Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Farway

Baileys_Babe said:

@Farway you could modify plan A and toast the sarnie.

Ta, That had crossed my mind, Plan A mod 1?

Even though lunch was a toasted sarnie yesterday I find Repetition or Hesitation is something CFO is all about at times

candygirl

Just had cold takeaway pizza for brekky, courtesy of little Bro last night 😁😁
No idea what's for tea yet x

caronc

Good morning everyone, 
I'm with you on defrosted bread tasting stale Farway , I always toast it.
Sounds like a plan Brambling to go with Beko and get both the appliances.
The big freezer is fully defrosted and has been given a good wipe out. My son is going to haul it out later so he can clean behind it and then fingers crossed it comes back on okay. Without all the ice it looks huge!
Grey and cool here, I'm hoping it stays dry as I want to weed the front garden as they have sprouted  with gusto in the recent warm/wet weather. My buddleia also needs a hair cut (a bit like me lol) as it is beginning to sprawl over the wall.
Cheats katsu-style curry tonight using some chicken goujons and Mayflower curry sauce powder. Lunch will be a salad wrap and some grapes.

Farway

defrosted bread update

it was not too bad, especially as the loaf was given to me so i doubt it was oven fresh when I received it

It'll do for the moment and defrost slices as required

Lunch was cheese & shallot sarnie

Lunch also gave me the opportunity to try my new cheese grating toy.

Very posh, now I can store grated cheese, something I've never missed or needed but who knows now?

Dinner decided, CBA so it'll be nuked frozen MFO once I have a shuffle through the freezer

Brambling

My trip into town lunch time to sort out a new DW was postponed as I had to get the plumber back out for a small drip under the sink, he did come out pretty quick and had told me to keep an eye out as the pipes etc had been disturbed when he changed the taps, it was only a little water and luckily I hadn't put the usual junk essentials back under there. 

Lunch was some LO new potatoes chipped in the airfryer with a fried egg and a squirt of tommy sauce.  I'm still undecided about dinner and have taken nothing out of the freezer but I can say it will include courgettes in some way and if next door can't take the 3 large ones which need picking it will be courgettes, courgettes and more courgettes (I'm sitting here humming the Monty Python spam song as i type  )  with maybe a side of runner beans     I miss the office kitchen table where I could have left some to be rehomed 

Wednesday2000

I had crumpets with marg and Marmite and a glass of almond milk for breakfast. I have the last of my soup and the rest of the bag of stir fry to use up later today. I might have the stir fry for lunch and the soup for dinner.

PasturesNew

Farway said:

Lunch also gave me the opportunity to try my new cheese grating toy. 

Very posh, now I can store grated cheese, something I've never missed or needed but who knows now?

One I've always fancied, that I've seen mentioned over the years, is a small battery powered grater.  You pop a chunk into it, press/grate, then pop it back in the fridge until next time..... 
Here's an example, but just LOOK at that price! Full price £35, currently on sale at £21 
https://www.coleandmason.com/cole-mason-electronic-cheese-mill-h105799 

Grating is such a faff for singles due to small quantities.  What I do is I know the width of my manual winding grater.  I open a (~400g) cheese pack and cut it into 4-5 fingers that I know will fit. I then grate one whole finger of cheese into a takeaway box; the remaining 3-4 fingers of cheese are then resealed in the pack and put into the fridge.  One finger of cheese is usually enough for me for 2-3 uses (depending what I'm doing). 

PasturesNew

I am trying to, each day, use up at least one of the items I brought here with me.  I have random odds/sods bought while at my last place plus a food parcel of stuff my sibling turned out of her cupboards as unwanted last Xmas.  I stocked up with pouch rice when I'd expected my last LL to be away 3 weeks, which I was then stuck with when she returned and I vowed never to use the kitchen so couldn't eat the rice. If I can just eat ONE item/day it'll soon get through them all over the next 2-3 months. None are my "regular style of food" but need to be eaten.

Yesterday I had: 1 pouch rice and some honey/nut cornflakes from the historical stash.  Then 2 packs of doritos, 1 flatbread filled with salmon paste/cucumber, 2 crumpets/marg. 

caronc

Good afternoon everyone, 
I'd save your money on an electric cheese grater PN, my Dad had one, (an expensive one) and while it did an okay job with very hard cheese like Parmesan it clogged with anything else.
Dry and sunny here today, yesterday every time I went to venture out to weed it poured but I got the front garden weeded this morning in case the weather changed it's mind again. Rampaging buddliea has been tamed though no doubt it will spring back in a blink!!
My big freezer turned back on okay and is now refilled 😊, there's even an empty shelf!!!! Only a couple of small UFOs one of which I think was stock and the other a smudge of fish pie filling. Handily discovered I had more bechamel than I thought so it's defrosting to go in Lasagne for dinner tonight. I made the ragu for it yesterday so just needs layering and baking later. Lunch was a cheese, ham and pickle toastie with fresh peas and grapes. 

Farway

Hot & sunny day, went watering my volunteer borders this morning.

Bit of a jackpot because the other [untended] side is a health centre car park, full of brambles and I picked nearly 750g of ripe blackberries this morning.

Loads left for others & future weeks

I've stewed the BBs and added them to a pack of last years frozen HG apples, yay, B & A crumble at last for today  

I've a pack of instant custard BBE now, just in time

Lunch, baked a PB baguette and opened tin of salmon for tonight, so it was baguette filled with salmon, cuc & lettuce

Tonight is pasta, with HG French beans & runners + broccoli and some of the tinned salmon plus using up the last ancient pasta sauce jar

If I make enough the pasta combo could see me through a few days meals