PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING

Hello Forumites! However well-intentioned, for the safety of other users we ask that you refrain from seeking or offering medical advice. This includes recommendations for medicines, procedures or over-the-counter remedies. Posts or threads found to be in breach of this rule will be removed.
We're aware that some users are experiencing technical issues which the team are working to resolve. See the Community Noticeboard for more info. Thank you for your patience.
📨 Have you signed up to the Forum's new Email Digest yet? Get a selection of trending threads sent straight to your inbox daily, weekly or monthly!

Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Options
1135813591361136313642176

Comments

  • Brambling
    Brambling Posts: 5,941 Forumite
    Seventh Anniversary 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Slow down Caronc  before your family tie you down  :)

    Other than a trip for milk I've stayed in today, it's been grey and damp with heavy rain this evening, I have thought about putting up the xmas tree otherwise it wouldn't be worth while, maybe tomorrow 🤔 it may make me feel more Christmasy 

    lunch was a portion of veg soup from the freezer and dinner a lamb steak with new potatoes and veg 
    Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage   -          Anais Nin
  • greenbee
    greenbee Posts: 17,736 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Boris's announcement has changed my xmas plan. My mum is in my bubble, so (as long as she can still get a lift down, and the taxi back) she's still coming to me. But we're not going to my brother. Freezer inventory has come up with a couple of options. But I need to go and get a Christmas tree tomorrow morning... 
  • Farway
    Farway Posts: 14,642 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Homepage Hero Name Dropper
    Up early in the dark because failed to drop off back to sleep with too much thinking about Christmas arrangements, now possibly non arrangements with tiers and now one of my bubbles is a CV contact & isolating, they were in tier 4 anyway so nothing much changed except knowing they have been in CV contact

    I suspect I'm having to find out about Zoom now, luckily with teachers in the family they are all set up so hopefully should only need a few clicks by me
    I think later today will be snuggle down & watch something easy & mindless on tele :|

    Lunch cheese & salad sarnie
    Dinner, LO roast chicken, HM AF chips & salad I think
    Eight out of ten owners who expressed a preference said their cats preferred other peoples gardens
  • caronc
    caronc Posts: 8,528 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    edited 20 December 2020 at 1:39PM
    Good afternoon everyone,
    Don't give them any ideas Brambling, I get enough grief as it is!
    Big  hugs for anyone feeling dismayed or upset over yesterday's announcements. My sis took it a rather hard at first but our family "plan B" has been dusted down and she was in better fettle this morning. My son & I met with her and pooch for a very chilly outdoor brunch at a local café. It least it was dry so no soggy bottoms! I had eggs Florentine which were good though one of my eggs was a tad over cooked for my taste but the hollandaise was excellent. yum
    Christmas cleaning/prep for the rest of the day is the plan, we might have had to change our plans but I still want to enjoy what we can do in a clean, tidy and festive home. 
    Chinese -style chicken curry for dinner tonight. 
  • Brambling
    Brambling Posts: 5,941 Forumite
    Seventh Anniversary 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Caronc  I get told 'you're too independent' I'm assuming that maybe that's one you get accused of as well 😁

    Farway zoom was quiet easy to set up although it does seem to have a annoyingly long meeting ID to enter I think it's 40 free minutes or you have to pay for longer, the alternative may be Skype. 

    I'm lucky in that my Christmas plans remain unchanged as I'm in a bubble with my sister, we already knew our usual Boxing Day plans were cancelled as we go to mutual friends but with 12 adults across 7 households that was cancelled a couple of months ago. I'm still debating bothering with the tree but I may open the gin tomorrow and put it up or at least do the table display. My sister popped round for a three hour cuppa which changed my plans to look at the decorations earlier

