Cooking for one (Mark Three)

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my hubs never could watch a spooky film farway and I`m going to make sure I lock all the doors tonight, doesn`t take much to get a shiver up my back :eek:
Got some catching up to do here! At the mo cba food is on, brocolli and pasta in one pan and cod and pesto in oven

money bread is heavy like I thought, very smooth, flat and shiny crust, crumbs taste nice. I won`t be slicing until sunday. First rise had to be scraped from one side, other two rises were fine. I imagine that making trenchers would end up breaking teeth. Looks very nice but I am open to experimentation. I did half with half strong white the other week, was lovely

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Breakfast of gfree cornflakes, before work ,when I got there I've had a banana. Lunch ham salad on gf seeded bread, yogurt corner with seeds.
I've just had 3 crackers with cheese, as I'm out later for a meal with work , 3 courses for a £5, a chance to catch up with friends. Only sitting down at 8 though, hence the snack now.
The weather walking home was lovely ,sun out and blue sky without any wind, and there was I layered up like the Michelin man!

caronc

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

She's got the nerve of the devil hasnt she!!!:eek:

She has indeed but I'm more :eek:, that I've only just noticed it's gone as it's about a foot high and made of granite:rotfl:. In fairness, my son did know, as he confirmed he was there when she asked ( I was chatting to him eaerlier) but he was just heading out and completely forgot to tell me when he returned. He says he'll retrieve when he's next home if it hasn't reappeared by then.:rotfl:

Re spooky/unexplained things. I'm neither a believer nor a disbeliever in these. I've no personal experience of anything like that myself but do believe we understand much less than we know about our world. :cool:

Farway - McEwan & Johnny Walker in combination that would spook anyone;):)

kittie - I'd be interested what your bread is like once you try some. I really like heavier breads like rye etc. so could be something that I would enjoy.

It's really stormy here tonight and bitterly cold, the weather is definitely upsetting my balance so I've not got much done today. I did make the filling for cheese, onion & potato pies which I'll bake tonight when the oven is on. I've decided that I'm having chicken kiev, peas, spinach & either a baked spud or oven chips. I was going to have fish but don't want to risk the pies picking up any fishy taste (been caught out that way before:o). Lunch was the last of the parsnip & chestnut soup from the freezer with crackers, cheese and some grapes. The Christmas cheese mountain is finally eroding, though I do have an unopened pot of stilton but that should keep for ages! I've taken a gammon joint out of the freezer which I'll cook tomorrow for Sunday, I'm making my Dad's favourite of gammon, parsley sauce and colcannon and what with it being St. Patrick's Day tomorrow gives a nod to that, our Irish ancestry and that Patrick is a family name for us. Did I mention that the kids got my Dad one of those "Ancestory DNA" testing kits for his birthday? It will be interesting to see what the genes say. My family name is Norse in origin so will interesting to see if there is any "Viking" blood in there:rotfl:

moneyistooshorttomention

I expect there's quite a few of us with some Viking blood in our genes - I havent got any sort of Scandinavian name anywhere in view

- but my father and younger brother are tall and were blond
- I emigrated in a Scandinavian direction years back (but came back again)
- my father has Dupuytrens Contracture (which specialists say means Viking genes).

I was gobsmacked that a particular racial gene could come all the way through literally hundreds of years and my fathers side of the family are all English as far back as we are aware of. I hadnt realised that could leap through many centuries like that - and even affect one at an emotional level (ie me heading off for Scandinavia in total unawareness of this).

It just clicked to me why it feels like there's a level of compatibility there caron - maybe it's down to a gene in common?:rotfl:

Mongrels 'r us is it? I've got some Dutch, Scottish and Irish in me from my mothers side. So I'm probably about 98% British.

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Admits I'm personally more interested in who I've been in previous lives (that belief of mine in reincarnation). Very few inklings - other than Arabic, Greek, wealthier English than this time round.

caronc

Oh I'm definitely a mongrel MTSTM :rotfl:, there is definitely Lowland Scots/Irish, possibly a bit of French/mainland Europe as well as a good dollop of English/Scots Borders folk so chucking in a bit of Viking just adds to the mix. My kids though could probably qualify for any of the 6 nations as my late MIL was Welsh/German (Jewish - long back story there that means if different choices had been made re returning to Germany probably don't bear thinking about) and given the large Italian communities in both Wales & Scotland no doubt some Italian flung as well!:cool:

PasturesNew

It's wet here this morning.

