Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Farway

Welcome Kevin and your new pressure cooker, can’t help with recipes because like you my P cooker experience is decades ago, I still have the Prestige at the back of a cupboard, way beyond my reach now and probably too heavy for me in my feeble state as well

I am pondering about buying one of the all in one cooker pot things, like a Ninja if my air fryer bites to dust, time will tell

Misty start this morning but sun is just breaking through, as Brambling mentioned, Easter weekend is set fair down here. My grocery arrived Ok yesterday, still faffing over refund for the deodorant but its only 79p so hardly a bank breaker. All Pukka pies in date and stowed safely so back to full fridge time

However I went for rump steak last night, the Mark’s one I had lurking and yet again very impressed with Mark’s meat with no scraggy edges like the Asda stuff. I was going to go to Mark’s today but yet again I’ve hurt my foot, must be a weakness there I guess, luckily nothing planned so I can take it easy

Made a loaf in the Panny, it’s turned out a bit dense, I realised I had left out the butter / oil / fat so maybe that’s why? Not one of my best, but it’s fresh at least

Lunch, probably sarnie, maybe back to cheese

Dinner, Pukka pie, mash & maybe steamed veg or perhaps just use up the LO baked beans

caronc

Good morning everyone, 
Hi Kevin, I have an IKEA 3.5l pressure cooker that I use mainly for stock, cooking beans etc. TEFAL have a recipe book on their website, though it's aimed at their cookers it might give you some ideas for yours. My favourite thing to cook in it is a big batch of potatoes  for mash, using very little water and a steamer insert so they basically steam big ones cook in 11minutes in mine. CY4000-Recipe-Book.pdf (tefal.com) Jamie Oliver also has some though again aimed for using a TEFAL one Jamie Oliver Tefal Pressure Cooker Recipe Book | PDF | Business (scribd.com) . The chicken, bacon and cider casserole is very good.
DS2 is off today so dinner is tbc, we'll probably either pop to the fishmongers or get a takeaway.
There's LO chicken, HM coleslaw & salad which will cover lunch today.
I need to finalise my Tesco order but apart from that I've not much planned, I had hoped to garden but it's raining so unless it dries up that won't be happening. Planted some more cucumber seeds yesterday as only one appeared from the first sowing and I'd like 2 or 3 plants.

Brambling

Hi Kevin, i have a Pressure king Pro and do adapt recipes from the little book it comes with, but mainly i search online for ideas when i want idea and then bookmark. The below site have some good ideas and as you say the BBC Food is usually a good site to look as well.  I will say remember that liquid will not evaporate so you need to add enough but not too much, a lot of recipes will tell you to take the lid off and simmer for a while to thicken the sauce.  Cuts of meat like beef shin or cheeks and pork belly will cook in about 35 mins but if it is a fatty cut of meat i tend to leave in the fridge overnight so i can skim off any fat but that's more for weight loss rather than taste 

Recipes - Pressure King Pro (highstreettv.com)

If you like rice pudding it will make one in 15 mins 

Work seems to be quieten down after yesterday, i'm hoping I've not tempted fate as there are only 2 of us working today 

Lunch will be a bacon sandwich, no lettuce but i may slice up a tomato.  Dinner was going to be AF chicken and chips but I've made plans to go out to the local garden tomorrow with my sister so I think I will make some coleslaw and we will have a picnic  as the weather is meant to be sunny and it is so much cheaper than their limited choice of food (they want you to go to it's expensive restaurant)  I'll let her buy me a cuppa when we are there.  I've taken some pork mince out to the freezer so that should defrost and I'll have a think this afternoon what to do with it 

Farway M&S fish is usually very good worth a buy if you see it YS 

justkeepswimmimg

Phew, made it! Even more manic day than I thought it would be, some good outcomes though - nice to finish for a long weekend without a pile of stuff to worry about. My weekend started with a 🍸 at 6 p.m 😉

Lunch was vegetable chilli with a toasted pitta. Easy dinner of LO roast chicken and gravy from the freezer with oven chips and frozen peas and sweetcorn (well it is sort of Friday).

Enjoy your bank holidays, no CFO for me 😊

Farway

Beautiful warm & sunny start to the day, and expecting to remain like this, ideal for Brambling “picnic in the park”, hope it goes well

Yesterday unravelled very quickly after my posting, my foot played up again so was hobbling, and then started with cold & shivering, bunged up nose, cough etc. Spent rest of the day as old crock in my recliner with heated throw over me watching B movies on Amazon. Never had my Pukka pie etc., just slice of my loaf with peanut butter

Must’ve been what was required though, feeling much better this morning, foot still a bit painful and nose bunged + coughing but I have more “oomph” in me and sunshine helps lift the mood as well

I’ll probably have potter in the garden later admiring the fruit blossom and day dreaming of crumbles

Food for today, lunch has to be some of my bread, maybe toasted with tinned sardines?

