Cooking for one (Mark Three)

PasturesNew

I figure that if you turn the heating on just because you think it's a bit cold, that then becomes the norm - and heating gets to be on longer and longer just because "that's what we do".

So I err on the side of remembering the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s with the ice on the inside of the windows and only a coal fire in the living room (that'd gone out overnight).

Hollyharvey

MrAPJI wrote: »

. I've decided to move to Suffolk and build a property on land belonging to my brother .

Good County to live in .

Farway

caronc wrote: »

I've got a lurking parsnip too:rotfl::rotfl:, mine also is going to lurk for a bit longer unless I can find my mojo to make soup today

And another LP here:rotfl: Enough LPs for a soup if it were not for the miles in between us

Sunny but blooming freezing wind. I was going to venture out but had an e-mail about one of my web sites suspended, due to malicious activity:mad::mad: so morning spent trying to sort that out

Breakfast was HM yoghurt & honey
Lunch was back to BF ham & salady sarnie, followed by two from mince pie hill
Dinner is more of my HM creamy spud & celery soup, with croutons. Yesterday's croutons were fine, but I think a hotter oven & longer in there would improve them

Irenadler

Hello CFO's

Had a busy one yesterday, so, to catch up:

Yesterday:
Naked porridge
Jacket spud & half tin low salt/sugar beans, diet yogurt
Use up stir-fry and kale, with use up chicken breast slices
Dropped tuna (grrr) which dog ate!
Went to add beansprouts to stir-fry and gorn orf!

Today:
Naakid porridge
Lentil and veg soup (low fat, not home-made sadly), yogurt with meringue
Just about to cook YS steak, jacket spud, kale and side salad. Trying chinese leaf for lettuce as mum says its keeps better plus you can stir-fry it too. Tomatoes have suspicious brown spots though.... Will cut spots off and griddle tomato bits with steak!:)

moneyistooshorttomention

Farway,
Hope you've got that security breach fully sorted now. Stuff like that gets worrying. With how little I know about computers, I'm always quite wary - and certainly won't do online banking just in case.

I've had the tradespeople in that were sent by NIC/EIC to check out my house - so that's part of why I've been cba again today about food. They were here for quite some time - and there was a noticeable problem - but they sorted it and they seem to reckon the house should be okay now. I guess I'm waiting for a report-back from the NIC/EIC officially to see what they have to say and whether they confirm yea or nay that my house is now sorted electrically. But - fingers crossed - and it looks to be done/dusted.

T'other reason why I've been cba today is a more positive one - ie of long-lost friend phoning me up for a chat and I think we must have spent a couple of hours on the phone catching up on our respective news. Fingers crossed she'll feel up to coming over for a visit from Ireland at some point.

So lunch = the rest of the cauliflower and feta dish I duly made. Followed by fruit with Oatly cream. Dinner - an "oh well - I ate it" concoction of leftover baked potatoes with nutritional yeast (to be cheesy), tomatoes, olives.

Think I've accummulated a fair number of useful web links now that I should just be able to look at that a bit more in future - rather than feeling I have to bend my brain to thinking about it - re what to eat at various meals.

caronc

Good evening everyone,
Weather still lousy here though no more snow thankfully, though it's still pretty bad away from the coast and back on alert for tonight. My son very sensibly is putting off coming home from Friday evening until Saturday morning as he has to come up the M74 which is badly affected and doesn't fancy being stranded overnight if it blocks up again.

I've had a really quiet day, I'm very "wonky donkey" on my feet so have randomly pottered the day away. I'm hoping it's the stormy weather upsetting things and it will settle and if not the worst holds off until after Sunday as I'm catering for my sister's birthday dinner that day.

Farway - sounds as though a virtual pot of parsnip soup needs to be made to use up the lurkers:rotfl:

Wednesday - well done on the weight loss, I'm afraid I'm like Holly and the cold weather makes me hungrier. PN- I hope you managed to stay warm. I'm so thankful that a) I have central heating, double glazing and good insulation and b) I can afford to run it. I well remember growing up with ice inside windows, only one warm room and chillblains itching like fury when your feet heated up:(. I hope never to have to return to that.

Breakfast was again toast, cheese spread and fruit. The LO "spare" chicken thigh made a very nice sarnie at lunch time chopped up and mixed with a teaspoon of mayo and one of mango chutney with lots of romaine lettuce as I seem to (still) have lots of this LO from Christmas though it seems quite happy in the veg drawer:). I managed to get a big pan of ragu on the go for tomorrow's spag bol, it's nearly ready and smells fab but tempting though it is to scoff some tonight for dinner I will let it "think" overnight in the fridge as I do think it tastes better that way. It will make quite a few portions though, so that will the other things I've cooked over the last couple of weeks will bring my stocks of HM "ready meals" back to a level that makes me feel more comfortable should I hit a rough spell. Next week though I need to have a more "once & done" to what I cook or I'll ended up having too many!

PasturesNew

A quick round up of today's treats

Lunch: Quiche/mash/beans

Random scoffs: 3 mini scones with marmalade; 1 cheese topped roll with marg; 3 digestives; 2 digestives.

I keep eyeing up Xmas Chocolate Santa, but it seems a shame to just crack into him and eat him when I should actually eat that as a planned event, so I enjoy it more by benefitting from "being aware of eating it", rather than just scoffing it

Hollyharvey

PasturesNew wrote: »

I keep eyeing up Xmas Chocolate Santa, but it seems a shame to just crack into him and eat him when I should actually eat that as a planned event, so I enjoy it more by benefitting from "being aware of eating it", rather than just scoffing it

If you fancy eating it now, go for it, and enjoy it while you are in the mood for chocolate .

I've still got a white chocolate snowman left over from Christmas that I was given. I don't think it will be long before I eat it. I was kind of thinking that I may eat it while watching some tv/reading either Saturday or Sunday afternoon, but I'm not convinced it will last that long .

PasturesNew

I'd happily nodded off - but there's a hooley blowing out there which woke me up with the flapping of the extractor fan vent in the downstairs loo and things banging outside.

So I went and spread some marg on two bits of bread and got a coffee

Two weather sites say 60mph winds out there, WSW, which is probably the worst direction for me. In the morning I'll have to pop out and check the roof's still there.

PasturesNew

I've taken a pack of frozen beef mince from the freezer to defrost; tomorrow morning I'll chuck that into the slow cooker and it'll become a chilli for the weekend. I have no onions and no carrots.... which'd be ideal in that, so I'll have to think whether it's worthwhile going out to get those or just go without. That's the thing with CFO, you can't have everything all the time, especially as you had an item 2 weeks ago already and thought you'd never see the end of them

L1dl have meatballs on the cheap for those interested. 99p instead of £1.79. https://www.lidl.co.uk/en/Offers.htm?articleId=9880
I might get some of those in the next week or two, but I do need to check if that's a new offer that started today, or if it's half way through the 2-week run of their specials.