Cooking for one (Mark Three)

PasturesNew

Cooked the pizza.  That involved: Tearing off a sheet of foil for it to sit on, grabbing the scissors to cut open the wrapper, getting a knife to slice some extra cheese for the top.  Wash hands, slippers on, carry foil/knife/scissors down 30 stairs.... pizza in oven, check time, back up 30 stairs to room with scissors/knife, wash knife, wash hands... keep eye on time.  

Back down 30 stairs holding a plate.... drag pizza from oven to plate, jiggle it to release the foil, foil in the recycling... plate/pizza up 30 stairs.  Cut pizza with knife in room, wash knife.   EAT!   Ate the whole thing to be honest   
Then had a Bounty.  Nearly out of those now. 

caronc

Good afternoon everyone, 
I think there could be a fair few milk jellies being made over coming weeks in CFO land! 
Glad you're asda box was good value Farway ☺️.
Goodness food prep sounds a right faff PN but at least you're able to use the kitchen in this place!
After a very rainy morning it's turned bright and sunny. My boys are making the most of it and meeting up for a cycle. There is a good cycled path along the coast so will head off towards the next town and no doubt head back along the woodland one. I'm going to potter in garden for a bit and get some dead heading down. A piece of belly pork is in the slow cooker, it's been rubbed with lots of herbs and garlic and sat on a bed of onions. I'll finish it off in the oven later so the crackling is nice and crisp. The spuds have been scraped so just the veg and gravy to sort out this evening. Lunch was bacon, tomatoes and mushrooms on toast with a good splodge of HP. 

threepenny_bit

PasturesNew said:

For the record, this is how you do a boiled egg.... 

Are you able to use one of the little egg boilers in your room? When  I was  in college I had a sandwich toaster and little kettle in my room, I cooked burgers, sandwiches, bacon and everything in that sandwich toaster lol! 

DigForVictory

Anyone who has been missing Unrecordings may not want to read the news from Cranky40 https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5930606/the-prepping-thread-a-newer-beginning/p496

However, our fellow forumite has alas left us.

Brambling

Thanks DFV Cranky had shared the sad news with us 

Just think how much exercise you'll get PN running up and down stairs 

lime milk jelly is just wrong 😁 it sounds like it should curdle, I was strawberry jelly only for milk jelly

an unexpected trip trip to the beach today, my sister is borrowing a friends beach hut.  It's a quiet part of the beach, the hut is between the town and a popular cafe (about 1.5 miles either way). It was extremely windy, we couldn't get the wind break up but it definitely cleared the cobwebs and ruined the new hair do    loads of kite surfers all along the coast we counted over 30 at one stage fascinating to watch them as you can't see the wires I said they were like pterodactyls.  Also some really fast wind surfers almost colliding as they had a strong wind behind them.  

Picnic lunch and walk up to the cafe for a mint magnum easy to avoid people as they had a outside kiosk and only tables outside,  thanks to the wind I did wear half my ice cream 🙄. I brought some nice local caught haddock and smoked haddock (sold as traditional oak smoked but I don't think local) enough for some haddock tomorrow and six portions of fish for the freezer, local fishermen run the stall and the hut has been there decades, first time in ages i was asked for cash as they are cash or cheque, luckily between us we had the cash, I've got use to every one just wanting card

I had taken a small leg of lamb out of the freezer so that needed cooking although I had no enthusiasm to cook a roast when we got in.  I rubbed Ras El hanout onto the lamb and just had a bubble and squeak cake (YS M&S) and HG beans.  I had planned to use one of the three large courgettes I picked with tomatoes etc but cba.  I didn't check the courgettes yesterday and the rain created three monsters, not quite marrows but bigger than I usually let them grow 😳 there's plenty of LO lamb to do that.  
 
Fist outdoor tomato a baby plum is almost ready to pick 🙂 someone/something knocked over a tomato plant and I lost a branch with loads of little green tomatoes on 😐

Farway

And it's pouring down, plus windy, ideal for kite surfing or wearing ice creams

No chance of garden pottering but I expect a few windfall apples with this weather

One pack in my @sda box is own brand Bran flakes, not had those for years, also had a litre of UHT semi skimmed milk, not my ideal but it'll be fine of the flakes I expect

The tinned fruit is small tin of peach slices, plus a small tin of rice pud, sounds like a ready made CBA pud combo right there

Lunch today will be a couple of the box supplied PB petit pains with a filling of grilled W8rose streaky. A pretentious  bacon roll

Dinner, a couple of the posh W8rose fat cod FFingers, maybe splurge out and use some frozen crinkly chips.

To keep slightly on health side it'll be with side salad, own toms today, may even open my new bottle of balsamic & try a splash on the toms, as recommended on this very forum

Main task today is look around for MOT, I know there's an extension so no big rush, however I need one who will collect & return, I'm not risking using buses just yet

Wednesday2000

I had a tomato toastie for breakfast as I'm running low on food.

I just got my Tosspots delivery. I'm having a vegan sausage roll (well, half of one) and I'm making a big batch of HM soup.

Celery, carrots, onions and tomatoes. I will whizz it up with the stick blender when it's done and have it with the other half of the sausage roll.

It was pouring down earlier but it has brightened up again now.

caronc

Good afternoon everyone, 
Horrible wet day here, it's supposed to dry up a bit later so I'm holding off venturing to the bin to see if it does. I've a load of voluntary admin needing done so that has kept me out of mischief for most of the morning. 
Yesterday's slow cooked then fast roasted FR belly pork was just gorgeous😁, unfortunately it was only a small piece so there are no LOs ☹️. It's veggie stir fry tonight with either squid or prawns. Lunch was crackers and salad with homegrown cucumber. My first ripe Tom is nearly ready, no sign of any others turning as yet but hopefully they will soon follow. Lots of courgettes though so a few small ones will go in the stir fry. 

PasturesNew

Sausage rolls... I do enjoy a good, cheap sausage roll and so grabbed a pack of 8 in Mr T's the other day.  Didn't expect a lot of them to be honest as they're 8/99p (Aldi/L1dl ones used to be 6/99p or so)... 

Anyway - cooked four today.  FOUR??? FOUR??? Oops, two would've been enough.  Anyway - they are certainly something I'd not hesitate to buy again.  They are better than many random High street bakery sausage rolls I've eaten over the years.   Mr T are price-matching 4ldi of late - I wonder if this is a price match engineered package that will disappear when they stop trying to price match.  In the meantime, if you want basic sausage rolls at a good price:: https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/299914884 

Brambling

At least the rain means no watering tonight and I'll forgive it seeing as it's a work day, unfortunately I'm going to have to do some weeding because of it 

I'm in trouble as I was caught trying to sneak the cat basket into the house ready for his lordships annual vet trip early tomorrow 🙀 I haven't told him yet that I wouldn't be able to go in and hold his paw as it's handover in the car park 😿

lunch was LO lamb in a wrap.  Dinner was a new courgette recipe 🙂 courgette pancakes with pan fried haddock and LO stuffed portobello mushroom