Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Brambling

Your rain hasn't arrived here yet Farway but it's on its way according to BBC 

i hope you have a good meal out Caronc 

I thought the courgettes were over but just picked two and there looks to be two more tiny ones. I uses one of the ones already in the fridge to make a lime and courgette drizzle cake, it's still cooling but looks very moist and I'm not sure how easy it will be to cut to freeze as I think it may fall apart  

lunch was boiled eggs and soldiers dinner cold chicken, airfried chips and runner beans which kind of answers the question which comes first the chicken 🐔 or the egg 🥚 😁 

Baileys_Babe

@Brambling could you partially freeze it before cutting the cake?

Brambling

Thanks Baileys I may try that - it's very moist my nephew suggested having it with custard 🙄 I'll stick to my courgette, carrot and orange if I make another- although hopefully the courgette glut is nearly over

Farway

Enough rain for you Brambling? It was tipping down & blowing a hooley, storm Frances I think

I was up during the night, possibly the baked figs but never had any affect before All seems well now thankfully

I heard the rain start, and my runners are down again but with the night's work I'm on a lazy day today anyway

I think today's meals will be kept light & simple

I've a tin of tom soup just for such a day. And two more tins in the box from Asd@ should I fancy more

I did have porridge for a late breakfast, which so far is not having adverse affects

Wednesday2000

I had some vegan sausages for breakfast along with some crackers that needed using up. I had to go and get my thyroid meds this morning. It's really blustery outside.

I've been trying to book a flu jab online at Boots but it's not working. I will have to try and call the local pharmacy. I should have done it this morning while I was in there!

Wednesday2000

They said it was too early to book it and to call back at the end of September. I think more people will want to get the flu jab this year.

I don't know what I fancy for lunch...

PasturesNew

Atrocious weather, now passed.  Did a quick run out to Mr T for goodies and things.  Haul was: 
1 loaf, pack of crumpets, 2 pots of paste, tin of beans, tin of beans/sausages, 100g jar of coffee, 24 cans fizzy pop.
A chilled quiche, pack of chilled 8 cumberland sausages, frozen pepperoni pizza, frozen cheesecake, frozen lasagne.
That was somewhere between £13-14, with £6.50 being 24 fizzy pops.  The coffee is new to me, I usually grab 4ldi/L1dl cheapo granules, these are Mr T cheapo granules (70p/100g).  The frozen pizza I've put in the fridge and I'll cook that later today.

When you shop for one, especially with very limited storage, you're walking away from more than you're buying as you can't store/keep things, or find the opportunity to cook/eat them + there's the whole "can't eat everything your eyes see, you pig"
Today I specifically didn't buy: more bananas, bag of doughnuts, chips, burgers, more doritos, even more fizzy pop.  I also didn't buy spuds, still got the last one of the 4-pack bought a fortnight ago to get round to eating.... and, the weather's so variable, I daren't buy 2.5Kg of spuds in case it turns hot and I struggle to get through them. 

PasturesNew

Don't quote, nothing to do with CFO.

Houses: there are homes still coming up for sale... still ones I don't want.  But it's slowing down.  Price reductions are increasing.  When a property is reduced on RM it appears in the "last 24 hours/newest" feed, so presents as if it were a new one on the market.  Last week, 30% of properties were already on the market and just dropped in price. 

The issue is: I don't want any of those for sale, pretty much at any price.  I want one I like the look of, that's about in the right areas.  Most are family homes, or bungalows at top of budget that need serious updating, or they are flats in tower blocks with communal gardens or just a patio.... I want a flat with a private garden, so I can shake my mats, hang my washing out, have a cig and get away from neighbours' windows... and have a little shed for my bike and various other things one keeps in a shed (mostly "keep that, it might come in handy" collections. 

caronc

Good afternoon everyone, 
Wet and wild here today, I hope CFOers in the path of the worst of it are all safe and snug.
We had a lovely meal yesterday evening, my son & I opted for the beef stroganoff and the chips that came with it were some of the best I've had in a long time. My sis had macaroni cheese that came with garlic bread and chips, carb overload but going by her her clean plate a tasty one. They don't offer a huge choice of options what is on the menu is freshly made and decently cooked the only thing they buy in is the desserts from a local company.  Including wine and beer the bill for the three of us was just over £30 so even without the current discount it's good value.
A day for being indoors today so I've just been pottering, it's chilly and I think the stove will be getting lit this evening if we cba retrieving some logs from the store. 
Mackerel that my son caught for dinner tonight with new spuds, salad and coleslaw.  Lunch is crackers topped with lobster pate with home grown tomatoes and cucumber on the side. 

PasturesNew

I've popped my 67p pizza in the oven.... topped it with about 6-8 sliced cherry tomatoes I bought last week (used the ones going soft/iffy) + used the last couple of slices of the cheese from the pack, I've already bought the next pack 1-2 weeks ago.  I also then splashed on the top a big dollop of the jalapeno ketchup I'd bought the other week from the OOD warehouse.  That's not that hot to be honest - and, to use it, I should've spread it on the top of the pizza before I added my additional toppings... also, as the top oven is a bit above my eye height and I was adding it late, I did squidge the bottle a bit too much and a massive pile thunked down on top of the pizza... so I grabbed the biggest bit of cheese I could find on the top and tried to move it around a bit.  

Only thing to do now is... not forget I put the pizza in the oven.  In my own home that'd not be a problem as I could potter about and find things to do in my own clean kitchen while it was cooking... but in a shared kitchen with dropped bits and smears on the floor and sticky-sounding-feet when you walk ... that'd not be a pleasant wait at all. 
EDIT: Pizza wasn't great, too much of the sauce dolloped on top... but I can't help that as it was a mistake due to being too short to see what I was doing in the integrated oven, which has a shelf just about my eye height, so not really low enough to see, you have to wing it.
I'd usually slice it in two in my own home and set it to one side to cool off, then into the fridge once cool, but you can't do that in a shared space, so I brought it all up to my room, scoffed the lot .... and nodded off.