Cooking for one (Mark Three)

Farway

Snow stopped, but I'm heading Westwards PN's way, clear so far, yellow snow warning from about 4 on wards and will be at DS's by then. At least if stuck it will be a my son's house.

Lunch was the cheese on toast, used last of the stale crusts for the toast

Off to change and get ready for Battenberg scoffing
My lift is a bendy person, the rescue of the MIA onion from under a kitchen unit may take place. Two birds with one scone:D

moneyistooshorttomention

Hoping I've got my cooking mojo back again - after days of cba.

Just finishing off a recipe from the Net - of a sorta fried rice type dish - with a selection of vegetables, marinated portobello mushroom, tofu, rice - topped with scattering of seeds.

Ahem...been eating some cornbread whilst waiting for it to cook....whoops....

Now if I can just get my exercise mojo started up in the first place. My focus has been so much on getting the house together since moving here (a situation that has cost a lot more time & effort than it would have in an area where workmen were more reliable than the manana attitude many have here:cool:). Have been gritting my teeth forcibly at how long a spell of my life has been taken up by all the unreliability.:cool:

Anyway - finishing touches in process. So exercise mojo to get going now. Late New Year resolution - any day where the weather is too awful to go out for a walk - must do a bit of home exercise. Worked my way through trying out a 1 mile exercise walk video on YouTube and must aim for the 3 mile ones...

I'm supposed to be slim and elegant - ahem...- must get act together......

Even if this is an area where I'll probably stick out a mile if I "do elegant"....:rotfl:

pineapple

Ben the border collie has been very patient today. We went out briefly a short while back in a horizontal blizzard. Coming back was nigh on impossible as I was trying to keep the poorly eye closed against the ice particles. Eventually I gave up and walked home backwards!
If it is like this when we go out later will use the DIY goggles and I don't care what I look like! I already have a silly hat with ear flaps - might as well complete the ensemble. :rotfl:
Pork chop in breadcrumbs tonight and mash. Already started on the red wine. Night in watching The Voice.

caronc

Good evening everyone,

Farway - hope you got the MIA onion retrieved?
MTSTM - have you nicked my oomph as you seem to have found some and mine's gone awol? :cool:
pineapple - I have a vision of you done up like Biggles while clutching a glass.....:rotfl:

I succumbed and had one of the cheese, potato and onion pies for lunch. Very nice it was too, though may have accounted for my desire to [STRIKE]do very little [/STRIKE] be very lazy this afternoon.

It did try to snow on and off this afternoon but not enough to lie. The cloud has cleared now and must be well below freezing (never mind the wind chill) as there is a heavy frost forming. Needless to say my heating is cranked up and I'm ignoring the SMART meter reading.......

Steak has defrosted so I'll give it a bash in a bit and sort out some veg and then I think it will be a slob out with a glass of red while catching up on Modus:D.

moneyistooshorttomention

Yep...caron...I nicked your oomph:rotfl::rotfl:.

Not sure it was worth it:cool: - as the resultant meal was okay-ish - but nowt to write home about for the amount of faff involved (ie that marinating and pre-cooking of the mushroom bit).

Mind you - who knows what I might land up experimenting with once I really get going in the garden:rotfl:. For instance - I've known for some time that hostas are supposed to be edible. Now I've never seen any sign of them anywhere on the menu - but I duly googled as to which one is supposed to be the tastiest and what to do with it. So I've got a couple more plants turning up by post shortly and one of them is this variety of hosta. So I guess it'll be a race between the slugs and I as to who gets to it first for a nosh....:cool:.

Mind you - I've not heard of slugs taking a fancy to maple tree leaves - and I've had a young maple tree turn up recently and I gather maple tree leaves are edible (at least for some species). Shall be looking that up to see if it's a possibility - and, if so, you'll doubtless have my verdict on that. Reason being - I've got a bit of a motto re food that "If it falls within my remit - then I've got to try it once anyway - so I know what it's like".

EDITED to add - and I have no intention whatsoever of trying out insects and the like - even though there is a restaurant or summat started up somewheres in Wales with that on the menu. Yuk! There are limits - and I don't do "revolting"....

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Yep...I've seen snowflakes drifting around in the air here. But the weather forecast seems to think we'll be clear of the worst by Monday. Still feel I can't complain about the £58 a month for gas and electric (with using however much I choose) that I have. Particularly as I took it into my head to buy 2 books written by "spies within the camp" of lowest-paid jobs. I'm on the Polly Toynbee one right now (written 15 years ago) and she's commenting on the flats she is pretending to be a genuine tenant in having a lot higher fuel bills then than I have now. I shall be onto the 2018 version of similar book a guy has recently written to see what he has to say about how things have changed (for the worse - as we know).

caronc

I suspect the slugs are always going to win that race MTSTM unless you want to sit beside the plants when it it gets dark with a miner's lamp on .....:rotfl: ( I'm :rotfl:but my late FIL used don one every night in the growing season and go on a slug/snail hunt.....:eek:)
I'm afraid my fuel is a bit more than that but old (though well insulated) house & cold weather are not good bedfellows with low utility bills.
PS - could I have my oomph back, I've got things I want to do tomorrow?;)

moneyonmymindsam

Evening :j

Really enjoyed catching up with the thread - You are a great bunch indeed

Didn't do great on the food front today;

B: 3 Digestives

L: Fried egg on toast

Later that day : S & V crisps

S/D/T: Grated Cheese and tomatoes on Toast

So tomorrow I must really try harder.

In bed with hot water bottle on the feet as its just so cold.

All this talk of slugs ..._pale_ I just don't like them :rotfl:

Sam x

moneyistooshorttomention

caronc wrote: »

I suspect the slugs are always going to win that race MTSTM unless you want to sit beside the plants when it it gets dark with a miner's lamp on .....:rotfl: ( I'm :rotfl:but my late FIL used don one every night in the growing season and go on a slug/snail hunt.....:eek:)
I'm afraid my fuel is a bit more than that but old (though well insulated) house & cold weather are not good bedfellows with low utility bills.
PS - could I have my oomph back, I've got things I want to do tomorrow?;)

Darn - I knew there was summat I was missing. Shoulda got hold of a miners lamp back in the 1980s when it was "the" status symbol for helping the miners:rotfl:. Looking back - remembering some of the "culture shock" on both sides there was then....

Thinks - I believe slugs are supposed to be edible too - no chance! Ain't trying them out either...

Ooh....I might just be good at send the oomph back:)

PasturesNew

Wish I'd bought more sausage rolls now!

When you live somewhere where you "never get snow" you don't actually expect it even when the weather people tell you there'll be some...

But it exists and is in my garden. Had no plans to go out anyway ....

I could get sausage rolls if I really wanted, if the shop's open it's only 400 short/careful pigeon steps in this 4" or so of snow. No point going out in that just for sausage rolls though. I have chips/burgers and big bread rolls for comfort food

Farway

Morning all, up & pouring my cuppa before 5 this morning, woken by the CH cutting in on it's "too low"setting

I'm with PN re snow, came home in snow flurries last night, but enough fell overnight to make a lovely day for the kids & a lethal one for us wobbly ones, so not going out, despite opportunity of snow pictures

MIA onion was been rescued by bendy person, and it is firm enough to still use it.

Breakfast was very suited to the weather, bowl of porridge, with pretend maple syrup & HM yoghurt

Rest of today's food still undecided, but there is a family size chicken, ham & leek pie waiting, bought as part of the W/rose feed two for a tenner offer, and it's just the weather for a pie