Cooking for one (Mark Three)

PasturesNew

Had 2 crumpets for breakfast. 
Late lunch was a pepperoni pizza (Mr T/67p) ... still in love with those for the price  

Brambling

PN I like to cook but would find it difficult to spend 4 hours cooking even when I batch cook on a Sunday.  Some people of no concept of living in shared accommodation 

Fog this morning rather than then frost, although I had to scrape the car when I left my sister left night just after 10pm.  I didn't mind the frost yesterday morning as it was pretty to look at and I wasn't driving anywhere 

i used up the bendy veg and a glut of carrots to make a soup for lunch, I chopped the veg between waiting for my laptop to process data, it was having a bad day 🙄 the soup turned out very nice I bet a wouldn't be able to duplicate it as there was a lot added from the herbs and condiments shelf😁

Dinner was going to be a stir fry but I wasn't that hungry so had a cheese omelette and salad 

caronc

Good morning everyone, 
Just popping to say hello, kitchen refurb is in full flow and chaos reigns. We are also dog sitting and he's very keen to "help" lol!
Lots of beige food has been eaten though I did make a surprising decent lorne sausage and bean chilli earlier in the week which fed us for two days.  Tonight it will be a takeaway of some description. 

PasturesNew

I don't want to stand in your cheese..... and other tales. 

I finally got to eat last night's tea, at 9.30 this morning.  2 spuds/halved, topped with half a can of spag bol and 20p of cheese.  

People are supposed to wipe everywhere, wipe everything they touched ..... I've never had confidence in that.  Most people seem to prep food on the worktop, never giving a thought for what's dropping on the floor by the kick boards... so I had to nuke my food while standing in somebody's dropped cheese... and a single chip.  *sighs*.  Grubby mongrels. 

I take an anti-bac kitchen wipe with me and use that to touch things/open the nuker door/press the buttons/flick the tap on, then I use it to give the worktop a sanitising wipe down before tossing it in the bin as I exit ... and there are no drips and debris when I cook.  

Farway

'Morning all, sounds like the house share is getting you down PN, understandably by the sounds of it

I'm a bit of messy cooker though with bits dropped, no matter how much I try to avoid it, even carrot peelings fly everywhere like scalded cats

Nice amble in the sunshine after breakfast. I use a walk tracker using GPS but the darn thing keeps dropping out.

I'm not trying for records or anything, just time & distance.

The time is fine but distance is wrong, when it drops out it then just connects two points giving a direct line through houses and not following roads.

A very minor problem in today's world

Last night's Bisto shepherds' pie was very sloppy, including the mash topping. I shan't buy them again even at the price

Today may be better, hoping for cheese spread on toast for lunch, assuming the cheese spread hasn't gone mouldy, not looked for over a week

Dinner, frozen formed from cod fillet [ggrrr, still annoyed at that ] HM AF chips & nuke some frozen peas

PasturesNew

Farway said:

 

I'm a bit of messy cooker though with bits dropped, no matter how much I try to avoid it, even carrot peelings fly everywhere like scalded cats

 

In my own kitchen, if I'm about to chop/prep things that might be producing mucky debris, then I start by spraying the floor with anti-bac and lay down two sheets of kitchen towel.... if I spot anything as I'm going along I use my foot to just wipe.  Once finished I simply grab the kitchen towel and give the area a wipe along... all done without any thought/effort. 

Advice on miscellaneous sites re shared kitchens is for people to have/use their own teatowels, use their own things.... here there are dozens of plates/bowls + a couple of saucepans, frying pans and roasting dishes.  Others use all this communal stuff.  I keep everything in my room, it's mine and I prep what I can in my room here and take my things down, cook, rinse off the items in the kitchen, bring everything up here, then I'll wash them up properly in hot/soapy water just to be sure.  If I were using communal plates, as there are so many of them, I'd keep 1-2 in my room and only use those 1-2.   

They do all use their own tea towel, provided by the LL .... (mine is mine/properly mine) .... and they all leave them dangling over their cupboard door, where they keep their food/stuff.  All those tea towels, hanging there, potentially soaking up any airborne droplets.... not for me! 

It's why I don't cook, say, an omelette... yes, there's a pan I could use, but who has cooked with it before?  I'd just end up washing everything up before I could even start, then washing it up afterwards ... and drying it before putting it back where it came from: all taking much longer than my current system... any additional minute spent in there is the potential to "cross" with somebody who is putting stuff in/getting stuff out of the fridge (e.g. they go shopping/return and unpack, or keep beers/wines in there and want to grab something) - and that's in addition to people wanting to cook, or wash up, etc. 

All my visits are pre-planned and time optimised   In/out, ninja kitchen expert. 

Farway

Lunch report, the cream cheese had not gone mouldy.

And I'd forgotten how tasty toast and cream cheese with slice of fresh tom topping can be, maybe rinse & repeat tomorrow

Fished out frozen pack of YS Iceland mince BBE Aug 2019. That'll be tomorrow's something or other, savoury mince most likely

PasturesNew

Farway said:

Lunch report, the cream cheese had not gone mouldy.

Whether things have gone mouldy is one of the backbones of CFO..... I've got bread here, out of date by some days.... if it's not mouldy that'll be toast for tomorrow morning topped with scrambled eggs  

Today's scoffathon has so far been: 
2 spuds, 1/2 tin of spagbol, bit of cheese. Cooked in and eaten from one of those £1land lidded nuker noodle bowls.   
1/3rd of a cheesecake ..... and then another 1/3rd. 

Brambling

I have something similar PN which I use to take my porridge to work and ping in the microwave

 I've just been to the local T Exp, I checked the food supplies and decided no need to shop tomorrow as I only needed milk, bananas and grapes I did pick up some Greek yoghurt as it was on offer and I do like the Total one just not the price and a avocado as I fancied it 🙂 I usually avoid their bananas as they are 25p each but decided I would end spending more money if I go into the SM tomorrow so I would bite my tongue on the extra money 🙂

lunch was a large mug of HM carrot soup and dinner a pork and apple burger (no bun) with air fried chips, tenderstem broccoli, French beans, mushrooms and fried onions.  I topped the burger with some Shropshire blue cheese left by my sister 

Farway

Sun's out for Flu jab morning, very quick and efficient, no blowpipes, dart guns or arms out of car windows

Wait in car park until allotted time, in front door, forehead heat scan, hand splodge, into surgery, arm bare, jab, out the back door

Had e mail for my gas boiler services bloke,

I knew a service was due but not sure if he was working with CV, seems he is is i need to get that booked before too long

Lunch is repeat of the soft cheese & tom on toast, that should be last of the cheese

Dinner, the YS mince has defrosted, I was thinking of savoury mince, with either mash or dumplings but have discovered a jar of Bolognese sauce so maybe a spag bol?