Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Brambling

You can't get away with stuff now your son is staying  Caronc 

Looks like another cold night here the wheelie bin had already froze shut just after 5pm and I could see the car was already frosting.  

i made the mistake of getting up early thanks to his lordship and then going back to bed o doze which always leaves me feeling a bit woolly headed for the rest of the day 🙄 so not a lot done today, I've finished my book and caught up with some TV. I did make turkey stock in the slow cooker with a turkey drum stick and some sad veg, it needs the fat skimming off tomorrow to make soup.

lunch was LO Nasi Goreng, I had defrosted a chicken breast joint so dinner was a roast dinner. I know buying a whole chicken is more MSE but this was YS before Christmas 😁 and sometimes a whole chicken when CFO can be a bit off putting

Farway

It must've been very cold overnight, my heating clicked in about 3 this morning and it's set a 12C minimum. Frost & mist this morning, ideal for moody photos down the seafront I would think but not for me

Meal planning today is more traditional having got up at a more normal time

Lunch, I have loads of XCFO cheese about, plenty of BB date in it, but getting a bit of a stockpile now, so lunch will be ploughman style with one of my HG apples

Dinner, the tried for gammon, HM AF chips, fried use up eggs & open another tin of beans

I have a milk surplus as well, despite it being well past BB it tastes OK, with more arriving tomorrow with Asda delivery I may try making a rice pud, especially if the clearance enamelled pie dish arrives, the old style blue & white type like everyone's Gran had.

If it arrives all I then need would be a blackbird pie funnel to transport me back to Nan's 1950s kitchen scullery

caronc

Good afternoon everyone, 
Nope I'm not getting away with anything these days Brambling lol.
I love blue and white enamel Farway and have lots of it which gets well used along with a fair bit of plain black stuff which is just as useful but not nearly as pretty. No funnel though, like my Mum I use a metal egg cup if I need one. I do remember my Gran having a blackbird funnel.
Wet and grey here today. It's still pretty cold though despite the temperature rising a bit with the rain.
Our family Zoom games night got moved back a couple of weeks to my sister's birthday, it will give us more time to get organised. I'm video calling with a couple of friends early evening so my son is in charge of dinner - roast lamb and various veg. It's just a small joint from the legs I broke down over Christmas, plenty for two but I'll be surprised if there will be much by way of LOs. Lunch  is a bacon & Stornoway black pudding roll with a splosh of HP. 

Brambling

My mum also used a egg cup Caronc  as do I on the rare occasion I need to

Farway now you're given me ideas about rice pudding, 20 minutes in the pressure cooker and I do like it cold from the fridge 😁

after a couple of long telephone calls calls this morning I managed to finish the turkey soup I started yesterday, the stock was lovely and set to a thick jelly 🙂 this afternoon I went for a five mile brisk walk with my sister, cold but really nice to get out, unfortunately too muddy to go across the fields but so pretty where the trees were still white with frost. I sent my sister home with soup last week and she tells me if I'm making more she'll take it off my hands as I make better soup than her. I think there was an alternative motive for giving me the soup maker for Christmas 🙄 I told her if she provides the ingredients I'll make it 

I was too lazy to cook dinner so had cheese and crackers followed by fruit and the last of the Greek yogurt 

Farway

'morning all

Dull & wet but Asda delivery is on it's way with three subs that this time will have to go back

My on sale pie dish subbed for a small one [too small to be of any use], corned beef, subbed for smaller one at same price [ hoped they would've gone size or brand up] and celery subbed for separate sticks, no use to me as they'll never keep [hoped they would've subbed for hearts]

I've never had to return stuff before but unfortunately these subs are of no use to me, at least nothing critical, like milk, involved

Lunch another ham & tom sarnie

Dinner, toast use up stale HM bread, top with gammon, grilled cheese & fried eggs, maybe use up LO beans

caronc

Good afternoon everyone, 
I think you may need to buy your sis a soup maker Brambling since she likes yours so much 
Bother re the rubbish subs Farway at least as you say nothing critical. 
Wet & wild here today and unfortunately a tad wonky as well. I blame the weather but hopefully nothing a gentle day won't cure.
I'm just waiting for a pan of HM  Thai spiced sweet potato, red pepper and coconut soup to finish doing it's thing in the pressure cooker. A bowl of that will do nicely for lunch.
Cheesy nachos with HM refried beans and various veg bits for dinner. My son cooked the beans yesterday and the sample I tested for "quality control purposes" was really rather moreish so they should be even better today after a chance to mature in the fridge overnight. 

Farway

My Asda delivery arrived about ten minutes early, caught me unawares had to limp downstairs to open door

very helpful young chap, lifting my shopping into the lobby for me [ I'd topple over if left on the step].

He said he didn't have a working app for returns and just claim refund on line, which I've done.

Not sure if true or he CBA but if it works I'm a small pie dish up, plus maybe use the celery sticks in a soup?

Made a rice pud with surplus milk, it's in the oven with a nice nutmeg smell wafting around the house

CRANKY40

It's true Farway. It's to do with covid....

candygirl

That's weird about the returns, Morrison's are still doing them,  but not taking carrier bags back 🤔

threepenny_bit

Pretty windy chilly day here and so I made bendy veg soup for lunch with sandwiches. Tea is going to be African sweet potato stew for which I found an older packet mix lurking in the cupboard. Needs a sweet potato, tinned toms, some coconut milk and a little turkey mince. I have all these things lurking so tea sorted lol!