup of tea as they were all waiting for the end of the War to come for their lads. 

Obviously not going anywhere/not doing anything.  Facebook is full of endless threads of people with houses showing off their bunting and talking of having street parties where they're all sitting in their drives... and some with music etc going on.  

In the main, when you look into it, every Thursday night you get these videos posted of people clapping - and occasional singers/musicians at the front of their house.  When you investigate "which street is that then?" they're invariably the £600-800k houses.  Even last night, I saw a block of flats videoing people on their balconies clapping - then I spotted it, that's the block where the annual service charge is £7-8k.  Facebook has become a place that the well off have taken over to show off  

Any of you lot got bunting/driveway street parties or posh folks playing their posh instruments going on?

PasturesNew

Another "we're in the wrong business" post  
2 individual pots of clotted cream, 2 individual jars of jam. 
4 FROZEN scones you have to bake yourself.  Delivered in a brown box.
£7.50
Now they're taking the mick .... two bought-in products + something you have to cook yourself, so it could still all go wrong...


For price comparison I looked at the little fab shop where I used to live, where they cater for the tourist trade and have a tea-room and bakery just above the beach ... for the above, freshly baked, in their tea-room on a plate. £2.50 each (so £5 for the above). 

Wednesday2000

I had a PB sandwich and a can of coke for breakfast!

No posh celebrations going on near me, but I live in a dump of an area.

Nelski

Whats a PB sandwich? you guys have a language of your own on here 

Nelski

No parties going on here either we only have 7 houses in the close so it would be ideal but I just don't think  the hearts in it this year. I will do the silence and raise a glass at 3. Food wise I will ramp up my table top bbq and have a all day brekky later...thinking about it I do have some ginger and rhubarb scones in the freezer and some lemon drizzle cake so an afternoon tea may feature with the fizz at 3.

Farway

Sort of celebrations here, Spitfire flypast for a veteran nearby. Daily Wail link It's taking off from Goodwood, circular route over southern England and you may spot it Brambling as it will be over your way on it's way home, via Dame Vera's pad of course

PN, my odd spot for eating was years ago, I was working repairing pub's fruit machines at the time.

Having fixed one, mid evening in a particularly grotty Southampton pub, I spotted a handy chippy near so bought F & C & pulled over just up the road to eat them

As I was eating it seemed very busy for a run down scruffy area. Afterwards I discovered it was the Red Light district.

Just how would I have explained that to my wife sitting at home had I been collared by the police?

Sunny day ahead, apart from from above not much planned of course

Big splash out day, back to 1945. Lunch is corned beef & pickle sarnie

Dinner, corned beef, eggs & chips. It'll be fresh eggs of course, not powdered

I'm working on an Abel & C delivery, not the veg more decent cheeses & decent bacon.

While I appreciate ND getting my shopping, I find T*sco Cheddar is very plasticy to my taste. Their dry cure best bacon is OK though