     My neighbour has been decuttering with the aid of a large skip, it's the second anniversary of losing his wife and he's decided it wouldn't be fair to his kids to leave over 50 years of stuff for them to sort, not that he has plans to pop off just yet, he's dismantled a old wooden greenhouse and is buying a new one for next year 😁 he told me he had put boxes in the loft in 1988 when his father died and they are still untouched 😳 I'm happy as I wondered if he was planning to move and I would hate to lose him as he's a good neighbour (nothing to do with him mowing my lawn 😁) 

    lunch was the last of the good bacon in a ciabatta roll. I made a vegetable pizza for dinner using a tortilla for the base. Slight incident with the mozzarella, one pack in the fridge had blown up and I decided to p r I ck the packet to deflate before binning, not a good idea as the liquid spurted out at speed and the smell has lingered 🤢 

    Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage   -          Anais Nin
  • Farway
    Farway Posts: 14,642 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Homepage Hero Name Dropper
    edited 21 December 2020 at 10:27AM
    The weather fits the day, dull, wet & windy.
    Brighter note is my Asda order is on it's way, minus the Richmond vegan bangers, OOS again :( . as was my big jar of Branston :'( [I have one already, this was back up]
    But subbed a large chicken for the small one at same cost :D , fairy snuff
    Some of the shopping is for neighbour with broken leg, very handy that I had a delivery due
    I'm glad I've got it all in now, bet there's needless panic out shopping now the borders are closing with CV19

    Today's meals are a bit undecided, lunch probably another cheesy salad sarnie
    Dinner, probably LO roast chicken, plus LO beans & HM AF chips

    Brambling,   :D at mozzarella gate
    Eight out of ten owners who expressed a preference said their cats preferred other peoples gardens
  • caronc
    caronc Posts: 8,528 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Good afternoon everyone, 
    Yikes Brambling, hope the whiff has now vanished!
    Like you Farway I'm pretty glad my grocery delivery is coming today. If it all arrives apart from some bread to get on Thursday we should have Christmas covered as I do think there will be quite a bit of panic buying. Two huge bags of logs arrived a short while ago. If nothing else we will be fed and warm (and the booze stocks are very healthy lol😉).
    My son had to pop into town to get some hooks and returned bearing steak bakes which made a naughty but nice treat for lunch. Dinner this evening is pork steaks, cauli cheese, carrots and spuds. 
  • millie
    millie Posts: 1,532 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Farway said:
    Mild with bits of sun this morning, nothing to get excited about
    Last night's trial Christmas dinner was OK, discovered I need to cook the posh Pigs IBs  longer to crisp up the streaky and not 100% convinced I like the flavour of them, probably too posh & traditional  for my taste. Still for "free" can't really complain & they will get eaten
    The "free" stuffing was also in the OK category, I suspect it's me TBH, it's not my normal Paxo style

    I've just made the final additional / amendments to my online Asda Christmas order, somehow a Viennetta on offer slipped into the basket, along with extra mushrooms for making a pate
    They tell me one of my mince pie selections is OOS along with brown sauce, but delivery is not until Monday so I'll take my chances on the subs
    At least Asda has let me check out with OOS items unlike W8rose computer that just says "No"

    Lunch, another cold roast chicken + salady bits sarnie
    Dinner, more LO cold roast chicken, I think with salad & possibly a baked spud
    I'll try the spud in nuker first then case harden it in the AF as someone here mentioned
    I have Asda deliveries but if I amend my order and some of the items already on it are out of stock they throw then out if I carry on with the amendment. U tend to cancel the amendments no rather than let them remove stuff and most times everything arrives. If I carry on with the amendments I don't get them.
    There are a couple of things on my order for Wednesday that they were going to remove this morning, as I was not that bothered about the items I was adding I cancelled the amendments. I am not changing it now just see what turns up.
    Strange that they let you check out with OOs items I have never been able to.
  • Brambling
    Brambling Posts: 5,941 Forumite
    Seventh Anniversary 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Good result with the chicken Farway I hope you can fit it in the freezer, I might be tempted to halve it and freeze separately 🙂

    A nice long phone call with one of my sister's this morning (90 minutes 🤫 my BIL was out   :D ) she did surprise me as it was 9.30am and I wondered who had died or was in hospital 😬 

    i did put my tree🎄up today and looking at it now I'm glad I did although after I've posted this I'm going to tweak some baubles as I can see a bare patch from this seat.  His lordship is ignoring it so far but he has added his present several times to the table display, he never plays with it he just sits in the middle of it which he did last year I gave up moving him.  It's nice to have my dining room table back, all work related stuff has been moved out of the way.  I brought some new decs in the January sale and they are looking really nice 🙂

    i succumbed to temptation and opened the Brighton Blue cheese lunch time and had it with a pear and some crackers.  Dinner was chicken thighs, roasted fennel, large mushroom stuffed with goat cheese, spring onion, garlic, parsley and chilli with some LO broccoli and French beans. 

