Cooking for one (Mark Three)

PasturesNew

spirit wrote: »

the chilli sounds great PN. do you have it with rice, brad or on a jacket spud?

Depends how I feel at the time. I serve it with whatever I've got/what's easiest and differently each time.

e.g. if this makes 3 portions I'd have one with rice, one with a baked spud ... and the third would be whatever I've got... maybe oven chips.

I'll put grated cheese on top too ... and today will serve a side portion of a toasted cheese topped roll

There's no overall plan, food's decided at the last minute, based on what's in the house that needs using up and how much effort I want to put into it. Sometimes I just have a portion of chilli as the first one.

caronc wrote: »

.... a tin of kidney beans .... I don't like

I came to the conclusion I shouldn't bother with kidney beans. They're not that great. It's nice to have half a dozen in a chilli, but a whole can's just too many and they're often a bit "hard". I usually use baked beans these days. Today I tossed in the kidney beans just because they've been loitering for about 2 years - but I doubt I'll ever buy any again. Baked beans or chickpeas are just as good. Or no beans! There's no law that says you have to have beans in chilli

PasturesNew

kittie wrote: »

The tax return doesn`t half niggle.

I've no tax to pay, my income's nowhere near enough to reach the threshold!

I do my own. It's a simple "in" and "out" column. It can all be worked out from the 12 bank statements.

kittie wrote: »

Birthday today, 70

Happy birthday! Tis a biggun, eh! Round numbers.
Only 30-40 to go so don't waste this one.

Hollyharvey

kittie wrote: »

Birthday today, 70 :cool: but I keep telling myself I am just a day older than yesterday. Going out tomorrow with dd and her family, on my own today but its fine. The weather is carp and cold so I am happy to stay in and do quiet things

Happy Birthday :bdaycake:. Enjoy your day, it sounds like a nice relaxed way to spend your birthday .

caronc

PasturesNew wrote: »

I came to the conclusion I shouldn't bother with kidney beans. They're not that great. It's nice to have half a dozen in a chilli, but a whole can's just too many and they're often a bit "hard". I usually use baked beans these days. Today I tossed in the kidney beans just because they've been loitering for about 2 years - but I doubt I'll ever buy any again. Baked beans or chickpeas are just as good. Or no beans! There's no law that says you have to have beans in chilli

I've actually no idea how I ended up with them, I'm not keen on them (despite generally loving beans & pulses), my younger son is the same. This suggests my elder son bought them when he was still at home and he moved out over 4 years ago....:eek:.:o

Need2bthrifty

Happy Birthday Kittie, you do know that 70 is the new 50 :T

I am slowly working my way through the list of things to try out and I was very pleasantly surprised by celeriac, it being so ugly, will have a look for J.O's recipe.

The next one on my list is Jerusalem Artichoke which I will try soon despite the bad press it gets - I am CFO after all :rotfl: - then when its in season in late summer I must give kohlrabi a go.

Irenadler

Hello CFO's

Many thanks for the kind words and virtual hugs, re: the little dog.

Just had a phone call from the vet's (luckily a 'pet hospital' with their own lab on-site) and she is ok. They were worried as her blood test showed her liver enzyme at 900 when it should be 23! Now she's back to 21, apparently, on anti-biotics and anti-inflammatories.

As I have mentioned before, she isn't fussy with her eating habits, anything she thinks is edible gets hoovered up, like dropped food outside, and worse. Seems like she's hoovered up something that had nasty bacteria and got an infection. Vet said to muzzle her in public if I can't stop her doing it. She;s like a striking snake if she snuffs out stuff and it's gone before I can shout leave it!:mad::o

Anyway, sucked down a bag of sweets stress-eating yesterday, and a nuked chicken tikka for tea, and a raw nut bar, and... well. Slightly off diet!

Back on the diet wagaon:

Porridge, on it's lonely own.
Jacket spud with left over tuna mix, diet yogurt.
White fish and vegetables for tea....

caronc

Irenadler wrote: »

Hello CFO's

Many thanks for the kind words and virtual hugs, re: the little dog.

Just had a phone call from the vet's (luckily a 'pet hospital' with their own lab on-site) and she is ok. They were worried as her blood test showed her liver enzyme at 900 when it should be 23! Now she's back to 21, apparently, on anti-biotics and anti-inflammatories.

As I have mentioned before, she isn't fussy with her eating habits, anything she thinks is edible gets hoovered up, like dropped food outside, and worse. Seems like she's hoovered up something that had nasty bacteria and got an infection. Vet said to muzzle her in public if I can't stop her doing it. She;s like a striking snake if she snuffs out stuff and it's gone before I can shout leave it!:mad::o

Anyway, sucked down a bag of sweets stress-eating yesterday, and a nuked chicken tikka for tea, and a raw nut bar, and... well. Slightly off diet!

Back on the diet wagaon:

Porridge, on it's lonely own.
Jacket spud with left over tuna mix, diet yogurt.
White fish and vegetables for tea....

So glad all is ok with little dog:D

Wednesday2000

Glad to read the good news about the dog.:)

I just gave the birds some food on my walk and have put spicy potato wedges in the oven for lunch. I was going to make chilli too, but thought that I might be eating out tomorrow as well so I don't want to have leftovers in the fridge. I will have the wedges with the last of the houmous.

whiteguineapig

Happy birthday Kittie, I hope you enjoy your day out tomorrow

PasturesNew

Wednesday2000 wrote: »

I was going to make chilli too, but thought that I might be eating out tomorrow as well so I don't want to have leftovers in the fridge.

This is something CFOs will recognise - if you are invited out you need several days ahead to plan what you eat/buy and cook because you don't want to waste something, or buy something you needn't have done.

Due to the slow throughput of food items it takes a lot more juggling to get all the dates/meals right. You can't always "cook it the day after" as there are other foods to think about and that might not be "the right day". e.g. if you bought a chicken on a Saturday thinking "Sunday lunch", but then get an invite out, it might not be what you'd have chosen to cook on a Monday and there's no freezer space and/or you'd not wish to freeze a chicken... with enough warning you were going out it'd have been better to not buy the thing in the first place!