Dinner, Pukka pie attempt number two, its chicken & bacon BBE date tomorrow. I’ll try and do yesterday’s pot of mash which should also provide LOs for another day

caronc

Good morning everyone, 
Just waiting for Tesco to arrive, just one (acceptable) sub.
I cooked lovely haddock from the fishmongers yesterday which we had with AF HM chips and tinned mushy peas. While we were at the fishmongers we went to Greggs so lunch was a steak bake along with the LO salad and coleslaw.
Today's meals are tbc, probably wraps for lunch and something easy for dinner. It's dry and mild here today so I want to get on with garden. My bedding plugs arrive next week so I want to have everything ready in the greenhouse to transplant them.

caronc

Farway said:

Beautiful warm & sunny start to the day, and expecting to remain like this, ideal for Brambling “picnic in the park”, hope it goes well

Yesterday unravelled very quickly after my posting, my foot played up again so was hobbling, and then started with cold & shivering, bunged up nose, cough etc. Spent rest of the day as old crock in my recliner with heated throw over me watching B movies on Amazon. Never had my Pukka pie etc., just slice of my loaf with peanut butter

Must’ve been what was required though, feeling much better this morning, foot still a bit painful and nose bunged + coughing but I have more “oomph” in me and sunshine helps lift the mood as well

I’ll probably have potter in the garden later admiring the fruit blossom and day dreaming of crumbles

Food for today, lunch has to be some of my bread, maybe toasted with tinned sardines?

Dinner, Pukka pie attempt number two, its chicken & bacon BBE date tomorrow. I’ll try and do yesterday’s pot of mash which should also provide LOs for another day

What shame Farway, glad it has eased a bit today.

Brambling

I hope you're on the mend Farway  maybe more antibiotic needed for your foot again?

i had a really bad sleep last night I was up at 2am and again at 4.30am when I was too hot and then too cold 🙄 a long walk was needed to wake me up as my brain felt like cotton wool first thing

its been really hot here today, too hot for the long sleeve tee shirt and jeans I wore 🥵 but it was a lovely few hours walking around the garden today and we found a nice quiet spot to eat lunch, officially you're only meant to eat a picnic brought from them but it's a big garden  😁 I made scotch eggs as well as the AF chicken and a coleslaw to go with some salad. I only had one very sad small carrot so added radish, red pepper, sugarsnap peas and celery to the red cabbage instead 😋 

I popped Into T Express for milk on the way back and picked up some very nice half price YS strawberries  

one of my older sisters called to say a cousin in NZ had died be was over 80 and I've seen him twice since 1967 when they were £10 poms it just brought it home that he was the same age as my eldest sister (only 10days older) 

Dinner has been a hot cross bun, thanks to the display next to the till in Ts and a bowl of strawberries with some squirty cream 

Farway

More sun this morning, which will be more garden pottering later today

My cold / cough seems to have peaked yesterday, just an annoying cough left now but I have some out of date throat stuff that seems to still be effective in suppressing it. At least my foot is now better again and my limping is back to normal

Not unexpected ‘phone call this morning, my ex brother law died, only 75, some sort of lung problem may be linked to Covid, no one seems sure yet. Its Oldham way so that’s one funeral I’ll not be a attending. Used to see him at family weddings and the like so not close or anything

Meals today are lazy options as I’m not really hungry and don’t fancy much.

Lunch, probably toast and maybe cheese spread?

Dinner, another Pukka pie, this time it’s All Steak,. I have LO cold boiled spuds & veg from the roast lamb days, so nuke them to go with & maybe a dribble of Bisto instant gravy?

Good call on the hot cross bun dinner Brambling. I have some via my Asda delivery, but mine are a tad stale now TBH, I’ll still eat them though

caronc

Good morning everyone, 
That's a bit off Brambling expecting people to buy their food to have a picnic! I had a great uncle who was a £10 pom, emigrating with his teenage daughter after his wife died. I only met them once on a return visit in the early 1970s and he died a few years after that. He'd been a farm labourer in the UK and got a job on one of the remote sheep stations, I remember my second cousin talking about school by radio which sounded much more exciting than it probably was and she moved to one of the cities to train as a nurse when she left school.
Overcast but dry here, DS2 and I are going to do some cleaning and prep for tomorrow but apart from that I've not much planned. I'm really looking forward to tomorrow as it's the first time due various folk having COVID that the six of us will be together since last year! We're keeping it fairly simple foodwise, DS1 & DIL-to-be are bringing nibbly bits to have with a drink before dinner and DSis is making pud. DS2 and I are in charge of the main of roast leg of lamb, roast baby potatoes, peperonata, grilled aubergine salad and a crisp green salad.
Last night I turned LO haddock into a quick fish pie so now have LO LOs for lunch
Tonight it's chicken wings - DS2 is in charge so probably Korean or Buffalo style.