Cooking for one (Mark Three)

PasturesNew

I've got milk jelly noted down as something to make at my NewHouse.... whenever that is found. 

My recipes collection allows me to tag recipes, so for the last couple of months I've been tagging them with the tag NewHouse as things I specifically want to make again and don't want to forget that I want to   I nearly suggested it yesterday on this thread, but thought people'd think I was mad.  We used to just have jelly with the milk poured over the top, jelly, fruit, carnation at birthdays. 

There is another product in the range, rarely seen, which is a thick cream.... I've got it noted to search for it at NewHouse as I think it's a great cupboard staple for when cream's called for in recipes.  I don't buy cream.....  the tins are 170ml (so smallish). 

Carnation Extra Thick Cream: https://www.carnation.co.uk/products/evaporated-milk-and-cream/extra-thick-cream - it's 85p full price at Mr T, Sainsbobs, Morrisons and Asda.  I thought I'd keep an eye out for it in HomeBargains, B&M and similar. 

PasturesNew

I'm resigned to having to eat food I don't want, don't like.... I don't like those potato/sauce things I bought, but I've bought 10, eaten three so seven remaining.  Getting through the pouch rice, it's not as bad as it could be, but when you combine a pouch rice with the potato/sauce it's pretty minging.  
I've only 10 packs of Bounty bars left. That means I've eaten 14 double-packs of bounty bars (28 individual bars) in four days  

Today I've scoffed: 2 crumpets/marg/cheese; pack of 2 bounty bars; 1 pouch rice. 

It's cold and wet here. It was peeing down earlier, now just raining.... else I'd have popped out for something from Iceland no doubt (a £1 cheeseburger pizza probably).

Farway

PasturesNew said:

 We used to just have jelly with the milk poured over the top, jelly, fruit, carnation at birthdays. 

There is another product in the range, rarely seen, which is a thick cream.... I've got it noted to search for it at NewHouse as I think it's a great cupboard staple for when cream's called for in recipes.  I don't buy cream.....  the tins are 170ml (so smallish). 

Carnation Extra Thick Cream: https://www.carnation.co.uk/products/evaporated-milk-and-cream/extra-thick-cream - it's 85p full price at Mr T, Sainsbobs, Morrisons and Asda.  I thought I'd keep an eye out for it in HomeBargains, B&M and similar. 

Milk poured over was one of out options, but of course in those days it was the top of the milk, the creamy bit at the top of real full fat heart stopping stuff

I've seen tinned thick cream but the price is silly when you can now buy real fresh stuff for much the same price or less

I suppose handy as a stand buy but I don't use cream anyway except maybe Christmas

Still no sign of my @sda parcel, not even left the depot according to the tracker.

Not relying on it, just don't want it showing up about eight tonight

Tipping down here, same as PN & Brambling, salad is now off the menu,

I still need to use up the cold LO salmon fillet somehow, could just defrost a couple of slices & pop it in a sarnie, sounds like heresy but CBA do do much else.

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Baileys_Babe

Brambling said:

we also use to make a mousse by whisking up jelly and a tin of evaporated milk

My Mum used to make something like that and call it fluff, happy memories.

threepenny_bit

gt568 said:

Love condensed milk.  That stuff is like crack to me.

Ha ha my Dad used to have it in sandwiches and eat to straight from the tin with a spoon (if Mum would let him!)

threepenny_bit

Farway said:

I seem to have triggered a few memories with tinned fruit & Carnation, happy to help

Did anyone have jelly made with milk?

It turned sort of bubbly, presumably because it curdled not that a ten year old would sus that out

I still make milk jelly - I love it! I also make it with plain yoghurt but it doesnt turn out so bubbly! When Mum made it for us I loved the lime green jelly with milk best of all lol 

Farway

Today is a "problem" half the world would love. I have two food deliveries arriving, with subsequent sorting & storing

My @sda YS box one never arrived yesterday, now arriving after 12ish

My W8rose is due anytime now, this one has all the goodies in it, like bacon & milk

Update, message, arriving within 15 minutes. Tine to get do lobby ready to receive

Laters

PasturesNew

Been food shopping ... first time with a mask.  Went to Mr T, got there about 9.45 and was surprised to see people going in, so thought it must be one of those "browse from 9.30am" arrangements, so I went in.  I'd written a list.... I saw my list in the car when I parked. Somewhere in the muddle of getting the mask out, getting it on, getting my bag for life out, checking I had my card to pay .... the list's gone walkabout.  So I had to make it up.  