I wish I'd taken the time yesterday to get a pack of bread rolls and another pack of sausage rolls ... because in my current eating phase these are the two things that make me happy

While CFOs complain of eating everything repeatedly in succession, that's because it's "forced".... when you're scoffing your favourites repeatedly it's not the same thing

Maybe I need to "seize the day" and get myself up to 4ldi at 8am when they open and get those bread rolls .... sausage rolls aren't so crucial as I do still have two, so I can wait a bit (L1dl never seem to run out of these).

pineapple

Following my painful encounter with a tree branch a few days ago (as I was extracting my telescopic lopper :eek:) I am now on antibiotic eye drops as a precautionary measure (thinking of changing my screen name to mrswhiplash )
Back to budget eating this weekend - as in pork chop in various guises.
Though feeling a need for comfort food yesterday, I did buy a couple of microwave toffee and banana sponge puds, some passion fruit sorbet, a bar of the Co-op's finest milk chocolate with toffee and Himalayan rock salt and a block of cake marzipan to nibble neat. So not quite budget maybe..

PasturesNew

Did the run up to 4ldi ... and it was an unexpected result.

Rolls I'd gone in for, they had one pack at half price, dated today .... and all the rest were dated Monday .... so I figured I'd have the half price pack, but then didn't want to buy a second pack as it wasn't long-dated enough for me to see the point.

Grabbed a new jar of marmalade and a pack of crumpets too as I'm out of both.

Then, shuffling along the chiller cabinet, I spotted some beef mince with a "half price" sticker on, dated today's date, at £1 for a pack instead of £2 I thought they'd be nice to make a chilli - and I got two packs. Then, a bit further along, some pizzas were marked half price too (again dated today) ... so 84p instead of £1.69.

In the freezer section I grabbed a four pack of beef burgers because I know I like those and it'll soon be "fancy a burger" weather

Back home I now have serious food overload, so need to nail what I'll eat and what I'll freeze. Mince is a no brainer, that's a straight forward "freeze those" .... it's the other stuff.

Sitting in the fridge I've now got: Full sized pizza, 2 sausage rolls, portion of chicken/rice cooked yesterday, parsnips/cabbage cooked 2 days ago.

Fresh veg wise I've still got a swede to cook and some spuds to continue ploughing through.

So I'll have to decide in a bit what I cook, what I eat, what I freeze.

I've got everything I could possibly need if the weather turns out worse than I expected.... chocolate biscuits, crisps, sausage rolls, pizza, rolls, burgers, chips, fizzy pop and baccy

All the essential food groups there.

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pineapple I would not have thought about wearing my goggles, you have taught me a lesson, a just in case lesson and sometimes I am glad to wear normal glasses. I hope the eye settles very soon, I am glad you went to see about it before the weekend

Small breakfast granola/walnuts/hemp, later had small cheese toastie. Easy prep for a lunchtime pud, defrosted stewed apple and some raspberries and put a couple of spoons of frozen crumble mix on top, will have that with hm yogurt. Two fat special pork sausages are defrosting to have with an all in one pan stir fry, I have spinach

I was just thinking about some of my singleton eating shortcuts, like using a cup to make the crumble pud, putting different foods into one pan, making a toastie in a bag, keeping rm crumble in the freezer and dividing all meats and fish into one person vac bags to freeze

Pn you are up and out early I am not changed yet

PasturesNew

kittie wrote: »

Pn you are up and out early I am not changed yet

Sometimes it's just the way it works out .... I know that the shop, at 8am, has an almost empty car park and few people inside -v- putting it off 2-3 hours and finding no car parking spots and the shop bunged with people all over the place

So it was tough.... as it was raining and "did I really NEED" the bread rolls.... but as they say the weather will be bad I thought I'd make that extra bit of effort because going later would make me wish I had bothered sooner

I was pleased as I had thought of getting mince some time soon to make a chilli + I'd started to have "dreaming of eating a bought pizza" thoughts, so got one at a reasonable price