    I've placed a iceland order for the 27th, just enough to take me to free delivery, I can always tweak on Saturday if required but it will save me heading out to the SM and if support bubbles are still allowed I need to offer dinner to my sister and nephew next week 
    Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage   -          Anais Nin
  • Farway
    Farway Posts: 14,642 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Homepage Hero Name Dropper
    millie said:
    Farway said:
    Mild with bits of sun this morning, nothing to get excited about
    Last night's trial Christmas dinner was OK, discovered I need to cook the posh Pigs IBs  longer to crisp up the streaky and not 100% convinced I like the flavour of them, probably too posh & traditional  for my taste. Still for "free" can't really complain & they will get eaten
    The "free" stuffing was also in the OK category, I suspect it's me TBH, it's not my normal Paxo style

    I've just made the final additional / amendments to my online Asda Christmas order, somehow a Viennetta on offer slipped into the basket, along with extra mushrooms for making a pate
    They tell me one of my mince pie selections is OOS along with brown sauce, but delivery is not until Monday so I'll take my chances on the subs
    At least Asda has let me check out with OOS items unlike W8rose computer that just says "No"

    Lunch, another cold roast chicken + salady bits sarnie
    Dinner, more LO cold roast chicken, I think with salad & possibly a baked spud
    I'll try the spud in nuker first then case harden it in the AF as someone here mentioned
    I have Asda deliveries but if I amend my order and some of the items already on it are out of stock they throw then out if I carry on with the amendment. U tend to cancel the amendments no rather than let them remove stuff and most times everything arrives. If I carry on with the amendments I don't get them.
    There are a couple of things on my order for Wednesday that they were going to remove this morning, as I was not that bothered about the items I was adding I cancelled the amendments. I am not changing it now just see what turns up.
    Strange that they let you check out with OOs items I have never been able to.
    Now my delivery has arrived & been stowed I find that you're correct, I never spotted the OOS items had been thrown off the list, :'( luckily not important items.
    I'll watch out for that next time.
    Even if I had spotted it I would still have continued with the amendments because these were for my neighbour with the broken leg,likewise the Chicken Brambling
    Initially the chick was for me, offer item, but given I have enough poultry in the freezer and I was still using the large W8rose chick the obvious solution was pass it along to her, I roasted it before handing over to save her struggling to remove hot chick out of oven using crutches.

    Another damp morning, no rain, just yuck and gloomy
    Now I have a fridge & freezer stuffed to the gunwales I have no idea what to eat for today
    Lunch, my HM loaf is going stale so possibly toast, and I have eggs getting near BBE so maybe I'll scramble a couple, but the pickled egg plan may yet be implemented, social distancing will be have to be enforced :D
    Dinner, part of my Asda tenner offer was salmon fillets, maybe fry one in evo + butter, with salad & HM chips?

    Eight out of ten owners who expressed a preference said their cats preferred other peoples gardens
Meet your Ambassadors

🚀 Getting Started

Hi new member!

Our Getting Started Guide will help you get the most out of the Forum

Categories

  • All Categories
  • 350.9K Banking & Borrowing
  • 253.1K Reduce Debt & Boost Income
  • 453.5K Spending & Discounts
  • 243.9K Work, Benefits & Business
  • 598.7K Mortgages, Homes & Bills
  • 176.9K Life & Family
  • 257.1K Travel & Transport
  • 1.5M Hobbies & Leisure
  • 16.1K Discuss & Feedback
  • 37.6K Read-Only Boards

Is this how you want to be seen?

We see you are using a default avatar. It takes only a few seconds to pick a picture.