Ended up spending about £8.  Loaf of bread, pack of 6 crumpets, pack of flatbreads. Frozen pizza, pack of 8 chilled sausage rolls. Cheese, cucumber, 10 eggs.  Original Source Shower gel, a pack of surface cleaners/99% flu virus it said (I know not this one though).  

So I've got oodles of food.  Food to make sandwiches with and food that is eaten hot.  Cheese/cucumber sandwiches, cheese/egg sandwiches, egg/cucumber sandwiches.... and I've still got 4-5 pots of paste, so paste/cucumber sandwiches.  I had also picked up a jar of jam last week, so jam sandwiches. All these can be made    I keep bread/cucumber in my room; downstairs for microwaving a boiled egg.... sandwich making is done in my room.  While at the last place I picked up a nice £1 melamine tray which is a great size for making sandwiches on, which is the purpose I bought it for: a tray on the end of the bed becomes a kitchen worktop. 

Now... the logistics of food in a shared house.  You can't enter the kitchen area with outdoor shoes and should wash your hands before entering there.... so lug all that lot up to the 2nd floor and pick through what needs to be in the fridge.  Wash hands, change shoes for slippers.... back down 2 flights of stairs.  I knew the frozen pizza wouldn't fit in the freezer as I've not got a whole shelf, so that and the sausage rolls went into the fridge, as did the cheese.  But, "what are you going to eat?" I'd decided to have 2 bits of toast, so, along with my fridge items to walk downstairs I had to get 2 slices out, get my plate, get my knife and carry those down stairs too, to make the toast - hoping that somebody wasn't in the kitchen already.   

Sunny here.... might walk to the beach later.  See how it goes. 

PasturesNew

For the record, this is how you do a boiled egg.... 
Get the egg (in your room) and the boiling device.  Get a clean/empty mug. Put some water and the egg in the boiling device.  Wash your hands and put your slippers on .... go down two flights of stairs, hoping nobody's using the kitchen.  Device into the nuker, set the timer.... and stand for 7 minutes. Meanwhile, fill the empty mug with cold water.  When the egg's cooked, remove from the nuker and run it under cold water for a bit, pop the egg into the mug of water and pop the mug into the fridge.  Rinse your boiling device.... and realise you forgot to bring your tea-towel with you so you have to stand and shake it a lot more than anticipated.  Back up two flights of stairs with boiling device, which you lay out on your tea-towel in your room to dry. Wash your hands (just in case). 

Later on, when you want to make an egg sandwich .... wash your hands, slippers on... down two flights of stairs, mug out of the fridge, empty mug of water.... back up two flights of stairs with egg/mug.  Wash your hands, pop the wet mug onto your tea towel to dry. Shell the egg and make a sandwich.

Farway

PN, with that egg method I think I'd go without, however I realise just being able to use a clean fridge & kitchen is a big uplift from your previous place. PIA losing the shopping list, I know when I've had similar occasions it's just not the same

My W8rose delivery arrived, as did my Cupboard box from @sda. Luckily an hour apart

Said it before, but W8rose quality is very good, as it should be for the price.

The lettuce is big one, no limp & manky outside leaves, cucumber is a big 'un as well

All stowed away & FFingers in the freezer, still have to portion out the bangers & bacon for freezing

The @sda box is a nice surprise, some items I would be unlikely buy but it won't stop me using them.

Kenco Colombian coffee & Heinz chicken soup for instance. I suspect these are up subbing from the @sda branded ones, the boxes were clearance.

I've not priced it but I think it's a bargain for £15, all of it non perishable, especially for CFO cupboards

Lunch was defrost a couple of slices, then use with last of the salmon fillet with cucumber in a sarnie

Dinner, oven cook a couple of the tasty @sda special pork bangers, with HM AF chips, couple of fried eggs & maybe open a tin of beans

Last of the B & A crumble later if peckish

PS, I now have balsamic vinegar, and via @sda box a packet of peanut & raisin mix